Brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen have been invited to launch the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo’s 2024/25 season next month. The Dutch pianists are planning a spectacular event featuring an “energetic, almost symbiotic” repertoire of classical favourites.  

Lucas and Arthur Jussen take the term ‘Dutch Masters’ to a whole new level.  

Already by the tender ages of 30 and 26 respectively, Lucas and Arthur have made a solid and lasting mark on the musical world with their refined style. 

The Jussen pair has performed with such prestigious companies as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra in the US, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the German NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the British Academy of St Martin in the Fields and with celebrated orchestras in Montréal, Sydney, Singapore and Shanghai. 

Additionally, they have collaborated with a great number of famous conductors, including Andris Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Iván Fischer, Sir Neville Marriner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Jaap van Zweden. 

The brothers even have a Monaco link, having been conducted by Kazuki Yamada, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo’s (OPMC) Artistic and Musical Director, at the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts in August 2023.

This connection will be reinforced on 15th September when the brothers appear at the OPMC’s opening event, which will be held in the Salle Garnier from 3pm.  

The Jussens are expected to play selections from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky.  

For tickets and more information, click here. 

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