Students

Academy & Orchestra Training 2026
Two hundred and twenty-seven musicians from 43 countries have been invited to take part in the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestra Training programmes in 2026. One hundred and thirty-four of them join the Verbier Generation for the first time.

Students selected for the Verbier Festival 2026 masterclasses in Shenzhen are presented separately at the bottom of the page.


 

soloists & ensembles

Piano

Hoi Leong (Zach) Cheong Hong Kong / Macau / Portugal
Lucas Chiche Switzerland Junior Student
Katherine Hibbs Switzerland Artist of Promise
Roman Fediurko Ukraine
Zhexiang Li China
Laura Mota Pello Spain
Yoav Roth Israel
Mikołaj Woźniak Poland

 

Violin

Mariam Abouzahra Egypt / Germany / Hungary
Anais Feller United States
YiWei Gu China
Wenlan Jackson United States
Hyun Seo Kim South Korea
Sergei Mkrtichian Russian Federation
Christina Nam United States
Jeremias Pestalozzi Switzerland

 

Viola

Héloïse Houzé France
Nicolas Perkins United States
Stephen Savage United States
Yanan Wang China
Alessandra Yang United States
Semin Yim South Korea

Cello

Fabian Broman Crawford-Phillips Sweden Junior Student
Lyam Chenaux Switzerland
Jisoo Kim South Korea
Alessandro Sacchetti Italy
Paolo Tedesco Italy
Benett Tsai Australia
Carlos Vidal Spain

 

Ensembles

Fibonacci Quartet
Kryštof Kohout Czechia violin
Luna De Mol Belgium violin
Elliot Kempton United Kingdom viola
Findlay Spence United Kingdom cello

inn.wien ensemble
Emil Geber Austria violin
Rahel Neyer Austria violin
Marlene Penninger Austria violin
Xenia Rubin Austria violin
Theresa Singer Austria violin
Sophie Trobos Austria violin
Marinus Kreidt Germany viola
Fridolin Schöbi Germany viola
Joe Pritchard United Kingdom cello
Rahel Rupprechter Germany cello
Benjamin Lampert Austria double bass


 

 

atelier lyrique

Soprano

Ana Oniani Georgia
Estere Katrīna Pogiņa Latvia
Josephine Shaw United Kingdom
Fanny Soyer France
Arina Verevkina Russian Federation
Seonwoo Lee South Korea
Emily Rocha Canada / Switzerland
Eden Shifroni Australia

 

Mezzo-soprano

Marie-Juliette Ghazarian France

Tenor

Sebastian Hill United Kingdom
Michael McDermott United States

 

Baritone

Yu He China
David Roy Poland
Redmond Sanders United Kingdom

 

Bass

Jasurbek Khaydarov Uzbekistan


 

creative project development residency

Sofía Ros Spain accordion


 

 

audio recording programme


 

verbier festival orchestra (vfo)

Violin

Capucine de Bellefroid France
Jiachen Cao China
Hyunseo Cho South Korea
Lucrezia Costanzo Italy
Marta Dettlaff Poland
Julia Dueñas Spain
Caroline Durham United States
Yanxiong Huang China
William Kinney United States
Eunseo Lee South Korea
Joohye Lee South Korea
Rubi Lee United States
Arthur Legros France
Aijia Li China
Matteo Morbidelli Italy
Emilie Moreau France
Dexter Mott United States
Anja Ovaskainen Serbia
Ina Park Germany
Samuele Parrini United States
Marija Radovanovic Serbia
Gabriel Rostagni France
Chaeeun Ryu South Korea
Polina Senatulova Russian Federation
Caroline Smoak United States
Jessie Sun Canada
Moshi Tang United States
Joshua Tavenier Netherlands
Yuhan Tian China
Po-Heng Wang Taiwan

 

Viola

Alexander Beggs Canada
Nicolás Bernal-Montaña Colombia
Jutta Demuynck Belgium
Riko Eto Japan
Jamie Howe United Kingdom
Mack Jones United States
Oleksandra Kanke Ukraine
Sanford Whatley United States
Moeko Kikuta Japan
Hoyoon Kim South Korea
Daniel Simmons United States
Chengzhan Wu China

 

Cello

Derek Bondet de la Bernardie France
Minjae Kim South Korea
Ania Lewis United States
Nicco Mazziotto United States
Eric Schindler United States
Clara Schlotz Switzerland
Sebastian Stoger United States
Austin Topper United States / Poland
Emile Traelnes Switzerland
Fiona Tsang United States

 

Double Bass

Riccardo Baiocco Italy
Mika Ben Aharon Israel / Germany
Nicola Carrara Italy
Ruth Christopher United States
James Perera United States
Margarita Rybkina Russian Federation
Gabriel Rodriguez Venezuela
Oliver Spalter New Zealand

