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1994
Creation of the Verbier Festival and Verbier Festival Academy by Martin T :son Engstroem. Creation of the Friends’ association by Yves Paternot.
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1999
The first Fest’Off presents around 50 free concerts on the fringe of the Verbier Festival.
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2000
Creation of the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra with James Levine as Music Director.
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2003
The Verbier Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary and presents a spectacular birthday concert featuring eight pianos on stage.
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2003
The Verbier Festival presents for the first time an entire opera in concert and triumphs with Strauss’s Elektra.
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2005
Creation of the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.
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2005
The Verbier Festival starts presenting the 8pm evening concerts at the Verbier Church.
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2006
The first Amateur Chamber Music Week takes place.
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2006
The Verbier Festival Discovery – a new education initiative for adults and children – is launched.
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2006
The UBS VFCO and Maxim Vengerov tour the USA and Europe and record Mozart’s Violin Concertos.
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2007
Gábor Takács-Nagy becomes Music Director of the UBS VFCO.
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2007
medici.tv starts live streaming from the Verbier Festival.
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2009
Charles Dutoit becomes Music Director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra.
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2010
The Verbier Festival inaugurates the Salle des Combins, its new venue for the 7pm concerts.
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2011
The revives its tradition of presenting dance performances and welcomes the Béjart Ballet Lausanne for Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
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2013
Creation of the Verbier Festival Music Camp
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2013
The Verbier Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary!
The Verbier Festival honoured at Carnegie Hall
Childrens’ choir for Mahler's Third Symphony: Singers wanted
The Verbier Festival in images
The Friends of the Verbier Festival
