Sea & Music 2027 is MS6's newest classical music voyage: ten nights through Japan and Korea aboard the Explora III, built around concerts with Maxim Vengerov, Marina Rebeka, Bomsori, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Jan Lisiecki, Chu Yi-Bing and the specially formed Sea & Music Orchestra, on board and ashore. It's the first time this idea has travelled to Asia.

Both, in a sense. It's built on a ship, but the days are shaped around the concerts the way a festival's would be, not the other way around. We think of it less as a cruise with music added, and more as a music festival that happens to move.

Sea & Music is organised by MS6 Travel & Music, a family-run Austrian company led by Michaela and Florian Schaubach, who have shaped the programme personally since 2008.

Explora III carries up to 922 guests in total. Sea & Music itself is limited to a maximum of 200 guests, for a particularly personal atmosphere within the voyage.