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BERGAMO JAZZ 2026 Special event for International Jazz Day Thursday, April 30, 2026, 6:30 p.m. Eleonora Strino Trio in Mascheroni Square   After the days in March, crowned with great success by the public and the press, and in anticipation of the two summer concerts at Lazzaretto, with Fatoumata Diawara on July 2 and Dee Dee Bridgewater on July 18, Bergamo Jazz joins theInternational Jazz Day sponsored byUNESCO again this year. In fact, on Thursday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m., in Piazza Mascheroni, one of the symbolic places of Città Alta, a special free event is scheduled featuring the tried-and-true [...]

BERGAMO JAZZ SUMMER 2026 @LAZZARETTO Donizetti Theatre Foundation/Bergamo Jazz e Bergamo Association of the Friends of the International Piano Festival present two extraordinary concerts at Lazzaretto in collaboration with the City of Bergamo with the support of A2A and BCC Oglio e Serio Thursday, July 2, 2026 Fatoumata Diawara Saturday, July 18, 2026 Dee Dee Bridgewater Fatoumata Diawara, Thursday, July 2, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Saturday, July 18, two great women, two great voices: Bergamo Jazz returns to the Lazzaretto in the name of female musicianship that carries strong messages that are more relevant and necessary today than ever before. Organized [...]

BERGAMO JAZZ 2026 Artistic Direction by Joe Lovano Huge success for the 47th edition of Bergamo Jazz More than 8,600 total attendance 9 sold out out of 11 ticketed concerts Audiences from 17 Italian regions and 24 other countries Over 8,600 total attendance. 3,546 spectators at the three evenings at the Donizetti Theater, 814 of them subscribers (31 more than last year). 9 sold out out of 11 ticketed events. These are the first highlights of Bergamo Jazz 2026, which concluded happily on Sunday evening with the highly applauded exclusive project in tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane conceived [...]

20 events, more than 80 musicians for four intense days under the banner of a thousand sounds of jazz spread throughout the city: from Thursday, March 19 to Sunday, March 22, the 47th edition of Bergamo Jazz, a festival organized by Fondazione Teatro Donizetti with the support of the City of Bergamo, MIC Ministry of Culture and private sponsors, will take place. Setting The Pace - dictating the pace, showing a way - is the title that Joe Lovano, for the third year Artistic Director of the Festival, wanted to imprint on Bergamo Jazz 2026, symbolizing a choral tribute to [...]

More than 1,900 total students from 18 schools in Bergamo and its province: this is the salient data on the participation in the cycle of educational events "Incontriamo il Jazz," carried out as usual thanks to the collaboration between Bergamo Jazz and Centro Didattico Produzione Musica. An important opportunity to introduce the youngest to a musical language rich in artistic content and bearer of universal messages of dialogue between different cultures, now more necessary than ever. The lessons-concerts will take place this year, according to different shifts, on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17, in the prestigious setting of [...]

Bergamo Jazz 2026 is warming up its engines before the official start scheduled for Thursday, March 19. And like every year, the Festival will embrace other artistic languages, starting with cinema. On Sunday, March 15, in fact, at the Auditorium in Piazza della Libertà (5.30), the usual handover from Bergamo Film Meeting to Bergamo Jazz: on the occasion, violinist Virginia Sutera will sound the film Gräfin Küchenfee (The scullery maid who became a countess) by Rudolf Biebrach, a 1918 comedy starring actress Henny Porten, who is called upon to play two characters, a countess and her cook. This dual role [...]

BERGAMO JAZZ 2026 Artistic Direction by Joe Lovano Preview 47th edition March 19-22, 2026 - Concerts at Teatro Donizetti and Teatro Sociale - "Setting The Pace: Miles & Trane 100th Celebration! Setting The Pace , dictating the pace or setting the pace. Joe Lovano, for the third time Artistic Director of Bergamo Jazz, announces the title and the first part of the program of the 2026 edition of the Festival, which will take place March 19-22 in the wake of an extraordinary celebration: the centennial anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, seminal and iconic figures in [...]