Summer 2026 | Lucerne Festival

Summer 2026 | 13.08.-13.09.2026

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Discover Summer 2026

Thu 13.08.

Overture

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | solists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Date and Venue
Thu 13.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Gershwin | Reich | Bernstein

Summer 2026
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Classical Music for All: Open Air

Havana Lyceum Orchestra | José Antonio Méndez Padrón | Sarah Willis

Date and Venue
Thu 13.08. | 21.00 | Europaplatz, KKL Lucerne

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Fri 14.08.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 1 — Opening Concert

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Frank Dupree | solists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Date and Venue
Fri 14.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Reich | Gershwin | Ives

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Summer 2026
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Lakeside Symphony

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Frank Dupree | solists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Date and Venue
Fri 14.08. | 18.30 | Inseli

Program
Reich | Gershwin | Ives

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Summer 2026
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Sat 15.08.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Augustin Hadelich

Date and Venue
Sat 15.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Barber | Stravinsky

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Summer 2026
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Sun 16.08.

Lucerne Festival Academy 1

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Jörg Widmann | Michael Engelhardt

Date and Venue
Sun 16.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Rihm

Summer 2026
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Mon 17.08.

Composer Seminar, Day 1

Participants in the Composer Seminar | Dieter Ammann | Unsuk Chin

Date and Venue
Mon 17.08. | 10.00 | KKL Luzern, Club Rooms

Summer 2026
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West Eastern Divan Orchestra

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Yo-Yo Ma

Date and Venue
Mon 17.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Dvořák | Mendelssohn

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Tue 18.08.

Composer Seminar, Day 2

Participants in the Composer Seminar | Dieter Ammann | Unsuk Chin

Date and Venue
Tue 18.08. | 10.00 | KKL Luzern, Club Rooms

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra 3

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Lukas Sternath

Date and Venue
Tue 18.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Scriabin | Rachmaninoff

Summer 2026
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Wed 19.08.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4

Soloists and Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Date and Venue
Wed 19.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beach | Gershwin | Barber | Bernstein

Summer 2026
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Thu 20.08.

Debut Simon Bürki

Simon Bürki

Date and Venue
Thu 20.08. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Program
Chopin | Rachmaninoff

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Michael Sanderling | Alexander Malofeev

Date and Venue
Thu 20.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Palmgren | Gershwin | Tchaikovsky

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Fri 21.08.

Classical Music for All: 40min 1

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša

Date and Venue
Fri 21.08. | 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
“Up into the mountains! Strauss’s ‘Alpine Symphony’”

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Summer 2026
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Budapest Festival Orchestra

Budapest Festival Orchestra | Eva Duda Dance Company | Iván Fischer | Elisabeth Leonskaja

Date and Venue
Fri 21.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Schubert | Mozart | Bartók

Summer 2026
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Sat 22.08.

“Mittendrin”

Budapest Festival Orchestra | Iván Fischer

Date and Venue
Sat 22.08. | 11.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Prokofiev

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Festival Academy 2

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Baldur Brönnimann | Miah Persson

Date and Venue
Sat 22.08. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Andre

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra 5

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Jakub Hrůša | Ray Chen

Date and Venue
Sat 22.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Korngold | Strauss

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Festival Academy 3

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program

Date and Venue
Sat 22.08. | 21.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Zappa

Summer 2026
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Sun 23.08.

In Conversation: Anne-Sophie Mutter

Marking her 50th anniversary on the Lucerne stage

Date and Venue
Sun 23.08. | 11.00 | St. Charles Hall Meggen

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Summer 2026
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Composer Seminar — Closing Concert

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program | Dieter Ammann | Unsuk Chin

Date and Venue
Sun 23.08. | 14.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Summer 2026
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Orfeo ed Euridice

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco | Chorus of the Opéra de Monte- Carlo | Gianluca Capuano | Cecilia Bartoli | Melissa Petit

Date and Venue
Sun 23.08. | 17.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Gluck

Summer 2026
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Mon 24.08.

