All Ears Festival 2026 is over, but stay tuned for information about the 2027 edition, which will take place the last week of January.

For the past 20 years All Ears festival for improvised music has presented the most cutting edge avant garde music within the international scene for improvised music. By curating a diverse program, with an array of improvised music, the festival wishes to gather music lovers both familiar with and new to the genre, inviting to a festival dedicated to the art of being present in the now.

All Ears festival for improvised music has a tradition of being curated by touring musicians and is therefore known to know the pulse of the international scene. Since 2020 the curators of the festival have been Anja Lauvdal and Natali Abrahamsen Garner. They now passed the baton to the next generation, Sigrid Aftret and Henrik Sandstad Dalen.