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LUC E R N E
FE ST IV AL
ACA D EM Y
Program and Application Details
Wolfgang Rihm Artistic Director
Pierre Boulez † Founder and Honorary President

lucernefestival.ch/academy
The Lucerne Festival Academy is many things in one: a master
school for the music of our time, a laboratory for the future,
and an international network. Over a period of four weeks, you
will work on a diverse repertoire that ranges from modern
classics to brand-new scores. Leading performers of contemporary
music serve as coaches and offer in-depth workshops. The
Contemporary Leaders, who are former Academy members, will
also be on hand as mentors during rehearsals to pass on their
experience. All participants of the Academy play in the Lucerne
Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) and additionally join
together in various ensembles to perform events as part of the
Festival's related programming.

In the summer of 2022, you will be joined by composer-in-

residence Thomas Adès to premiere his new violin concerto for
Anne-Sophie Mutter. You will meet with Tyshawn Sorey, the
summer’s “artiste étoile,” and work with him on a directed group
improvisation. Under Sylvain Cambreling, you will play a double
birthday concert for Wolfgang Rihm and Dieter Ammann, and
you will collaborate with the JACK Quartet to give a matinee
concert based on this year’s Festival theme, “Diversity.” The
Conducting Fellowship additionally offers young conductors an
opportunity to follow the Academy’s work and gain important
practical experience.
PROGRAM
FOR 2022
Saturday, 20 August | 11.00 | JACK Quartet 2 | Salquin Hall
JACK Quartet | Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
The program will be announced at a later date.

Saturday, 20 August | 22.00 | Lucerne Festival Academy 1

KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Elena Schwarz |
Tim McAllister | Kirill Gerstein
Thomas Adès In Seven Days for piano and orchestra (with video installation)
Tyshawn Sorey New Work for saxophone and orchestra (world premiere)

Saturday, 27 August | 19.30 | Lucerne Festival Academy 2

KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Thomas Adès | Anne-Sophie Mutter
Per Nørgård Dream Play for chamber orchestra
Witold Lutosławski Symphony No. 3
Igor Stravinsky Agon. Ballet for twelve dancers
Thomas Adès New Work for violin and orchestra (“Roche Commissions” world premiere)

Sunday, 28 August | 16.00 | Lucerne Festival Academy 3

KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Tyshawn Sorey
Tyshawn Sorey Autoschediasms for orchestra
The full program will be announced at a later date.

Saturday, 3 September | 11.00 | Lucerne Festival Academy 4

KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sylvain Cambreling
Wolfgang Rihm Sub-Kontur for orchestra (Swiss premiere)
Dieter Ammann Core for orchestra
Dieter Ammann Turn for orchestra
Dieter Ammann Boost for orchestra
Bettina Skrzypczak New Work (world premiere)

Roche — Main Sponsor and Partner Lucerne Festival Academy

 Saturday, 3 September | 14.30 | Composer Seminar — Closing Concert
KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Ensemble of the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA)
Wolfgang Rihm | Dieter Ammann
Conducted by participants of the Conducting Fellowship
World premieres of the participants of the Composer Seminar

Sunday, 4 September | 11.00 | Guest performance

Kölner Philharmonie
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sylvain Cambreling
Wolfgang Rihm Sub-Kontur for orchestra
Dieter Ammann Core for orchestra
Dieter Ammann Turn for orchestra
Dieter Ammann Boost for orchestra
Bettina Skrzypczak New Work (German premiere)

From Monday, 5 September

Additional project will be announced later.

Roche — Main Sponsor and Partner Lucerne Festival Academy

You can apply for the
following programs/award:

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

12.08. – 09.09.2022
with Thomas Adès, Sylvain Cambreling, Elena Schwarz, Anne-Sophie Mutter,
Tim McAllister, Kirill Gerstein and Tyshawn Sorey

TEACHING FACULTY
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders
Chloë Abott trumpet | Jack Adler-McKean tuba | Michelle Barzel Ross violin | Cecilia Bercovich viola |
Ettore Biagi clarinet | Winnie Huang viola | Helga Karen piano | Edward Kass double bass |
Marina Kifferstein violin | Yi Wei Angus Lee flute | Alex Lipowski percussion |
Stephen Menotti trombone | Benjamin Mitchell clarinet | Ben Roidl-Ward bassoon |
James Austin Smith oboe | Nathan Watts violoncello | Johnna Wu violin | Andrew Zhou piano

Guest Faculty
Helen Bledsoe flute | Matthias Arter oboe | Ernesto Molinari clarinet | Lorelei Dowling bassoon |
Saar Berger horn | Mike Svoboda trombone / tuba | Nicolas Hodges piano |
Frédérique Cambreling harp | Christopher Otto violin | Austin Wulliman violin |
John Pickford Richards viola | Jay Campbell violoncello | ... and more.

CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP
21.08. – 04.09.2022
with Thomas Adès and Jonathan Stockhammer

FRITZ GERBER AWARD

12.08. – 10.09.2022
Michael Haefliger, Heinz Holliger Jury

The Fritz Gerber Award, which was given out for the first time in 2015 by the
Fritz Gerber Foundation, has been established to support three young Swiss
musicians each year in the area of contemporary classical music.
This sponsorship, totaling CHF 60’000, consists of both a cash award in the
value of CHF 10’000 and a scholarship in the form of participation in the Lucerne
Festival Academy (valued at CHF 10’000) for each of the three recipients.
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NOW
HERE!

:
Application deadline:

SUNDAY,
13 FEBRUARY 2022
For further information, please consult our
website and/or contact us:

lucernefestival.ch/academy
academy@lucernefestival.ch

Acknowledgments
Roche — Main Sponsor and Partner of Lucerne Festival Academy

B. Braun Medical AG
Fritz Gerber Foundation
Family Goer