Application Lucerne Festival Academy

We are delighted that you are interested in the Lucerne Festival Academy. The application deadline for the 2025 summer has already passed. The call for applications for summer 2026 is expected to be published here on this website in December 2025.

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This coming November / December, we will be announcing the programs for 2026. While we will publish the calls for composers and conductors in November (with an application deadline in early December), the call for musicians will not be published until early December with an application deadline of mid-February.

Repertoire 2026
The 2025 audition repertoire and the 2025 excerpts are for guidance only. The new information for 2026 will be provided / updated together with the announcement of the application in December.