Mallorca will host the first edition of the Mallorca Chamber Music Festival from 3rd to 7th September 2026, a new event dedicated to chamber music featuring five concerts in Palma and Alaró. The programme includes works by composers such as Strauss, Dvorak, Brahms, Granados, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Albéniz, as well as a special concert paying tribute to Ramon Llull.
The Mallorca Chamber Music Festival 2026 celebrates its first edition this September with five days of live music and a programme centred on some of the great works of the chamber music repertoire.
The first three concerts will take place on 3rd, 4th and 5th September in the Sala Mozart at the Auditòrium de Palma. On Sunday 6th, the festival will move to Ca n’Oleo for a concert paying tribute to Ramon Llull, before concluding on Monday 7th at the Teatre d’Alaró.
The festival has been created with the aim of bringing together in Mallorca young musicians developing their careers both in Spain and abroad. Its founder and artistic director is Mallorcan violinist Joan López de Soria.
When is the Mallorca Chamber Music Festival 2026?
The first edition will take place from Thursday, 3rd to Monday, 7th September 2026.
Palma will host four of the five events: three consecutive concerts at the Auditòrium and the tribute to Ramon Llull at Ca n’Oleo.
The final concert will take place in Alaró, extending the programme beyond Palma.
Mallorca Chamber Music Festival 2026 programme
Thursday, 3rd September
7:30 pm. Sala Mozart, Auditòrium de Palma.
The festival will open with Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss, in its arrangement for string septet.
The performers will be Manuel Pérez and Miguel Ángel Guerrero on violin; Laura Torroba and Ignacio Fernández on viola; Fabiola Sebastián and Jairo Rodríguez on cello; and Pablo Figueras on double bass.
After a short interval, the programme will continue with Antonín Dvorak’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, performed by Almudena Quintanilla on violin, Jordi Romero on viola, Jairo Rodríguez on cello and Javier Moyà on piano.
Friday, 4th September
7:30 pm. Sala Mozart, Auditòrium de Palma.
The second evening will feature Trio Moment, formed by Joan López de Soria on violin, Fabiola Sebastián on cello and Javier Moyà on piano.
The programme will include Alexander Krein’s Elegy, Op. 16; Enrique Granados’s Piano Trio, Op. 50; and, after the interval, Johannes Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8.
Saturday, 5th September
7:30 pm. Sala Mozart, Auditòrium de Palma.
Schubert and Mendelssohn will take centre stage on the festival’s third evening.
The first half will feature Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 “The Trout”, performed by Joan López de Soria, Jordi Romero, Jairo Rodríguez, Pablo Figueras and Javier Moyà.
This will be followed by Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, with Almudena Quintanilla, Manuel Pérez, Miguel Ángel Guerrero and Joan López de Soria on violin; Laura Torroba and Ignacio Fernández on viola; and Fabiola Sebastián and Jairo Rodríguez on cello.
Concert paying tribute to Ramon Llull on 6th September
Sunday, 6th September
7:30 pm. Ca n’Oleo, Carrer de l’Almudaina, 4, Palma.
One of the special events of this first edition will be a concert marking the 710th anniversary of the death of Ramon Llull.
The programme will bring together Frank Bridge’s Lament for Two Violas; Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz for String Quartet; and Handel-Halvorsen’s Passacaglia for Violin and Cello.
After the interval, the musicians will perform Isaac Albéniz’s Mallorca (Barcarola), Op. 202, with Pablo Figueras on double bass and Javier Moyà on piano, followed by Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A minor.
The tribute is inspired by Ramon Llull’s intellectual and spiritual world, particularly the Llibre d’amic e amat, and offers a musical journey through ideas such as introspection, contemplation, landscape and memory.
The festival will conclude in Alaró
Monday, 7th September
8:00 pm. Teatre d’Alaró, Carrer de Sant Vicenç Ferrer, 33.
The first edition will conclude outside Palma with two of the major works performed during Saturday’s programme.
The audience will be able to hear Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 “The Trout” and Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20.
The concert will begin at 8:00 pm at the Teatre d’Alaró.
Young musicians at the Mallorca Chamber Music Festival
The project was created by violinist Joan López de Soria, founder and artistic director of the festival.
After graduating with honours from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, he is currently continuing his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is a member of Spain’s National Youth Orchestra.
The first edition also brings together Almudena Quintanilla, Manuel Pérez, Miguel Ángel Guerrero, Laura Torroba, Ignacio Fernández, Jordi Romero, Fabiola Sebastián, Jairo Rodríguez, Pablo Figueras and Javier Moyà.
The new festival aims to turn Mallorca into a meeting point for these young performers through chamber music.
Tickets for the Mallorca Chamber Music Festival 2026
Individual tickets for the three concerts at the Auditòrium de Palma cost €25 per concert. A pass covering all three concerts on 3rd, 4th and 5th September is also available for €60.
The Ramon Llull tribute concert on 6th September at Ca n’Oleo is free until capacity is reached, with tickets available through Ticket IB.
Tickets for the 7th September concert at the Teatre d’Alaró cost €20.
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