Since its foundation in 1956, the Festival Strings Lucerne has toured extensively throughout the world. In Europe, the orchestra is a regular guest at leading concert halls: the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the KKL in Lucerne with its own concert series at the KKL Luzern and every year as a guest of the Lucerne Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present day; the orchestra makes a substantial contribution to the expansion of the string and chamber orchestra repertoire with new arrangements and world premieres of more than a hundred works by composers such as Jean Fran\u00e7aix, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martin\u016f, Sandor Veress, Iannis Xenakis and Krzystof Penderecki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n