Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra © Priska Ketterer
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra © Priska Ketterer

Planning a visit to Lucerne Festival with your children, grandchildren, godchildren, or other young music lovers? During the Summer Festival, our popular “Look, Listen, Enjoy” special makes it easy: you pay the regular ticket price, and a ticket for your young companion cost just CHF 10. The offer now applies to all symphony concerts and recitals in the KKL Lucerne Concert Hall.

The Festival Opening on 13 August also promises exciting musical experiences for audiences of all ages, beginning with an “Overture” at the KKL Lucerne and an open-air concert on the Europaplatz – both with free admission. Other highlights include Lakeside Symphony, which is the live broadcast of the Opening Concert on the Inseli, as well as the 40min concert series; both of these are also free. The new concert format “Mittendrin” (“In the Middle of It All”) is especially recommended for families. This format allows the audience to sit on stage, surrounded by the musicians, and offers a close-up view of how music is created. Digital offerings such as the “Classical ABCs” and the children’s podcast “Music for Future” also feature among the offerings.

Podcast © Monika Rittershaus

Children and young people from the Lucerne region take on the role of cultural journalists as they report on Festival concerts and interview artists in short podcasts they create and produce all by themselves.

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Family from Paris © Priska Ketterer

Look, Listen, Enjoy

We’re bringing even more to our popular “Look, Listen, Enjoy” offer: attend a symphony concert or recital of your choice in the KKL Concert Hall and bring a child or young person along for just CHF 10.

Classical Music for All: Open Air

Classical Music for All

Want to get a taste of the Festival? Everyone is welcome to the new open-air kickoff and our popular 40min concerts — with free admission. In this way, Zurich Insurance would like to make classical music accessible to a broader audience.

Lakeside Symphony

We are broadcasting the Opening Concert live on a giant screen right on the lakeshore – and everyone is welcome to join. An experience for young and old!

© Rahel Meydam/Lucerne Festival

In the Streets: City Stage

All of Lucerne turns into a stage from 25 to 30 August: through scheduled performances and surprise pop-up concerts in cooperation with guerillaclassics, with a marching band, the “Symphonic Jukebox,” and much more, we’ll have the entire city resounding with music. Expect the unexpected!

“Mittendrin” with Iván Fischer © Marco Borggreve

“Mittendrin”

Right in the middle of it all, not just watching from a distance: take a seat on stage among the musicians and experience up close how music is made.

ABC’s of Classical Music

How long is a tuba? What does the concert hall have to do with a shoe box? Can a baton make music? Our web series for ages 8 and up presents selected terms from the ABC’s of classical music using short videos (in German but with visuals and musical examples).

© Monika Rittershaus

Schools

Whether at the KKL Luzern or at school: we want to awaken curiosity about music in children and young people — through special school concerts featuring world-class orchestras, rehearsal visits, and many other special offers for school classes and music schools.