InterHarmony International Music Festival
For a month each summer Acqui's churches fill with chamber music and orchestral concerts as the InterHarmony International Music Festival brings faculty and young musicians from around the world to study and perform here.
Why it's special
Directed by cellist Misha Quint, InterHarmony pairs a summer conservatory with a public concert series — you get international soloists playing Beethoven and Dvořák in the acoustics of Acqui's historic churches, most evenings for weeks.
Programme · 2026
A summer festival and academy: near-nightly concerts by faculty and students, plus masterclasses, in Acqui's historic churches.
- Concerts are held in the town's churches — the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Church of the Sorrowful Mother.
- Check the InterHarmony site for the exact evening line-up before you go; masterclasses run alongside the public concerts.
For a month each summer Acqui swaps spa-town quiet for chamber music. The InterHarmony International Music Festival, run by cellist Misha Quint, is half summer conservatory and half public concert series: faculty and young players arrive from around the world to study together, and most evenings they play for whoever wants to come. The venues are the town's churches — the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the Church of the Holy Spirit, the Church of the Sorrowful Mother — so you hear Beethoven trios and Dvořák in stone acoustics rather than a concert hall.
The 2026 festival ran in two sessions across late June and July, with the public highlights near the end: a Beethoven evening pairing the "Ghost" and "Archduke" trios, and an orchestral finale under Taras Krysa with Ravel, Shostakovich and Dvořák. If you're staying in the old town, an InterHarmony evening is the easy plan — walk out after dinner, catch the concert, walk back. The exact nightly line-up shifts year to year, so check the InterHarmony site before you set your evening around it.