{"id":5272,"date":"2026-03-16T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/program\/lukas-sternath\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:47:43","slug":"lukas-sternath-5-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/programme\/lukas-sternath-5-11-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukas Sternath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"text-image text-image--left\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"text-image__wrapper text-image__wrapper--left text-image__wrapper--bg text-image__wrapper--bg-white\">\n                            <div class=\"text-image__content\">\n                    <p>He will celebrate only his twenty-fifth birthday this year, yet his name already appears in the programmes of the world\u2019s most prestigious concert halls and festivals. \u201cA young man comes on stage and plays the stars from the sky for you,\u201d wrote the respected daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the playing of the Vienna-born pianist <strong>Lukas Sternath<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When he won the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2022, he caused a sensation, not only taking first prize but also receiving seven additional awards, including the Audience Prize. Since then, he has performed with some of the world\u2019s leading orchestras and conductors, including the Vienna Philharmonic with Tugan Sokhiev and the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a. He has made his debuts at the Elbphilharmonie, London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, the Salzburg Festival and the BBC Proms. The Vienna Musikverein has entrusted him with curating his own concert series \u2013 for the first time in the history of this renowned institution.<\/p>\n<p>At the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival, you will have the opportunity to hear this young artist for the first time in a solo recital. \u201cMy idea behind this programme was to combine my love for Franz Schubert&#8217;s music with Franz Liszt&#8217;s fascination and appreciation of Schubert&#8217;s works, linking the two through the poetic picture of the <em>Wanderer<\/em>,\u201d says Lukas Sternath about the programme. It will feature <strong>Schubert<\/strong>\u2019s Romantic <em>Wanderer Fantasy<\/em>, the second part of <strong>Liszt<\/strong>\u2019s extensive cycle <em>Years of Pilgrimage<\/em> \u2013 which may be heard as a series of stylised musical impressions from Italy \u2013 and Liszt\u2019s transcriptions of Schubert\u2019s songs. \u201cThe <em>Wanderer<\/em> is filled with melancholy and desperation, always asking, doubting, constantly moving and searching for meaning on the journey we call life, all whilst being in resonance with nature. These are all topics I think every human being can relate to in a deeply personal way and I&#8217;m looking forward to experiencing this intimate musical journey together with the Prague audience,\u201d says one of the most closely watched \u201crising stars\u201d of today, Lukas Sternath, inviting us into his inner musical world.<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"text-image__image-wrapper\">\n                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lukas-sternath_1-oea-thomas-rabsch_print-2000x3000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"text-image__image\">\n                                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":5186,"template":"","event_category":[16],"event_type":[15],"class_list":["post-5272","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-firkusny-en","event_type-prague-spring"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}