Lucerne Festival Forward

Concerts
Friday, 18 - Sunday, 20 November 2022 | KKL Lucerne

Programme includes
György Ligeti Violin Concerto
Unsuk Chin Gougalōn
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson The Madness of Dark
Multiple new commissions
and much more: https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/forward-festival-22

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Tito Muñoz conductor

The Lucerne Festival Forward is a new annual festival devoted to the sounds and ideas of our time, offering a platform for contemporary music and giving a voice to musicians of the young generation. Curated and performed by fellow members of the Lucerne Festival Academy Network, the programme encourages contact with listeners, experiments with unusual concert formats, focuses on lesser-known voices and aesthetic positions on the creation of contemporary music, and purposely mixes nationalities, generations, and genders.

Instruments required
3 flutes*, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, 4 percussion*, 3 violins**, 2 violas**, 1 violoncello

*One flute and one percussion will be required for Ensemble 3 that will require significant improvisation and performative skills (with and without instruments). If you are interested in applying for these positions, please select the separate Ensemble 3 application box, and include relevant supporting material.

** One violin and one viola will be required for a Family Concert that will require improvisation and interpretation, as well as working with children, where fluent German skills are desired. If you are interested in applying for these positions, please select the separate Family Concert application box, and include relevant supporting material.

First rehearsal
Tuesday, 15 November, 10am
All rehearsals will take place in Lucerne.

Fee and per Diem
CHF 350.00 gross per day
CHF 40 per Diem for each rehearsal/performance day, CHF 20 per Diem for each travel day
Total: CHF 2100.00 gross plus CHF 280.00 total per Diem
N.B. Some musicians will not be involved in the concerts on Sunday 20 November. These musicians will not be paid a fee for this day, but will be invited to stay in Lucerne (with hotel and per Diem) if they wish.

Travel
Arrival date: Monday, 14 November
Departure date: Monday, 21 November
Lucerne Festival will cover the travel expenses of each musician to and from Lucerne. On ecological grounds, Lucerne Festival will avoid flight-based travel wherever possible.

Accommodation
Lucerne Festival will arrange and cover the cost of accommodation (single hotel rooms with breakfast) for each musician.

Application requirements
– Two video recording(s) (maximum total 15 minutes) solo or chamber music made within the last two years (at least one with contemporary music)
– Curriculum vitae in English (maximum of two pages)

Selection process 
The selection will be made of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders. The results of the selections will be announced by early September 2022. There is no right of legal appeal. No correspondence regarding the decisions will be conducted. Applicants must include concert recordings of themselves; the recording must be uploaded online. Please note that the recording must not be edited in any way.

Application deadline
Monday, 1st August 2022 (23:59 CET)

Contact
leaders@lucernefestival.ch

The closing date for applications is 01.08.2022.