Regional Sacred Music Festival – Tione Concert

The Regional Sacred Music Festival in Tione di Trento

The Regional Sacred Music Festival of Trentino-Alto Adige stops every year in Tione di Trento, the capital of the Giudicarie Valleys in the Province of Trento, with a concert hosted in the Santa Maria Assunta Parish Church. The Tione event has become a consolidated tradition: every year, the festival brings one or more evenings of great sacred music to the Giudicarie area, in collaboration with the Giudicarie Music School, the Municipality of Tione, and the Trentino Choir Federation.

A historic festival

Founded in 1972, with the inaugural concert in the Collegiate Church of Arco on May 19th, the Festival is the oldest concert association entirely dedicated to sacred music still active in Italy. The first evening featured the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, conducted by Ettore Gracis. Today, the festival is organized by the Regional Sacred Music Festival ETS, a regional body that brings together representatives from the provinces and municipalities of Trento and Bolzano on an equal footing. Every spring, from April to June, it offers dozens of concerts in churches, parish churches, and cathedrals throughout Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, featuring professional and amateur ensembles as well as prestigious national and international guests.

The Giudicarie stop

The Tione concert brings different repertoires to the Giudicarie area each year: from the great Viennese classicism, with works by Mozart for choir, orchestra, and soloists, to the masterpieces of the Italian Baroque, such as the sacred music of Alessandro Scarlatti performed with period instruments. The Santa Maria Assunta Parish Church, with its intimate acoustics, is the ideal setting for these performances, which often involve local choirs and students alongside specialized ensembles.

Tione and the Giudicarie Valleys

Tione di Trento is the main hub of the Giudicarie Valleys, at the crossroads of the routes leading up to the Brenta Dolomites and the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park. Attending a sacred music concert in the parish church means combining the listening of great music with the discovery of a mountain territory rich in history, churches frescoed by the Baschenis school, and choral tradition. The festival, with free admission, brings the Giudicarie public closer to the great masterpieces of European sacred music.

Why attend

• Great sacred repertoire live, from the Baroque to Viennese classicism
• Top-level choirs, baroque ensembles, orchestras, and soloists
• A stop of one of the longest-running regional festivals in Italy
• Free admission, in the historic setting of the Giudicarie

The Tione stop of the Festival combines the listening of great sacred music with the discovery of Tione di Trento and Trentino-Alto Adige, amidst valleys, mountains, and ancient parish churches.