| Biography | Ludwig Wicki (born Hellbühl, Lucerne, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer, trombonist and conductor.
Wicki began his formal musical education by studying trombone. In due course, he became a member of the Lucerne Symphony and Opera Orchestra. Simultaneously he founded the San Marco Brass and the Philharmonic Brass Quintet to indulge his keen interest and love for chamber music.
Having resigned from the Lucerne Symphony and Opera Orchestra after a nine-year term as a trombone player, he began to study with Dr. Ewald Körner at the Conservatory in Bern and continued with Prof. Donato Renzetti at the Academia Musicale in Pescara, Italy. When the position of the music director opened at the Palace Chapel of Lucerne, Wicki was appointed and went on to lead the Chapel choir in Gregorian chants as well as in the performances of Bach and Handel cantatas and a cappella Renaissance music by Monteverdi and Palestrina among others.
Ludwig Wicki collaborates with such internationally renowned composers as Howard Shore, Randy Newman and Martin Böttcher. Highlights have included the world premiere of The Fellowship of the Ring at KKL Luzern, the first ever live performance of the complete original score from the first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The orchestra and chorus performed the music in real time against the backdrop of a giant screen showing Peter Jacksons epic film. The success of this unprecedented event resulted in invitations to give similar performances all over the world, including Munich (Munich Symphony Orchestra), Krakow (Sinfonietta Cracovia), Wolf Trap Festival (Wolf Trap Festival Orchestra), St. Louis (St. Louis Symphony) und Winnipeg (Winnipeg Symphony). |