Summer Festival 2025 | Lucerne Festival

Tue 12.08.

Silk Road

Worlds Beyond Orchestra: Silk Road | Winners of the Swiss Youth Music Competition

Date and Venue
Tue 12.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Summer Festival 2025

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Wed 13.08.

Sarah Willis and José Antonio Méndez Padrón with Members of the Havana Lyceum Orchestra

Mozart y Mambo

Havana Lyceum Orchestra | José Antonio Méndez Padrón | Sarah Willis

Date and Venue
Wed 13.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Summer Festival 2025

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Fri 15.08.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 – Opening Concert

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Elīna Garanča

Date and Venue
Fri 15.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mahler

Summer Festival 2025

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Lakeside Symphony

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Elīna Garanča

Date and Venue
Fri 15.08. | 18.30 |

Program
Mahler

Summer Festival 2025

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Sat 16.08.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Isabelle Faust

Date and Venue
Sat 16.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Dvořák | Mussorgsky | Ravel

Summer Festival 2025

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Sun 17.08.

Portrait Boulez & Stroppa 1

Arditti Quartet | Marco Stroppa

Date and Venue
Sun 17.08. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Boulez | Stroppa

Summer Festival 2025

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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Lang Lang Lang

Date and Venue
Sun 17.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mendelssohn | Beethoven

Summer Festival 2025

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Mon 18.08.

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra

Date and Venue
Mon 18.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Strauss | Beethoven

Summer Festival 2025

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Tue 19.08.

Riccardo Chailly with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Beatrice Rana

Date and Venue
Tue 19.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Rachmaninoff

Summer Festival 2025

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Wed 20.08.

Recital Lang Lang

Lang Lang Lang

Date and Venue
Wed 20.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Fauré | Schumann | Chopin

Summer Festival 2025

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Thu 21.08.

Debut Prix UBS Jeunes Solistes

Winner of the Prix UBS Jeunes Solistes

Date and Venue
Thu 21.08. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Summer Festival 2025

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Il barbiere di Siviglia

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco | Gianluca Capuano

Date and Venue
Thu 21.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Rossini

Summer Festival 2025

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Fri 22.08.

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Michael Sanderling | Daniel Lozakovich

Date and Venue
Fri 22.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Sibelius | Tchaikovsky

Summer Festival 2025

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Portrait Winnie Huang

Winnie Huang | Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Date and Venue
Fri 22.08. | 22.00 | Moderne Bar & Karussell, Moderne Bar & Karussell

Program
van Eck | Barrett | Marino

Summer Festival 2025

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Sat 23.08.

Lucerne Festival Academy 1

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Jonathan Nott | IRCAM Production Team

Date and Venue
Sat 23.08. | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Boulez | Fujikura

Summer Festival 2025

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle

Date and Venue
Sat 23.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Shostakovich | Mahler

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Lucerne Festival Academy 2

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary- Conducting Program | Anthony Millet | IRCAM Production Team | Marco Stroppa

Date and Venue
Sat 23.08. | 21.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Boulez | Stroppa

Summer Festival 2025

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Sun 24.08.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5

Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Tabea Zimmermann

Date and Venue
Sun 24.08. | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Summer Festival 2025

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Composer Seminar: Closing Concert

International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA-Ensemble 2024/25) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program

Date and Venue
Sun 24.08. | 15.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Summer Festival 2025

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko | Anne-Sophie Mutter

Date and Venue
Sun 24.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Korngold | Williams | Rimski-Korsakov

Summer Festival 2025

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Mon 25.08.

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla | Julia Hagen

Date and Venue
Mon 25.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Elgar | Debussy | Ravel

Summer Festival 2025

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Tue 26.08.

Debut Jakob Manz

Jakob Manz

Date and Venue
Tue 26.08. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Summer Festival 2025

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra 6

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Seong-Jin Cho

Date and Venue
Tue 26.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beethoven | Bruckner

Summer Festival 2025

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Wed 27.08.

“räsonanz” – Donor Concert

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Netherlands Radio Choir | Karina Cannelakis | Liv Redpath | Bertrand Chamayou

Date and Venue
Wed 27.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Boulez | Chin | de Raaff

Summer Festival 2025

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Thu 28.08.

Debut Gabriel Pidoux

Gabriel Pidoux

Date and Venue
Thu 28.08. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Summer Festival 2025

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Orchestra di Santa Cecilia – Roma

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Roma | Daniel Harding | Martha Argerich

Date and Venue
Thu 28.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beethoven | Brahms

Summer Festival 2025

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Fri 29.08.

Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie 1

Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Augustin Hadelich

Date and Venue
Fri 29.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Brahms | Prokofiev

Summer Festival 2025

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Sat 30.08.

