listen­ing closely is a cham­ber music fest­iv­al that puts the art of listen­ing at its centre. Foun­ded by the inter­na­tion­ally renowned com­poser Thomas Larch­er, it con­nects music­al tra­di­tion with con­tem­por­ary innov­a­tion and cre­ates space for dis­cov­er­ies.

From 1 to 10 May 2026, the fest­iv­al in Wat­tens, Inns­bruck and, for the first time, also in Schwaz will be ded­ic­at­ing itself to 20^th-cen­tury music with eight con­certs fea­tur­ing works by Tōru Takemitsu, Arvo Pärt, Ernst Schul­hoff and Olivi­er Mes­si­aen – with a par­tic­u­lar focus on com­posers of a new spir­itu­al­ity. Two con­certs will be per­formed by ensembles from the Tyr­olean State Con­ser­vatoire as part of edu­ca­tion pro­jects.

Ophelia’s Cul­ture PR con­trib­utes to a bet­ter inter­na­tion­al per­cep­tion of “listen­ing closely” through supra-region­al press work.