Seven Lakes Music Festival 2024 arrives

The luminosity and colors of summer in the Patagoniawhere lakes, forests and mountains merge into a stunning landscapeare the perfect setting for the already traditional Seven Lakes Music Festival 2024.

This new edition will take place between the days January 15 and 27, 2024 with a program that includes nine concerts in Villa La Angostura, Bariloche and Villa Traful. The festival will also remember the Argentine baritone Alejandro Meerapfel, who died last September while giving a concert in France.

Organized by the Seven Lakes Philharmonic Association and with the collaboration of municipality of Villa La Angosturathe festival aims to “generate spaces for human expression, manifested in the format of music, to accompany visitors and residents.”

The Seven Lakes Philharmonic was born in 2005 and the festivals began to be organized in 2011: after 13 years, they have become a unavoidable milestone in the summer cultural agenda in the region and within the calendar of classical music festivals.

He gained much of his recognition for his formative imprint of young musicians, through the work of the Seven Lakes Music Academywhich has the mission of educating and promoting talents.

The festival’s chamber music concerts will be performed by prestigious international artists such as the violinists Oleg Kaskiv & Bohdan Luts, the violists Ettore Causa & Silvina Alvarez and the cellist Antonio Lysy, all members of the Lysy Ensemble.

The Seven Lakes Festival Chamber Ensemble will also perform, made up of violinists Olatz Ruiz de Gordejuela and Jan Orawiec, violist Germán Clavijo and cellist Anouchka Hack.

On the other hand, we must mention the work of Teresa Usandivaras, who will direct the Coral de los Siete Lagos and is the vocal coach of the participants of Sonidos del Huemul – a music school for children and young people – coordinated by Santiago Romero, and the Camerata Siete Lagos (a “showcase” for young musicians starting a professional career).

The festival’s concert schedule will be as follows, starting at 9 p.m.:

• January 16. Lysy Assembly. Villa La Angostura Convention Center

• January 17. Lysy Ensemble & Festival Chamber Ensemble. Cathedral of Our Lady of Nahuel Huapi, Bariloche

• January 18. Bohdan Luts / Oleg Kaskiv. Our Lady of the Assumption Chapel, in Villa La Angostura

• January 19. Lysy Assembly. Camping Musical, Bariloche

• January 20. Soloists of the Festival Chamber Ensemble. Our Lady of Villa Traful Chapel.

• January 22. Festival Chamber Ensemble & Camerata Siete Lagos. Villa La Angostura Convention Center.

• January 23. Soloists of the Festival Chamber Ensemble. Our Lady of the Assumption, in Villa La Angostura

• January 24. Festival Chamber Ensemble & Camerata Siete Lagos. Cathedral of Our Lady of Nahuel Huapi, Bariloche

• 26 of January. Closing Concert of the 2024 Festival: Festival Chamber Ensemble, Camerata Siete Lagos, Sonidos de Huemul and Coral de los Siete Lagos. Villa La Angostura Convention Center.

In December 2024, it will be 15 years since the death of Alberto Lysy, an internationally renowned Argentine violinist and conductor, who marked the development of the country’s musical culture. He also founded the Camerata Bariloche.

To celebrate his work, the Lysy Ensemble will participate in the festival, coordinated by the cellist Antonio Lysy (son of Alberto), with the collaboration of the Association Rencontres Musicales Camerata Lysy, with four exceptional programs that pay tribute to his legacy and what he enjoyed most: performing for the public, transmitting his knowledge to young instrumentalists and promoting standards of excellence in musical performance.

Bring music to young people and the community has always been part of the objectives of the Seven Lakes Philharmonic Association.

In addition to working with the Sonidos de Huemul seed orchestra and the Siete Lagos Camerata – during the festival young musicians have the opportunity to interact with great masters – this year the Siete Lagos Music Academy will carry out for the first time the Seven Lakes Coral project, an activity open to residents or those who are in the area on vacation. The proposal requires registration, but it is not a requirement to have previous choral experience.

Under the direction of Teresa Usandivarasa Latin American choral repertoire will be worked on “From Baroque to Our Days: Latin American Music of Yesterday and Today.”

There will be three rehearsals, one of them followed by a picnic with the musicians participating in the festival.

Finally, on January 26, in Villa La Angostura, the Coral of the Seven Lakes will present the repertoire at the closing concert of the Festivalwith the accompaniment of the Festival’s concert artists and the members of the orchestral formations.

Tickets to concerts -except Camping Musical- are free.

They are delivered to the Ticket Office on the day of the concert, two hours before.

Whoever wants to reserve their ticket and collaborate With the work of the Seven Lakes Philharmonic Association you can do so – up to 24 hours before the concert date – with a voluntary contribution of 9,000 pesos per ticket. Payment is made through Mercado Pago (alias: fila.7.lagos) and the receipt is sent to ventas@filarmonica7lagos.com.ar.

For more information: fila7lagos.com