Since 2022, the Swiss city of Lucerne has become a magical place of pilgrimage for piano lovers, radiating like a «beacon in Swiss musical life”, as described by the NZZ. This was the year the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester launched «Le Piano Symphonique», a festival focussed on the piano and its relation to the symphonic sound world. The festival programme includes not only choice recitals, but also intimate chamber music and solo concertos with orchestra. Lucerne is therefore not only «home to a premier piano festival», as the BBC Music Magazine puts it, but also offers a unique opportunity to experience world-renowned artists up close.

Together with CH Media, we were able to create a wonderful magazine with background reports, information and entertaining facts about the piano festival. If you have not received the magazine in one of the various ways over the next three weeks, you can download it here as a PDF.

Initiated by Evgeny Kissin: Wednesday, January 15 2025 , & Saturday, January 18. Both at 7 pm KKL Lucerne, concert hall with Alexander Roslavets, Kopelman Quartet, Gidon Kremer, Chen Reiss, Rachel Frenkel, Michael Schade and Gautier Capuçon and other artists.

Plus: Evgeny Kissin piano festival recital Thursday, March 13, 2025 7.30 PM KKL Lucerne, in the concert hall With works by Bach, Chopin & Shostakovich.

On Wednesday, December 18, it’s finally time again: young and old gather in the halls of the KKL Luzern, specifically the concert hall. We start at 6 pm with the Christmas caroling for children and families. Then at 7.30 p.m. the traditional Christmas carol singing. Pieces and songs by Georg Philipp Telemann, Francesco Manfredini and Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky and, of course, the most beautiful Advent and Christmas carols to sing along to.

«Mozart ve Mevlana» is a homage to Mozart’s Requiem and embodies Say’s identity of Orient and Occident in a striking way. Requiem texts by the Sufi and poet Mevlana Rumi, cast in the exact instrumentation that Mozart used for his Requiem, will be premiered by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Michael Sanderling, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and a top-class cast of singers.