Founded in 2005 and run by Grammy Awards recipients (for their collaboration with Angélique Kidjo on her ‘Sings’ album with the Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg), the ONJL aims at providing a platform for young and upcoming musicians from Luxembourg, so that they can develop their composition and arranging skills by writing for and playing with highly skilled players. From the get go, the ONJL has had the chance of collaborating with jazz giants George Duke et Didier Lockwood, thus establishing a professional relationship with both. This first collaboration led to the rtelease of the ONJL’s first album in 2007, which featured both Duke and Lockwood on compositions by Gast Waltzing. As the years went by, the orchestra collaborated with many internationally known artists (Paquito d’Rivera, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Richard Bona, Keiko Lee, Patti Austin, Helge Schneider, Shiho, Morgane Ji).