20 years after the Lucerne Festival Orchestra was founded, this “Orchestra of Friends” celebrates its anniversary with a total of six concerts: four symphony concerts and two chamber music programs. As an accompaniment to the concerts, Lucerne’s “stattkino” will screen recordings of seven historically significant concerts with the orchestra’s two music directors, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. In addition, the musicians and Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger will look back over the past 20 years in a public panel discussion.
   

  On 11 August, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly will open this year’s Summer Festival, which explores the theme of “Paradise” with Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony. The popular and free-admission live broadcast of the opening, will also take place simultaneously in Inseli Park right next to the KKL Luzern.
  
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the podium of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra on 19 August, following his acclaimed appearance as guest conductor in the summer of 2019. He will lead an account of Anton Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony.
  
  “Artiste étoile” Daniil Trifonov will join the musicians for the second concert of the two chamber music concerts. The two programming for the two concerts will suggest links to the founding year of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra by presenting works that were performed in 2003, including Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp and Maurice Ravel’s Introduction et Allegro for Harp, Flute, and String Quartet.
  
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