For all information about the Sinfonieball, please visit: luzernersinfonieball.ch The Luzerner Sinfonieball brings together music, social encounters and charity in a festive ball night at KKL Luzern. The Luzerner Sinfonieorchester presents the evening together with its partners. For full details on the programme, registration and w…

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…

When Lucerne sings as one, Christmas is just round the corner: at the grand Christmas concert, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and a large family of Lucerne choirs come together to present a theatrical Christmas story for young and old alike. Accompanied by excerpts from John Rutter’s «Mass of the Children» and Beethoven’s «Ode to Joy», a pu…

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,…

With two outstanding solo voices, vocal music takes centre stage in this festive New Year’s Concert. Mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti makes a welcome return to Lucerne: once a member of the ensemble at the Luzerner Theater, she has since established a successful international career. She is joined by the promising young Kazakh bass Mark Kurmanba…

A joyful and lively start to the New Year! What happens when an entire symphony orchestra starts telling stories? There’s flirting, arguing, laughter and celebration! Sometimes the music sounds mysterious, sometimes exuberant – and sometimes things get so lively that it’s hard to sit still. Under the title «About Last Night», the Luzerner S…

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…

Beethoven as the centre of energy radiates throughout this season – into Romanticism, into modernity and back to the classical core repertoire of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. This concert shows Beethoven at an important point of transition: between classical form, symphonic thinking and a new expressive power. The Mass in C major op. 86 …

With the Arthur Waser Prize, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester has supported young solo careers since 2013. Rarely has this happened at such an early stage as with the 2026 Arthur Waser Prize: pianist Martina Meola, born in Milan in 2012, won the “Jeune Chopin” competition in 2025 and impressed juror Martha Argerich so deeply that …

With the Arthur Waser Prize, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester has supported young solo careers since 2013. Rarely has this happened at such an early stage as with the 2026 Arthur Waser Prize: pianist Martina Meola, born in Milan in 2012, won the “Jeune Chopin” competition in 2025 and impressed juror Martha Argerich so deeply that …

The artistic development of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester culminates this season in a pronounced focus on Late Romantic repertoire. Yet this repertoire does not only point forward – towards modernity and the orchestra’s future – but also back to strong traditions. Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” recalls that Roma…

The artistic development of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester culminates this season in a pronounced focus on Late Romantic repertoire. Yet this repertoire does not only point forward – towards modernity and the orchestra’s future – but also back to strong traditions. Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” recalls that Roma…