Focus on Italy 🇮🇹 at ESNS25
Every year, ESNS highlights the best-emerging acts from a European country, showcasing the diversity of musical talent across Europe. ESNS25 has its Focus on Italy

Focus on Italy showcases the latest Italian music acts on the ESNS stage and puts them in front of an audience of industry professionals, media, and music lovers.
Editorial: Discovering the Italian music landscape
written by Patrizio Ruviglioni, journalist La Repubblica
How’s the Italian music scene? In the hottest months, there are up to 50 releases per week, including songs and singles, and the feeling is of a general flattening of the market. And yet numbers in the live sector are excellent.
Italian acts at ESNS25
ESNS selected 18 of Italy's best-emerging and new acts to showcase at Eurosonic.
Focus on Italy at ESNS Conference
The ESNS Conference provides a platform for influential voices in the music industry, featuring numerous program highlights that spotlight Italy. ESNS25 Delegates can explore the Italian music market and network with industry professionals from Italy at ESNS25.


ESNS25 has its Focus on Italy
Focus on Italy at ESNS25 will be supported by the Italian Trade Agency, Italian Cultural Institute Amsterdam, Emilia-Romagna Music Commission-Ater Fondazione, Puglia Sounds/Medimex International Festival & Music Conference-Puglia Culture, Regione Siciliana Assessorato del Turismo dello Sport e dello Spettacolo, SIAE, Assomusica, The Italian World Music Network, Music Innovation Hub, ESNS, and EBU partner RAI Radio2.
Italian festivals supporting Focus on Italy and participating in the European Talent Exchange programme are Apolide Festival, Arezzo Wave, Linecheck Music Meeting & Festival, Poplar Festival, SEI Festival, and Ypsigrock Festival.