Classical Music for All: 40min 2

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Anne-Sophie Mutter

Date and Venue
Mon 24.08. | 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
“Mozart, Mutter & More”

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Recital Augustin Hadelich & Seong-Jin Cho

Augustin Hadelich | Seong-Jin Cho

Date and Venue
Mon 24.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Brahms | Janáček | Beach | Prokofiev

Summer 2026
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Tue 25.08.

Debut Yuki Hirano

Yuki Hirano | Chizu Miyamoto

Date and Venue
Tue 25.08. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Program
Szymanowski | Dvořák

Summer 2026
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In the Streets: City Stage — Opening

Percussion ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Date and Venue
Tue 25.08. | 18.00 | Kapellplatz

Program
Reich

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra 6

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Anne-Sophie Mutter

Date and Venue
Tue 25.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mozart | Previn | Darvishi

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Wed 26.08.

Berliner Philharmoniker 1

Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko

Date and Venue
Wed 26.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Elgar | Tchaikovsky

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Thu 27.08.

Debut Bridget Yee

Bridget Yee

Date and Venue
Thu 27.08. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Program
Wagner | Barber | Gershwin | Haydn | Arafah | Liszt

Summer 2026
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Berliner Philharmoniker 2

Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko | Augustin Hadelich

Date and Venue
Thu 27.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beethoven | Scriabin

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Fri 28.08.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Santtu-Matias Rouvali | Víkingur Ólafsson

Date and Venue
Fri 28.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Beethoven | Prokofiev

Summer 2026
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Mad King & Medea

Luzerner Theater Opera Ensemble | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Maria Radzikhovskiy | Marie Lambert-Le Bihan

Date and Venue
Fri 28.08. | 20.00 | Luzerner Theater, Box

Program
Davies | El-Turk

Summer 2026
Sat 29.08.

Lucerne Festival Academy 4

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elim Chan | Jörg Widmann | Marco Blaauw | SWR Experimentalstudio

Date and Venue
Sat 29.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Andre | Lim | Adams

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Summer 2026
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Sun 30.08.

Portrait Mark Andre 1

Jörg Widmann | Frank Reinecke | SWR Experimentalstudio

Date and Venue
Sun 30.08. | 11.00 | Hochschule Luzern – Music, Salquin Concert Hall

Program
Andre

Summer 2026
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Lucerne Festival Academy 5

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program | Doreen Ketchens

Date and Venue
Sun 30.08. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
Thomas | Carter | Nelson | Reich

Summer 2026
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Church Service to Celebrate the Consecration

Collegium Musicum Luzern soloists, choir, and orchestra | Jakob Pilgram | Suzanne Z'Graggen

Date and Venue
Sun 30.08. | 17.00 | Jesuitenkirche

Program
Mozart | Taylor

Summer 2026
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The Met Orchestra

The Met Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Joyce DiDonato

Date and Venue
Sun 30.08. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mazzoli | Mahler

Summer 2026
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Mon 31.08.

Munich Philharmonic

Munich Philharmonic | Lahav Shani | Martha Argerich

Date and Venue
Mon 31.08. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Adams | Beethoven | Brahms

Summer 2026
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Tue 01.09.

Debut Jonas Müller

Jonas Müller | Anna Gebhardt

Date and Venue
Tue 01.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Summer 2026
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Recital Hayato Sumino

Hayato Sumino

Date and Venue
Tue 01.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Chopin | Sumino | Saint-Saëns | Adès | Stravinsky

Summer 2026
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Wed 02.09.

Freiburger Barockorchester

Freiburger Barockorchester | Sir Simon Rattle | Isabelle Faust

Date and Venue
Wed 02.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Schumann

Summer 2026
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Thu 03.09.

Debut Elias David Moncado

Elias David Moncado | David Tobin | Ye-Eun Choi | Hwayoon Lee | Lionel Martin | Lauma Skride

Date and Venue
Thu 03.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Program
Ravel | Kim | Ponce | Waxman | Chun

Summer 2026
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Classical Music for All: 40min 3

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds

Date and Venue
Thu 03.09. | 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
“Lullaby and Square Dance: Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein”

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Summer 2026
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 1

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honeck | Alexandre Kantorow

Date and Venue
Thu 03.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Brahms | Shostakovich

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Summer 2026
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Fri 04.09.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honeck | Anne-Sophie Mutter

Date and Venue
Fri 04.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Adams | Penderecki | Dvořák

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Summer 2026
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Sat 05.09.

