5 Giornate Festival

New Music at the Forefront

The 5 Giornate Festival is a Milanese review dedicated to contemporary and experimental music, founded in 2005. It is mainly held at the Casa Museo Spazio Tadini, at via Niccolò Jommelli 24, in the Città Studi–NoLo district (Municipality 3), an independent cultural space that combines visual art, music, and poetry. Over the years, the festival has established itself as one of the reference events for enthusiasts, scholars, musicians, and composers of new music.

A Stage for Composers

The festival's objective is to offer musicians and composers a prestigious opportunity to perform and present their works, providing the public with a broad and up-to-date snapshot of the state of contemporary music. The review gives space to both established names and young authors, in a dialogue between generations and languages that is one of its distinctive features.

The Twentieth Anniversary Edition

The 2026 edition marks an important milestone: the twentieth edition. Twenty years of activity that have made the 5 Giornate Festival a stronghold of contemporary musical creation in Milan, capable of intertwining concerts, premieres, and in-depth discussions. The festival includes artists in residence and maintains its Call for Scores, the open call for composers under 40 who can thus have their scores performed.

A Festival in the Cultural Heart of Milan

Rooted at Spazio Tadini but also spread to other venues in the city, the 5 Giornate Festival represents one of the freest and most curious voices on the Milanese music scene. It is an opportunity to hear rarely performed works, discover new authors, and experience contemporary music in an intimate and high-quality setting, far from the more commercial circuits.