We are so delighted to announce you about 12th Osaka International Chamber Music Festa to be held in May, 2026. Further detail will be open in spring 2025.

Any instrument is welcomed!
No age limitation!
Voted by audience members!

For Ensemble consisting of 2 to 6 instrumentalists.

Schedule ＆Venue

May 9th – 13th , 2026

1st round *subject to change
Mie Pref. Fine Arts Center
Toyama Prefecture Takaoka Culture Hall

Semi-final & Final round

Sumitomolife Izumi Hall

Date	Venue
May 9th	Mie / Toyama	1st round
May 11th	Osaka	SHOWCASE #1
May 12th	Osaka	Semi-final round SHOWCASE #2
May 13th	Osaka	Final round Awards Ceremony

Jury

The screening for each round will be held by a jury consisting of a large number of audience members (non-professional musicians) and special guest jury who will be commissioned by the organizer.

＼SPOTLIGHT on 12th edition／

Welcoming more diversity!

Osaka International Chamber Music Festa welcomes not only classical music, but also traditional and ethnic music performances of the world. We will accept more diverse performing arts related to instrument music than past Festa.

Offering new special prizes for diversity!

New special prizes such will be presented to praise various forms of music and new wave for performing arts in addition to the existing “Menuhin Gold Prize” and “Folkloric prize”. We hope these changes will make the Festa more festive chamber music stage!

Getting more performance chance!

The 1st round of the Festa will be held out of Osaka so that we can share the joy of music with people in Mie and Toyama prefecture. Then the ensembles which could not get to next round will also be invited to Osaka alongside the ensembles who advanced to semifinal round, to appear at a separate concert titled “ENSEMBLE SHOWCASE” to show their performance. All participating ensembles will have more stages!

Further detail will be announced on the Rules and Regulations published in March, 2025.

Upcoming Schedule

2025
Spring    Announcement of Rules & regulations
April       Application Open
October Application Deadline
November & December Pre-screening

2026
March    Announcement of participants of ensembles