Students

Academy & Orchestras 2023

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


 

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