Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Estelle Costanzo | Jack Adler-McKean | Bauckholt | Suzuki | Edler-Copes | Aperghis | Hülcker

Carola Bauckholt’s new piece is literally tailor made for the four percussionists who perform it. In Hirn & Ei, they wear Gore-Tex rain jackets, wiping and rubbing their surfaces to elicit a variety of rhythms and sounds. Performative approaches and the relationship between sound and body are the focus of this opening event of the 2025 Forward Festival. Georges Aperghis stages a kind of mini-theater for tuba, in which the instrument is breathed, sung, and spoken into. Kotoka Suzuki uses homemade instruments built out of paper. With the help of electronics, the crackling and rustling that results gives rise to a fascinating world of sound. And in a brand-new work, Neo Hülcker interrogates the sound of our dreams: “How can their often strange processes be composed?”