«Le Piano Symphonique»
Lucerne’s Piano Festival
Lucerne’s Piano Festival
From 13 – 18 January 2025, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester invites to the fourth edition of its piano festival «Le Piano Symphonique». Piano music enthusiasts from all over the world can once again look forward to great artists from the international piano elite at «Le Piano Symphonique» 2025 in Lucern.
Three recitals with other piano stars will also be organized around the 2025 festival during the season: Khatia Buniatishvili (19 Oct. 24), Krystian Zimerman (13 March 25) and Evgeny Kissin (20 June 25).
Evgeny Kissin is associated with one of the highlights of the 2025 edition of the festival: the «Shostakovich Project». The Russian star pianist will appear with Gidon Kremer (18 Jan.), the Kopelman Quartet, soprano Chen Reiss and tenor Michael Schade (15 Jan.) to perform works by the Russian composer.
Martha Argerich remains an important key figure at the festival and a «master of weightless sound» (NZZ) as «Pianiste Associée». She can be heard twice with the «Carnival of the Animals» by Camille Saint-Saëns: together with her daughter Annie Dutoit (17 Jan.) and in the family programme with an animated film by Sandra Albukrek (18 Jan.). The «Grande Dame» of the piano will also perform at the festival’s closing concert (18 Jan.).
Also expected at the 2025 Piano Festival: Turkish pianist Fazıl Say, who will open the festival with Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” (13 Jan.), Leif Ove Andsnes, who will perform contemporary works alongside works by Edvard Grieg and Frédéric Chopin (14 Jan.), South Korean rising star Yunchan Lim, who will perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester under the baton of its chief conductor Michael Sanderling (16 Jan.), the Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, who will perform Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (17 Jan.), and the German-Greek pianist Kiveli Dörken, who will play late Romantic chamber music with members of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (17 Jan.).
There will also be a Berlin ballad and chanson evening with HK Gruber and Kirill Gerstein on the opening evening (13 Jan.). Jazz lovers will also get their money’s worth: the leading German jazz pianist of the younger generation Michael Wollny will perform in a duo with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin (15 Jan.).
So there is a lot on offer at «Le Piano Symphonique» and it is worth immersing yourself in this magical festival world to experience unforgettable musical moments – or as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung summarises: «Piano evenings that will live long in the memory».
In 2025, the concerts will once again take place at the KKL Luzern, in the orchestra house of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in Kriens, in the venerable Lukas Church and in the stylish Hotel Schweizerhof.
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