Festival

Since it was created 47 years ago, the Ensems festival has been a space for exhibition, reflection, musical performance and creation that has become essential in today’s panorama of contemporary music, both in academic and artistic contexts. Ensems is the most experienced festival for recently created music in Spain and over time it has deservedly become one of the exemplary gatherings for contemporary music in the country, as well as a festival that is an international point of reference within the new panorama of musical and sound creation.

Over its nearly five decades of history, its commitment to creative music and its response to such music’s idiosyncrasies and complexity have been the driving force and raison d’être for the festival, as well as the desire to make Valencia the capital of contemporary music and Ensems the common point of reference for performers, composers, conductors and fans from all over the world. Concerts, dialogues, composition encounters and other parallel activities are at the core of the programme for a festival that is essential to feel the sector’s pulse and delve into its peculiarities without losing sight of reaching out to new audiences.