How to Get Here
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Venues & Accessibility
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Where to Stay
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Eat and drink
Explore a selection of places to eat or drink during your visit to Verbier.
Flex pack
20% discount starting 7 concerts purchased from the Mainstage programme (excluding Carré Or).
Gift cards
Share your passion for classical music by offering a Verbier Festival gift card (valid until the end of the current edition, i.e. August 3, 2025).
Bagnard
40% discount for permanent residents of Commune de Val de Bagnes (excluding Carré Or and cat. C)
RailAway
The Verbier Festival, in partnership with RailAway, offers you 30 % off your train tickets to Verbier.
Under 35
For adults under 35 years old, for all Mainstage concerts excluding VFJO, Academy, and afternoon church concerts (excluding Carré Or).
Students
For students with student identity card available on all Mainstage concerts (excluding Carré Or, open seating concerts, and VFJO and Academy concerts).
Children
For children under 16 on all Mainstage concerts (excluding Carré Or and Academy concerts).
Combins pass
Attend all evening concerts at Salle des Combins (Carré Or) from the 17th of July 2025 to the 3rd of August 2025. Contact the Ticket Office to buy your Pass.
Ravel 150
Includes Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s two concerts on July 17 2025.
Soloists & Ensembles
The Academy searches the world for the most promising pianists, violinists, violists, cellists and chamber music ensembles of trios and quartets.
Atelier Lyrique
The Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique stands out among professional training programmes by offering a unique blend of opera role and song repertoire studies.
Creative Project Development
The Creative Project Development Residency offers an opportunity to an imaginative and entrepreneurial young artist to develop and workshop an original project.
Audio Recording
The Academy’s Audio Recording Programme offers a unique opportunity to up to three emerging sound engineers to work alongside a professional recording team.
VFJO
The Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (VFJO) is an international orchestral training programme for young musicians aged 15 to 18.
VFO
The Verbier Festival Orchestra (VFO) is a rite of passage for today’s exceptional young orchestra musicians.
Conducting
The Verbier Festival Conducting Programme offers a stepping stone to emerging artists who are on the verge of leading orchestras at the highest level.
VFCO
The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra is the Verbier Festival’s worldwide Ambassador.
UNLTD Summer 2025
Le Cinéma
Six bold concerts at Cinéma de Verbier — genre-blurring nights, headline artists, unexpected encounters.
La Chapelle
A candlelit sanctuary for sound. Four intimate concerts—meditative journeys, bold detours, and resonant music.
South
The Festival’s late shift lives here. Four concerts where genres clash, stories unfold, and music dares to go further.
ideaLab
Where music meets ideas. IdeaLab blends concerts and conversation to explore the ‘why’ behind the music.
KiDs Summer 2025
Concerts, creative workshops, musical fun in the open air, and a one-of-a-kind storytelling camp—VF KiDS offers magical moments for children of all ages throughout the Verbier Festival.
Storytellers in the Classroom
The Storytellers project offers valuable educational enrichment in primary schools across the canton of Valais.
Music Discovery
Each summer, VF KiDS offers fun and interactive workshops for young children at the Verbier Festival.
Zoo
Dive into a world of imagination through the eyes of VF KiDS.
Ludwig's world
Interactive exhibition for all ages.
Verbier Festival Gold
Gems from the Festival archives.
VF Collection
An ambitious heritage project that extends our artistic mission beyond the summer season
Apple Music Classical
The Verbier Festival is pleased to announce its partnership with Apple Music Classical.
Jukebox
An immersive audiovisual space for archival treasures.
Broadcast and streaming
The Verbier Festival lets music-lovers worldwide enjoy concerts live or on replay.
The Friends
Music-loving donors supporting the Verbier Festival.
Sponsorship
A partnership built for success.
Patronage
Gifts to the Verbier Festival Foundation.
Legacy Giving
Help us build a sustainable future.
Founder & Director
En 1991, Martin Engstroem put the wheels in motion for what in 1994 would become the Verbier Festival & Academy.
Contact
Our telephone numbers, email and postal addresses, office hours and directory of personnel.

Jialin Yao studies with Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2021, he graduated from the China Conservatory of Music where he studied with Hong Fu. Since 2020, he has also been under the guidance of Ruoyu Huang. Jialin has performed with orchestras across China, including Orchestra academia China and the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra. Jialin has been a prizewinner at several competitions, including the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition, the China International Music Competition, the Steinway Competition in China, and the Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition among others. In 2018, KNS Classical released his first album, Campanella.

