2ο Thessaloniki Soloist Festival 2025
Mayor's greeting
The great success and impressive audience response to the events of the 1st Thessaloniki Soloist Festival last year serve as a reference point for its return this year with a new series of events in emblematic monuments and landmarks of the city that I am sure will arouse the interest of citizens, fascinate and charm.
Using cultural creation as a vehicle, we give life to the unique monumental reserve of the city, insisting on the constant interaction and continuous communication between city, citizen and Culture. Culture that is addressed to everyone, horizontally crosses the 23 centuries of uninterrupted urban life of Thessaloniki, strengthens the collective self-confidence of its residents and proudly highlights the cosmopolitanism of this “ageless” city of “continuous, unexpected transformations”.
From July 7 to 23, citizens and visitors of Thessaloniki are all invited to iconic landmarks of the city that are transformed into scenes of artistic creation, at the Byzantine and Archaeological Museums, at the Umbrellas of Zongolopoulos, at the Port, at Casa Bianca, at the Roman Agora, at the statue of Alexander the Great and at Islachan. We are waiting for you!
Stelios Angeloudis
Mayor of Thessaloniki
Deputy Mayor of Culture,
Tourism Development & Intermunicipal Cooperation
Dear fellow citizens and music lovers,
It is with great joy and pride that I welcome you to the 2nd Soloist Festival, a festival that this year embraces even more emblematic places of our beloved Thessaloniki!
After the warm reception of our first festival, we decided to continue and expand this beautiful artistic meeting. This year, contemporary music groups from our city and abroad will fill with notes and rhythm the most characteristic places – landmarks of our Thessaloniki:
- • at the Umbrellas of Zongolopoulos, where art meets the sea.
• at the Statue of Alexander the Great, where history comes alive.
• at Casa Bianca, an architectural gem with a rich history.
• at the Roman Agora, a journey through time.
• at the Byzantine and Archaeological Museums, gateways to our culture and history.
• at the reborn Islachane, a place with a rich history and a dynamic future.
• at the Port of Thessaloniki, a vibrant hub of culture and meeting.
Our goal is to highlight the rich artistic creation, while offering the residents and visitors of Thessaloniki a unique cultural experience in places that are inextricably linked to the identity of Thessaloniki. Music unites, inspires and transforms, and we are confident that the melodies of contemporary groups will breathe new life into our monuments. We are waiting for you all to share these unique moments!
Vasilis Gakis
Deputy Mayor for Culture, Tourism Development
and Inter-Municipal Cooperation of the Municipality of Thessaloniki