THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.

Lucerne Academy Orchestra

David Robertson, Sylvain Cambreling Tutors

Rita Castro Blanco, Jack Sheen, Noah Max, Swann Van Rechem Conducting Fellows

Pierre Boulez - Éclat/Multiples
Pierre Boulez - Livre pour cordes
Anton Webern - Variationen op. 30
Igor Stravinsky - Variations (Aldous Huxley in memoriam)
Anton Webern - Symphony op. 21

This internationally unique campus for contemporary music was founded in 2003 by the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez and Festival Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger. Starting in the summer of 2016 the German composer Wolfgang Rihm took over as Artistic Director. The teaching faculty consists of leading performers of contemporary music who are members of such distinguished formations as the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Ensemble Modern, the Klangforum Wien, and the Ensemble Musikfabrik. In addition, other acclaimed conductors, composers, and soloists have been invited each summer in recent years, including such figures as Sir George Benjamin, Peter Eötvös, Isabelle Faust, Alan Gilbert, Heinz Holliger, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Sir Simon Rattle. The works on their “curriculum” are eventually presented to the public in concerts by the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, for which all of the students join together, as well as on various ensemble programs.