Final Concert of the Conducting Week from 22 to 26 September 2026, in connection with the awarding of a one-year assistant conductor position. The Conducting Week and the establishment of the assistant position are made possible by a Swiss foundation.

Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony is the flagship of this season. With this work, Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling sets course for monumental orchestral forces: more than 100 musicians, choir and two soloists come together in a large-scale undertaking of extraordinary dimensions – a journey of around ninety minutes from solemn funeral…

Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony is the flagship of this season. With this work, Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling sets course for monumental orchestral forces: more than 100 musicians, choir and two soloists come together in a large-scale undertaking of extraordinary dimensions – a journey of around ninety minutes from solemn funeral…

How can classical music and club culture be brought together across generations? Formats such as the “Yellow Lounge”, founded in Berlin, or “TonhalleLATE” in Zurich have shown how classical live acts and club atmosphere can open up new spaces for music. The Luzerner Sinfonieorchester now develops this idea further in…

Few composers embody the large-scale symphonic world of Late Romanticism as powerfully as Gustav Mahler. After the Resurrection Symphony at the opening of the season, he is therefore present with a second major work. In his Seventh Symphony, too, Mahler builds a world “with all the means of the available technique” – a world ful…

Few composers embody the large-scale symphonic world of Late Romanticism as powerfully as Gustav Mahler. After the Resurrection Symphony at the opening of the season, he is therefore present with a second major work. In his Seventh Symphony, too, Mahler builds a world “with all the means of the available technique” – a world ful…

A high-profile concert evening at the KKL Luzern: the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester meets star pianist Alice Sara Ott – in her only Swiss appearance in 2026. Together with conductor Martin Rajna, they create a concert experience full of energy, virtuosity and symphonic brilliance.

Beethoven anniversary concerts inevitably fall short of Beethoven’s own standards. In his famous Academy Concert of 1808, he premiered, among other works, the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Fourth Piano Concerto, a concert aria, parts of the Mass in C major and the Choral Fantasy. Lasting more than four hours, the evening was “…

At the centre of this Beethoven evening are the Third Piano Concerto and the Choral Fantasy – two works that make Beethoven’s dramatic force and his utopian idea of community tangible in different ways. The Third Piano Concerto is in C minor, a key that in Beethoven often stands for tension, energy and existential drama. Its heroic to…

Beethoven anniversary concerts inevitably fall short of Beethoven’s own standards. In his famous Academy Concert of 1808, he premiered, among other works, the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Fourth Piano Concerto, a concert aria, parts of the Mass in C major and the Choral Fantasy. Lasting more than four hours, the evening was “…

This Advent matinee combines great Romantic expressiveness with festive colour. The first part centres on Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto – one of the most important works in the cello repertoire, expansive, lyrical, passionate and richly orchestral. Kian Soltani is a soloist who has long been part of the prominent family of artists a…

The Christmas singalong with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester brings together several lines of this season through vocal works by John Rutter and Beethoven’s hymn to joy. With Konzertchor Klangwerk Luzern, the choirs of the Luzerner Kantorei, the Luzerner Mädchenchor and Luzerner Sängerknaben as well as the ChorTon Vokalensemble, a larg…

Joy is also at the heart of the Christmas symphony concert. John Rutter’s music combines festive warmth with radiant vocal power; Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” adds the season’s great musical point of reference. The Luzerner Sinfonieorchester performs together with the Luzerner Mädchenchor and Luzerner Sängerknaben,…

Vocal music gives the New Year’s Concert a festive character with two solo voices. Marina Viotti returns for a special reunion: the mezzo-soprano once appeared to great acclaim in the ensemble of the Luzerner Theater and is now internationally successful. The Kazakh bass Mark Kurmanbayev is an artist to discover, advancing his career …

Vocal music gives the New Year’s Concert a festive character with two solo voices. Marina Viotti returns for a special reunion: the mezzo-soprano once appeared to great acclaim in the ensemble of the Luzerner Theater and is now internationally successful. The Kazakh bass Mark Kurmanbayev is an artist to discover, advancing his career …

One of the monumental focal points of this season is the joint concert in which the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester joins forces with the HSLU Symphony Orchestra. The programme makes double use of these large forces. Sergei Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony continues the season’s Late Romantic line with Russian melancholy, wide soundscap…

Vivid sound worlds are one of the major lines running through this season. They can already be found in nineteenth-century programme music – and continue to resonate in today’s film music. This concert is a prime example: an imaginary cinema without film. Danny Elfman became known as the composer of numerous film scores, including …

Vivid sound worlds are one of the major lines running through this season. They can already be found in nineteenth-century programme music – and continue to resonate in today’s film music. This concert is a prime example: an imaginary cinema without film. Danny Elfman became known as the composer of numerous film scores, including …

With its wide soundscapes, Late Romanticism also created some of the conditions for what would later be perceived as great film music. In this programme, monumental symphonic writing and vivid narrative power come together in two works whose emotional immediacy remains undiminished. Sergei Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto begins wi…

With its wide soundscapes, Late Romanticism also created some of the conditions for what would later be perceived as great film music. In this programme, monumental symphonic writing and vivid narrative power come together in two works whose emotional immediacy remains undiminished. Sergei Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto begins wi…