Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

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The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1806.

It is the residence orchestra in the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center and the opera orchestra of the Lucerne Theater . It offers various symphonic subscription series as well as cycles on the music of individual composers and accompanies musical theater productions. A central aspect in the orchestral repertoire is the mediation between tradition and innovation. Since 2008, the orchestra has been running a music exchange that places a special focus on direct encounters between musicians and their audience and on cross-generational work. The orchestra is organized as an association led by Pierre Peyer as president. Numa Bischof Ullmann has been the artistic director since 2004. He heads an office of 16 people. The orchestra consists of around 70 musicians and has been under the direction of chief conductor James Gaffigan since the 2011/2012 season , whose contract was prematurely extended to 2022 in June 2015.

The orchestra has been organizing the “Magic Lake - Days of Russian Music” festival, which is dedicated to the work of Russian artists, since 2012.

Chief conductor

Directorship

  • Numa Bischof-Ullmann (since 2004)

World premieres

A particular focus of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra is the promotion of new music. That is why there are always new compositions commissioned and the performance of repertoire rarities ensures that horizons are broadened. First performances in the 2016/17 season

World premieres
  • Christoph Blum (* 1990): "Ranft-Suite", world premiere of a composition with students from Obwalden
  • Siegfried Matthus (* 1934): Concerto for two clarinets and orchestra (world premiere)
Swiss premieres
  • Francisco Coll (* 1985): Four Iberian Miniatures (2014) for violin and orchestra (Swiss premiere)

Music mediation

The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra's music education program was launched in 2008 and includes an extensive range of concerts, workshops and encounters for children, young people and adults. Staged concerts and participatory projects promote the sensory perception of music and one's own active music making. A special focus is on inclusion projects such as workshops at special education schools, prepared concert visits for people with dementia, workshops in dormitories and prisons or offers that initiate an exchange between generations. The youth club U25 enables young listeners to attend concerts on favorable terms and gives them the opportunity to actively shape the program for club members. For the Ensemble D series for people with dementia, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra received the focus recognition award of the Alzheimer's Association Lucerne in 2016. The orchestra has been carrying the "Kultur inklusiv" label since 2017 and is committed to providing barrier-free access to its cultural offerings.

Initiated by Artistic Director Numa Bischof Ullmann and the Drosos Foundation , the program was expanded further in 2013 with the construction of the music wagon and extended to the entire Central Switzerland region. The music car is a workshop space, mobile stage and sound museum at the same time and is stationed at a school or social institution for one to two weeks. Under the guidance of teachers and with the participation of orchestral musicians, children and young people improvise with natural materials and everyday objects and develop new pieces. Concerts, interactive projects and workshop presentations allow the public of the respective location to participate. The music car project was awarded the Central Switzerland Prize of the Migros Culture Percentage in 2014.

Magic Lake - Days of Russian Music

The Zaubersee Festival - Days of Russian Music in Lucerne was launched in 2012 by the director of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Numa Bishop Ullmann, with the aim of bringing to mind and revitalizing the rich Russian cultural heritage in Switzerland. Russian artistic personalities left their formative traces in Lucerne on Lake Lucerne in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. To be mentioned above all are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Lev Tolstoy and Alexander Scriabin. Igor Stravinsky and Pjotr ​​Tchaikovsky have found an idyllic refuge for their work on Lake Geneva.

The naming of the festival evokes the fascination of the lake, which has long attracted numerous important Russian composers. In direct reference to Anatol Ljadov's tone poem “The Enchanted Lake” (1909), Zaubersee also underlines a programmatic choice. While Tchaikovsky's “Swan Lake” (1875/1896) alludes to a far more famous work, Zaubersee implies the desire to discover and cultivate the unknown side of the Russian repertoire.

Outstanding young and established musicians are invited to follow the Russian trail. In the past, these included Mischa Maisky , Daniil Trifonov , Gidon Kremer , Ksenija Sidorova , Kun Woo Paik, Boris Berezovsky or Katia and Marielle Labèque . At the venues Villa St. Charles Hall in Meggen, in the Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern and in the KKL Luzern there is the possibility to experience these artists up close.

