Lucerne Festival 2013
Lucerne Festival 16 August - 15 September 2013
Lucerne Festival
Date: 16 August - 15 September 2013
Festival Introduction
Music that sounds as its creators imagined it. Musicians who play with rapture and commitment. Concert-goers who take leisurely plunges into worlds of sound, far removed from the bustle of everyday life. LUCERNE FESTIVAL makes it all possible, and has been doing so for more than seventy years. Nestled on idyllic Lake Lucerne in one of the world's most beautiful Old Towns, every year the city becomes a meeting place for leading performers from all over the globe – famous orchestras, legendary conductors, virtuoso soloists – who convene to celebrate a festival of sound. In Jean Nouvel's concert hall, equally famous for its phenomenal acoustics and exquisite architecture, they encounter a no less polyglot audience: some 120,000 visitors make their way to Lucerne every year to attend its three festivals – at Easter, in Summer, and at the Piano.
With some one-hundred events, LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Summer is the largest of this distinguished threesome. Every year since 2003 it has opened with a concert of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, an élite ensemble conducted by Claudio Abbado and composed of internationally renowned soloists, chamber musicians, professors, and some fifty members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, founded by Pierre Boulez in 2004, gives the festival its own educational institution for highly gifted young musicians, who are specially initiated into the performance of 20th- and 21st-century music. Besides cultivating the standard repertoire with the best performers the world has to offer, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is also deeply committed to modern music. Every summer it appoints one or two composers-in-residence and focuses on their music. It also appoints artistes étoiles, stellar artists who are actively involved in designing the festival's programs and present their art in a very wide range of contexts. Finally, each season is placed beneath a selected theme that governs the programming policy.
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Relted video:
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at Easter
Perform a concert at the open-air bar Buvette in Lucerne!
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY -- Master Class in Conducting 2011 (1/4)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY -- Master Class in Conducting 2011 (2/4)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY -- Master Class in Conducting 2011 (3/4)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY -- Master Class in Conducting 2011 (4/4)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY - Spotlights 2011
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY - Open Stage 2011
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano - Piano Off-Stage - Ayako Shirasaki
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano - Piano Off-Stage - Rossano Sportiello
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano - Piano Off-Stage - Alkis Steriopoulos
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano - Piano Off-Stage - Frank Muschalle
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano -- Piano Off-Stage - Dado Moroni
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano - Piano Off-Stage - Chris Hopkins
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano -- Piano Off-Stage -- Claude Diallo
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano -- Piano Off-Stage - Julien Brunetaud -- Statement
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano -- Piano Off-Stage -- Ehud Asherie
LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano -- Piano Off-Stage -- Julien Brunetaud