A party atmosphere!
“Every concert, every stage production is an act of pure hermeneutics, an explanatory representation of meanings…” George Steiner
“It is not always easy to believe that a major music festival can thrive far from cities. Yet, by slipping in year after year among the faithful of Musicalta, one becomes convinced of the clear success of the organisers’ gamble. A flurry around programmes, the murmur of friends sharing benches—everything breathes and lives to the rhythm of a festival that also seeks to be a place of education, giving the region a kind of campus […] here intimacy is essential, and in this almost familial atmosphere, each person can let themselves be carried away by the performers’ artistry.”
Répertoire Hors Série – June–August 2001
Musicalta is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and 25 years in Rouffach and the Rouffach, Vineyards and Castles region.
It is an artistic and human adventure serving a simple yet demanding conviction: to bring to rural areas a cultural project of quality that is in no way inferior to that of major cities.
This choice, made 30 years ago under the motto—Dissemination, Creation, Education—remains more alive than ever.
Over these 30 years, there have been more than a thousand concerts featuring some of today’s finest performers, over 40 premieres and as many invited composers, but also an average of 400 students each year from all over the world coming together to celebrate culture and music in a festive spirit. Since 2016, this adventure has also continued throughout the year through artistic residencies in the schools, middle schools, and high schools of the Rouffach, Vineyards and Castles region, bringing music to the heart of the territory well beyond the festival period.
If such an anniversary is an opportunity to take stock of the path already travelled, it is also an opportunity to reflect on the future.
Music and its practices evolve every day, taking on the forms of their time. As a living art, it must remain as close as possible to its environment and its audiences.
For art can only be seen and perceived through a contemporary gaze; it is a presence.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to our institutional and private partners, volunteers, audiences, artists, and staff—everyone whose enthusiasm, commitment, and loyalty have made it possible for a chrysalis full of childhood dreams to become a shared treasure for all.
Florence Lab & Francis Duroy
To make live an ambitious music festival far from cities, such was the crazy that we started in 1996.
Making the choice of excellence, it is constantly taking height. « ALTA » united with « MUSIC » and the first notes of Musicalta rang one evening in August in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace.
The arrival of Musicalta in Rouffach country in 2001 was a second wind, the event is found reception capacities adapted to the public and natural heritage and exceptional architectural ideally located on the wine road.
Here, the greatest masterpieces of the music of the eighteenth century daily rub with contemporary, contemporary music or electro-acoustic music. The residences of P. Leroux, M. Levinas, W. Motz, S. Giraud, P. Mefano, T. Blondeau, N. Jack, A. Schlünz, J. Y. Park are all moments that mark the history of the festival.
Musicalta is also the spotlight against forgotten composers, sometimes unfairly, including a tribute to Charles Koechlin in 2000 and in 2002 Guillaume Lekeu … « And while the world famous Bach, Musicalta,
From the beginning at Trois-Epis, Labaroche and Rouffach then, we have hosted concerts around ambitious prestigious guests including the Fine Arts Quartet, Gilles Apap, Philippe Bernold, the Philharmonie in Baden Baden, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Alexandre Tharaud, the Quatuor Debussy, Michaël Levinas, Brigitte Engerer, Emma Johnson, …
These outstanding musicians have been with us since 1996. This season Musicalta will bring together outstanding performers of the classical musical stage.
There is a Musicalta tone Intimacy has been the keyword and music is treated with respect. Tarif policy and musical choices open widely the Festival doors. Musicalta is a meeting place for all the festival-goers where frenziness around the programs rhymes with casual atmosphere.
Please come and share with us the experience of a festival not quite like any other.
Francis DUROY