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Students

Academy & Orchestras 2024

Two hundred and eight musicians from 37 countries have been invited to take part in the Verbier Festival Academy & Orchestra programmes in 2024. One hundred thirty-four join the Verbier Generation for the first time.


soloists & ensembles

Piano

Nour Ayadi Morocco
Ekaterina Bonyushkina Russian Federation
Misi Boros Hungary
Xiaofu Ju China
Yuanhan (Victor) Lu China
Maya Oganyan Russian Federation
Xinran Shi United States  Junior Student

 

Violin

Amira Abouzahra Egypt / Germany / Hungary
Mariam Abouzahra Egypt / Germany / Hungary  Junior Student
SongHa South Korea / United Kingdom / Germany
Nikita Evgeny Koller Switzerland / United Kingdom  Junior Student
Katya Moeller United States / Russian Federation
Jake Dongyoung Shim South Korea / United States
Paloma So Canada / Hong Kong
Alexey Stychkin Greece / Russian Federation
Alexandra Weissbecker Germany

 

Viola

Héloïse Houzé France
Ami-Louise Johnsson Sweden
Laura Liu United States
Ayano Nakamura United States / Japan
Dillon Scott United States

 

Cello

João Pedro Gonçalves Portugal
Constantin Heise Germany
LiLa China
Samuel Niederhauser Switzerland
Jan Sekaci Romania
Arne Jesper Zeller Germany

 

Ensemble-in-residence

Trio Chagall
Lorenzo Nguyen Italy  piano
Edoardo Grieco Italy  violin
Francesco Massimino Italy cello


 

atelier lyrique

Soprano

Daria Brusova Russian Federation
Luna Seongeun Park South Korea
Felicitas Wrede Germany

 

Mezzo-soprano

Sofia Anisimova Ukraine
Valerie Eickhoff Germany
Chelsea Laggan United States

 

Tenor

Adam Catangui United States
Wu Fei China
Dafydd Jones Wales / United Kingdom

Baritone

Minki Hong South Korea
Redmond Sanders United Kingdom
Lewei Wang China

 

Bass

Mark Kurmanbayev Kazakhstan / Serbia


creative project development residency

Helena Ricci Switzerland harp


 

audio recording programme


 

verbier festival orchestra (vfo)

Violin 

Satoka Abo United States
In Ae Lee South Korea
Inhae Cho South Korea
Sungmin Cho South Korea
Gabriel Dodin France
Qianru Elaine He China
Gabriel Fedak United States / Canada
Esther Frey Germany
Danielle Greene Canada
Yuichiro Haruno Japan
Kingston Ho United States
Abigail Hong United States
Edwin Jacot Swistzerland
Yubin Kim South Korea
Arthur Legros France
Louis Manel France
Veronika Manchur Canada
Matteo Morbidelli Italy
Floriane Naboulet France
Meiko Nakahira Japan
Naoko Nakajima United States
Aï Nakano Japan
Angela Ryu Canada
Polina Senatulova Russia
Ariel Seung Hyun Lee South Korea
Caroline Smoak United States
Salma Sorour Egypt
Hubert Touzery France
Arthur Traelnes Switzerland
Juchao Zhao China

 

Viola

Rebecca Christainsen United States
Peter Dudek United States
Lucas Gomes de Freitas Brazil
Yong Ha Jung South Korea
Patrick Hayes United States
Maria Inês Monteiro Portugal
Iker Isasi Spain
Alisa Klebanov Canada
Cheuk Lam Ma Hong Kong
Pin-Hao Liao Taiwan
Alice Sinacori Belgium
Paul Wiener France

 

Cello

Jonathan Gerstner Switzerland
Maximus Gurath United States
Eugene Kim South Korea
Sunghyun Lee South Korea
Yong-Jun Lee South Korea / United Kingdom
Sebastian Mendoza Colombia
Clara Schlotz Switzerland
Sebastian Stoger United States
Emile Traelnes Switzerland
Alba Urbano Spain

 

