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Season’s Greetings from VF at Home. Just in time for the holidays, our Academy Director, Stephen McHolm, has curated a special playlist to accompany your cookie baking, gift wrapping and nog and grog guggling! Enjoy these familiar winter classics, performed here by Sheku-Kanneh Mason, Renaud Capuçon, Alexander Ullman, Claire Huangci, Alexandra Dariescu and Alexandra Conunova—all alumni of the Verbier Festival Academy.
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Social distancing measures couldn’t stop the Verbier Festival’s commitment to connect artists and audiences during the unprecedented challenges we all faced in 2020. As music-lovers around the world stayed at home to work, self-isolated and looked after their families, VF at Home aimed to bring comfort, solidarity and some relief in trying times. Here are three of our favourite VF at Home posts from the past year.
While meeting his audience at the Verbier Festival 1999, Peter Ustinov reminisced with long-time Festival collaborator, Michèle Larivière. An offbeat and humorous conversation in which Sir Peter shares personal stories from his many artistic lives.
Conversation in French
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili speaks to Samuel Shepherd, cellist of the Amatis Trio (Academy alumnus 2018) about her art, her passions and her life in Part II of this ‘Zoom-in’ interview.
Conversation in English
Trio Sōra (2018 Academy alumnus) performs all of Beethoven’s six piano trios on their first album, Beethov3n, which was released on Naïve Records, just last week. During their visit to Verbier this summer, during which they performed as part of the Festival’s ‘Concerts Live’ series, pianist Pauline Chenais, violinist Clémence de Forceville, and cellist Angèle Legasa took time out to record an episode for VF at Home’s Verbier Generation Stories. Charles Sigel captured ‘the singing bird’ (sōra, from an Amerindian language) in this conversation under the sunny skies of our favourite mountain town.
Conversation in french
Enter ‘Ludwig’s World’ and discover the bubbling universe of Beethoven, accompanied by Three Little Pigs to guide you on your adventure!
Ludwig’s World is part of the VF Kids Storytellers project, which invites children to awaken a curiosity for art and culture through music. Through a story set to music, kids aged 4 to 10 discover music through a story set to music in a series of creative workshops offered by the Festival’s education team, which consists of an actor, an illustrator-animator and alumni musicians of the Verbier Festival Academy.
This year, more than a thousand elementary school children in Valais, Vaud and Neuchâtel will discover the story of The Three Little Pigs set to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, in an arrangement for string quartet. The project, developed in consultation with primary school teachers, offers a full pedagogical experience, including artistic workshops in the classroom and via the Internet.
It is within this framework that we created Ludwig’s World with Storytellers collaborator and illustrator, Marc Philippin. Kids and kids at heart are invited to plunge into the world of Beethoven through this online interactive journey to discover the composer’s life, his work, and the instruments of the orchestra. This educational platform was first offered to teachers and students of schools where the Storytellers project is underway.
Content in French
Partner of the Verbier Festival since 2007, medici.tv offers a vast catalogue of exceptional concerts recorded in Verbier. A rich library containing musical treasures and memorable moments from the history of the Festival. Starting today, this collection is accessible directly from our VF at Home platform at verbierfestival.com.
Over the coming months, medici.tv’s entire public collection of Verbier Festival concerts will be made available via VF at Home. Each time a segment is added, our visitors will be offered a limited time access to view one concert of the collection for free. All concerts are available for viewing in their entirety for medici.tv subscribers.
For the release of our 2007 and 2008 concerts, VF at Home invites you to enjoy a performance by Quatuor Ébène, recorded at the Église de Verbier on 1 August 2008.
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