Supporting Young Talents

What a success story! In the nearly 20 years of its existence, more than 1,300 young musical talents from all over the world have graduated from the Lucerne Festival Academy, benefitting from this unique network for new music. Guided by a teaching faculty of leading performers of contemporary music and through close exchange with renowned composers, conductors, and soloists, the participants focus over a three-week period on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the Composer Seminar and the Conducting Fellowship, the Academy also offers young composers and conductors a unique training platform.

Every year, 120 participants are selected from some 600 applications. Participation in the Academy is free of charge for the selected musicians. These scholarships are financed by committed sponsors and patrons.

• promoting highly talented young musicians
• well-grounded training in an area of music that is still neglected in education and in the classical concert industry
• new compositions and their performance
• encounters, exchange, and networking among young musicians from all over the world, based on shared humanistic values
• access to a master school that is unlike any other around the world, regardless of the financial background of the participants

Are you interested in other ways of support or would you like to make a contribution to the development of new projects? Please feel free to contact us!