Bolzano Festival Bozen is a European music festival of unique and distinctive character. Here, great stars meet up with young, fresh talents: performers include Claudio Abbado and his Mozart Orchestra; the great pianists and duo partners Martha Agerich and Lilya Zilberstein, Sir Colin Davis and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham accompanied by the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, as well as the European Union Youth Orchestra directed by Vladimir Ashkenazy. Antiqua will also celebrate its 20th anniversary with an extensive festival dedicated to early music. In addition, the most promising talents poised to burst onto the international scene will come together at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and at the Gustav Mahler Academy.