Organisers have announced that the fifth edition of the Catch Music Festival will take place from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 March 2026, at the Centre Culturel in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
The Catch Music Festival, a key event in the Luxembourg chamber music calendar, was founded with the aim of sharing a passion for music and encouraging artistic encounters; the festival brings together established musicians from the Luxembourg scene alongside emerging young talents. True to its philosophy, the Catch Music Festival offers an accessible, welcoming and non-hierarchical musical experience, in the spirit of salon concerts, where closeness between performers and audience lies at the heart of the project.
The organisers have revealed that for the first time the festival will devote an entire concert to Baroque music under the theme “Fathers and Sons”, and will feature works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, as well as Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti. Women composers will also be given pride of place, with trios by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn.
Wind instruments will take centre stage with major works such as Mládí by Janáček, Roussel’s Divertissementand Poulenc’s Sextet. The festival will also present Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, an emblematic work composed and first performed in captivity during the Second World War.
The Catch Music Festival places particular emphasis on cultural outreach and young audiences and the morning of Sunday 15 March will be devoted to the musical tale Babar the Little Elephant by Francis Poulenc, narrated in Luxembourgish by Dan Tanson, with Jean Muller and Alexandra Vassileva at the piano, accompanied by artistic creations produced by pupils from Cycle 1 of the Nic Martha Primary School.
In addition, the Catch@Quartier project will offer two concerts for schools in Bonnevoie as well as a musical gathering at the social café “Le Courage”.
Artists who will feature at the fifth edition of the Catch Music Festival include Alena Baeva, Pau Barrachina Roig, Tom Feltgen, Anne Galowich, Matis Grisó, Leo Halsdorf, Cathy Krier, Laurie Krier, Stephan Kronthaler, Thomas Kügler, Pascal Monlong, Jean Muller, Florian Nass, Alberto Navarra, David Sattler, Ruben Stanga, Arthur Stockel, Dan Tanson, Emmanuel Teutsch, Colin Toniello, Yannick Van de Velde, Alexandra Vassileva and Oriane Weyl.
The festival will feature two concerts per day, each with a duration of 45 to 60 minutes (without an interval) and are aimed at all audiences - seasoned music lovers, the curious and newcomers alike - and the organisers invite everyone to “share in the joy of chamber music in a spirit of conviviality and discovery”.
Adult tickets cost €45, youth tickets (under 27) cost €10 and children up to the age of twelve can enjoy free entry to all concerts.
Further information is available at www.catchmusic.lu.
