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 jazz Haydn’s Creation in 2025 as the closing Choral concert.
FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE opens for the 2025 Festival at Easter!
It proved to be a fabulous festival in Provence again last summer; and already the plans and organisation of the next one has begun all over again. Join us in 2025 for our 21st year! Meanwhile some reviews, images and recordings from the summer of ’24 will be published here soon!
Festival information will be fully updated for the new season soon!
The 2025 Festival BOX OFFICE OPENS AT EASTER
Here is the provisional 2025 Festival Programme (this year!)
The festival will again feature FREE lunch-time concerts around the Pays de Fayence + a great range of exciting concerts every evening (for which tickets and the final programme will be available at Easter) Tickets for all evening concerts (+ a pre-festival fund-raiser) will be available from our ONLINE BOX OFFICE. Meanwhile we invite you to join or renew as a MEMBER or FRIEND (and donations are also welcome!) See SUPPORT US!)
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 and to make music together this summer! (INVITATION HERE)
2024 was our 20th annual Festival & we look forward to introducing our exciting 2025 programme of music and exciting performance devised by our new artistic team!
An international festival of classical, choral & orchestral music
- 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
Festival Box Office 2024
with programme details from last year
The 2024 Festival & other recent evnts
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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