Risonanze Festival

Where music returns to its roots

There is a place in Friuli where music is truly born from trees. It is Val Saisera, at the foot of the Montasio massif, where resonance fir trees grow: a precious and rare wood, chosen for centuries by luthiers to build violins, violas, and cellos. From this deep connection between forest, wood, and sound, Risonanze Festival comes to life, one of the most original events on the Italian music scene.

Now in its 11th edition in 2026, the festival brings concerts into the woods, under the canopy of fir trees, and tells the entire story from tree to instrument. It is not just a series of concerts: it is a journey that combines listening, nature, and knowledge, designed to reconnect the audience with the most authentic meaning of making music.

Concerts in the woods, lutherie, and sound walks

The program intertwines different languages: concerts in the woods of Val Saisera, Forest Sound Track walks, meetings with musicians and luthiers, lutherie workshops, candlelit evening concerts, and musical tastings. Ensembles playing baroque, classical, and world music take turns on stage, in dialogue with the valley's natural setting.

Alongside the concerts, the "Taste the Music" series pairs zero-kilometer tastings with conversations between musicians, luthiers, and the artistic director, in collaboration with local food and wine producers.

Malborghetto and Val Canale, borderland

The festival unfolds between Val Saisera and the village of Malborghetto, a hamlet of the municipality of Malborghetto-Valbruna in the province of Udine, in the heart of Val Canale. We are in the far northeast of Italy, where Italian, Slovenian, and Austro-German cultures meet, in a landscape of forests and peaks that becomes, for a few days, a grand natural stage.