Zaubersee takes place in May and is under the artistic direction of Numa Bischof Ullmann and Jonathan Levi.

Tours and guest performances

  • Season 2016/17:
    • Guest performances at the Bogotá International Music Festival
    • Guest performance in Udine
    • Guest performance in Bologna
    • Guest performance in La Chaux-de-Fonds
  • Season 2015/16:
    • Guest performance in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw)
    • Guest performances in Istanbul and Zagreb
    • Asian tour with guest appearances in South Korea, Shanghai, Singapore and Mumbai
  • Season 2014/15:
    • Tour of South America with guest performances in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo (Sala São Paulo)
    • Guest performance in Vaduz
    • Guest performance in Muri
  • Season 2013/14:
    • Guest performance at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest
    • Guest performance at the Settimane musicali di Ascona
    • Guest performance in Moscow (Tchaikovsky Hall)
    • Guest performance at the Kissinger Sommer in Bad Kissingen
  • Season 2012/13:
    • Guest performances in Salzburg ( Großes Festspielhaus )
    • Guest performance in Milan
    • Guest performance in Geneva
    • Guest performance in Amsterdam ( Concertgebouw )
    • Guest performance in Florence
    • Guest performance at the Kissinger Sommer
    • Israel tour with guest performances in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
  • 2011/12 season:
    • Guest performance at the Festival Nuits Romantiques in Aix les Bains
    • Guest performance in Milan (Sala Verdi)
    • Guest performance in St. Petersburg
    • Guest performance in Guebwiller
    • Spain tour with guest appearances in Pamplona, ​​Zaragoza, Granada and Terassa
  • 2010/11 season:
    • Guest performances at the Merano Music Weeks
    • Guest performance in Milan (Sala Verdi)
    • Guest performance in Antwerp
    • Guest performance in Cremona
    • Guest performance in Turin
    • Guest performance in Baden-Baden
    • Guest performance in Paris ( Théâtre des Champs-Élysées )
    • 2. Asia tour to China and Japan
  • Season 2009/10:
  • Season 2008/09:
    • Guest performance in London (Barbican Hall)
    • Guest performances in Milan (Sala Verdi)
    • Guest performance at the Word Economic Forum in Davos
  • 2007/08 season:
    • Tour of Germany with guest performances in Dortmund, Witten and Braunschweig
    • Guest performance in Milan (Sala Verdi)
    • Japan tour with guest performances in Matsumoto, Hiratsuka, Yokohama, Tokyo (Suntory Hall), Susono, Funabashi, Koriyama, Sendai, Kobe

Discography of the Modern Era

Kaddish
  • Leonard Bernstein : "Kaddish" Symphony No. 3
  • Arnold Schönberg : A survivor from Warsaw
  • Kurt Weill : The Berlin Requiem
  • Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, John Axelrod, Samuel Pisar, Rundfunkchor Berlin a. a.
  • Nimbus Records NI 5807
Franz Schreker and his students
  • Franz Schreker : Intermezzo & Scherzo op.8
  • Julius Bürger: Two songs for baritone
  • Ernst Krenek : Symphony No. 7
  • Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, John Axelrod, Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
  • Nimbus Records NI 5808
Franz Schreker and expressive dance
  • Birthday of the Infanta, Valse Lente, celebratory waltz and waltz intermezzo, The Wind, A dance game
  • Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, John Axelrod
  • Nimbus Records NI 5753

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/james-gaffigan-signs-up-for-more-as-conductor-of-lucerne-symphony/?_r=1
  2. https://sinfonieorchester.ch/de/ueber-uns/das-orchester/chefdirigent
  3. https://www.sinfonieorchester.ch/de/musikvermittlung/was-ist-musikvermittlung
  4. http://www.kulturinklusiv.ch/de/startseite/die-labeltraeger/luzerner-sinfonieorchester-136.html
  5. https://magazin.klassik.com/news/teaser.cfm?ID=11363&nachricht=Luzerner%20Sinfonieorchester%20f%FCr%20Musikwagen-Projekt%20 excellent
  6. http://auber-see.ch/de/ueber-uns/geschichte
  7. https://www.sinfonieorchester.ch/de/ueber-uns/hoeren-und-sehen-shop