On Air! Concert transmissions 2025
Numerous concerts of the Summer Festival 2025 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
15 August 2025 | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Elīna Garanča
Works by Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on the same day at 20.00 in the program "Weltklasse auf SRF 2 Kultur".
Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2
16 August 2025 | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Isabelle Faust
Works by Antonín Dvořák, Modest Mussorgsky, and Maurice Ravel
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 23 August 2025 at 20.00 in the program "Weltklasse auf SRF 2 Kultur".
Lucerne Festival Academy 1
23 August 2025 | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Jonathan Nott | IRCAM Production Team
Works by Pierre Boulez and Dai Fujikura
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 24 September 2025 at 21.00 in the program "Neue Musik im Konzert".
Lucerne Festival Academy 2
23 August 2025 | 21.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants of the Contemporary-Conducting Program | Anthony Millet | IRCAM Production Team
Works by Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, Charles Kwong, Wei-Chieh Lin, Piyawat Louilarpprasert, and Alyssa Regent
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 1 October 2025 at 21.00 in the program "Neue Musik im Konzert".
Closing Concert of the Composer Seminar
24 August 2025 | 15.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie | Participants of the Contemporary-Conducting Program
Works by Zixuan Chen, Mikel Iturregi, Egemen Kurt, Joonghyun Lee, Maya Miro Johnson, Jaebong Rho, Agnes Vrânceanu, and Julia Constance Wiger-Nordås
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 8 October 2025 at 21.00 in the program "Neue Musik im Konzert".
«räsonanz» – Donor Concert
27 August 2025 | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Netherlands Radio Choir | Karina Canellakis | Liv Redpath | Bertrand Chamayou
Works by Pierre Boulez, Unsuk Chin, and Robin de Raaff
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 10 September 2025 at 21.00 in the program "Neue Musik im Konzert".
Lucerne Festival Academy 3
30 August 2025 | 14.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Michelle Di Russo | David Robertson | Sebastian Zinca | Tabea Zimmermann
Works by Guillem Palomar, Jakob Raab, and Dieter Ammann
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 3 September 2025 at 21.00 in the program "Neue Musik im Konzert".
Orchestre de Paris 2
30 August 2025 | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Stephan Dohr
Works by Richard Strauss, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Jean Sibelius
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 Friends' Lounge in the foyer of the KKL Luzern.
Debut David Nebel
2 September 2025 | 12.15 | Lukaskirche
David Nebel | Julia Hamos
Works by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Dmitri Schostakowitsch, César Franck, and Johannes Brahms
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert at a later point.
Lucerne Festival Academy 5
6 September 2025 | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Vimbayi Kaziboni | Claire Chase
Works by Galina Ustwolskaja and Chaya Czernowin
Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast the concert on 15 October 2025 at 21.00 in the program "Neue Musik im Konzert".