Jean-Jacques Mailliet will compose the musical work that will be premiered and performed on the occasion of the 2026 National Day;
Credit: Claude Piscitelli
On Thursday 27 March 2026, Luxembourg’s Ministry of Culture announced that Jean-Jacques Mailliet will compose the musical work that will be premiered and performed on the occasion of the National Day during the official ceremony on 23 June 2026 at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
Jean-Jacques Mailliet, born in 1998, is a Luxembourg violinist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. He began playing the violin at the age of three through folk music and improvisation. Later, he entered the Conservatoire of the City of Luxembourg in 2009, initially for classical violin studies, and subsequently joined the jazz department.
The young Luxembourg violinist, composer and arranger was selected by a jury from nine applications received as part of this edition of the traditional call, launched by Luxembourg’s Ministry of State and Ministry of Culture at the beginning of the year. The winner is awarded €6,500 (excluding VAT) to produce the composition.
The jury consisted of Ivan Boumans, composer and master of ceremonies for the civil festivities as part of National Day 2026, David Laborier, composer of the opening work of the ceremony in 2024, and Katrin Reutlinger, cellist and member of the artistic committee of the OPL.
The work, written for symphony orchestra, will be performed by the Luxembourg Philharmonic as the opening of the ceremony.
Jean-Jacques Mailliet has worked on numerous symphonic projects, notably with Gast Waltzing and the OPL. He has worked as an arranger on the symphonic project of Kyle Eastwood, son of the renowned American actor Clint Eastwood. His arrangements are performed by numerous orchestras, such as the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna and the Orchestra of the Republican Guard.
