Discover the full MA Festival programme.
Digital first round MA Competition 2026
Lecture by musicologist Guillaume De Grieve about W.A. Mozart
MA Festival 2026 opens in style with the outstanding Baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro. They will bring us two symphonies and a Mozart concerto. However, the evening begins with a new composition by Composer Siebe Thijs, this summer's Younger than Jesus.
Free carillonconcert by city-carilonneur Wim Berteloot
Pseudonym bring us early 17th century Italian music.
Surrounded by the flower meadow Sowing and Reaping by visual artist Nel Maertens, Ronan Kernoa presents several Bach suites.
Early music on piano? Is that even allowed? Jiaxin Min has already debunked countless clichés, so why not add this one to the list? Min brings a programme that is brimming with Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, spiced with a dash of Couperin and Byrd.
MA Festival maps out a route of about thirty kilometers through the Bruges countryside. Along the way, we’ll make five stops for concerts of 30 minutes each.
Sowing and Reaping: Installation by festivalartist Nel Maertens
Jean Rondeau presents his most recent project: Louis Couperin's complete oeuvre.
Vox Luminis gives Johann Sebastian Bach's motets exceptional clarity, intensity and sophistication.
Free concert by lutenist Thomas Langlois at MA Café Korf
Halve finale MA Competition voor klavecimbel
In this concert, the Extended Music Collective and Younger than Jesus Siebe Thijs interpret the theme of Bach’s Cantata BWV 39, a work about how we should help others of our society.
Poet Peter Verhelst and lutenist Jurgen De bruyn will engage in a fiery dialogue.
Acrobatic musical theatre for kids.
Reading Group & Panel Discussion
The Postscript Ensemble and soprano Elisabeth Hetherington explore the voice of rejected women throughout the ages.
Free concert by harpist Vincent Kibildis at MA Café Korf
Jazz pianist Wajdi Riahi and top soprano Carine Tinney intertwine their musical worlds.
To the tune of 'Ma fin est mon commencement', performed by vocal ensemble Utopia, we say goodbye to the installation Sowing & Harvesting.
Finale MA Competition voor klavecimbel
Four top French musicians of the new generation take us back to the musical landscapes of the Venetian Republic and Vienna in the days of Antonio Caldara.
In a musical fresco spanning two centuries, InAlto tells two love stories to music by Crécquillon, di Lasso, Monteverdi and des Prez.
Free concert by tenor and lutenist Jonatan Alvarado at MA Café Korf
Along with guitarist Ariel Abramovich on vihuela, tenor Jonatan Alvarado performs a selection from a collection of polyphonic music and Gregorian chants from Heuhuetenango, Guatemala.
The French Le Consort Orchestra by violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and harpsichordist Justin Taylor send our spirits soaring with their interpretation of Vivaldi's world-famous masterpiece, the Four Seasons.
Inspired by the fiery tongues of Pentecost and the Greek concept of pneuma, Phaedrus give voice to an invisible world. A transverse flute trio and the singing of Jonatan Alvarado create a musical landscape that floats between the visible and the hidden spheres.
Brugse mezzosopraan Sterre Decru en haar Jean Petit Ensemble brengen het Franse hofleven naar Lissewege.
The Cairn Consort – a new ensemble led by gambist Salomé Gasselin – present a daring encounter between the music of Keith Jarrett and that of Henry Purcell. The four string players merge their sounds with Kevin Seddiki’s electric guitar and zarb.
Het Concertgebouw legt je het hele jaar door in de watten met de beste oude muziek: werken die zo tijdloos zijn dat ze ons ook vandaag nog beroeren én inspireren.
