Pianist

Supporting young musicians is especially close to Anne-Sophie Mutter’s heart. To this end, she founded the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008 and can now look back on an impressive roster of distinguished scholarship recipients, including Vilde Frang, Sergey Khachatryan, Daniel Müller-Schott, and Kian Soltani. Her latest discovery is Elias David Moncado, born in 2000: a German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist who won the Grand Prix and ten special prizes at the Karol Lipiński Competition in Poland, gave his first recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2025, and will release his debut album on the Warner Classics label in 2026. For this Lucerne debut, he will perform Maurice Ravel’s irresistible Violin Sonata, an American-inspired work with a “blue” movement at its center. Playing the “Ludwig, ex-Szigeti” Stradivari, he will also tackle high-virtuoso fare such as Franz Waxman’s finger-breaking Carmen Fantasie. And four more of Mutter’s protégés will also appear in this extraordinary debut concert, performing two brand-new pieces that Anne-Sophie Mutter commissioned especially for them to mark the 50th anniversary of her Lucerne stage debut — works now receiving their world premieres. For championing new music is another of this great virtuoso’s passions.

Elias David Moncado | David Tobin | Ye-Eun Choi | Hwayoon Lee | Lionel Martin | Lauma Skride

Lukaskirche Lucerne

This ensemble is a true cult favorite. When the brass players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra gather around trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich and trombonist Jörgen van Rijen to form a brass band, the atmosphere reaches fever pitch in no time at all. All the more so at this summer’s appearance, which is devoted to the theme of “American Dreams.” Gershwin's Strike Up the Band injects an irresistible jolt of swing and high spirits.

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4 Soloists and Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Anne-Sophie Mutter will celebrate her 50th anniversary on stage in 2026 and 2027, presenting a programme alongside fellow trio musicians Maximilian Hornung and Lauma Skride

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Barbican Centre

The Lübeck Philharmonic Society is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special concert in collaboration with the Lübeck Theater and the Lübeck University Orchestra. The program includes works by composers who have received and continue to receive less attention than they deserve due to their origin, gender or skin color. This concert, led by a renowned conductor, thus positions itself artistically for diversity and against discrimination and unequal treatment in the music world.

Music4all – limitless sounds

Music and Congress Hall

It ended as the century's greatest love triangle when Brahms fell in love with Schumann's wife, Clara. The story of infidelity, madness and pangs of conscience is not just juicy gossip: the main characters turned all the strong emotions into poignant music. On the conductor's podium, German Sebastian Weigle is at home in the romantic repertoire - and with him is the up-and-coming Latvian pianist Lauma Skride.

Pianist

Lauma Skride

Events

Past events

Sep 3, 2026

Elias David Moncado | David Tobin | Ye-Eun Choi | Hwayoon Lee | Lionel Martin | Lauma Skride · Lucerne Festival

Aug 19, 2026

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4 Soloists and Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra · Lucerne Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Estrellita by Ponce

Lucerne Festival

Piano in Carmen Fantasie by Waxman

Lucerne Festival

Piano in Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor by Beach

Lucerne Festival

Piano in Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major by Ravel

Lucerne Festival

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