Music and climbing share a language made of listening, rhythm, and presence. Both require absolute concentration, a balance between technique and emotion, and the ability to engage with the space that hosts them: an arena, a concert hall, or a rock face. In climbing as in music, every gesture matters, every choice is irreversible, and each arises from an intimate relationship between body, mind, and environment.
It is on this common ground that the protagonists of this year’s final events of I Suoni delle Dolomiti will meet: one of the world’s strongest climbers, Alexander Huber, who has completed extraordinary feats both solo and together with his brother Thomas Huber on some of the world’s most challenging rock faces (and who relaxes by playing the piano); a pianist who loves the mountains, Chiara Schmidt, who studied at the Conservatory in Milan, then in Vienna, and finally at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the city where she now teaches; Giuseppe Cederna, an Italian actor and writer who became widely popular with the film Mediterraneo by Gabriele Salvatores and who has previously been a guest in Trentino, where he also took part in an edition of Dolomiti di Pace; and the Ensemble Cortlys, a quintet of exceptional musicians—four strings and a double bass—fascinated by the idea of taking part in such an unusual and “cross-disciplinary” project.
Their shared goal: to transform the artistic and mountaineering experience into a single act of self-expression and creative freedom.
Two locations will host this magical experience of “vertical music”:
September 29, 8:45 pm
The first is Moena, the “Fairy of the Dolomites,” a Ladin town in the Val di Fassa ideally positioned to admire, at sunset, the spectacle of the Enrosadira—the sunlight that sets the pale Dolomite walls ablaze (such as those of the Latemar and the Catinaccio).
October 1, 2:00 pm
The second is Gardeccia, at 1,949 meters above sea level in the Catinaccio/Rosengarten, one of the most iconic massifs of the Dolomites and the setting of the fascinating legend of King Laurin and his rose garden.