Canadian pianist Tong Wang explores a variety of genres and mediums to bring creative initiatives to the community. As a soloist, Tong has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Red Deer Symphony Orchestra. She has won awards including the International Chopin Golden Ring Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of Performing Arts. Among her projects are the interactive performance tours ‘Song of Praise’ and ‘Ghiblilane’, research on the aesthetic of ‘cuteness’ in music, and social entrepreneurship initiatives such as ‘Zenkora Studios’. Tong is a member of the UTAU2, Lincoln Center Stage, and the Global Leaders Cohort. She received BM and MM from the New England Conservatory and McGill University. Tong received grants from the Canada Council and FRQSC for the creation of a new operetta, ‘Labyrinth of Tears’.

Akilan Sankaran is a ninth grade student attending Albuquerque Academy. He has played piano for nearly ten years and has won several piano competitions and awards on both the state and national level. “I love the piano because it allows me to express the full scope of a whole orchestra using only 88 keys,” says Akilan. “There are so many different ways to play the piano— with authentic styles, tones, and textures—that allows each one of my performances to be unique.” In addition to piano, Akilan also plays percussion in his school jazz band. He also teaches a fusion of Indian and classical music to young musicians. Besides piano, he enjoys science, math contests, track and cross country, debating and writing for his school newspaper.

Misi Boros started playing piano at age 4. As a child, he won first prizes in all national and international piano competitions he entered. In 2013, he took part in Lang Lang’s first Junior Music Camp in Munich and, a year later, he was the First Prize winner of the Virtuosos Classical Music Talent Show television programme, which has enabled him to perform in more than 30 countries. Misi has performed in several European countries, including Switzerland (Tonhalle Zurich), the United States (Lincoln Center, New York), Brazil, Japan and China. He previously attended the Verbier Festival Academy in 2022, where he was awarded the Tabor Foundation Award for piano. He has released six solo albums: including his disc Inspiration on the Hungaroton label, which received praise from International Piano Magazine and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Misi is currently pursuing his university studies in at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Antti Siirala.

Giovanni Bertolazzi is currently studying with Epifanio Comis. In addition to winning Second Prize and five special awards at the 2021 Franz Liszt International Piano Competiton in Budpest, Giovanni has won more than 40 prizes in international piano competitions. These include First Prizes at the S. Weishaupt Piano Competition and the S. Thalberg Piano Competition, as well as Fourth Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition. In 2019, he also received the Alkan Award for Piano Virtuosity (Milan). Giovanni has performed at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Steinway Hall in London, among other prestigious venues. Highlights of his career so far include appearances with the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.

In 2013, Kevin Chen was listed in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Top 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.” He has won multiple international piano competitions, including the International Piano-e-Competition (2019), the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (2020), the Mozart International Piano Competition in Lugano, Switzerland (2020), and the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest, Hungary (2021) as both the youngest competitor and the youngest ever winner of the competition. Since his orchestral debut with the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra at the age of seven, Kevin has performed concerts with many symphonies in Canada, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, and the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, many of which featured Kevin’s own orchestral works. As well, he has performed with the Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra (Kazakhstan), the Minnesota Orchestra, the Hilton Head (South Carolina) Symphony Orchestra, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Yumeka Nakagawa is the 2021 Prix Clara Haskil recipient (Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil), as well as winner of the prestigious competition’s Audience Award and Children’s Corner Award. She was also the first prizewinner at the 2019 International Robert Schumann Competition (Düsseldorf) and second prizewinner at the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists (Weimar) in 2014.  After winning the federal Jugend Musiziert Competition in 2014, Yumeka was granted a scholarship by the Carl Bechstein Stiftung which led to invitations from numerous venues across Germany. Since 2019 she has appeared on the stages of the Wigmore Hall in London, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Rachmaninoff Hall at the Mariinsky Theater.  Yumeka currently pursues her bachelor’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Grigory Gruzman.

