Lucerne Festival Forward 2025
Concerts
Friday 21 – Sunday 23 November 2025
Programme
PatKop Five Dreams
Sofia Gubaidulina Introitus
Shawn Jaeger Mountains Are Flowers (premiere)
Daniel Ott/Enrico Stolzenburg Draussen Drinnen (premiere)
and much more
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Patricia Kopatchinsjaka, violin
Anastasia Kobekina cello
Johanna Malangré conductor
Joseph Sieber conductor
Over
300 musicians from the local Lucerne community
The Lucerne Festival Forward is an 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
2 flutes, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 saxophone, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, 4 percussion, 13 violins, 6 violas, 4 violoncelli, 3 double basses
First rehearsal
Thursday 20 November, 10am
All rehearsals will take place in Lucerne
Fee and per Diem
CHF 370.00 gross per 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 23 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: Wednesday 19 November
Departure date: Sunday 23 or Monday 24 November (see above)
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
- One audio or video recording (minimum five minutes) of contemporary solo or chamber music (composed post-1950) that reflects your current level of playing (made within the last five years). Please include a score of the recorded work wherever possible.
- Optional further audio or video recordings (contemporary or non-contemporary music)
- Curriculum vitae in English (maximum of two pages)
Selection process
The selections will be made by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders. The results of the selections will be announced by the end of August 2025. There is no right of legal appeal. No correspondence regarding the decisions will be conducted.
Application deadline
Sunday, June 29 2025 (23:59 CET, Swiss time)
Contact
leaders@lucernefestival.ch
The closing date for applications is 29.06.2025.