Composer Seminar: Closing Concert 1 - LFCO

Wolfgang Rihm believes that composing must be “learned through practice.” It is important to gain experiences listening to your own music, to “try it out” and to be able to compare the written score against the resulting sounds. Feedback from the performers is also helpful. Of course, all of this applies even more so to a large orchestral ensemble and the variety of sonic mixes it enables. Rihm and his Swiss composer colleague Dieter Ammann are therefore offering a special edition of their Composer Seminar during the Lucerne Festival Academy’s anniversary summer. Four young composers from China, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Spain will have an opportunity to compose short orchestral pieces for the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) and perform these with the ensemble - an offer that is hardly possible in everyday university life. The new scores will be performed twice in the final concert. After the first performance, Ammann and Rihm will talk about the composers and important features of their pieces. They will thus sharpen our ears for the second performance. You hear better the second time around!