The RESIS Festival of contemporary music, supported by the City Council of A Coruña, closed its 8th edition on 31 May, consolidating its role as one of the essential events of current sound creation. With a programme that paid tribute to the composers Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann, RESIS 2025 brought together over several weeks in the cities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Madrid artists and ensembles of international prestige, as well as a loyal audience that once again sold out the concerts.

On this occasion, the festival counted with the participation of artists and ensembles of reference such as Quatuor Diotima, Arxis Ensemble, Quartet Gerhard, Evo Ensemble, the Orquesta y Coro de la Sinfónica de Galicia, the Real Filharmonía de Galicia or the Banda Municipal de A Coruña. Also present were conductors such as Armando Merino, Fabián Panisello, Jordi Francés, Daniel Huertas or Javier Fajardo; soloists such as Virginia Guidi, Florian Hoelscher or Florentin Ginot; the creator of metasystems Rubén Panete and artists such as Raquel Buj.

One of the most outstanding milestones of this edition was the selection of the RESIS Festival as an outstanding artistic project by the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Foundation. 'This international recognition is a fundamental boost to our work, and reaffirms our commitment to a festival that, from Galicia, connects with the musical avant-garde worldwide', emphasises Hugo Gómez-Chao, director of RESIS.

New public and critical success

This edition of RESIS once again aroused the interest of the specialised critics, with more than 70 references published in the media and confirming the prestige of the festival at international level. Furthermore, more than 3,000 people enjoyed the concerts of this 8th edition, which once again attracted a faithful audience eager for new musical proposals.