One of the most important festivals of classical music in Kosovo, Chopin Piano FEST Prishtina, opened this year on Europe Day, 9 May, with a concert by world-renowned pianist Martin Garcia Garcia. The festival will bring to Kosovan audiences more than 15 concerts, masterclasses, workshops, competitions for instrumentalists and composers, and other cultural activities.

Another special feature of this year’s edition of Chopin Piano FEST Prishtina is the participation of the festival in the SYNERGY program supported by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme.

The 12^th edition of the festival continues to invite great musicians to perform in Priština/ Prishtina. “This year too we will have well-known pianists such as François Dumont, Florian Uhlig and Stefan Vladar performing at the festival,” says Prof. Lejla Haxhiu Pula, the festival’s President and Artistic Director.

The festival ends on 8 June.