Nine HarrisonParrott, Voice and Polyarts Artists at Lucerne Festival 2024
14/8/2024
Nine HarrisonParrott, Voice and Polyarts Artists attend Lucerne Festival 2024
On 14 August with European Union Youth Orchestra, Nicolas Altstaedt performs Strauss’ Don Quixote, and the programme also features Polyarts composer Carlos Simon’s Fate now conquers.
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Lucerne Festival Orchestra on 17 August for a programme of Mendelssohn, Grieg and Schumann.
He returns to the Festival on 5 September with Orchestre de Paris to conduct Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili.
Kent Nagano performs on 21 August with Concerto Köln, conducting Die Walküre as part of the Wagner Cycles project.
Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi appears in his home country together with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra on 22 August at KKL Luzern. On the programme are Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 followed by Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 conducted by Michael Sanderling.
Tsotne Zedginidze performs alongside Lisa Batiashvili and Giorgi Gigashvili on 26 August in a programme featuring his own compositions plus works by Franck, Debussy and Schubert.
On 1 September, Víkingur Ólafsson performs Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst. This concert is part of a five-date European tour with the orchestra.
Sarah Aristidou reunites with Klangforum Wien for a performance of Beat Furrer’s opera Begehren, a retelling of the Orpheus myth and first premiered in 2003, conducted by the composer himself. Sarah performs the role SHE, a representation of Eurydice. The performance takes place on 1 September at the Luzerner Theater.
Paavo Järvi, Music Director of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, brings the orchestra to the Festival with a programme featuring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 played by Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Mahler’s Symphony No.1 on 11 September at KKL Luzern.
