On Air! Concert broadcasts 2026

Backstage at a broadcast with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra © Geoffroy Schied / Lucerne Festival

Numerous concerts of Lucerne Festival Summer 2026 will be recorded by national and international radio and TV stations and broadcast either live or delayed.

Here you will find an overview of all planned broadcasts – the list will be updated continuously.

Opening Nicht – Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1

SRF will broadcast the concert on the same day
... at 20.00 on Radio SRF 2 Kultur in the program "Weltklasse auf SRF 2 Kultur". Addition live broadcasts on RTS and RAI (Italy)
... at 22.20 on TV on SRF 1.
ARTE Concert and mezzo will stream the concert live (starting at approximately 7:00 PM)
ARTE TV, medici.tv, and 3sat will broadcast the concert at a later date.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2

15 August 2026 | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Augustin Hadelich
Works by Samuel Barber and Igor Stravinsky

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert. The broadcast date will be announced at a later time.

In addition, the concert will be recorded for the Lucerne Festival's streaming platform.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3

18 August 2026 | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Lukas Sternath
Works by Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on the same day at 20.00 in the program "Weltklasse auf SRF 2 Kultur". This will include a live critics' round, recorded in the foyer of the KKL Luzern.

In addition, the concert will be broadcast live on the radio by RAI (Italy) and RTS Belgrade (Serbia).

SRF will broadcast the concert on the same day at 22.20 on TV on SRF 1.
ARTE Concert and medici.tv will stream the concert live (starting at approximately 7:00 PM)
ARTE TV will broadcast the concert on October 11, 2026, SRF on November 22, and 3sat in 2027.
NCPA Classical Music Channel will broadcast the concert at a later date in a livestream across China. Additional TV broadcasts, including NHK, will follow.

Debut Simon Bürki

20 August 2026 | 12.15 | Lukaskirche
Simon Bürki
Works by Frédéric Chopin Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert. The broadcast date will be announced at a later time.

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

20 August 2026 | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester | Michael Sanderling | Alexander Malofeev
Works by Selim Palmgren, George Gershwin, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert. The broadcast date will be announced at a later time.

Lucerne Festival Academy 3

22 August 2026 | 21.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants of the Contemporary-Conducting Program
Work by Frank Zappa

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert. The broadcast date will be announced at a later time.

Lucerne Festival Academy 4

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on the same day at 20.00 in the program "Weltklasse auf SRF 2 Kultur". This will include a live critics' round, recorded in the foyer of the KKL Luzern.

Lucerne Festival Academy 5

30 August 2026 | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants of the Contemporary-Conducting Program | Doreen Ketchens
Works by Augusta Read Thomas, Elliot Carter, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, and Steve Reich, followed by the performance «Reflecting the Streets of New Orleans»

Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert. The broadcast date will be announced at a later time.