Lucerne Festival Forward 2024

Concerts
Friday, 15 November, 2024 | Peterskapelle, Lucerne
Saturday, 16 - Sunday, 17 November, 2024 | KKL Lucerne

Program includes
Anthony Braxton Composition No. 255 (Second Species Syntactical Ghost Trance Music)
Katherine Balch Chamber Music and Responding to the Waves
Michael Hersch Violin Concerto and a tearing loose from matter
Anna Korsun Signals and a new work for ensemble (world premiere)
Yu Kuwabara Time Abyss
Catherine Lamb line/shadow
and works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Hannah Kendall, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Ted Moore, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Blaise Ubaldini, and Galina Ustwolskaja (click here for the full program)

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
“Prostir” Choir
Oleksii Yatsiuk chorus master
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Ted Moore percussion
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe electric guitar
Mariano Chiacchiarini 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 program 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
1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 saxophone (soprano and alto)*, 1 horn, 1 trumpet*, 2 trombones*, 2 pianos*, 2 percussion*, 1 harp*, 1 viola, 1 violoncello.

* The saxophonist, trumpeter, pianist, harpist, one of the trombonists and one of the percussionists will perform works involving graphic and text notation by Anthony Braxton and Catherine Lamb. As part of the application, these musicians should indicate their interest in and experience with performing works with these sorts of notation.

Rehearsal periods
1 trumpet, 2 trombones:
Monday, 11 November - Saturday, 16 November

All other instruments:
Monday, 11 November - Sunday, 17 November

All rehearsals will take place in Lucerne.

Fee and per Diem
CHF 350.00 gross per working day
CHF 40 per Diem for each rehearsal/performance day, CHF 20 per Diem for each travel day

N.B. Some musicians will not be involved in the concerts on Sunday, 17 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
1 trumpet, 2 trombones:
- Arrival day: Sunday, 10 November
- Departure day: Sunday, 17 November (or Monday, 18 November)

All other instruments:
- Arrival day: Sunday, 10 November
- Departure day: Monday, 18 November

Lucerne Festival will organize and cover the travel 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)
– For saxophone, trumpet, piano, harp, trombone, and percussion (optional for trombone and percussion): please briefly describe your interest in and experience with performing works that use graphic and text notation.

Selection process 
The selection will be made by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders. The results of the selections will be announced in early August 2024. 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 July, 2024 (23:59 CET, Swiss time)

Contact
leaders@lucernefestival.ch

The closing date for applications is 01.07.2024.