For 2012 the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY has once again created a multifaceted program to equip highly gifted young instrumentalists from around the world with the knowledge and skills they need to perform music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Framing it are two symphony concerts to be conducted by Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, which will juxtapose key works of modernism—Arnold Schönberg's Expressionist monodrama “Erwartung” and Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony—with more recent compositions by Peter Eötvös, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, and this year's composer-in-residence, Philippe Manoury. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra and Pierre Boulez will perform one additional concert, following their stay in Lucerne, in Paris (Salle Pleyel) on 9 September 2012.
The ensemble concert under the direction of the young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado will feature Manoury's “Strange Ritual” as well as “La Chambre aux Échos” by Michael Jarrell—a work that the Ensemble intercontemporain will perform as well during the opening concert for this year's Academy.
The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY will also break new ground with a music-theater project to be produced in cooperation with LUCERNE FESTIVAL Young and Theater Basel: Manuel de Falla's brief opera “Master Peter's Puppet Show”—freely adapted from Cervantes' “Don Quixote”—which is aimed specifically at young listeners and families.
In addition there will be an evening of chamber music, master classes in conducting with Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, the illuminating Academy Forum series—and of course the Open Stage and Spotlight series, in which Academy participants prepare their own concert programs and strive to bridge the gap between various forms and styles of music.
Symphonic Program 1
Sunday, 26 August | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra
Peter Eötvös conductor
Tristan Murail (*1947)
“Terre d'ombre”
Peter Eötvös (*1944)
“Shadows”
Charles Ives (1874–1954)
Symphony No. 4
Ensemble Program
Saturday, 1 September | 20.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Ensemble
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Philippe Manoury (*1952)
“Strange Ritual”
Michael Jarrell (*1958)
“La Chambre aux Échos”
and other works
Music Theater Program
Saturday, 1 September | Theater Basel
Sunday, 2 September | 14.00 and 17.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Monday, 3 September | 10.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Ensemble
Clement Power conductor
Manuel de Falla (1876–1946)
Concerto for Harpsichord, 1st movement
Manuel de Falla
“El Retablo de Maese Pedro”
A coproduction between LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Theater Basel
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 5 September | 18.00, 20.00 and 22.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Musicians of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY
Symphonic Program 2
Friday, 7 September | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Sunday, 9 September | 16.00 | Paris, Salle Pleyel
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra
Pierre Boulez conductor | Deborah Polaski soprano |
IRCAM electronics
Philippe Manoury (*1952)
“Sound and Fury”
Jonathan Harvey (*1939)
“Speakings”
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
“Erwartung,” Op. 17