VERBIER FESTIVAL

The Verbier Festival is an international classical music event that takes place each summer in the mountain town of Verbier, Switzerland. The Festival’s mission is to build a community of exchange between great masters and young artists from all over the world and to be a leader in its field by providing meaningful music education programmes.

Launched in 1994, and now globally renowned, the Festival welcomes audiences with a distinctive and exhilarating blend of events, both large-scale and intimate. Audiences from around the globe come to experience music-making at the highest level in a setting that brings them close to star performers, rising talent, and a complete process of learning, rehearsal, and performance.

The Festival’s Academy is its respiratory system — a laboratory where future talents are discovered and nurtured. It sets the gold standard for the training of emerging soloists, chamber, and orchestral musicians, singers, and conductors. Each summer, audiences witness these musicians in action at more than 100 masterclasses, rehearsals, and performances. The Verbier Festival

Orchestra has become a rite of passage for today’s exceptional young orchestral musicians and the Academy’s programmes for soloists, chamber musicians, and singers include an impressive list of alumni from over 60 countries who have been engaged by the world’s leading concert presenters since their time in Verbier.

Management

Martin T:son Engstroem – FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Câline Yamakawa – CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Stephen McHolm – DIRECTOR, ACADEMY & UNLIMITED

Manuel Lopez – MANAGER, ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION & PRODUCTION

Samuel Goldscheider – ORCHESTRAS MANAGER

John Helyar – ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR, ORCHESTRAS & EMERGING TALENT

Juliette Ruffier – ORCHESTRAS LIBRARIAN