In 2027, the lunchtime concert series at the Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern once again offers pianistic discoveries. It opens with Anna Geniushene, who combines virtuosity and spirituality in works by Prokofiev, Verdi, Liszt and Stravinsky. How do new pianists come onto the radar of a piano festival? At Le Piano Symphonique, one path leads throu…

A festival lunchtime as a surprise: for the Lunch Concert Surprise, the exact programme remains open for the time being. What is certain is the setting – piano music at close range in the Zeugheersaal of the Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern. The format invites the audience to embrace the unexpected: a short, concentrated lunchtime concert moment t…

Virtuosity is a prerequisite for artistic careers – and yet it has something of an image problem. Artist biographies like to invoke the profound musicality of their protagonists, while technical brilliance tends to appear as an incidental extra. The fear is that a musician might be misunderstood as a mere acrobat of the fingers. In Sophia L…