Music Projects

From March 29 2023, 2022 to December 31 2024 Leiria UNESCO City of Music celebrates the WORLD PIANO DAY on March 29th, through the presentation of the musical project THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME – THE PIANO GOES TO SCHOOLS, divided into 2 school cycles, distributed throughout the biennium 2023-2024. The project is aimed at […]

With their first exhibition in Portugal, Gianfranco Gallucci and Lucia Friedrich will present new works in Photography and Painting. With “Desassossego” Lucia and Gianfranco will show metaphorical and literal portraits of the meaning of the disquiet. As its foundation, beyond the individual experience of it’s meaning, Fernando Pessoa’s “Livro do Desassossego” acts as a fundamental reference, further contributing to the incorporation of […]

The most beautiful reflection of Kırşehir’s saz, song, composition, poetry and conversation world is Helebis Nights. As Kırşehir Municipality, we strive to keep Helebis Nights alive and pass them on to our future generations.In order to continue this tradition, we invited local artists from Şanlıurfa, another city in our country, which is very strong like […]

Interconnection: A “Jazz Relay” in Celebration of Life Below Water To celebrate the 2023 International Day of Jazz, the UCCN Cities of Music are working collectively to coordinate a “jazz relay” around the world! On January 28, 2023, Frutillar, Chile (as part of the “Rhythm Between the River and the Lake” Semanas Musicales Music Festival […]

This year Veszprém hosted the annual gathering of the UNESCO Cities of Music between 30 November and 2 December. The three-day event welcomed close to twenty music city representatives,walking them through the sights and sounds of Veszprém. Veszprém has recently emerged as a cultural hub, partly due to the galvanizing effect of the upcoming  European […]

The first edition, taking place between the 16th and 18th of November, will bring together renowned and emerging talents from alternative, jazz and classical music. Seventeen original works inspired by Saramago will be premiered at the first edition of the Leiria Creative City of Music Festival, which takes place between the 16th and 18th of […]

The Ring of the Nibelung, also known as the Ring Cycle (a cycle of four German-language epic operas) is being performed for the first time in Korea by the Nationaltheater Mannheim from Germany during the 19th Daegu International Opera Festival (DIOF) from October 16 to 23, 2022. The 2022 DIOF kicked off on September 23 […]

Talented young artists explore long dormant cultural spaces! The imagination of young artists, awaken Daegu’s cultural spaces! Let’s travel to these cultural spaces in Daegu with young artists An event will be held from October 12th to 15th in the Bukseong-ro neighborhood of Daegu. The people of Daegu are invited to experience the works of […]

The first meeting of the internal network of creative cities of Iran was held in Isfahan. In this meeting which was held with the presence of 5 creative cities of Iran in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network issues subjects common strategies and challenges of the network in moving towards sustainable development were discussed. The creative […]