Board & Faculty

The Advisory Board

The Advisory Board of the Verbier Festival Academy meets twice a year. Its purpose is to support the Academy’s long-term vision, to develop working partnerships and to come up with new ideas.

Its members are:

Bob Boas
Karl Dannenbaum
Martin T:son Engstroem
Bernhard Hahnloser
Frans Helmerson
James Peterson
Costa Pilavachi
Doreen Tabor
Christian Thompson

The Faculty

The Verbier Academy in its quest of excellence has over the years managed to develop long term collaborations with some of the greatest music professors of today:

Piano
Dmitri Bashkirov
Claude Frank
Stephen Kovacevich
Menahem Pressler

Violin
Zakhar Bron
Ana Chumachenco
Pamela Frank
Boris Kuschnir

Viola
Kim Kashkashian
Nobuko Imai
Lars Anders Tomter

Cello
Lynn Harrrell
Frans Helmerson
Torleif Thedéen

Chamber Music
Alfred Brendel
David Dolan
Lawrence Power
Gábor Takács-Nagy

Voice
Barbara Bonney
Tim Carroll
Claudio Desderi
Thomas Quasthoff
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa