The "Florence International Music Festival" (now in its third year) is a festival designed especially for young talented musicians from all over the world. Objective of the event is to promote young musicians who will have the unique opportunity to perform in some of the most beautiful and historically relevant venues of Florence. This year's edition will present six young musicians who will each perform a concert in Florence.

This Festival is part of the cultural events program of Florence played in prestigious venues of historical and architectural importance such as Salone dè Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio (considered as world heritage monument), the Auditorium siege of the Consiglio of Regione Toscana and in Romanic and Renaissance churches in the heart of the city.

The Opening Evening is considered from the press as the top event of the Festival. The Cortile del Michelozzo in Palazzo Vecchio is the beautiful frame of the gala dinner after the Festival offered by private sponsors.

The organization receives lots of applications from national and international artists to take part to the Festival. During these years international awarded artists played for the Festival like: Ayano Shimada dal Giappone, (Best performance of a virtuoso study in Stage, First excluded Sydney International Piano Competition), Grace Kim from Australia (best student of the dell’University Colle of Melbourne), Ivan Rutkauskas very talented fourteen year old artist, Liszt player and already invited to play with the Buenos Aires theatre orchestra, Nairi Grigorian Armenian and member of the jury in several international competition, Viktoriya Yermolyeva winner of the 35th Concorso internazionale “Vincenzo Bellini”, Tae-Hyung Kim Korean (winner of Concorso Internazionale di Porto), Italian Federica Marini and Manila Santini who played with the Laurence TownShip Orchestra and with Francesco Manara (First violin Teatro alla Scala), who asked to take part to our last Festival with an acclaimed opening concert.

The Festival is organized together with some public offices like Comune di Firenze, Provincia di Firenze and Regione Toscana and is sponsored by private national companies.

If you want to be considered for the 2009 concert season we suggest you to read more about the Florence Internationl Music Campus. Here you can find all information about music summer courses in Florence, organized by the italian music school "Il Trillo".

The intention of the music school is to continue and foster the organization of classes of higher perfection and master classes on a national and international level. The musicians performing these concerts are all between 14 and 35 years old and represent various countries (Argentina, France, Korea, Serbia, Italy and the United States).