KotorArt International Festival

KotorArt is Montenegro's most important classical music festival, an event of national significance whose core is Don Branko's Music Days. The 2026 festival runs a full month, from 14 July to 14 August, opening on 15 July with a film programme.

Kotor gives the festival a setting no concert hall can copy. The Old Town is a maze of stone squares, churches and palaces beneath the fortified hillside, and hearing world-class classical playing in the square before St Tryphon Cathedral — or a recital inside one of the Old Town's palaces — folds the architecture into the performance. The venues carry the festival as much as the music does.

Concerts are staged in the cathedral square and in the churches and palaces of Kotor, and the festival has historically presented more than 200 programmes across the bay, including Perast. The scale is unusual for the region: a full month of programming, from headline evenings to smaller recitals threaded through the town's interiors.

Because the festival runs for a month, its programme threads through the entire peak of the Boka summer, giving almost any July or August visit to Kotor a KotorArt evening to catch. An evening at the festival slots naturally into a Boka day — the Old Town at dusk, the audience gathering on the square, music beginning as the stone cools.

Its status matters too: as Montenegro's most important classical festival, with Don Branko's Music Days at its core, KotorArt anchors the country's classical year. For visitors it is the most reliable place in Montenegro to hear music of this level, in surroundings that turn every concert into an occasion.

KotorArt runs 14 July – 14 August 2026 in Kotor and around the bay, opening on 15 July with a film programme. Some concerts are ticketed, while the open-air programmes are free — so there is a way into the festival at any budget.