This year we are most grateful for all the musicians, hosts, donors, and sponsors who have stepped up to help us present our 38th Music Festival. We are bringing 7 special concerts this year. A very big thank you for your generosity and enthusiasm.

Come and join us for another uplifting spectacular Music Festival!


Festival Program Book 2022
Festival Program Book 2021
Festival Program Book 2020
Festival Program Book 2019
Festival Schedule 2018 and program book
Festival Schedule 2017 and program book
Festival Schedule 2016 and program book
Festival Schedule 2015 and program book
Festival Schedule 2014
Festival Schedule 2013
Festival Schedule 2012

   
  Since 1985, St. Barts has hosted a performing arts festival unlike any other in the world. Each year during January we offer more than a dozen nights of the finest live music and dance performances in an informal, island setting. Audiences are treated to intimate concerts by some of the world’s most prominent classical, opera, ballet, and jazz stars. These performers have the level of artistry that one would normally have to attend Carnegie Hall in New York or the Opera Garnier in Paris to experience. But we offer them to our audiences with the added advantage of island breezes and the fragrance of flowering hibiscus.

By day, visitors enjoy the beaches and world-class duty-free shopping in the port of Gustavia. By night, they relax in quaint local churches and community halls for some of the best music and dance that our species has to offer! (The songs of our tropical birds and the dance of local sea turtles give us a run for our money, but we do our best.)

Our musicians are soloists and principals from symphony orchestras and philharmonia from all over the world: Montreal, Boston, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, London, Paris, the Juilliard and Curtis schools of music, and many others.

Our singers are from the likes of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala in Milan.

Our dancers have performed with the American Ballet Theater of New York City, the Paris Opera Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, the Boston Ballet and the famed Bolshoi company in Russia.

After the concerts, it’s not unusual to spot the performers and other visiting celebrities dining in one of the many fine restaurants our charming island has to offer. Check out the list of performers and start making your plans to join us!

In addition to covering our operating costs, the St. Barts Music Festival always need housing for the performers. For more information about housing donations, please click here