
Located on the edge of Geneva’s old town, the Alhambra has been part of the city’s cultural landscape since its establishment in 1920. It primarily serves as a venue for contemporary music events, organized by private entities and non-profit associations. The venue also hosts concerts and events during Geneva’s many festivals, offering a diverse range of musical performances.
Julien Lieb performs songs from his debut album Naufragé, offering an intimate, vocal-led recital that traces resilience and longing. After reaching the Star Academy final and earning the NRJ Music Awards Revelation (2025), he shapes a sensitive, refined universe where every lyric feels personal. His voice conveys an inward journey, alternating tender confession and luminous phrasing, supported by subtle arrangements that foreground emotion and storytelling.
In French.
Cocoon, led by Mark Daumail, marks twenty years with an intimate acoustic programme that revisits its most emblematic songs from the double album Bones for the Dogs. The French pop-folk project, known for its singular voice and songs sung in English, favors delicate arrangements and close-knit dynamics. Opening act The Woohoo — Valérie Martinez and Zep — brings complementary, tender harmonies born from their collaboration with Cocoon. The evening promises a hushed, emotive soundworld focused on nuance and lyricism.
Geneva-born harmonica virtuoso Grégoire Maret leads an intimate jazz programme that reframes the harmonica as a lyrical, improvisatory voice. Winner of multiple Grammy Awards, Maret draws on collaborations with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Sting and Marcus Miller to shape a sound marked by melodic warmth and harmonic subtlety. Accompanied by a tight ensemble of friends, the performance balances delicate nuance and spontaneous interplay, where breath, timbre and silence create a contemplative yet visceral listening experience.
Geoffrey Secco leads an entrancing concert under Ericksonian hypnosis that blends original compositions, live saxophone and guided trance to probe the question of what lies beyond life. Drawing on spiritual traditions and scientific accounts of near-death experiences, Secco combines tenor sax, violin (David Lombardi), piano (Mike Karagozian), bass (Kevin Reveyrand) and drums (Nicolas Charlier) to create an immersive, cinematic soundscape. The piece balances mystery, tenderness and luminous transcendence, inviting subtle shifts in consciousness.
In French.
Presented by SoProd, this intimate guitar-and-voice concert pairs Québecois singer‑songwriter Lynda Lemay with French guitarist Jean‑Félix Lalanne. Rooted in the chanson française tradition, their collaboration blends Lemay’s poignant storytelling with Lalanne’s instrumental virtuosity. Recorded as an album in early 2026, the repertoire shifts between tender ballads and intricate guitar dialogues, favouring warm, close acoustics and sparse arrangements that highlight lyricism and technique.
In French.
The Gutiérrez brothers weave two guitars into a dreamlike sonic landscape, blending desert blues and spaghetti‑western motifs into expansive instrumental cinema. Born between Zurich and Ecuador, their intimate interplay shapes sweeping melodies and haunting reveries, where sparse rhythms and tremolo-laden lines evoke vast horizons. Their 2024 album Sonido Cósmico, produced by Dan Auerbach, confirms an increasingly international trajectory and a refined palette that balances raw emotion with meticulous touch.
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