Lucerne Festival Forward Fall 2024
Switzerland, Luzern
15.11.2024 - 17.11.2024

Every year in November, Lucerne Festival Forward provides a stage for contemporary music and gives a voice to musicians of the younger generation.


The starting point is the idea of using the Lucerne Festival Academy's international network, which has grown over the years and now comprises more than 1,200 artists, as a collective mastermind. 


And in more ways than one: the concerts are not only organized by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO), our orchestra of excellence for the performance of new and contemporary music. 


Selected contemporary leaders from the Academy network also develop the program as curators. In doing so, they break new ground to close the gap between so-called "new music" and the audience: they seek contact with listeners, try out unusual concert formats, focus on lesser-known voices and aesthetic positions in contemporary music-making and consciously mix nationalities, generations and genders.

Tourist Objects nearby
Chapel Bridge in Lucerne
Chapel Bridge in Lucerne
Swiss Museum of Transport
Swiss Museum of Transport