Following the great success of the Spring section of the Ascona Music Festival entitled “The Voice of the Piano” the Festival will be presenting an Autumn section which will be held in September and will feature a special programme of extremely high artistic value.

The Ascona Music Festival, in collaboration with the International Academy of Euphony, will feature an extraordinary event that represents an ideal link between the Arts - a synergy between Music and Colour, between Sound and Light: the art exhibition “TRANSPARENCIES” uby Marga Baigorria,.
For the first time in Switzerland, the exhibition will be showcasing the artist’s highly original and evocative watercolours and photographs.
The artist makes us discover an extremely imaginary, fairy-tale world with unreal beings and landscapes. It is like opening the doors to a mysterious, elusive universe which induces us to ask endless questions, while she “paints with light”. The exhibition will be held from the 8th until the 29th September 2012 in the historic Art Gallery ‘Il Cavalletto’ in Locarno.

The Ascona Music Festival will also present a series of films directed by the multi-award winning French director Bruno Monsaingeon, , dedicated to three great classical musicians of the 20th century: the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Bruno Monsaingeon has gained wide international acclaim for his books and documentary films on the greatest classical musicians of our time.
We will have the privilege of having the director himself introducing two evenings, discussing his work in filmmaking and his encounters and friendships with musicians of a similar magnitude. The films will be screened on 10th, 1 7th, 24th and 26th September 2012 in the Sopracenerina Hall in Locarno.

Everyone is invited to participate in these two artistically and culturally unique events that are for classical music and art lovers everywhere.

Please click here to read the detailed programme