Flute

Mathilde Alvin Besson France
Julin Cheung United States
Goeun Kwon South Korea
Nikolai Song South Korea

 

Oboe

Pietro Bodini Italy
Pedro Pais Capelão Portugal
Salome Harth Germany
Evan Yonce United States

 

Clarinet

Beatrice Aragona Italy
Mathias Landeau France
Alberto Sánchez García Spain
Yebin Seo South Korea

 

Bassoon

Joana Barbosa Portugal
Simon Demangeat France
Michael Quigley Canada
Pedro Silva Portugal

 

Horn

Helene Fleuter Germany
Ruben Hudnik Slovenia
Simon Kandel France
Yi-An Liao Taiwan
Claudio Minervini Italy
Pau Riedweg Canturri Spain

 

Trumpet

Amelia Kowalewska Poland
Franz Maury France
João Pedro Moreira Fernandes Portugal
Guillermo Serrano Marchena Spain

 

Trombone

Kean Adair United States
Francesco Maffei Italy
Diogo Mendes Portugal
Tomer Schwartz Austria / Israel

 

Tuba

Itamar Elis Israel

 

Percussion

William Chinn United States
Henrique Miguel Sousa Ramos Portugal
Mariia Shmeleva Russian Federation
Marco Santos Portugal
Léo Simon United States

 

Harp

Ekaterina Dvoretskaia Russian Federation
Séphora Foucher De La Fuente France
Berfin Saysel Turkey


 

verbier festival junior orchestra (vfjo)

Violin

Leonard Behrend United Kingdom
Flavio Casazza Switzerland
Jeremy Cha United States
Aiden Chantemsin United States
Youngwoo Choi South Korea
Gabriel Dweik Canada
Emmy Gu Germany
Andrei Ivascu Spain
Chanhee Jin South Korea
Glenn Krause United States
Mathis Lesueur Switzerland
Yixuan Li United States
Yingai Liu China
Quan Nguyen United States
Lorelei Schoenhard United States
Kah Yan Sha Malaysia
Sofia Știuca Moldova
Anaïs Tissus France
Saki Tokunaga Japan
Santiago Vinaccia Italy

 

Viola

Irene Caldas Sánchez Spain
Evelyn Freeman United Kingdom
Lucas Garcia Conrad Malta
Irati Gañan Rodriguez Spain
Tanav Gowda United States
Marco Llavero Don Spain
Ignacio Serrano Spain
Miha Zupan Slovenia

 

Cello

Leonor De Andrés Switzerland
Pauline Français France
Fredrik Heistø Carlsen Norway
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason United Kingdom
Raphael Ott Switzerland
Mizuki Sideri Greece

 

Double Bass

Grace Campling United States
Mauro Castillo Conti Spain
María Nela García Lorente Spain
Anna Komala Poland

Flute

Carl Idris Fowler France
Katja Jazbinšek Slovenia

 

Oboe

Eric Davidson Canada
Irene Lee South Korea / United States

 

Clarinet

Baptiste Amet France
Jazmin Szurcsik Norway

 

Bassoon

Serhan Bereketlioğlu Turkey
Anaïs Williner Switzerland

 

Horn

Lila Gattet France
Éloïse Hostiou France
Salvador José Domingo Spain
Robin Stewart France

 

Trumpet

Benjamin Mitchell United States
Romane Vuilleumier Switzerland

 

Trombone

Louis Hennon France
Marcel Muñoz Salvador
Spain
Massimiliano Nese Italy

 

Tuba

Samuel Serra Chouza Spain

 

Percussion

Miguel Coelho Portugal
Sungah Hannah Lim South Korea
Xiang Ni China
Elias Stoffel Switzerland


 

conducting mentorship


students by masterclass

Timothy Ridout – viola

31 January 2026

Chengzhan Wu China, 20 years old
Xinran Lai China, 18 years old

 

Marc Bouchkov – violin

1 February 2026

Fiona Zhonghan Chen China, 22 years old
Carine Suparman Australia, 14 years old

 

Gautier Capuçon – cello

2 February 2026

Haozheng Niu China, 14 years old
Tingyu Xie China, 15 years old

 

Gábor Takács-Nagy – Beethoven Sonatas

4 February 2026

Julia-Xiaozhuo Wang China, 18 years old — violin
Kunba Yate China, 16 years old — cello

Mischa Maisky – cello

5 February 2026

Huiying Cao China, 22 years old
Lu Chen China, 15 years old

 

Janine Jansen – violin

7 February 2026

Haewon Lim South Korea, 22 years old
Xiaowen Zhang China, 15 years old

 

Minsoo Sohn – piano

8 February 2026

Qifan Jiang China, 19 years old
Yeseo Nam South Korea, 15 years old