DeltaChamber Music Festival will return to Amposta this summer for its 11th edition, with the two central concerts scheduled for Thursday 30 July and Friday 31 July at 9pm at the Museu de les Terres de l'Ebre. According to Amposta Town Hall and the festival's official programme, the event will run from Monday 20 July to Sunday 2 August across 10 municipalities in the Terres de l'Ebre.

For local residents, music audiences and nearby businesses, that means two weeks of concerts and related activities spread across the area, with Amposta again serving as a key venue. Ticket sales are due to open soon on the festival's official website, while two public workshops and a youth audition have fixed registration deadlines in July.

Amposta hosts the festival's two main nights

The festival's 2026 theme is "Carrousel". Organisers say this edition will bring together around 20 top-level performers from around the world, including internationally active musicians from the Ebre area, for an artistic residency based in the Terres de l'Ebre.

The two central concerts in Amposta are listed as:

  • Thursday 30 July, 9pm: "Carrousel: Programa 1" at the Museu de les Terres de l'Ebre
  • Friday 31 July, 9pm: "Carrousel: Programa 2" at the Museu de les Terres de l'Ebre

The wider programme will also reach Ascó, Tortosa, Deltebre, Roquetes, la Sénia, Flix, Horta de Sant Joan, Sant Jaume d'Enveja and Campredó.

"Carrousel" will be the result of bringing together a group of leading performers in a musical residency in the Terres de l'Ebre, creating a concert programme designed exclusively for this edition, according to the festival and Amposta Town Hall.

The line-up will include 16 instrumentalists, three young musicians from the festival's Academy training programme and one young soprano from Lied the Future, a programme of the Franz Schubert Association. Organisers say this marks a new collaboration focused on artistic excellence.

Concerts, workshops and an audition for young musicians

Alongside the concerts, the festival will include social individual concerts, workshops and an open audition for the Academy 2027 programme. The Academy is the festival's training scheme for young musicians.

Two workshops are planned, both with free entry and limited capacity. The organisers say they are open to all audiences and will focus on practical tools for musicians' professional development and physical and emotional wellbeing.

  • Monday 20 July, 5pm, La Lira Ampostina, Amposta: "Prescreening production: a practical guide for musicians", led by sound engineer and music producer Gerard Font
  • Registration deadline for workshops: Friday 17 July, by email to [email protected] with full name and telephone number

The open audition for Academy 2027 will also take place on Monday 20 July at La Lira Ampostina in Amposta.

  • Audition registration deadline: Monday 6 July
  • How to apply: through the official festival website

Participants in the audition will also be able to attend the same-day workshop led by Gerard Font.

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What the 2026 edition will look like in Amposta

The central "Carrousel" concerts in Amposta will feature an ephemeral architectural installation called "Da Capo". The design, selected through the festival's 2026 temporary architecture competition with the Ebre branch of the College of Architects of Catalonia, is by architects Marta Chavarría Miró and Paulino Poveda Molina, co-founder of guus·lab.

According to the organisers, the suspended installation is intended to evoke the canopy of an old carousel and will form the backdrop for the two main concerts in Amposta. The same installation is also expected to appear at the A Cel Obert 2026 festival under a collaboration between the two events.

The graphic image for this edition has been commissioned from Txus Fibla, an artist from Alcanar, and the work will also be visible live during the concerts.

Who is behind the festival

DeltaChamber Music Festival was created and is led by Amposta musicians Laura Ruiz Ferreres and Pau Rodríguez Ruiz. Ruiz Ferreres is a clarinet professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main in Germany and principal clarinet of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in the United Kingdom. Rodríguez Ruiz is director and clarinet teacher at Escola i Centre Professional de Música La Lira Ampostina and a member of the Amman Chamber Orchestra in Jordan.

The 2026 edition has support from Amposta Town Hall, the Catalan government's Department of Culture, Tarragona Provincial Council, the Directorate General for Youth and several local councils in the Terres de l'Ebre.

For readers planning to attend, the next steps are clear: check the official programme online, book tickets once sales open, and register before the July deadlines if you want to join the workshops or apply for the Academy audition.

Primary sources: amposta.cat, Ajuntament d'Amposta, Ajuntament d'Amposta, Ajuntament d'Amposta. Reported by Source Text Link, DeltaChamber Music Festival.