Folefest has made a decisive contribution to promoting the accordion and to contemporary music-making, encouraging the composition of new works and bringing outstanding performers to the fore. In this concert, three young competition winners take to the stage: Vítor Pastor, 1st prize in the solo category and best performer (2026), and Duo Kontrast, winners in the chamber music category (2025).

He is one of the new geniuses of the bass, technically prodigious, highly inventive, brilliant at improvisation and an excellent composer. Chilean Christian Gálvez belongs to the generation of electric bassists from the post-Pastorius era and has a playing style that evokes legendary names of the instrument such as John Patitucci or Stanley Clarke.

30 years as a musician, 30 records released. Nico Guedes presents Thank You, his most recent album of original songs with the Bluebirds, for which he is also making a film.

Depois de 15 anos com o grupo brasileiro 5 a Seco, período que o levou aos palcos mais importantes do país e a uma nomeação para o Grammy Latino, Leo Bianchini atravessou o Atlântico com o intuito de seguir, na Europa, o caminho da improvisação, da canção expandida e das fronteiras abertas do jazz.

In the 19th edition of its festival, Orquestra Nacional de Jovens joins forces with Mercury Falls Band and guest singers to perform a programme entitled “Scorpions Tribute Symphonic Experience”, which proposes a fusion between the symphonic repertoire and the instrumentation and attitude of alternative rock.

Psychedelia, American folk, and Portuguese popular music are some of the colors that intersect in the rich, multi-instrumental palette of Jasmim, the stage name of singer-songwriter Martim Braz Teixeira.

Aaron Parks brings a new trio to Casa da Música, bringing together two of the most distinctive voices on the European scene: the Danish double bassist Anders Christensen, a musician renowned for his work with Paul Motian and for his lyrical and deeply thoughtful approach to the instrument; and the Portuguese drummer André Sousa Machado, whose musical rapport with the pianist developed in Lisbon.

The orchestra’s fifth anniversary is celebrated with Mahler at the Sala Suggia. The Alto Minho Youth Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Sepúlveda, performs one of the most monumental works in the orchestral repertoire: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’.

Clube do Choro – Porto pays tribute to the 80th birthday of one of Brazil's most relevant pianists, composers, and arrangers, Cristóvão Bastos, in a gathering that also features São Paulo singer Ilana Volcov.

Porto-based sextet formed by Eduardo Carneiro Dias (drums), Xavier Nunes (electric bass), João Pedro Dias (trumpet), Fábio Gil (saxophone), José Pedrosa (keyboards) and Fábio Mota (percussion), Barananu promotes a distinctive blend of jazz, disco and progressive rock within a collective approach to improvisation.

British band Fischer-Z returns to Portugal in the year they celebrate half a century of career. A reference in new wave and alternative rock since the late 1970s, the band stands out for its combination of striking melodies with socially and politically conscious lyrics.

Three composers who have become symbols of symphonic music in their countries feature in this programme, conducted by acclaimed British conductor Andrew Gourlay. From Villa-Lobos, we have the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8, a score composed for a large orchestra that gives an important role to percussion.