Passion Galliano | AUGUST 11TH

“PASSION GALLIANO“

Certain instruments safeguard a collective memory. The accordion is one of these: a popular breath, a voice of the streets and celebrations, dance-hall melancholy, travel, and nostalgia.
But in the hands of Richard Galliano, this instrument ceases to belong to a single landscape and becomes the world: it traverses jazz, dialogues with Bach, brushes against tango, reinvents French tradition, and opens itself to the vertigo of improvisation.

Passion Galliano is an encounter with one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of the accordion, a true legend who has radically transformed the destiny of his instrument. His music is born from a rare balance: virtuosity and modesty, rigor and surrender, formal precision and emotional freedom. Every note seems to carry a double belonging: to the land from which it originates and the horizon toward which it reaches.

Decisive in his journey was the encounter with Astor Piazzolla, a master capable of recognizing in Galliano not just a performer, but an inventor of languages. It was Piazzolla who encouraged him to return to the accordion’s folk roots—not to preserve them as a relic, but to transform them into living matter.
From this intuition, New Musette was born: a musical vision where French tradition meets jazz improvisation and the anxieties of the present.

In Galliano’s long artistic trajectory, extraordinary encounters resonate: Chet Baker, Michel Petrucciani, Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, and Wynton Marsalis. These names represent not just a career, but a constellation of listening, exchange, and crossover.
Alongside jazz, Galliano has successfully opened the accordion to classical music, taking on Johann Sebastian Bach and collaborating with international orchestras and ensembles, bringing his instrument to the most prestigious venues in the concert world.

But his greatness lies not only in having ennobled the accordion. It lies in having revealed its secret soul: the ability to breathe with the listener, to become a human voice, a confession, an impulse, a vertigo.
In his hands, the accordion does not merely accompany: it narrates. It does not simply add color: it opens up spaces. It does not just evoke the past: it reinvents it.

Passion Galliano is a concert defined by intensity, elegance, and freedom. It is a journey through music as the art of encounter: between tradition and innovation, intimacy and international scope, folk memory and contemporary vision.
An homage to passion, understood not as mere emphasis, but as a profound force—one that transforms a familiar sound into a universal language.