As you no doubt know, and as the Stavelot Festival's most loyal supporters know too: as well as the great chamber music repertoire, our programme has always promised you exciting discoveries. With the theme of 2025 ‘Curiosities’, we couldn't fail to take up the call. A commitment shared by our loyal artists....
We'll be curious about these composers whose names we sometimes don't even know. Do you know Jean Huré, Ignaz Lachner, Freidrich Gernsheim or Charles Koechlin?
What's more, there are still masterpieces to be discovered among the works of composers who have been taking centre stage at Stavelot for so many years.
What's more, in 2025 we will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birth and continuing to explore the legacy of our beloved Joseph Jongen.
We also want to pay tribute to those highly talented women composers who were silenced by previous centuries. We've brought several of them out of the shadows, and even if the names Fanny Mendelssohn or Clara Schumann are familiar to us, are you familiar with the name or work of Lili Boulanger, her sister Nadia, Mel Bonis or Rita Strohl?
So get curious, again and again, and come and fill your ears and your heart with all these artists who are just waiting for you!
Suzanne Micha
President of the Stavelot Festival