Clásica No Convencional

Clásica No Convencional (CNC) is a series of classical music concerts that take place in unconventional spaces, such as an abandoned warehouse in an industrial area that is being converted into a residential area or an underground parking lot. These are areas where there is no artistic programming and are more than four kilometers away from the nearest cultural center. They are not simplified concerts, for example, of movements of works, but of complete works, and they combine some hits from the repertoire with challenging languages of the 20th century. The staging is immersive and is designed for people who are not yet classical music audiences, with immersive lighting, projections and aromatic coloured vapors, and there is also a cocktail bar, finger food, bookstores, record stores and record labels, as well as works by contemporary Chilean visual artists on display. In just one year, they have exceeded 6,000 attendees in six concerts, half of them free and the other half paid, and they also always do an educational function for schoolchildren. The team behind the project is multidisciplinary and one of its leaders is the most charismatic Chilean conductor, Paolo Bortolameolli (1982), who has conducted more than 60 orchestras around the world and will take over the leadership of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile’s main opera house, in 2026.