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Winner of the Prix UBS Jeunes Solistes for 2025: Vsevolod Zavidov
15-17 November 2024
15.11.2024 | Concert 1: "Signals"
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Members of the “Prostir” Choir | Oleksii Yatsiuk | Ted Moore
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16.11.2024 | Concert 2: “Grief” Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Mariano Chiacchiarini | Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
16.11.2024 | Concert 3 – Lage Night: “Trance”
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Kobe Van Cauwenberghe
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
© Andreas Becker/Lucerne Festival
17.11.2024 | Family Concert “Tubalirum”
Rachel Koblyakov | Jack Adler-McKean | Noè Rodrigo Gisbert
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
17.11.2024 | Concert 4: “Dona nobis pacem”
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Prostir” Choir | Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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Aluminium Forest
Katherine Balch | Ted Moore
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© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
Artists | Summer 2025
"artistes étoiles" 2025 Winnie Huang and Tabea Zimmermann
composer-in-residence 2025 Marco Stroppa
Orchestras and Ensembles | Summer 2025
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Summer 2025
Music For Future | Summer 2025 including artists from the Debut series
Academy and Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra | Summe…
Free Offerings
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09 to 15 September
Summer Festival 2024
09.09.2024 | 40min 7
Ensemble der Hochschule Luzern – Musik
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
09.09.2024 | Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Antonello Manacorda | Anna Prohaska
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10.09.2024 | Debut Adelphi Quartet
Adelphi Quartet
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
10.09.2024 | Recital Rudolf Buchbinder
Rudolf Buchbinder
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
10.09.2024 | Stegreif
Stegreif – The Improvising Symphony Orchestra
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
11.09.2024 | Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich | Paavo Järvi | Sheku Kanneh-Mason
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
12.09.2024 | Debut Mélodie Zhao
Mélodie Zhao
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
12.09.2024 | 40min 8
Winners of the Fritz Gerber Award
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
12.09.2024 | räsonanz - Donor Concert
Munich Philharmonic | Lahav Shani | Renaud Capuçon
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
13.09.2024 | Munich Philharmonic
Munich Philharmonic | Lahav Shani
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
15.09.2024 | Gurre-Lieder
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | NDR Vocal Ensemble | MDR-Rundfunkchor | Berlin Radio Choir | Alan Gilbert | Christina Nilsson | Simon O’Neill | Jamie Barton | Michael Schade | Michael Nagy | Thomas Quasthoff
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
02 to 08 September
Summer Festival 2024
02.09.2024 | 40min 5
Members of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
02.09.2024 | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
03.09.2024 | Debut Theo Plath
Theo Plath | Aris Alexander Blettenberg
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
03.09.2024 | 40min 6
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sir George Benjamin
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
03.09.2024 | Chineke! Orchestra
Chineke! Orchestra | Leslie Suganandarajah | Kelly Hall-Tompkins
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
04.09.2024 | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Andris Nelsons | Daniil Trifonov
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
05.09.2024 | Debut Isata Kanneh-Mason
Isata Kanneh-Mason
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
05.09.2024 | Orchestre de Paris-Philharmonie
Orchestre de Paris-Philharmonie | Klaus Mäkelä | Lisa Batiashvili
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
07.09.2024 | Portrait Beat Furrer & Lisa Streich
Ensemble Helix/Studio for Contemporary Music at the Hochschule Luzern – Musik | Beat Furrer
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
07.09.2024 | Lucerne Festival Academy 4
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sir George Benjamin | Jörgen van Rijen
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07.09.2024 | Der Doppelgänger
Opera ensemble of the Luzerner Theater | Luzerner Sinfonieorchester | Tito Ceccherini | David Hermann
© Elmar Witt
07.09.2024 | Vienna Philharmonic 2
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann | Julia Hagen
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
08.09.2024 | Lea Desandre & Jupiter Ensemble
Jupiter | Thomas Dunford | Lea Desandre
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
08.09.2024 | Family concert - "Krach mit Bach"
Jörg Schade | Carl-Herbert Braun | Ensemble Prisma: Ralph Töpsch, Bernhard Wesenick, Alma Klemm | Jeannette Wernecke
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
08.09.2024 | Lucerne Festival Academy 5
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program: Yixuan Hu, Eden Lonsdale, Kenta Onoda, Jose Luis, Valdivia Arias
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
08.09.2024 | Staatskapelle Berlin
Staatskapelle Berlin | Susanna Mälkki | Wiebke Lehmkuhl | Eric Cutler
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
26 August to 01 September
Summer Festival 2024
26.08.2024 | 40min 3
International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA-Ensemble 2023/24) | Raimonda Skabeikaitė
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
26.08.2024 | Lisa Batiashvili & Grant Holders
Lisa Batiashvili | Giorgi Gigashvili | Tsotne Zedginidze
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
27.08.2024 | Debut Martin James Bartlett
Martin James Bartlett
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
27.08.2024 | In the Streets - Opening Concert
Cristina Clara | Schäbyschigg | TRÚ | Mauro Palmas/Giacomo Vardeu | Super Ram | Talike’N Beko | Tante Friedl | Wild Strings Trio
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
27.08.2024 | The 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker
The 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
28.08.2024 | Berliner Philharmoniker 1
Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
© Stephan Rabold
29.08.2024 | Debut Annemarie Federle
Annemarie Federle | Junyan Chen
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
29.08.2024 | 40min 4
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Beat Furrer | Simon Höfele
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
29.08.2024 | Berliner Philharmoniker 2
Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
© Stephan Rabold
30.08.2024 | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung | Seong-Jin Cho
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
31.08.2024 | Composer Seminar: Closing Concert 2 - IEMA-Ens…
International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA Ensemble 2023-24) | Participants in the Contemporary- Conducting Program | conductors | Dieter Ammann
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
31.08.2024 | Recital Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Sheku Kanneh-Mason | Harry Baker
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
31.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Academy 3
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Beat Furrer | Simon Höfele
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
01.09.2024 | Recital Anna Vinnitskaya
Anna Vinnitskaya
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
01.09.2024 | Klangforum Wien
Klangforum Wien | Cantando Admont | Beat Furrer | Sarah Aristidou | Christoph Brunner | Markus Wallner
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
01.09.2024 | The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst | Víkingur Ólafsson
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
01.09.2024 | Family Concert
Schlagwerk Voermans: Maren Voermans and Mark Voermans
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
19 to 25 August
Summer Festival 2024
19.08.2024 | Composer Seminar 2 - Ensemble
Participants in the Composer Seminar | Unsuk Chin | Dieter Ammann
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
19.08.2024 | 40min 1
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
19.08.2024 | Recital Mao Fujita
Mao Fujita
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
20.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Alexander Malofeev
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
21.08.2024 | Die Walküre
Dresdner Festspielorchester | Concerto Köln | Kent Nagano | Soloists
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
22.08.2024 | 40min 2
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
22.08.2024 | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Michael Sanderling | Francesco Piemontesi
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
22.08.2024 | Debut Tjasha Gafner
Tjasha Gafner
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
23.08.2024 | Czech Philharmonic
Czech Philharmonic | Jakub Hrůša | Sheku Kanneh-Mason
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
24.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Academy 2
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Ruth Reinhardt
© Andreas Becker
24.08.2024 | 40min Open Air
London Central Brass | Schäbyschigg | Ensemble from the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sara Taubman-Hildebrand
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
24.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Beatrice Rana
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
24.08.2024 | Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Plínio Fernandes
Sheku Kanneh-Mason | Plínio Fernandes
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
25.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 6 | "Spiel für Vöge…
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Gregory Ahss | Raphael Christ
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
25.08.2024 | Composer Seminar: Closing Concert 1 - LFCO
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program: Yixuan Hu | Eden Lonsdale | Kenta Onoda | Jose Luis Valdivia Arias |
Dieter Ammann
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
25.08.2024 | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Lahav Shani | Lisa Batiashvili
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
13 to 18 August
Summer Festival 2024
13.08.2024 | Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Oksana Lyniv | Andrei Bondarenko | Uladzimir Sinkevich
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
14.08.2024 | European Union Youth Orchestra
European Union Youth Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda | Nicolas Altstaedt
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
16.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 - Opening
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
16.08.2024 | Lakeside Symphony
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
16.08.2024 | Opening
with an art installation by Zilla Leutenegger
© Pius Amrein/Lucerne Festival
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
17.08.2024 | Podium Discussion
Podium Discussion «20 Jahre Lucerne Festival Academy» with Michael Haefliger, Johanna Malangré, Felix Heri, Christiane Engelbrecht, Estelle Costanzo, and Benjamin Herzog
© ManuelaJans/Lucerne Festival
17.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Leif Ove Andsnes
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
18.08.2024 | Composer Seminar 1 - Orchestra
Dieter Ammann | Unsuk Chin | Participants in the Composer Seminar
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
18.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
18.08.2024 | Symphony Afternoon Concert
Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Ivo Gass
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
18.08.2024 | Lucerne Festival Academy 1
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Raimonda Žiūkaitė | Johnna Wu | Jack Adler-McKean | Edward Kass | Helga Karen | Aya Masui | João Carlos Pacheco | Noah Rosen
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
18.08.2024 | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Anne-Sophie Mutter
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
09-12 May 2024
09.05.2024 | Recital Igor Levit
Igor Levit
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
09.05.2024 | Recital Johanna Summer
Johanna Summer
© Manuela Jans/Lucerne Festival
10.05.2024 | Lukas Sternath & Igor Levit
Lukas Sternath | Igor Levit
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
11.05.2024 | Igor Levit & Berliner Barock Solisten
Igor Levit | Berliner Barock Solisten
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
11.05.2024 | Danger Dan
Danger Dan
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
12.05.2024 | Closing Concert
Igor Levit | Lukas Sternath | Johanna Summer | Members of the Berliner Barock Solisten
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
22 to 24 March 2024
22.03.2024 | Beethoven & Chailly
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly
© Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
23.03.2024 | Chamber Music
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
© Peter Fischli/Lucerne Festival
24.03.2024 | Beethoven & Heras-Casado
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado | Daniel Lozakovich
© Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
Riccardo Chailly | Music Director
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