Jean-Michel Jarre will bring his world-renowned outdoor concert experience to Registan Square, Samarkand, on November 1, 2025. Presented in collaboration with the Uzbekistan Culture Development Foundation, this one-off event will mark Jarre’s first-ever live performance in Uzbekistan, transforming one of the world’s most iconic heritage sites with music, light and architecture. Tickets are available now.
A longstanding UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Jarre will perform in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed city of Samarkand, a legendary crossroads on the Silk Road renowned for its cultural and artistic exchange.
The concert comes as Samarkand hosts the 43rd UNESCO General Conference, a historic gathering of all member states outside Paris for the first time in four decades, reinforcing the city’s role as a global centre of dialogue and creativity.
Jean-Michel Jarre said: “Samarkand has long been a crossroads of cultures. Performing at Registan Square is a unique honour, and I hope this concert reflects the spirit of exchange and creativity the city represents.”
This landmark concert will open a new chapter in Uzbekistan’s cultural life, spotlighting the country’s growing role in international cultural diplomacy.
Throughout his career, Jarre has staged some of the most ambitious outdoor concerts of all time, from the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Eiffel Tower, to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the Acropolis, the Eiffel Tower, and Masada at the Dead Sea amongst others. In 1997 he set a world record by performing to 3.5 million people in Moscow, cementing his reputation as a pioneer of large-scale cultural events.
2025 has already been a landmark year for Jarre. His European summer tour included acclaimed performances at major heritage sites from ancient amphitheatres such as the Arena Pula in Croatia and Anfiteatro Degli Scavi in Pompeii to the iconic Piazza San Marco in Venice, Plaza d’Espagna in Séville. The tour reaffirmed his ability to unite history and technology in live performance. September also saw the release of Live in Bratislava: an album and film capturing his spectacular concert at the STARMUS Festival with Brian May, staged in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2024.
Tickets: https://iticket.uz/en/events/concerts/jean-michel-jarre-2025/37625
About the Arts and Culture Development Foundation of Uzbekistan
The Arts and Culture Development Foundation of Uzbekistan preserves, promotes, and develops the heritage, arts, and culture of Uzbekistan. At the forefront of Uzbekistan's cultural development, the Foundation strives to develop the country's cultural ecosystem, stimulate the creative economy, and provide opportunities for practitioners at the local, regional, and global levels. The Foundation believes that culture and heritage are vital for shaping society, uniting communities, connecting generations, and promoting intercultural communication.
In Tashkent, the Foundation successfully hosted the fourth World Conference on Creative Economy (WCCE) (October 2-4, 2024) and is currently leading Uzbekistan's participation in Expo 2025 Osaka, the reconstruction of the Center for Contemporary Art, the construction of the new State Museum of Art designed by Tadao Ando, and the restoration and partial reconstruction of the Palace of the Grand Duke Romanov. In Bukhara, the Foundation will launch the first Bukhara Biennale in 2025.
About Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre has always been a futurist in his field. Throughout his illustrious career, the composer, performer, producer, and cultural ambassador has continued to break new ground with his music and his mastery of creative innovation. From his early pioneering role in electronic music, his use of multi-channel audio technology and production, to his recent explorations into the realms of VR performance and the metaverse, technology is at the forefront of everything he does. He is quoted as claiming that “today is the most exciting time to create, to make music, and to share across so many mediums.”
Jarre is UNESCO ambassador for education, science and culture, an unconditional defender of the planet and the environment and Laureate of the Stephen Hawking Medal for scientific communication.
Jarre’s current catalog, which now includes 22 studio albums, has generated sales of more than 85 million worldwide to date, and earned him countless awards and nominations. Throughout his career, Jarre has taken as canvas, some of the most iconic landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe for his creative, cultural, and environmental message. He has also set new Guinness World Records for live audience attendance at concerts in several emblematic locations. He was the first western musician to be invited to perform in China and has also created and performed concert-events at the Great Pyramids in Egypt, the Sahara Desert, the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square, the Eiffel Tower, the Dead Sea, Al Ula and more. He has consistently sold-out arena and stadium tours across the continents, as well as performing at major festivals including Coachella. In 2021, he rang in the new year with Welcome To The Other Side, a groundbreaking livestream broadcast worldwide from a virtual Notre Dame in Paris. Entertainment trade publication US Pollstar states that the livestream attracted record breaking audiences of over 75 million viewers worldwide across various platforms, television channels and VR. On Jarre performed Versailles 400: a unique hybrid artistic creation conceived specifically to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Château de Versailles and performed in real life live from the Hall of Mirrors and in virtual reality. In May 2024, he performed a unique one-off concert-event ‘Bridge From The Future’, in Bratislava, Slovakia with special guest Sir Brian May to over 100,000 people in Bratislava, Slovakia, marking the opening of the seventh edition of Starmus Festival. In September 2024, he headlined the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In Summer 2025 he played a series of live shows across Europe in iconic locations including Piazza San Marco in Venice and Anfiteatro Degli Scavi in Pompeii. He recently released Live in Bratislava, the definitive audio-visual record of his historic open-air concert-event ‘Bridge From The Future.’
