Welcome to Music Fest Perugia !
We look forward to welcoming you to our 20th-anniversary celebration from July 23 to August 12!
Registration opens January 1st 2026 !
DURING THE LAST FESTIVAL - 2025:
At least 55 students played with our professional orchestra There were 7 concerts with orchestra in our extraordinary halls
No less than 60 students participated in marathon recitals
A large number of professors played with the orchestra or played in the master recital series
We produced "Il Trovatore", a resonant success in 2025.
Countless sessions of masterclasses by our famous faculty of 30 professors
EXCITING NEWS ABOUT MUSIC FEST PERUGIA:
World-Renowned Artistic Faculty Arriving in the Summer of 2026!
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN PERUGIA FROM JULY 23 TO AUGUST 12, 2026!
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 1,700 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: Jerome Lowenthal, John Perry, Ian Jones, Hung-Kuan Chen, Mikhail Voskresensky, Matti Raekallio, Leonardo Colafelice, Badura Skoda, Peter Frankel, Arie Vardi, Michal Tal, Gary Graffman, Asaf Zohar, Arthur Greene, Alexander Korsantia, Pascal Nemirovsky, Natalia Trull, Michail Petukhov, Gabriel Tacchino and many others.
In the past, the following conductors have worked with us: Uri Segal, Paolo Ciardi, Sergei Babayan, Dan Wen-Wei, Claudio Maria Micheli, Rolf Bertsch, and Avner Itai. This year Eitan Globerson, Alessandro Alonzi and Marius Stravinsky will be conducting the festival orchestra, and will participate in the conducting workshop!"
We witnessed 3 Weddings within the festival.... and no divorces!
And now we look to the future...see you July 23rd for the first session and August 3rd for the second session !
Festival Schedule 2026
Private SULGA Buses
Private Sulga Buses of the Festival will take participants from Terminal 3 of Leonardo da Vinci Airport/Fiumicino directly to Perugia central Bus Terminal (Piazza Partigiani) at 9:00, 14:30 and 17:00 o'clock on the dates of arrival, July 23 and August 3.
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! Come and be a part of the most magical festival for young musicians and music lovers in Europe! With our brilliant resident orchestra, our students have the opportunity to work with and perform the Concerto Repertoire in some of the most exquisite venues that Italy has to offer! With a world class faculty from the most prestigious music schools, students leave our festival inspired, on fire, and transformed!
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).
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