The ancient River Port of Aquileia comes alive with sound for the Festa della Musica: at dawn on June 21, one of the most evocative sites in this UNESCO city will awaken to the melodies of the Violoncelli Itineranti trio, welcoming the arrival of summer. As part of GO! 2025 – Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture, a poetic musical performance in Italian and Slovene will evoke memories of distant and recent encounters in this historically rich borderland.

In the stillness of the early morning, verses by Italo-Slovene poets will resonate through original compositions by Andrejka Možina, inspired by the bilingual volume Parole indomite / Besede ne ubogajo več and featured on the album of the same name. A fully female ensemble brings the work to life: alongside Možina (voice and cello), Trieste-based musicians Irene Ferro-Casagrande and Carla Scandura (cellos) create an intimate, multilingual soundscape.

Parole indomite / Besede ne ubogajo več is “a powerful, nostalgic, intimate, and deeply inspired album,” says renowned cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima. “Languages, sounds, and roots meet in a magical borderland. It offers an enlightened perspective in a world that too often fails to understand how cultures—distant or neighboring—can and want to relate. And as we know, the cello and the voice lie on the same threshold. In this case, thanks to Andrejka’s brilliance and the perfect balance between voice and the breath of the cellos, you truly feel physically transported inside that world—inside those sounds and those words.” 


Violoncelli Itineranti. Foto Corrado Maria Crisciani



On the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — the Violoncelli Itineranti will echo through the traces of a distant past. During the Roman Empire, Aquileia was a vital crossroads between the Mediterranean, the East, and continental Europe. At the River Port—the setting for the concert—people and goods from across the known world once converged. Amid green grasses, the ancient stone quays still whisper of arrivals and departures, of vanished ships and precious cargo: Baltic amber, Eastern spices, sailors’ footsteps etched into stone. Today, as then, languages, sounds, and cultures meet once more in this place of centuries-old journeys, giving rise to new and irresistible harmonies.