Eight concerts split between the Teatro Titano and the Church of San Francesco, with a programme spanning different eras and genres, from Gregorian chant to the Baroque, from the classical repertoire to minimalism, right through to jazz and film music. This is the calendar of the 2026 Rassegna Musicale d’Autunno (Autumn Music Festival) in San Marino, now in its 28th edition and running until 3 January 2027.
Promoted by Camerata del Titano, which this year celebrates 35 years of uninterrupted activity, the event brings together performers and ensembles from the Italian music scene, several San Marino premieres and two appearances by the Orchestra Camerata del Titano.
The festival opened on Sunday 27 September at the Teatro Titano with pianist Andrea Padova, performing Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120. “The opening concert,” reads the press release, “renews the Festival’s mission of presenting San Marino audiences with projects of particular musical significance: on this occasion, a monumental masterpiece of the piano repertoire, one not often featured in concert programmes.”
The next date is set for Sunday 11 October at 5pm at the Church of San Francesco with Antichi riti (Ancient rites). Taking centre stage will be the Ensemble vocale Haec Dies, which will offer a journey through Gregorian chant within liturgical practice, starting from monastic vespers and moving on to Marian hymns and the chants accompanying Mass.
The Church of San Francesco will also host, on Sunday 25 October at 9pm, Dal Barocco al Klezmer (From Baroque to Klezmer) performed by the Negri-Chen violin duo. The programme will range through the music of Guignon, Biber, Veracini and Guillemain before arriving at Irish folk and klezmer traditions. “Eras and places change, and so do the accents: the violin moves from Baroque elegance to the vitality of dance, from virtuosity to song,” the organisers explain.
The Teatro Titano will once again take centre stage on Sunday 8 November at 4.30pm with L’Italia che canta, senza parole (Italy that sings, without words). The Orchestra Camerata del Titano, conducted by Augusto Ciavatta, will perform works by Rossini, Respighi and Wolf-Ferrari, including several San Marino premieres. The programme is built around the Italian melodic tradition and its transposition into the instrumental repertoire.
On 15 November at 4.30pm, the percussion ensemble Ars Ludi will take the stage at the Teatro Titano. Antonio Caggiano, Gianluca Ruggeri and Rodolfo Rossi, joined by Davide Fabrizio, will bring to San Marino a programme that also features the music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, among the leading figures of musical minimalism.
The calendar continues on Saturday 21 November at 4.30pm, once again at the Church of San Francesco, with Ninne nanne in cielo e in terra (Lullabies in heaven and on earth). The Duo Cor Barocco, made up of soprano Micol Pisanu and Francesca Torelli on theorbo, will perform music by Monteverdi, Merulo, Pilkington and Strozzi. The concert will traverse the period between the late Renaissance and early Baroque through a repertoire of lullabies dedicated to the Christ Child and to childhood.
The second appearance by the Orchestra Camerata del Titano is set for Sunday 29 November at 4.30pm at the Teatro Titano. Emozioni (Emotions), again under the baton of Augusto Ciavatta, will bring together works by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Williams, Sibelius and Fauré. The programme also includes the San Marino premiere of Kurt Atterberg’s Suite No. 3, Op. 19 No. 1, featuring a dialogue between violin and viola.
Closing the Festival, on Sunday 3 January 2027 at 4.30pm at the Teatro Titano, will be an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Trio Eccentrico. Alongside narrator Paolo Rosetti, the group will offer a journey that starts with Mozart and moves through opera transcriptions, jazz, film music and Piazzolla.
“Twenty-five years are enough to build a repertoire, gather stories, and realise that in the meantime the audience, too, has changed,” reads the press release. “Between music and narration, memories surface alongside wry observations on our listening habits.”
The 2026 Rassegna Musicale d’Autunno will thus accompany San Marino audiences for over three months, right up to the concluding concert in January, alternating established repertoire, less frequently performed works and premieres on the Titano.
