Luxembourg Composition Academy

The Luxembourg Composition Academy is a unique event in Luxembourg, giving eight young composers the opportunity to create a new piece, accompanied by musicians from the United Instruments of Lucilin ensemble and renowned composers.

The academy program includes lectures and individual tutoring sessions with two guest composers, as well as workshops. Each participant is invited to write a piece for United Instruments of Lucilin. These compositions will then be worked on during the academy and premiered at the academy’s closing concert, as part of the rainy days festival. Participants will also have the opportunity to attend all festival concerts. The academy is conducted in English.

Created in 2015 by United Instruments of Lucilin and neimënster (partner from 2015 to 2023), the Luxembourg Composition Academy has been held in partnership with the Rainy Days festival, the Philharmonie’s international festival of contemporary music, since 2017.

Participants

2026:
Faculty: Malika Kishino et George Lewis
Jessica Ackerley
Erney F. Acosta
Yanqi Chen
Ármin Cservenák
Yingting Liu
Matthew Monaco

2025:
Faculty: Jessie Marino et Steven Daverson
Raphaëlle Aoun (LBN, *2004)
Nien Chin Chai (MYS, *1999)
Ignacio Escobar Gutiérrez (CHL, *1994)
Nolan Hildebrand (CAN, *1992)
James Preller (GB, *2004)
Edward Robson (JPN/GB, *2000)
Özkan Umutcan Bapbaci (TUR, *1996)
Gloria Xia (CHN, *2004)

2024 :
Faculty : Milica Djordjević (RS *1984) et James Dillon (GB *1950)
Connie Harris (GB *2005)
Deniz Aslan (TR *1997)
Julia Waldeck (DE *2000)
Mees Vervuurt (NL *2000)
Samuel D Loveless (GB *1997)
Senay Ugurlu (TR *1997)
Tomohiro Suzuki – (JP *1995)
Yifan Guo – (CH *1995)

2023 :
Faculty : Ed Bennett (US *1979) et Annea Lockwood (US*1939)
Liam Dougherty (US *1996)
Jasmine Morris (GB/JP *2001)
Tzu-Hsuan Chen (TW *1997)
Chi-Yen Huang (TW *1994)
Ed Cooper (GB *1995)
Eluned Davies (GB, Welsh *2000)
Sohui Jeong (KR *2003)
Henri Colombat (FR/US *1997)

Faculty of previous editions :
2015 : Marcel Reuter (Luxembourg) et Evangelia Rigaki (Trinity College, Dublin)
2016 : Marcel Reuter (Luxembourg) et Isabel Mundry (Hochschule für Musik und Theater, München)
2017 : Chaya Czernowin (Harvard University) et Mauro Lanza (Universität der Künste Berlin)
2018 : Joanna Baillie (City University London) et Frank Bedrossian (University of California, Berkeley)
2019 : Philippe Leroux (McGill University) et Elena Mendoza (Universität der Künste Berlin)
2020 : Carola Bauckholt et Matthew Shlomowitz
2021 : Georges Aperghis et Clara Iannotta
2022 – édition spéciale : Contemporary Music Academy