Ultima 2026

Welcome to Ultima 2026!

This year's programme brings together more than 60 events — concerts, music theatre, dance, sound installations, panel conversations, and more — developed in collaboration with even more partners.

Instability runs through many of the productions — which belongs, given the world we now live in. Voices that return, instruments that resist, bodies in encounter with technology, stories that refuse to be left behind. There is danger in that instability. But there is also room for play, for wonder, for exciting new ways of listening.

Ultima 2026 invites you into music that doesn't let go straight away.

Music you're not done with.

Festival Programme 2026

Young at Ultima 2026

Line-up

Alberto Bernal I Alessandro Cortini I Alvin Lucier I Andrea Giordano I Arepo Ensemble I Arne Nordheim I asamisimasa I Bjarni Frímann I Camille Norment I Chloé Reymond I Cikada I Det Norske Kammerorkester I Det Norske Solistkor I Ellen Reid I Fiona Sironic I François Sarhan I Gisle Kverndokk I Glenn Kotche I Hanna Hartman I Heida Mobeck I IEMA Ensemble I Igor Stravinsky I Ilan Volkov I Jean Barraqué I Joana Sá I Johan Renck I Johannes Gustavsson I Kaija Saariaho I Karl Ove Knausgård I Kelman Duran

I Kjersti Alm Eriksen I Kjell Samkopf I Knut Olaf Sunde I KORK I Kristine Tjøgersen I LEMUR I Lene Grenager I Louise Ernandez I Mahsa Vahdat I Malin Bång I Maritea Dæhlin I Martin Langerød I Merzbow I Miguel Ángel García Martín I Morten Qvenild I Natasha Barrett I Nicolas Hodges I Nils Henrik Asheim I Nina Garcia I Nina Guo I NMH Sinfonietta I Olivia Køppe I Oslo-Filharmonien I Oslo Sinfonietta I Øyvind Mæland I Øyvind Torvund I Pinquins I Reinhold Friedl I Sébastien Robert I Simon Løffler I SISU I Susan Schüppli I Susanna Wallumrød I Svetlana Maraš I Tanja Orning I Tine Surel Lange I Torben Snekkestad I Violeta García I Wei Ting Tseng I Yann Leguay I Yuri Umemoto I Zafraan Ensemble and many more