MUSIQUE CORDIALE International Festival & Academy
Fabulous Music in the South of France!
International summer festival in the Var
Seillans & the Pays de Fayence, Provence, France
CONCERTS: this summer: 29 July – 9 August 2025)
including Baroque delights, chamber & orchestral music and a little popular music and exciting jazz. BOOK EARLY for popular events, especially the closing Choral concert: Haydn’s Creation.
FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN for the 2025 Festival
(see public announcement, 29 April 2025)
It proved to be a fabulous festival in Provence again last summer; and the plans and organisation are well advanced for the next one: take a look at the new season’s programme of concerts & events. Join us in 2025 for our 21st year!
Festival information will be fully updated for the new season soon!
CLICK to see or download the provisional 2025 Festival Programme
The festival will again feature FREE lunch-time concerts around the Pays de Fayence + a great range of exciting concerts every evening. Tickets for all evening concerts (+ a pre-festival fund-raiser) are available now from our ONLINE BOX OFFICE. Join us this summer in the beautiful historic villages perchés to enjoy the delightful sounds and tasty flavours of the summer festival in the Pays de Provence!
Musique Cordiale is an annual summer festival, bringing together music, excitement and fun. Each year we invite a mix of established musicians with selected up-and-coming young talent from all over Europe to sing and play for our festival audiences, who include local and other French music-lovers as well an equally international – and loyal – group of people of all ages drawn to the area for Musique Cordiale. Members of the orchestra and choir form a variety of ensembles and, together with soloists, rehearse ready to share top-quality performances of classical music (and a little jazz) in an inviting Provencal ambiance that combines the food, wine, warmth and smells of summer in Provence with a programme of wonderful sights and sounds. Intimate up-close chamber music and instrumental recitals in charming medieval chapels are interspersed between orchestral masterpieces and resounding choral oratorios in larger churches, town squares, vineyards and an amphitheatre that thrills as the sun sets.
Making exquisite music together in a convivial atmosphere
– share the performance!
Sing in our Festival CHOIR 2025!
Would you like to JOIN THE CHOIR this summer? Enrolling now! Be part of an exceptional international festival set in beautiful medieval villages in the hills just behind the Mediterranean! Take a look at our CHOIR PAGES for full details. We are looking for good amateur singers with experience of singing in choirs around Europe or elsewhere. We invite YOU to join us. There is still time to come and make music together this summer! (INVITATION HERE)
2024 was our 20th annual Festival but now we look forward to seeing you back in Seillans & other towns of the Pays de Fayence to enjoy our exciting 2025 programme of music and exciting performance devised by our new artistic team! And these begin with a vital & convivial FUNDRAISING CONCERT, with dinner, drinks and music to reflect the festival repertoire – over the evening of 29 July, starting from 6PM: book of join a table or come on your own and meet new friends at Le Mas des Romarins among the vineyards below Fayence!
An international festival of classical, choral & orchestral music with a touch of jazz…
- A variety of lunch-time & evening events
- Memorable Concerts in and around the medieval towns, vineyards and ‘villages perchés’ of the beautiful Pays de Fayence
The 2024 Festival & other recent events
Come join our 2025 stars and soloists as they perform with the
Musique Cordiale Festival orchestra & choir
Please Support us!
You can support us in many ways: become a member, Friend or donor or sponsor an event or musician – or host a fund-raising party and invite your friends! Or you can just buy tickets for our concerts. Details and options can be found on our SUPPORT US page or…
you can simply contribute now though our…
Essential & urgent fund-raising campaign 2024-25
PLEASE SUPPORT US! If you value Musique Cordiale for its unique international festival and orchestral academy for young musical talent – or its choral & singing courses, concerts and events in France and Britain, we need your help. Even after 20 years, especially with Covid-19’s devastating impact on us – and musicians & music-making, this help is vital. The French association has a € donor box and The Musique-Cordiale Trust needs you for our £ campaign so we can hit a £20,000 target in 2024-25. If you are a UK tax-payer, your donations to the Trust (including being a Friend or Gold Donor) can be enhanced by Gift Aid. Do please go to https://www.musique-cordiale.org/support-us to explore options. THANK YOU!
Support Us
To help us to keep offering a high-quality programme at affordable prices, please do consider supporting us, for example, by becoming a Member, Friend or Donor of Musique Cordiale or by offering in-kind help as a volunteer or artist host.
Soutenez-nous
Pour nous aider à continuer d’offrir un programme de haute qualité à des prix abordables, pensez à nous soutenir, par exemple en devenant membre, ami ou donateur de Musique Cordiale ou en offrant une aide en nature en tant que bénévole ou artiste hôte.
Memorable music in a magnificent location among the hills and hilltop villages of
the Pays de Fayence, in the Var, Provence, France in summer
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