223 musicians from 40 countries have been invited to take part in the Verbier Festival Academy & Orchestra programmes in 2023. One hundred forty-three join the Verbier Generation for the first time.
soloists & ensembles
Piano
Jonas Aumiller Germany
Roman Borisov Russian Federation
Justus Friedrich Eichhorn Germany Junior Student
Henry From Canada / United States
Ethan Loch United Kingdom
Mikkel Myer Lee Singapore Junior Student of Promise
Kiron Atom Tellian Austria
Elizaveta Ukrainskaia Russian Federation
Tony Yike Yang Canada
Vsevolod Zavidov Russian Federation
Violin
Hans Christian Aavik Estonia
Ayaan Ahmad United States
Joshua Brown United States
Hana Chang Japan / Singapore / United States
Gabrielle Després Canada / United States
Ilva Vera Eigus Latvia / Switzerland Junior Student
Mira Foron Germany / Italy
Oliver Neubauer United States
Claire Wells United States
Viola
Isabella Bignasca Australia
Soyoung Cho South Korea
Brian Isaacs United States
Sumin Kim South Korea
Katie Liu United States
Matthew McDowell United States
Weiyi Zeng China
Jaren Ziegler United Kingdom
Cello
Luka Coetzee Canada
Clara Yuna Friedensburg Germany / South Korea Junior Student
Maxime Grizard France / Germany
Anouchka Hack Germany
Jaemin Han South Korea
Deokyong (Claire) Kim South Korea
Petar Pejčić Serbia
Benett Tsai Australia
Alejandro Viana Spain
Ensembles
Kandinsky Quartet
_Hannah Kandinsky Austria violin
_Evgenii Artemenkov Russian Federation violin
_Ignazio Alayza Italy viola
_Antonio Gervilla Spain cello
Trio Incendio
_Karolína Františová Czechia piano
_Filip Zaykov Czechia violin
_Vilém Petras Czechia cello
atelier lyrique
Soprano
Ava Dodd Ireland
Sarah Fleiss United States
Henna Mun South Korea
Erin O’Rourke United States
Mezzo-soprano
Siân Griffiths United Kingdom
Hyejun Melania Kwon South Korea
Tenor
Samuel Harris United Kingdom
Christopher Willoughby United Kingdom
Baritone
Henry Griffin United States
Felix Gygli Switzerland
Sam Hird United Kingdom
Bass-Baritone
William Socolof United States
Bass
Vartan Gabrielian Canada
creative project development residency
Yasaman Mashhouri Iran recorder
Maxine Troglauer Germany bass trombone
audio recording programme
Marta Hinderer Poland
Rebekka Homburg Germany
Jeremias Thiele Germany
verbier festival orchestra (vfo)
Violin
Satoka Abo United States
Victor Andrey France
Mark Chien United States
Anastasia Dziadevych Ukraine
Willa Finck United States
Marthe Gillardot France
Yuichiro Haruno Japan
Qianru Elaine He China
Kingston Ho United States
Yan Lok Hoi Macau
Abigail Hong United States
Yubin Kim South Korea
Ayano Kimura Japan
Ariel Seung Hyun Lee South Korea
In Ae Lee South Korea
Idunn Lohne Norway
Louis Manel France
Bianca Montobbio Switzerland / Italy
Floriane Naboulet France
Naoko Nakajima United States
Sam Panner United States
Mariana Pineda Venezuela
Nathan Stiefel Switzerland
Hubert Touzery France
Arthur Traelnes Switzerland
Emily Turkanik France
Juchao Zhao China
Esther Hermann Germany
Meiko Nakahira Japan
Viola
Peter Dudek United States
Anastasiia Gerasina Ukraine
Lucas Gomes de Freitas Brazil
Patrick Hayes United States
Yong Ha Jung South Korea
Iker Isasi Spain
Jong-Ha Jung South Korea
Pin-Hao Liao Taiwan
Cheuk Lam Ma Hong Kong
Samuel Matzner United States
Maria Inês Monteiro Portugal
Lynn Sue-A-Quan Canada
Paul Wiener France
Cello
Roric Cunningham United States
