Lucerne Festival

The Lucerne Festival is an series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Founded in 1938, it currently produces three festivals per year, attracting some 110,000 visitors annually taking place since 2004 primarily at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL) designed by Jean Nouvel. Each festival features resident orchestras and soloists alongside guest performances from international ensembles and artists, in 2017 including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Emanuel Ax, Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov.

The largest festival is the Summer Festival (LUCERNE FESTIVAL im SOMMER), taking place in August und September and featuring over 100 events. Since 2003 it has been launched by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, Claudio Abbado's "orchestra of friends" composed of internationally acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, teachers, and members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, since 2016 directed by Riccardo Chailly. Also founded in 2003 was the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, created by the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez to bring together young musicians from around the world to perform music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, since 2016 led by Artistic Director Wolfgang Rihm and Principal Conductor Matthias Pintscher. International artists are also invited to be artistes étoiles and composers-in-residence, forming event around an annual theme, recent topics being "Humour", "Identity" and "Psyche".

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