The most solidary Serenates reunite close to 5.000 people during the 13 nights of music, performance and dancing

According to the provided numbers by the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society of the Universitat de València, in 2025 emphasises the monitoring of the festival by the public with a global assistance of 4.615 people and an average of 355 viewers per night, exceeding 89% of the capacity. To this results it is added the increment in the duration of the festival, celebrated from 24 June to 6 July, with an increase of more than 24% in the number of concerts to a total of 13.

Other data that is emphasised is the high participation of artists -with 652, while the 92% of members where Valencian groups- as well as the young interpreters -the 55% were younger than 26- and that of women -with a 55%, accomplishing one more year the criteria of parity of genders-.

Almost commemorating their 40th anniversary, the Serenates festivalcontinues cultivating successes in the summer night from the Senate of the historical building of the Universitat de València, an space in the heart of the capital that shapes itself as the ideal framework for an eclectic proposal of spectacles that, year after year, bet for the recovery and valuation of the Valencian musical patrimony, serving as stage to young interpreters and tackling a programming with a marked social compromise through music and art.

Furthermore, in 2025, Serenates has lived a specially significant edition for its solidary character with the music affected by the DANA: on the one hand, they have participated in the artists and groups festival of the villages that suffered the floods in October, like Eva Romero Quartet(26 June) from Sedajazz, the municipal groups ofMontroy and Catarroja(28 June),Amores Grup de Percussiówith the performanceUbuntu(2 July), andEls Tornejants y la Nova Muixeranga d’Algemesí(5 July) who offered on-site in the plaza del Patriarca an amazing performance.

In this last performance the Colla de Dolçaines i Percussió de la UVparticipated as one of the university groups that have been present in Serenates.

The festival has been the stage of their own productionCarmen suite, under the charge ofPhilharmonic Orchestra of the Universitat de València, conducted byHilari Garcia Gázquez, and theGrup de Dansa UV, with choreography ofToni Aparisi Sevilla, who inaugurated the cycle on 24 June.

Aparisihas been the ideologue of this original contemporary proposal in which the dancers performed on stage the music by Shchedrin accompanied by a complete string orchestra and an amazing group of 47th percussion instruments that captured the passion and eroticism of the original byBizet.

The University Choral Society of Valencia, for their part, with the conduction ofFrancesc Valldecabresand the musical support of theOrquestra de Cambra de Tortosa, offered on 29 June the performancePOLS. Bach Connections (IV), in memory of all the war victims in the world.

Jazz had its space on 25 June, with an excellent version of Concierto sacro(Sacred concert) by Duke Ellington, conducted byJesús Santandreuand interpreted byOrquesta de Jazz del Conservatorio Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo de València (CSMV), aloong with Coro de Cámara del Conservatorio, theCor Jove de la Comunitat Valencianaand theCor de la Unió Musical Santa Cecília d’Onda, tow soloists and a dancer until reuniting 105 people on the stage of the Senate of La Nau.

Outstands, at the same time, the participation of professional groups, among them, the one of two Valencian groups of prestige as are theOrquestra de Valènciathat, in the constant collaboration with the Palau de la Músicaof the city with the Serenates festival, has come back to the Senate of the University (27 June) to receive the International Tuba Euphonium Conference ITECin an exclusive concert with metal as the protagonist; and theCor de la Generalitat Valenciana(4 July), who presented an evocative a Capella programme linking science and culture under the titleAqua, terra, aer, ignis: ELEMENTS.

In a wink to contemporary musical aspects and inside the diversity and eclecticism of Serenates, the festival took, on 30 June, a concert under the charge of the claimed cantaora Clara Monteswho, inside the framework of the inauguration of the dedicated exhibition to Miguel de Molina, she offered a luxurious repertoire in memory of this great figure of Spanish cultural avant-garde.

Serenates has been once more the ideal environment for such a beautiful instruments as the piano is. In the current edition, they have counted with the presence of the famous Valencian pianist Rubén Talón(3 July) who interpreted with accuracy authors such as Chopin,Liszt,RavelySatie.

In the festival there has also been space for theatre with the company Komos who walked up the stage with the work by SófoclesEdipo rey(1 July), while the closure (6 July) was under the charge of the group Armonía Danza, who reminded the figure of the soldier poet of the Renaissance through the Marqués de Santillana with a performance that combined with perfect balance music, dance and performance.

The production of the Serenates 2025 festival also had the support and collaboration of the Department of Culture of the Valencian Provincial Council, the Valencia City Council, the Palau de la Música de València (Valencian Palace of Music), the Conservatorio Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo de València, and the College of Art and Design of Valencia (EASD), with this years poster design presented by student Alejandro Gran Rodríguez, honouring music and flowers as symbols of this land.