Drew Dansby United States
Lukas Goodman United States
Eugene Kim South Korea
Sunghyun Lee South Korea
Ian Lum Malaysia
Sebastian Mendoza Colombia
Haruka Mutaguchi Japan
Axelle Richez Switzerland
Alba Urbano Spain
Double Bass
Taylor Abbitt United States
Harrison Dearman United States
Adrian Eriksson Sweden
Chantel Leung Canada
Lindsey Orcutt United States
Davis Pierson United States
Hector Ponce United States
Ryan Sujdak United States
Flute
Martha Chan Hong Kong
Marta Gómez Alonso Spain
Florence Laurain France/Canada
Héléna Macherel Switzerland
Oboe
Alexander Mayer United States / Canada
Diogo Pinheiro Portugal
Sofía Zamora Meseguer Spain
Kip Zimmerman United States
Clarinet
Andrea Caputo Italy
Kamalia Freyling United States
Emile Souvagie Belgium
Ryan Toher United States
Bassoon
Juliette Bourette France
Corinne Crowley United States
Julianne Mulvey United States
Jules Postel France
Horn
Spencer Bay United States
William Hugo Bliss United States
Stefano Cardiello Italy
Cécile Muhlmeyer France
Nicolas Marguet France
Trumpet
Florian Baccuet France
Pierre Evano France
Lénard Heugen Switzerland
Gergő Attila Turai Hungary
Trombone
Andrey Andresiuk Russian Federation
Ricard Ortega Ribera Spain
Ethan Shrier United States
Bass trombone
Juan Paúl Muñoz Spain
Tuba
Joshua Williams United States
Percussion
Luca Esposito United States/Italy
Andreu Ferrandis Miguel Spain
Alejandro Martínez Garduño Mexico
Robin Mittner Switzerland
Alexandre Turco France
Harp
Emmanuel Brun Switzerland
Eloïse Fares France
Juliette Redouté France
verbier festival junior orchestra (vfjo)
Violin
Uroš Adamović Serbia
Else Baas Netherlands
Ioana Bunea Romania
Yi-Tien Chen Taiwan
Victoria Dorin Moldova
Eva-Maria Dumitru Romania
Sofia Florenciano Voicu Spain
Lucie Français France
Kai Freeman Japan / United States
Andreas Alexander Martinsen Norway
Lisa Maslenko France
Matteo Morbidelli Italy
Emilie Moreau France
Shiraz Natanzon Israel
Cecilia Novella Genovés Spain
Miranda Rodríguez Spain / Venezuela
Elizabeth Shepherd United Kingdom
Iris Sung United States
Mathilde Walter Switzerland
Andraž Zorko Slovenia
Viola
Juan Miguel Bernal Pino Colombia
Christopher Broyles United States
Nina Dawallu Germany / United States
Jutta Demuynck Belgium
Arcan Isenkul Turkey
Davin Mar Canada
Marta Muñoz Spain
Irene Villalba Spain
Cello
Elissa Bertorelli Switzerland
Louis Fernandez Lambert Switzerland / Spain
Jiayi Lu United States
Piotr Olesz Poland
Ioannis Papagiannopoulos Greece
Daniel Pozas Spain
Clara Schlotz Switzerland
Double Bass
Pedro Aparício Portugal
Paul Grégoire France
Colin Kang China / United Kingdom
Nil Moreno Spain
Flute
Ilinca-Teofana Chiriță-Barbu Romania
Cosmas Anapliotis Germany
Oboe
Carlo Cesaraccio Italy
Nathaniel Heine Germany
Clarinet
Jan Bostl Czechia
Noah Jung United States
Bassoon
Lorenzo Drago Italy
Kerem Erşahin Turkey
Horn
Xavier Antolin López Spain
Jordan Petan United States
Cleofás Rivero Guerrero Spain
Pedro Sapena Spain
Trumpet
Mattéo Galindez France
Joshua Kucharski United States
Trombone
Beatriz Fernández Alfonso Spain
Francesco Maffei Italy
Adrian Rioja Santos Spain
Tuba
Matija Jerman Slovenia
Percussion
Colin Fellay Switzerland
Samuel Gogniat Switzerland / France / Germany
Florentin Klingelschmitt France
Esther Lecoustey France
conducting
Jaehyuck Choi South Korea
Gerald Karni France
Rotem Nir Israel
Samy Rachid France
Oleksandr Yankevych Ukraine