Festival International MUSIQUE CORDIALE International Festival 2005-2025 : – Festival International 29 juillet

The end of one era may open another... Good bye from Pippa & Jonathan!

After 21 exciting years since we founded the festival, we are now withdrawing and will cease to manage L’Association Musique Cordiale which promotes and runs it every year. We hope that a new younger team may continue with a summer festival in the Pays de Fayence in 2026 with a new website and maybe different features. Details to be announced soon. There will be a general meeting of the association, to which members will be invited. It will take place in early January when members will together determine the way forward. WE want to thank everyone – singers, players, volunteers and audiences – for your fantastic support over the years since we founded the current international festival & academy in 2005 with help from so many people and politicians locally and, especially, the loyal enthusiasts in our choir. We have met and worked with so many lovely people of all ages and so many nationalities through this shared endeavor, which we have enjoyed SO MUCH!
Pippa & Jonathan

Following the 2025 international festival, this web-site will be updated in coming months!

Fabulous Music in the South of France, 2005-2025

International summer festival in the Var

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Seillans & the Pays de Fayence, Provence, France

CONCERTS: this past summer: 29 July – 9 August 2025
including Baroque delights, chamber & orchestral music and a little popular music and exciting jazz. The 2025 Festival is now behind us.

FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE has now CLOSED for the 2025 Festival

It proved to be a fabulous festival in Provence again in 2025. Thank you to our supporters for what was our 21st annual international festival!

Information about music for a new season will be available in the Spring!
CLICK to see or download the 2025 Festival Programme

The festival again featured FREE lunch-time concerts around the Pays de Fayence + a great range of exciting concerts every evening. It was great that so many of you from all over Europe joined us in the summer in the beautiful historic villages perchés to enjoy the delightful sounds and tasty flavours of the summer festival in the Pays de Provence!

Musique Cordiale is an annual summer festival, bringing together music, excitement and fun. Each year we invite a mix of established musicians with selected up-and-coming young talent from all over Europe to sing and play for our festival audiences, who include local and other French music-lovers as well an equally international – and loyal – group of people of all ages drawn to the area for Musique Cordiale. Members of the orchestra and choir form a variety of ensembles and, together with soloists, rehearse ready to share top-quality performances of classical music (and a little jazz) in an inviting Provencal ambiance that combines the food, wine, warmth and smells of summer in Provence with a programme of wonderful sights and sounds. Intimate up-close chamber music and instrumental recitals in charming medieval chapels are interspersed between orchestral masterpieces and resounding choral oratorios in larger churches, town squares, vineyards and an amphitheatre that thrills as the sun sets.

Making exquisite music together in a convivial atmosphere
– share the performance! Here are some of the details of what was on offer in 2025:

Sing in our Festival CHOIR 2025!

Would you like to JOIN THE CHOIR this summer? Enrolling now! Be part of an exceptional international festival set in beautiful medieval villages in the hills just behind the Mediterranean! Take a look at our CHOIR PAGES for full details. We are looking for good amateur singers with experience of singing in choirs around Europe or elsewhere. We invite YOU to join us. There is still time to come and make music together this summer! (INVITATION HERE)

or contact us: info@musique-cordiale.com

2025 was our 21st annual Festival. We so enjoyed seeing you back in Seillans & other towns of the Pays de Fayence to enjoy our exciting 2025 programme of music and exciting performance devised by our new artistic team! This began with a vital & convivial FUNDRAISING CONCERT, with dinner, drinks and music to reflect the festival repertoire – over the evening of 29 July 2025, starting from 6PM: so many of you booked and meet new friends at Le Mas des Romarins among the vineyards below Fayence! THIS EVENT was SOLD OUT.

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An international festival of classical, choral & orchestral music with a touch of jazz…

A variety of lunch-time & evening events
Memorable Concerts in and around the medieval towns, vineyards and ‘villages perchés’ of the beautiful Pays de Fayence

Our recent Festivals & Events

Come join our 2025 stars and soloists as they perform with the
Musique Cordiale Festival orchestra & choir

We have so valued your support!

Thank you to all of you who support us in many ways: becoming a member, Friend or donor or sponsoring an event or musician – or hosting a fund-raising party and inviting your friends! Or you can just buying tickets for our concerts. Details and options can be found on our SUPPORT US page. No less important have been those of you whom we invite to support the re-launch of our

Essential fund-raising campaign to promote wider access to classical music

The French association is responsible for running the festival which is a costly and demanding task! Meanwhile, our associated but independent UK charity has helped to fund the festival and has enabled young talented people to participate in our academy and festival over the years, including both taught sessions and the chance to sit beside a professional in our orchestras or ensembles. If you value Musique Cordiale for its unique international festival and orchestral academy for young musical talent – or its choral & singing courses, concerts and events in France and Britain, we continue to need your support and involvement. Even after 20+ years, especially with Covid-19’s devastating impact on us and more widely on musicians & music-making, this help is vital. The French association has a € donor box on our SUPPORT US page. The Musique-Cordiale Trust, based in England, unfortunately did not recently manage to get as close as we hoped to its target income though donations to it did make a significant contribution to covering the costs of the festival. However, as we will soon announce, it will widen its scope and return to its original ambitious purposes in 2026 to encourage musical participation among a wider less-advantaged public and with young people with musical potential but less access to the excitement and challenge of classical music. If you are a UK tax-payer, your donations to the Trust (including being a Friend or Gold Donor) can be enhanced by Gift Aid. Do please go to https://www.musique-cordiale.org/support-us to explore options. THANK YOU!

Support Us

To help us to keep offering a high-quality programme at affordable prices, please do consider supporting us, for example, by becoming a Member, Friend or Donor of Musique Cordiale or by offering in-kind help as a volunteer or artist host.

Soutenez-nous

Pour nous aider à continuer d’offrir un programme de haute qualité à des prix abordables, pensez à nous soutenir, par exemple en devenant membre, ami ou donateur de Musique Cordiale ou en offrant une aide en nature en tant que bénévole ou artiste hôte.