Website: http://www.lucernefestival.ch

Date: November 21 to 27, 2011
Country: Switzerland

As the annual assembly of virtuosic musicians, the Lucerne festival can be traced back to the days of 1938, when Toscanini conducted an elite orchestra facing Richard Wagner’s villa. Throughout the years, the festival itself has expanded with more diversity, featuring a set of three flagship festivals per year- Lucerne Festival in Summer, Lucerne Festival at the Piano and Lucerne Festival at Easter. The breath-taking scenery of Lake Lucerne facing Mount Pilatus and Rigi in the Swiss Alps will certainly double the sensation as audience marvel at Abbado’s conducting Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

The 2011 edition of Lucerne at the Piano is dedicated to Franz Liszt, celebrating his 200th birthday. Yefim Bronfman, Andreas Haefliger, Marc-André Hamelin, Maurizio Pollini, Yuja Wang and many more artists will gather under the spotlight presenting Liszt’s imaginative masterpieces.