Double Bass

Taylor Abbitt United States
Chingju Chloe Yu Taiwan
Ruth Christopher United States
Harrison Dearman United States
Kyunghwan Kenneth Lee South Korea / United States
Chantel Leung Canada
Hector Ponce United States
Ryan Sujdak United States

Flute 

Federico Altare Italy
Yeoshin Jang South Korea
Florence Laurain France / Canada
Héléna Macherel Switzerland

 

Oboe

Alexander Mayer United States / Canada
Diogo Pinheiro Portugal
Timothy Swanson United States
Katerine Waller Australia

 

Clarinet

Mathias Landeau France
Panagiotis Marios Giannakas Greece
Alice McDonald United States
Szymon Emil Parulski Poland

 

Bassoon

Corinne Crowley United States
Simon Demangeat France
Minju Kim South Korea
Asha Kline United States

 

Horn

William Hugo Bliss United States
Jan Breer Germany
Johannes Gerl Austria
Simon Kandel France
Nicolas Marguet France
Karin Van Rens Netherlands

 

Trumpet

Lénard Heugen Switzerland
Adrià Ortega Ribera Spain
Gergő Attila Turai Hungary
Eugenio Valle Italy

 

Trombone

Botond Drahos Hungarian
Ricard Ortega Ribera Spain
Ethan Shrier United States

 

Basse Trombone

Juan Paul Muñoz Spain

 

Tuba

Joshua Williams United States

 

Percussion

Alejandro Martínez Garduño Mexico
Matteo Sausse France
Mariia Shmeleva
Russia
Leo Simon United States
Alexandre Turco France

 

Harp

Hyejin Kim South Korea
Eloïse Fares France
Johanna Dorothea Görißen Germany


 

verbier festival junior orchestra (vfjo)

Violin

Aiden Chantemsin United States
Yun-Han Chen
Taiwan
Joshua Cisnero United States / Japan
Mafalda Craveiro Portugal
Joan Esteve Melero Spain
Lucie Français France
Kai Freeman Japan / United States
Philippe Jayer Norway
Beatriz Li Rosão Portugal
Yingai Liu China
Emilie Moreau France
Layla Si-eun Park South Korea
Elizabeth Shepherd United Kingdom
Kaito Stohr United States / Japan
Sarah Son
South Korea / United States
Sufiya Ainan Taufik Malaysia
Elizabeth Terentieva Russia
Adrián Teslya Spain
Xinran Tong United States
Mathilde Walter Switzerland
Antonina Zgółka Poland

 

Viola

Lucas Garcia Conrad Malta
Jemimah Davies United Kingdom
Evelyn Freeman United Kingdom
Kai Gatica-Petree Switzerland
Hugo Martínez
Spain
Irati Gañan Rodriguez Spain

 

Cello

Benedek Balog Hungary
Lorian Castioni Switzerland
Owen Sørbye Davis Norway
Leonor De Andrés Switzerland
Bertorelli Elissa Switzerland
Ioannis Papagiannopoulos Greece

 

Double Bass

Tilde Gardemar Sweden
Paul Gregoire France
Sarah Leblanc Larosa France
Gaël Rabbe France

Flute

Julin Cheung United States
Melody Shen United States

 

Oboe

Junxi Hu United States
Ho Long Lee Hong Kong

 

Clarinet

Borbála Ágnes Horváth Hungary
Jino Pieviläinen Finland

 

Bassoon

Levente Bubreg Austria
Miglena Vassileva Bulgaria / Lithuania

 

Horn

Gino Cenedese France
Alba Castellanos Spain
Rivero Guerrero Cleofás Spain
Alberto Martínez Mangas Spain

 

Trumpet

Toby Mar Canada
Fanny Angèle Marchand
Switzerland

 

Trombone

Francesco Maffei Italy
Massimiliano Nese Italy
Adrian Rioja Santos Spain

 

Tuba

Gaspard Dufort France

 

Percussion

Samuel Gogniat Switzerland
Esther Lecoustey
France


 

conducting