After the great success of the latest editions, the Lams Matera Award – International Festival/Contest for young musicians (called “Rosa Ponselle” until 2018) reaches the twenty-first edition and it is part of the many LAMS artistic and cultural initiatives, with the patronage of the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities, of Basilicata Region, of Matera Municipality, of Matera Province.

The field of the promotion of young musicians remains an area in which the Lams wants to invest in order to stimulate more and more the growth of artistic wealth and potentiality, local and not, of the new generations. The Award is intended to disseminate the musical culture, to offer to the competitors an important occasion of verifications of one’s abilities, through the comparison and the fair competition, consolidating and promoting the cultural tourism for the knowledge of Matera and of the whole Basilicata. The LAMS MATERA Awards will be in online modality, from 27 to 29 December 2021, on the Facebook page and on the YouTube canal of Lams.