Verbier Festival

Verbier Festival
GenreClassical music
DatesJuly/August
Location(s)Verbier, Switzerland
Years active1994–present
Websiteverbierfestival.com
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The Verbier Festival is a two week annual international music festival which is held in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier southeast of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Begun by Swedish expatriate Martin T:son Engström [fr] in 1994, it has attracted international soloists such as Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Lera Auerbach, Emanuel Ax, Sergei Babayan, Khatia Buniatishvili, Seong-Jin Cho (2018),[1] Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Evgeny Kissin, Magdalena Kožená, Lang Lang, Mischa Maisky, Mikhail Pletnev, Lawrence Power, Thomas Quasthoff, Julian Rachlin, Andrea Rost, Anoushka Shankar, András Schiff, Nathalie Stutzmann,Bryn Terfel, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, Julian Lloyd Webber, Gautier Capuçon, and Renaud Capuçon.

The Verbier Festival nurtures young musicians with its academy and three orchestras: the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (formerly known as the Verbier Festival Music Camp Orchestra).

Activities of the Fest'Off, including jazz concerts and special walks in the environs of Verbier, are available to the public for free during the 17 days of the festival.

References

  1. ^ "Seong-Jin Cho at the Verbier Festival: Debussy, Schumann, Chopin", mezzo.tv, 23 July 2018

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