Composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, this year's composer-in-residence at the
Lucerne Festival, will become the artistic and conceptual director of a new
academy for contemporary music, which the Lucerene Festival and the Lucerne
Academy of Music will hold every summer. Starting in 2004, the Pierre Boulez
Academy will teach young, talented musicians to interpret contemporary
music.
The musicians will be selected internationally by audition. Boulez and the musicians of the Ensemble Intercontemporain will teach students a solo, chamber-music and ensemble repertoire, and will train an Academy orchestra in selected symphonic works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Academy will award annual commissions will be awarded to young composers, who, over a two-year period, will write, rehearse and refine a work with the Academy orchestra. The Academy will hold open rehearsals and workshops to further familiarity with contemporary music.
The Pierre Boulez Academy will succeed the traditional master classes of the
Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Academy of Music. In 2003, the master classes
will be reoriented to prepare for the future academy. Boulez will teach a
conducting class and the Ensemble Intercontemporain will perform three programs
of contemporary music will a few select students.
