Festival Onde Musicali sul Lago d'Iseo

A widespread festival on the lake

Born in 2017, Onde Musicali sul Lago d'Iseo is a review that enlivens both shores of Sebino every summer, between the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia. Organized by the Luigi Tadini Association of Lovere in collaboration with Visit Lake Iseo, the festival has made territorial diffusion its distinctive feature: concerts are not concentrated in a single venue but move across about twenty lakeside municipalities, enhancing villages, churches, villas, and natural corners of the lake. Iseo, the tourist capital of Sebino in the province of Brescia, is one of the nerve centers of the event.

Music for all tastes

The program is deliberately eclectic: classical, opera, sacred, early music, jazz, tango, and crossover alternate in a program that ranges from great masterpieces to lesser-known repertoire. Alongside the actual concerts, there are musical performances and competitions, with particular attention to young talents from Italian Conservatories and foreign Academies, alongside established artists and winners of international competitions.

Concerts in unique settings

The added value of the festival is the extraordinary variety of locations: concerts are held in the churchyards of parish churches, in the harbors, in historic villas, and even aboard the boats that ply the lake. Listening to a concert at sunset on Sebino, with Monte Isola in the background, is an experience that combines the musical and landscape dimensions in a way that is difficult to replicate.

Artistic Direction

The project is led by internationally renowned guitarist Claudio Piastra, artistic director since the first edition, who wanted to make Onde Musicali a platform capable of uniting interpretive excellence and territorial enhancement. For Iseo and the municipalities of Sebino, the festival represents a major cultural event of the Lombard summer.