It was a sensation when, at the Lucerne Summer Festival 2022, the Chineke! Orchestra and the Chineke! Junior Orchestra performed for the first time, with Die Zeit calling Chineke! “one of the most musically interesting ensembles currently touring the globe.”

Chineke! return to the festival in 2024. The concert begins with the sparkling Ballade, Op. 33, by the British composer Samuel Coleridge- Taylor, a work of late Romanticism that immediately catches the ear. It might be reminiscent of Tchaikovsky or Dvořák. The latter undoubtedly influenced the symphonic music of the African American composer Florence Price. In 2022, Yannick Nézet-Séguin introduced Price’s First Symphony to Lucerne, and now we can hear her Third. In between, things get jazzy with the Violin Concerto by the legendary trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis.

Programme:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in a minor
Wynton Marsalis: Violin concerto in D

Interval

Florence B. Price: Symphony 3

Kelly Hall-Tompkins: Violin Soloist
Leslie Suganandarajah: Conductor