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Looking ahead to Lucerne Festival in 2024

Source:Lucerne Festival 2023.12.15

  With this summer’s theme of “Curiosity,” Lucerne Festival will explore the “craving for the new”. Exemplifying such “curiosity” par excellence is the Lucerne Festival Academy, which celebrates its 20th anniversary. Every summer, the Academy brings together some 100 young instrumentalists, conductors, and composers to engage with the new, with contemporary music. The Swedish composer Lisa Streich and the Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer will have a prominent presence as composers-in-residence. As “artistes étoiles,” the Georgian-German violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will showcase their versatile talents in a variety of concert formats. Music Director Riccardo Chailly will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in two evenings: Mahler’s Seventh Symphony for the opening concert. Guest conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin and, for the first time, Klaus Mäkelä, will lead the Lucerne Festival Orchestra on two additional evenings. The closing concert on 15 September will present Arnold Schoenberg’s monumental Gurre-Lieder in a performance by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Alan Gilbert.

  

  At the Spring Festival, which will likewise take place at the KKL Lucerne, from 22 to 24 March 2024, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will devote two orchestral concerts to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven; in addition, soloists from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will perform an evening of chamber music featuring works by Mozart, Dvořák, and Tchaikovsky. Music Director Riccardo Chailly and Pablo Heras-Casado will each conduct one concert of repertoire including Beethoven’s First, Second, and Seventh Symphonies as well as his Violin Concerto, with the Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich as the soloist.

  

  For this second annual edition of the new Piano Fest, which Igor Levit curates for Lucerne Festival, the acclaimed pianist once again plans to bridge the gap between classical music and other musical genres by inviting a remarkable variety of artistic figures he esteems highly to the KKL Luzern from 9 to 12 May 2024. Levit himself will perform a solo program and will additionally appear together with his master student Lukas Sternath and the Berliner Barock Solisten. The rapper and songwriter Danger Dan will present his program Das ist alles von der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt (“That Is All Covered by Artistic Freedom”), while the jazz pianist Johanna Summer will return to give a solo recital juxtaposing classical music and jazz improvisation.

  

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