The third edition of the Luciano Berio Festival, organized by the Centro Studi Luciano Berio with the patronage and contribution of the Municipality of Radicondoli, will be held in Radicondoli (province of Siena) from May 24 to the 26.
The key word of this year’s Festival, Traversata (crossing), is the title of one of the most intense theoretical texts of Berio’s maturity. Interpreted in different metaphorical and concrete terms, it has been taken as a symbol of the passage toward 2025, the centenary of the Berio’s birth.
The Festival will feature various performances, public events, an exhibition, seminars, and readings-concerts in different venues within and outside the Tuscan village.
The Traversata is part of an international project dedicated to Berio’s Sequenze that was launched in 2023 by the Centro Studi Luciano Berio in partnership with the Amici della Musica of Florence in a series of workshops in Radicondoli, Darmstadt and Cagliari. The 2024 Festival will follow suit with three exceptional musicians: the internationally acclaimed guitarist Eliot Fisk and accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti – dedicatees of Berio’s Sequenza XI and Sequenza XIII, and violinist Francesco D’Orazio, an outstanding interpreter of Sequenza VIII. They will be joined in the Festival’s opening event (in the village’s main piazza) by the Filarmonica Rossini of Florence, conducted by Giampaolo Lazzeri.

The Luciano Berio Festival 2024 will host seminars dedicated to the genesis of the Sequenze and to Berio’s audiovisual production. These will be carried out in collaboration with the doctoral school of the Tuscan Universities of Florence (Mila De Santis) and Pisa (Alessandro Cecchi), and with the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Vincenzina Ottomano).
A photographic exhibition by Oded Shimshon will be hosted at Palazzo Bizzarrini, with works shot in the Radicondoli area and conceived as part of a larger project named Lense and Construction.
An outdoor soundwalk, conceived and realized by Tempo Reale of Florence, will mark the closing of this year’s events.

The full program of the Festival will be posted soon on the websites and social channels of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio and the Municipality of Radicondoli.

Concept and artistic supervision: Angela Ida De Benedictis.
Production direction: Luisa Santacesaria, Claudia Vincis and Radicondoli Arte.