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Stavelot Festival 2025

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

The Festival de Stavelot, Chamber Music con fuoco

The Festival’s reputation rests on the many and varied artistic ventures that it has undertaken since its original incarnation in 1916 as the Concerts Micha, founded by Octave Micha, the father of Raymond. With his friends, Raymond went on to found the Festival de Stavelot in 1957, and took part in the creation of the Festival de Wallonie in 1971. 

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The Festival experience 

If many of our attendees are seduced by the special feeling that surrounds the festival, it is probably due to the beautiful setting in which it takes place.
The historical importance of the Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy as a cultural and religious centre is well known; and as a result, everything remains in place to frame the festival.
The Abbey is accessed via either the park, where the imposing remains of the original Abbey building are located, or through the Court, one of the recently-restored wings of which houses The Triangle Bleu, a contemporary art gallery with a fine reputation. The glass-enclosed cloister provides access to various performance spaces, notably the François Prume Room and The Monks’ Refectory, both regular venues. Higher up in the town, located on either side of the Place Saint-Remacle, are the Church of St. Sebastian and The Chapel of the Capuchins. 

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