The Florence Youth Orchestra Festival arrives in Lucca and anticipates its 21st edition, scheduled for next summer.

Thursday 9 May the church of San Michele in Foro in Lucca, will host the youth orchestra Il Mosaico directed by Hermann Ostendarp, already a guest of the Nippon Seinenkan Foundation (Japan), of the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), represented Switzerland on the 4th and 5th ° European Music Festival in Budapest (Hungary) and Barcelona (Spain) and recently won the Swiss National Competition for Youth Orchestras.

The Swiss formation of the canton of St. Gallen, founded jointly by Wattwil High School and the Toggenburg Music Academy in 1990, has over 40 elements aged between 14 and 22 years.

Scheduled
Johann Sebastian Bach Ich ruf dir, Herr Jesu Christ Bwv 177,
Johannes Brahms Concerto for violin and orchestra in D Major Opera 77.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave Verum corpus K 618
Robert Schumann Symphony number 3 in E-flat Major op. 97 'Renana'
Johann Sebastian Bach motet Jesu meine Freude BWV 227