Welcome to Music Fest Perugia 2025!
DURING THE LAST FESTIVAL - 2024:
At least 100 students played with one of our professional orchestras There were 16 concerts with orchestra in our extraordinary halls
No less than 120 students participated in marathon recitals
A large number of professors played with the orchestra or played in the master recital series
We produced "Il Rigoletto", a resonant success in 2024.
Countless sessions of masterclasses by our famous faculty of 40 professors
EXCITING NEWS ABOUT MUSIC FEST PERUGIA:
World-Renowned Artistic Faculty Arriving in the Summer of 2025!
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN PERUGIA FROM JUNE 17 TO JULY 7, 2025!
Great talents and young classical music prodigies await you every night for a journey through the notes of the world's most celebrated composers, including concerts, masterclasses and instrumental marathons!
Our history began in 2006, and since then we have been able to teach more than 1,500 young people from all over the world, virtually every continent except Antarctica!
Our participants range in age from 7 to 70 and we have had the honor of hosting over 400 professors: Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, John Perry, Ian Jones, Badura Skoda, Peter Frankel, Arie vardi, Michael Tal, Gary Grafman, Asaf Zohar, Arthur Green, Sasha Korsantia, Pascal Nemirovsky, Julia Trull, Michael Petukhov, Gabriel Takach and many others.
With us, 8 International Orchestras and 15 Conductors: Uri Segal, Paolo Ciardi, Sergej Babajan, Dan Wen Wei, Rolf Bertsch, Eitan Globerson, Xin Xin, Alessandro Alonzi, Marius Stravinsky.
We witnessed 3 Weddings within the festival.... and no divorces!
And now we look to the future...see you June 17th for the first session and June 28th for second session !
Festival Schedule 2025
Private SULGA Buses
Private Sulga Buses of the Festival will take participants from Terminal 3 of Leonardo da Vinci Airport/Fiumicino directly to Perugia (Sangallo Hotel) at 9, 12;30 and 4 o'clock on the dates of arrival, June 17 and June 28.
Our Special Guests
Meet the Directors
Peter Hermes
Executive Director
Dr. Peter Hermes, a graduate of the Sorbonne Medical School, is a neurology specialist who has been affiliated with leading medical centers and headache clinics in his native country, France, as well as in Italy, the US, and Israel. He divides his time between Israel and Italy.
He founded Music Fest Perugia together with Ilana Vered in 2006 and he is presently managing the festival which has become the largest festival for young musicians in Italy.
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Ilana Vered
Artistic Director
About
MFP is the only festival in the world that provides almost all of its participants the experience and thrill of playing as a soloist with orchestra!
Mission Statement
Music Fest Perugia is an international, annual event which accepts students from all over the world and provides them with musical training and public performances in the city of Perugia.
History
Among the great professors who came to MusicFest Perugia inspire us during the years: Gary Graffman, Jerome Lowenthal, John Perry, Boris Slutzki, Arie Vardi, Alexander Korsantia, Joseph Kalichstein, Yuki Yokoyama, Sergei Babayan, Peter Frankl, Sharon Cristman, Luigi Alva, Bruno Pratico, Bruno De Simone, etc... While the festival has historically been based on young pianists, we have since gone on to incorporate vocalists and strings (Eva Mei and Jennifer Larmore).