Festival Onde Musicali

A summer of music on Lake Iseo

The Festival Onde Musicali is one of Lombardy's most fascinating music festivals. For an entire summer, from May to September, it brings dozens of concerts to numerous locations between Lake Iseo and Franciacorta, transforming historic palaces, churches, and squares into widespread stages. The artistic direction is entrusted to Claudio Piastra, who curates a high-level program each year.

The concert in Sarnico

Among the festival's stops is Sarnico, in the province of Bergamo, where music resonates in the halls of the 18th-century Palazzo La Rocchetta. The scheduled concert offers a refined dialogue between classical music and jazz, with ensembles that blend cultured tradition and improvisation, in an intimate and evocative setting overlooking the lake.

Classical, opera, jazz, and crossover

The festival spans different genres — classical, opera, symphonic, chamber, early music, and crossover — alternating established performers with young international talents. It is a cultural offering that simultaneously enhances great music and the landscape and architectural heritage of the Sebino area and Franciacorta.

Music and landscape

For visitors to Lake Iseo in the summer, the Festival Onde Musicali is the perfect opportunity to combine listening to great music with discovering places of rare beauty. Sarnico, with its lakeside promenade and historic buildings, is one of the most evocative stops on a festival that uses music as a journey through the territory.