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    Magazine : Contemporary

    The "Contemporary" category promotes the music of our time and offers exciting musical adventures. For we love new sounds and are setting standards for the interpretation of contemporary music with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) and the Lucerne Festival Academy.

    Pierre Boulez strolls through Lucerne © Screencapture from the documentary "Inheriting the Future of Music"
    Video

    Boulez in Lucerne

    #Summer Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    The Alban Berg Quartett at their first Lucerne performance, 1983 © Lucia Elser / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    "Cette sonorité n’existe pas en France"

    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    2010: Boulez conducts the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    Back on air: Gems from the archive with Pierre Boulez

    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    Lucerne Festival Forward 2024 © Andreas Becker/Lucerne Festival
    Video

    Lucerne Festival Forward 2024 – A look back

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Kobe Van Cauwenberghe © Joachim Ceulemans
    Video

    Anthony Braxton’s "Ghost Trance Music"

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Yu Kuwabara © Kenichi Sugimori
    Article

    On Time and Space

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    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Katherine Balch © Bluebird Photography UK
    Podcast

    “Nature is always eavesdropping”

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    #Deep Listening: New Music
    Sofia Gubaidulina as composer-in-residence at Lucerne Festival 2012 © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    “An unpredictable and vast sound world”

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Oleksii Yatsiuk and the "Prostir" Choir © Slava Kladiiov
    Article

    Oleksii Yatsiuk and his Choir "Prostir" at Lucerne Festival Forward

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    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve
    Video

    "That is what's important to us. Here and now"

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Composer Blaise Ubaldini
    Video

    Lullabies in the soundscapes of warfare

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Michael Hersch © Tito Muñoz
    Video

    Gazing into a wound

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Conducting Masterclass with Sir George Benjamin
    Video

    Conducting Masterclass with Sir George Benjamin

    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja's staged concert "Dies Irae", 2017 © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    The Concert Hall as a Bunker

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Riccardo Chailly | Lucerne Festival Orchestra © Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
    Video

    Summer Festival 2024 – A look back

    #Summer Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Orchestra
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Symphony
    #Contemporary
    #Music for Future
    Fritz Gerber at the first Fritz Gerber Award in 2015 © Stefan Deuber / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    Tenth Fritz Gerber Award

    #Summer Festival
    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    Beat Furrer © Manu Theobald
    Podcast

    Deep listening: New Music. With Beat Furrer

    #Summer Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    #Deep Listening: New Music
    Michael Seltenreich © Michael Pavia
    Podcast

    Deep listening: New Music. With Michael Seltenreich

    #Summer Festival
    #Contemporary
    #Deep Listening: New Music
    Wolfgang Rihm gives an introduction to his work at a museum concert in 2019 © Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival
    Article

    On the death of Wolfgang Rihm

    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Symphony
    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    Beat Furrer © Manu Theobald
    Article

    Beat Furrer: composer-in-residence at Lucerne Festival 2024

    #Summer Festival
    #Contemporary
    #Playlists
    Recording the podcast with Lisa Streich
    Podcast

    Deep listening: New Music. With Lisa Streich

    #Summer Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    #Deep Listening: New Music
    Video

    Conducting Masterclass with Susanna Mälkki

    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Article

    Lucerne Festival Academy Year by Year

    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    Applause for Pablo Heras-Casado after conducting the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in 2015 © Stefan Deuber / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    A Captivating Maestro

    #Spring Festival
    #Symphony
    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    The Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) performs at the Musiksaal of the Stadtcasino Basel © Zlatko Mićić / Mizmorim Kammermusik Festival
    Article

    Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra at the Mizmorim Kammermusik Festival

    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    #On Tour
    Wolfgang Rihm at the first Composer Seminar 2016 © Stefan Deuber / Lucerne Festival
    Article

    Two Composer Seminars to mark the Lucerne Festival Academy's 20th anniversary

    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    Arrival at the hotel © Sabrina Eichenberger
    Article

    Lucerne Festival Forward guest performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    #Blog
    #On Tour
    Participant Xizi Wang in conversation with conductor Ilan Volkov © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
    Video

    The Contemporary-Conducting Program of the Lucerne Festival Academy

    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    © Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
    Video

    Lucerne Festival Forward 2023 – A look back

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
    Charles Uzor © Michel Canonica
    Video

    Charles Uzor on his works "8'46''" and "Katharsis Kalkül"

    #Forward Festival
    #Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
    #Contemporary
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