Atena Carte is a pianist born in Timisoara, Romania. She graduated from the University of Music in Timisoara, where she studied with Maria Bodo. Later on she obtained Concert and Soloist Diplomas studying with Jean-François Antonioli at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, and a Concert Diploma in Chamber Music with Ulrich Koella and Peter Solomon at the Zürcher University or Arts.
A Swiss Confederation scholarship holder, she received as well the Paderewski Society Prize. She attended masterclasses with Jaques-Saint Yves, François René Duchable, Axel Bauni. She also earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in cultural project management from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.

Since 2007, Carte has a pianist position at the Zürcher University of Arts and since 2018 she is a piano professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Lausanne. She is also the artistic director of the ACRISCO Festival (CrissierArts Switzerland).

Atena Carte performs regularly in concerts and has won 9 national and international awards. She appears in various festivals (St Prex Festival, Murten Classics, Musique et Montagne, Septembre musical Montreux, Piano à Saint-Ursanne ,Musique en Ecrins,France, Festival de Oravita, Roumanie, Carnegie Hall,New York, with ensemble Altaïr) and collaborates with prestigious orchestras such as Tonhalle Zürich, Opernhaus Zürich, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, Bern Symphonie Orchestra. As an orchestra and chamber music musician she collaborated with conductors like Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Jaap van Zweden, John Eliot Gardiner, David Reiland, and for contemporary music with John Adams, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, and Pierre-André Valade.

She has recorded several CDs, including works by Piazzola, Messiaen and Raphael.

Carte has been the Coordinator of the Verbier Festival’s piano class since 2o21.

Sébastien Jurczys is a music director, pianist, composer, arranger and stage director. In 2011, he created his first multidisciplinary show with symphony orchestra, choirs and soloists (including Natacha Kowalski). He has also created numerous musical projects at the Le Moderne theatre with director Sarah Cerri (Le Cabaret des Hommes Perdus, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Mattress). Jurczys has performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège in L’Orchestre à la portée des enfants and with Musiques Nouvelles (Jean-Paul Dessy) as a laureate of the Young Composers Forum 2013. In 2017, he wrote Bottez Le Chat, a musical tale with Didier Colfs, among others. Since 2018 to 2021, he has taught accompaniment at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège, from which he graduated in piano and music education.  He is also a graduate of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (composition). Currently, Mr Jurczys is preparing for Various Voices 2026 (the European LGBTQ+ choir festival) with the choir ‘Sing Out Brussels’.

Hervé Sellin was born in 1957 in Paris. He started playing trumpet, then trombone and did classical piano studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with Aldo Ciccolini. He obtained, in 1980, a double prize of piano and chamber music.

During the same period his father, great French trumpet player Pierre Sellin, introduced him into Jazz. So he started playing with great soloists such as Sonny Grey, Guy Lafitte, Gérard Badini, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Joe Newman, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Art Farmer, Barney Wilen, Clifford Jordan, James Moody, Chet Baker, Slide Hampton…

In 1984, he met Johnny Griffin and played in his European quartet for 15 years. Between 1986 to 1989 Hervé played with singer Dee Dee Bridgewater in many concerts and tours, and recorded with her the album Live in Paris.

In 1990 Sellin obtained the Django Reinhardt award from The French Jazz Academy for his activities as pianist, composer and arranger. In 1991 he met Branford Marsalis and recorded with him (Columbia/Sony Hervé Sellin Sextet featuring Branford Marsalis). From 1995 to 2000 Hervé toured with French drummer/composer Bertrand Renaudin playing on concerts and tours and recording three albums with him.

In 2001 Sellin recorded, live at the Bayonne Jazz Festival, a solo piano album, Thèmes et Variations. On occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Jazz in Marciac Festival in 2002, he performed a suite for ten musicians composed and arranged by himself. In 2003 Hervé played, with French accordionist Richard Galliano and a string quintet, on Piazzolla For Ever, an outake of the tango music of Astor Piazzolla, doing concerts, tours, a CD (2003 -Dreyfus Jazz) and a DVD (2006)

In October 2003 Hervé was invited by Wynton Marsalis to play two concerts at The Lincoln Center of New-York with his tentet.

In 2008 he released the album Marciac-New-York Express, by The Hervé Sellin Tentet (Crystal records/Harmonia Mundi), and got the award for Best French Jazz Album of the Year given by The French Jazz Academy.

Hervé works also full-time as a teacher at the Jazz and Improvised Music department of the  Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

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