Festival Strings Lucerne

Founded in 1956, the Festival Strings Lucerne's active concert schedule spans all five continents. The orchestra receives invitations from leading festivals and concert halls worldwide, stages concerts in the KKL Luzern and is a welcome guest of other regional partners. 
Its signature is its collaboration with outstanding musicians such as Hélène Grimaud, Rudolf Buchbinder, Bernard Haitink and Midori. Festival Strings Lucerne was founded by Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner as a soloist ensemble with harpsichord anchored in the Viennese string tradition. Since 2012, Lucerne-trained violinist Daniel Dodds has been artistic director. With him, the orchestra, led from the concertmaster's podium, increasingly performs in lean symphonic settings. 

The orchestra released its legendary Baumgartner-era studio productions on Deutsche Grammophon until 1973. Later recordings appeared on Decca, Eurodisc or Denon, and more recently on Sony Classical, Pentatone and Warner Classics.