Lucerne Festival Academy 3

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Michelle Di Russo | David Robertson | Sebastian Zinca | Tabea Zimmermann

Date and Venue
Sat 30.08. | 14.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Palomar | Raab | Ammann

Summer Festival 2025

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Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie 2

Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Stefan Dohr

Date and Venue
Sat 30.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Strauss | Salonen | Sibelius

Summer Festival 2025

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Lucerne Festival Academy 4

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | David Robertson | IRCAM Production Team | Marco Stroppa

Date and Venue
Sat 30.08. | 21.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Stroppa | Boulez

Summer Festival 2025

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Sun 31.08.

Recital András Schiff

Sir András Schiff

Date and Venue
Sun 31.08. | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Summer Festival 2025

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Pierre Boulez Workshop

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | David Robertson | IRCAM Production Team | Marco Stroppa

Date and Venue
Sun 31.08. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Boulez

Summer Festival 2025

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 1

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Janine Jansen

Date and Venue
Sun 31.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mozart | Prokofiev | Bartók

Summer Festival 2025

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Mon 01.09.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä

Date and Venue
Mon 01.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Schubert | Mahler

Summer Festival 2025

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Tue 02.09.

Debut David Nebel

David Nebel

Date and Venue
Tue 02.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Program
Mozart | Shostakovich | Franck | Brahms

Summer Festival 2025

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Berliner Philharmoniker 1

Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko | Albrecht Mayer

Date and Venue
Tue 02.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Webern | Zimmermann | Brahms

Summer Festival 2025

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Wed 03.09.

Berliner Philharmoniker 2

Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko

Date and Venue
Wed 03.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mahler

Summer Festival 2025

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Thu 04.09.

Debut Giorgi Gigaschwili

Giorgi Gigashvili

Date and Venue
Thu 04.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Summer Festival 2025

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Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Maxim Emelyanychev | Tabea Zimmermann

Date and Venue
Thu 04.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mozart | Bartók | Tchaikovsky

Summer Festival 2025

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Fri 05.09.

Vienna Philharmonic 1

Vienna Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst

Date and Venue
Fri 05.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Berg | Bruckner

Summer Festival 2025

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Sat 06.09.

Lucerne Festival Academy 5

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Vimbayi Kaziboni | Claire Chase

Date and Venue
Sat 06.09. | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Ustvolskaya | Czernowin

Summer Festival 2025

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Portrait Boulez & Stroppa 2

Ensemble Helix/Studio for Contemporary Music at the Hochschule Luzern – Musik

Date and Venue
Sat 06.09. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Boulez | Verunelli | Stroppa

Summer Festival 2025

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Vienna Philharmonic 2

Vienna Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst

Date and Venue
Sat 06.09. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mozart | Tchaikovsky

Summer Festival 2025

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Sun 07.09.

Recital Mitsuko Uchida

Mitsuko Uchida

Date and Venue
Sun 07.09. | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beethoven

Summer Festival 2025

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Lucerne Festival Academy 6

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elena Schwarz | Pierre-Laurent Aimard | IRCAM Production Team

Date and Venue
Sun 07.09. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Neuwirth | Ravel | Boulez

Summer Festival 2025

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Mon 08.09.

Les Arts Florissants

Les Arts Florissants | William Christie

Date and Venue
Mon 08.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Charpentier

Summer Festival 2025

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Tue 09.09.

Debut Tamta Magradze

Tamta Magradze

Date and Venue
Tue 09.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Program
Franck | Liszt | Ravel | Schubert

Summer Festival 2025

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Recital Igor Levit

Igor Levit

Date and Venue
Tue 09.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Schubert | Schumann | Chopin

Summer Festival 2025

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Wed 10.09.

Organ Jubilee

Soloists | Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds

Date and Venue
Wed 10.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Summer Festival 2025

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Thu 11.09.

Debut Erinys Quartet

Erinys Quartet

Date and Venue
Thu 11.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche, Kirchensaal

Program
Debussy | Saariaho | Webern

Summer Festival 2025

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Munich Philharmonic

Munich Philharmonic | Lahav Shani | Lisa Batiashvili

Date and Venue
Thu 11.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beethoven | Schubert | Wagner

Summer Festival 2025

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Fri 12.09.

Siegfried

Concerto Köln | Dresden Festival Orchestra | Kent Nagano

Date and Venue
Fri 12.09. | 17.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Wagner

Summer Festival 2025

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Sat 13.09.

Teatro alla Scala

Orchester des Teatro alla Scala | Chor des Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Chailly

Date and Venue
Sat 13.09. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Verdi | Rossini

Summer Festival 2025

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Sun 14.09.

Michael Haefliger und Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Les Adieux

Date and Venue
Sun 14.09. | 15.00 |

Summer Festival 2025

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