At the 2016 Lucerne Festival, Olga Neuwirth will present a brand-new piece for percussion and orchestra.


August 14
11:00 
Le Encantadas o le avventure nel mare delle meraviglie (Swiss premiere)
for six ensemble groups partitioned across the performance space, samples, and live electronics

Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher (Conductor)
commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL, SWR/Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM – Centre Pompidou, and Wien Modern    


August 21
16:00
Eleanor (Swiss premiere)
for Blues Singer, Drum kit, Samples and Ensemble

… miramondo multiplo … (Swiss premiere)
Sound installation

Lost Highway Suite (Swiss premiere)
for six instrumental soloists and ensemble

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY   
Elena Schwarz (Conductor)
Della Miles (blues singer)
Lucas Niggli (Percussion)


August 26
22:00    
Kloing!
for retuned Bösendorfer-CEUS piano, live-pianist, video, audio-samples and earthquake-data

Hommage à Klaus Nomi
Chamber orchestra version    

Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY   
Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI
Gregor A. Mayrhofer (Conductor)
Andrew Watts (Counter tenor)
Marino Formenti (piano)


August 27
18:30
Trurliade – Zone Zero for percussion and orchestra (world premiere)
    
Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY   
Susanna Mälkki (Conductor)
Victor Hanna (Percussion)
commissioned by Roche Commissions


August 31
18:20    
Chamber music    

Students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY   



The festival features Olga Neuwirth’s Eleanor, a piece for Blues singer, drum kit and ensemble that pays respects to all brave women and especially to the forgotten Afro-American female jazz musicians. “Eleanor was a spontaneous expression of my helpless indignation towards racist violence”, says the composer.

In Le Encantadas o le avventure nel mare delle meraviglie Olga Neuwirth draws on her Melville opera The Outcast to allude to two utterly different island worlds: the Galapagos Islands, which Melville describes as a primeval wilderness of lava rock in his series of sketches The Encantadas, and the lagoon city of Venice. More precisely: to the Venetian church of San Lorenzo, whose acoustics she has translated into her own musical “sound-spaces.”


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