Festival Maribor 2024

Tick-tock, tick-tock... You can hear them, right? The hands on the clocks are merciless. Especially when we're having a good time. When we are in the company of the people we love and enjoy moments that touch the heart together.

Have you ever wondered why the artistic motif of this year's festival is a tree? Have you ever wondered why there is a violin hiding among its roots?

Bosnian sevdah, Roma and other music of the Serbian and Macedonian regions

Don't miss the occasional concert of the Maribor Festival, with which Mate Bekavac and his virtuoso musical companions will surprise the guests of the wine shop in Vodne Stolp.

At night, when we are almost alone in the city with our thoughts, then it seems that the city is telling us something." This is how the author of the original text, Janez Usenik, described Ponočnjaka, a chamber musical commissioned by the Maribor Festival.

"The most precious bond between human beings is humanity." In the Olympic year, we can certainly borrow the thought of the famous Jesse Owen

Bartók and Brahms. At first glance, the unusual combination of musical giants turns out to be necessary when we think of the contrasts of the Pannonian plains.

Mozart balls, Sacher cake, Vienna Philharmonic and Mnozil Brass. When talking about Austria's most successful export brands, we can't go past this line-up by Thomas Gansch.

Mozart balls, Sacher cake, Vienna Philharmonic and Mnozil Brass. When talking about Austria's most successful export brands, we can't go past this line-up by Thomas Gansch.

"Maribor has a special meaning for me, because my roots, not only the musical ones, are intertwined with it." This is what its artistic director, internationally renowned clarinetist Mate Bekavac, said about the Maribor 2024 Festival.