Debut Jonas Müller Jonas Müller | Anna Gebhardt Date and Venue Tue 01.09. | 12.15 | Lukaskirche Summer 2026 Buy tickets starting at CHF 30 Thu 03.09.
More "Debut" concert series Debut © Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival What do Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sol Gabetta and Christian Tetzlaff have in common? They all performed at Lucerne Festival for the first time in the Debut series.
The orchestra will begin the tour by performing at the Philharmonie Paris, followed the next day by its debut at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Anne-Sophie Mutter © Andreas Ortner 50 Years, 50 Concerts at Lucerne Festival It was 50 years ago that Anne-Sophie Mutter’s remarkable career began, when the 13-year-old made her debut at the Lucerne International Music Festival.
In 2016, at the age of ten, Zavidov made his US solo debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York. Another milestone was his debut in August 2023 on the main stage of the Festival International de Piano in La Roque d’Anthéron.
Festival Orchestra | Herbert Blomstedt | Martha Argerich Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Sinfonia eroica (Live recording: Lucerne, August 2020) A belated debut
Two years later, at the summit of his meteoric career, Leon Fleisher made his Lucerne debut – just a few months before he was diagnosed with the “focal dystonia” that made it impossible for him to use his right hand until recent years.
I am very much looking forward to their Debut concert at our Summer Festival,” remarked Michael Haefliger, a jury member and the Executive and Artistic Director of Lucerne Festival.
In addition to the family concerts, five school performances as well as various school visits by world music groups and Debut artists were offered, with around 5,700 schoolchildren from the Lucerne region taking part.
The winners were additionally given the opportunity to perform in the Debut series at the Summer Festival in Lucerne. This award was conferred from 2001-2025 jointly by Lucerne Festival, KMHS (Conference of Music Academies in Switzerland), and UBS.
It was 65 years later that the conductor Claudio Abbado and former Festival Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger established a connection to this moment of the Festival’s birth and founded the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which made its public debut
At the age of 13, she made her debut in Lucerne as part of the “Young Artists” series; this was followed just one year later by her first concert in Salzburg with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
The acclaimed Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will perform Mozart’s darkly dramatic D minor Concerto, while the fast-rising violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian makes his Festival debut with Mendelssohn’s ravishing Violin Concerto.
We promote the next generation of musicians with the Debut concert series, with performances by international youth orchestras and with first-rate prizes. We lay the groundwork with school and education projects.
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But we also visit the students at their schools: every summer, young soloists who perform in the “Debut” series at Lucerne Festival head out to schools across the Lucerne region to give concerts that include talking about and introducing the music.
The violinist Yehudi Menuhin debuts in Lucerne.
The Festival presents a diverse array of formats, including symphony concerts, chamber music, recitals, debuts, late night events, and much more.
Through the Lucerne Festival Academy, various prizes for emerging artists, and the Debut concert series, the Festival offers a platform to outstanding young musicians from around the world.
They will also be joined by two outstanding soloists: Leif Ove Andsnes will perform Mozart’s darkly dramatic D minor Concerto, while the fast-rising violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian makes his Festival debut with Mendelssohn’s ravishing Violin Concerto.