Violinist

EPSG:4326

Kronberg Academy

Cologne Philharmonie

Love, music, improvisational talent and your wishes - these are the ingredients of this concert. And this is how it works: You tell us your favourite love song (in advance by email or simply by calling it out during the concert), and four young musicians bring your wishes to the stage with passion and imagination - the soprano Clara Barbier Serrano and the pianist Joanna Kacperek, who have just won second prize at the International Song Competition, fulfill song requests in the original and with text. The brothers Lionel and Demian Martin improvise on top with cello and piano, transforming the happiness of love, sex appeal and heartbreak into tangos, fugues or waltzes and letting the melodies wander through different eras and styles - sometimes with voluptuous pathos, sometimes breathtakingly virtuosic, rocky or baroque. A high of musical endorphins for couples, singles, new or long-term lovers!

Lionel & Demian Martin, Clara Barbier Serrano, Joanna Kacperek

Chamber Music Hall

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

String Quartet Kinderszenen

Lucerne Festival

Violinist

Lionel Martin

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 3, 2026

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

Past events

Nov 29, 2025

Kronberg Academy · Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

May 17, 2025

Lionel & Demian Martin, Clara Barbier Serrano, Joanna Kacperek · SWR Symphonieorchester

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cello in String Quartet Kinderszenen by Chun

Lucerne Festival

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