Portrait Mark Andre 2

Stephan Heuberger | Frank Reinecke

Date and Venue
Sat 05.09. | 11.00 | Lukaskirche

Program
Andre

Summer 2026
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Vienna Philharmonic 1

Vienna Philharmonic | Tugan Sokhiev

Date and Venue
Sat 05.09. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Mozart | Mahler

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Summer 2026
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Fiddle Night

Augustin Hadelich | Mark O’Connor | Maggie O’Connor

Date and Venue
Sat 05.09. | 22.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Summer 2026
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Sun 06.09.

Theme-related Liturgical Service

Ecumenical liturgical service

Date and Venue
Sun 06.09. | 10.00 | Matthäuskirche

Program
“American Dreams”

Summer 2026
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Afternoon Concert

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Karl-Heinz Schütz

Date and Venue
Sun 06.09. | 14.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Dvořák | Price | Anteil | Bernstein | Copland et al.

Summer 2026
Vienna Philharmonic 2

Vienna Philharmonic | Tugan Sokhiev | Hilary Hahn

Date and Venue
Sun 06.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Dvořák | Prokofiev

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Summer 2026
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Mon 07.09.

Classical Music for All: 40min 4

HSLU Ensemble

Date and Venue
Mon 07.09. | 18.20 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
“Minimalism’s Big Bang: Terry Riley’s ‘In C’”

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Summer 2026
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“räsonanz” — Donor Concert

Konzerthausorchester Berlin | Berlin Radio Choir | Joana Mallwitz

Date and Venue
Mon 07.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Henze

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation - Partner "räsonanz" – Donor Concert

Summer 2026
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Tue 08.09.

Debut Mared Pugh Evans

Mared Pugh-Evans

Date and Venue
Tue 08.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Program
Fauré, Rota, Britten et al.

Summer 2026
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Czech Philharmonic

Czech Philharmonic | Semyon Bychkov | Yunchan Lim

Date and Venue
Tue 08.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Smetana | Ravel | Dvořák

Summer 2026
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Wed 09.09.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Yuja Wang | Teddy Abrams

Date and Venue
Wed 09.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Copland | Barber | Dukas | Tsfasman

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Summer 2026
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Thu 10.09.

Debut Poiesis Quartet

Poiesis Quartet

Date and Venue
Thu 10.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche

Program
Impichchaachaaha' Tate | Perkinson | Ravel

Summer 2026
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Götterdämmerung

Dresden Festival Orchestra | Concerto Köln | Dresden Festival Choir of the Richard Wagner Academy | Kent Nagano | soloists

Date and Venue
Thu 10.09. | 17.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Wagner

Summer 2026
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Fri 11.09.

Amanda Gorman & Jan Vogler

Amanda Gorman | Jan Vogler

Date and Venue
Fri 11.09. | 19.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
“An Evening of Poetry and Bach”

Summer 2026
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Sat 12.09.

Recital Thomas Ospital

Thomas Ospital

Date and Venue
Sat 12.09. | 17.00 | Nr. 261330 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Buck | Rachmaninoff | Ives | Dupré | Farrington

Summer 2026
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Meute

MEUTE – Techno Marching Band

Date and Venue
Sat 12.09. | 21.00 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall

Program
“Jubel — Ten Years”

Summer 2026
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Sun 13.09.

Trance

Ensemble Helix/Hochschule Luzern — Musik Studio for Contemporary Music | Gregory Charette

Date and Venue
Sun 13.09. | 11.00 | Hochschule Luzern — Musik, Kriens/Blackbox Kosmos

Program
Gordon

Summer 2026
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Porgy and Bess

Chineke! Orchestra | Cape Town Opera Vocal Ensemble | Kwamé Ryan | soloists

Date and Venue
Sun 13.09. | 16.00 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Program
Gershwin

Summer 2026
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