10th ILUMINA FESTIVAL
Ilumina Festival celebrates its 10th edition, bringing together young talents alongside some of the world’s finest soloists in a unique immersive experience. During the festival, more than 40 artists from 13 countries will rehearse, live, and create together on an organic coffee farm, blending tradition and innovation in an inspiring setting.
Throughout the festival, audiences can enjoy six free concerts performed in different cities. This edition stands out for its diversity and the premiere of a new work by the internationally acclaimed Brazilian composer Clarice Assad.
Beyond music, the Ilumina Festival broadens its horizons with the participation of professionals from fields such as multimedia, leadership, finance, movement, technology, and more. This interdisciplinary approach transforms the event into a space for learning and exchange, enriching both artists and audiences.
Get ready for an event like no other!
ARTISTS 2025
YOUNG ARTISTS 2025
SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS
CACONDE
EcoConcert in the Mountains
HORIZONS
January 5, 2025 | 4:00 PM
Location: Serra do Cigano, Caconde/SP
Tickets: Free entry. Limited seating, first come, first served.
Free on-site parking.
About this concert:
On a mountaintop overlooking the horizon of the spectacular Serra da Mantiqueira, this concert unites the coffee-growing communities around Caconde in a mix of popular and classical Brazilian music and, through talks and specialty coffee tastings, explores the powerful work of our FAF coffee partners to build a more sustainable world and healthier communities. This concert is part of the ECO initiative, a commitment by Ilumina to talk to farming communities and democratize access to excellent music.
MOCOCA
EcoConcert for Mococa
ME:YOU:US
January 8, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Location: Municipal Theater of Mococa (Praça Mal. Deodoro, 82 - Centro, Mococa/SP)
Tickets: Free entry. Limited seating, first come, first served.
No on-site parking available.
About the concert:
For the community of Mococa, we will present an evening of Brazilian music with the famous pianist Cristian Budu. In collaboration with the great trio of legendary percussionist Edmundo Carneiro, Ilumina's longtime bassist Pedro Gadelha and rising cellist Bruno Lima, it will be a journey from the roots of choro to Baden Powell.
SÃO PAULO
Celebrating 10 Years of Ilumina
FUTUROLOGY
January 10, 2025 | 7:30 PM.
Location: Casa das Caldeiras (Av. Mário de Andrade, 995 – Água Branca, São Paulo/SP)
Tickets: Online reservations via Sympla website, to be announced soon.
Paid valet service available on-site.
About the concert:
Where are we going? Art collides with the world of innovation in an evening of musical performance, digital projection and conversations about the future with leaders in exponential technology, AI, sustainability, social transformation and the creative world. The future is a fast-moving train. On the opening night of the Ilumina Festival in São Paulo, we will bring together agents of change and promote discussions about visionary ideas for powerful social transformation and creative collaboration between sectors. Experience a solo performance by a world-class musician in a tunnel, see a demonstration of robotics and AI in music, listen to a panel discussion on how sustainable agriculture will change the future and sample the world's best specialty coffee. With the festival's resident visual artists Coletivo Coletores digitally mapping and projecting in the epic space of Casa das Caldeiras, this will be a night unlike any other. Come, be inspired, grab a drink and join us in the beer garden to dance and toast to 10 years of Ilumina!
Repertoire
Steve Reich Different Trains
Felix Mendelssohn Octet
Clarice Assad Synthetico
Caroline Shaw Entr'acte
Missy Mazzoli Vespers
Antonio Vivaldi Four Seasons: Summer
George Benjamin Viola, Viola
Julius Eastman The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc*
Repertoire subject to change
SÃO PAULO
TRANSFIGURED NIGHT
January 11, 2025 | 8:00 PM
Location: Sala São Paulo (Praça Júlio Prestes, 16 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo/SP)
Tickets: Online reservations via ByInti website of Sala São Paulo.
Ticket release date to be announced soon.
Paid parking available on-site.
About the concert:
Epidemic of loneliness. At a time when the world is more connected than ever before in history, why do we feel more and more distant? This Saturday, we will explore the future of human connection, ending with the incredible play Transfigured Night, based on a poem about the complexities of love between people and how compassion can transfigure everything. Transfigured Night will include videomapping by Coletivo Coletores
Repertoire
Thomas Ades Darknesse Visible for piano solo
Osvaldo Golijov The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Kvakarat
Niel Gow Lament for the Death of his Second Wife for violin solo
Nina Simone Wild is the Wind
George Crumb Makrokosmos: Dream Music
Schubert Notturno for Piano Trio in E Flat Major
Schoenberg Transfigured Night
Repertoire subject to change
SÃO PAULO
R/EVOLUTIONS
January 12, 2025 | 4:00 PM
Location: Sala São Paulo (Praça Júlio Prestes, 16 - Campos Elíseos, São Paulo/SP)
Tickets: Online reservations via ByInti website of Sala São Paulo.
Ticket release date to be announced soon.
Paid parking available on-site.
About the concert:
At the close of the 10th festival, we analyze the connection of the universe, how everything we are contains everything that came before, in the voices of our ancestors, their legends and wisdom. In our impact on the Earth and the vision of a future in which cities are submerged in the remains of melting ice. Through music based on repetition, how extraordinary innovation can be born from simplicity. A new work by composer-in-residence Clarice Assad weaves the power of AI and robotics into the narrative of analog instruments; and the concert completes the circle with the same work that closed the first Ilumina Festival in 2015, Brahms' Sextet in G major. The wheel of the future keeps turning and, with it, we evolve.
Repertoire:
Pachelbel Canon in D
Purcell Curtain Music from Timon of Athens
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Saariaho Cloud Music
Clarice Leite Lendas, e nada mais
Widmann Once Upon a Time: The Ice Cave
Schulhoff In Futurum
Debussy Sunken Cathedral
Clarice Assad Premiere of the new work
Brahms Sextet in G major, opus 36: Allegro non troppo
Chico Buarque Roda Viva
Repertoire subject to change
