Roche Young Commissions 2027 go to Brichs and Martirosyan
Arnau Brichs and Aregnaz Martirosyan have been commissioned by the Roche Young Commissions awarded by the Lucerne Festival for 2027.
Dieter Ammann, co-director of the Lucerne Festival Academy's Composer Seminar, conductor Baldur Brönnimann and contemporary dramaturge Mark Sattler have selected the two. They have been commissioned to write new works for orchestra, which will be premiered with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) as part of the 2027 summer festival.
Arnau Brichs, born in 2000 in Sant Joan Despí, Spain, lives in Paris. He studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated with distinction. He has been Composer in Residence at IRCAM in Paris since 2024. Brichs attended the Lucerne Festival's Composer Seminar in 2021 and has participated in numerous international academies, including Viitasaari and Madrid.
Aregnaz Martirosyan was born in the Armenian capital Yerevan in 1993 and lives in Lucerne. She studied composition at the Lucerne School of Music. She also took part in the Composer Seminar at the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2022. Her works have been performed by Ensemble Modern, the Basel Sinfonietta and the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, among others.
The "Roche Young Commissions" were launched in 2013 as a cooperation between Roche, the Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Festival Academy. The "Roche Young Commissions" give up-and-coming composers up to the age of 30 the opportunity to write works for orchestra, alternating with the "Roche Commissions" in the following year. Applications are invited via an open call.
