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20% discount starting 7 concerts purchased from the Mainstage programme (excluding Carré Or).
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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.
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Philip Sindy, a native Berliner, moves artistically and personally between worlds. After earning his diploma in trumpet with a focus on jazz and popular music from the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and the Royal Academy of Music in London, he made a name for himself as both a soloist and sideman in a wide range of musical styles—from pop and jazz to global music.

His artistic résumé includes live performances and tours with acts such as Barbara Schöneberger, Helene Fischer, Marcus Wiebusch, Kettcar, Patrice, Megaloh, Culcha Candela, Alvaro Soler, the Harry Connick Jr. Big Band, Kelly Rowland, Shaggy, Sugar Hill Gang, Thomas D, Estelle, Roy Ayers, Aloe Blacc, and Nneka (to name just a few). He has also contributed to studio recordings with artists including Udo Lindenberg, Mousse T., Die Prinzen, Max Raabe, Max Herre, and Joy Denalane. In addition, Philip Sindy is regularly involved in TV and film productions, both live and in pre-production.

Beyond numerous national festivals, Sindy’s passion for Afrobeat and Ghanaian Highlife has taken him across the globe—over 50 countries on 6 continents. Highlights include Glastonbury (UK), Metamorphose (Tokyo), North Sea Jazz (Netherlands), Creole Jazz (Cape Verde), Montreal Jazz (Canada), Sakifo (Reunion Island), Couleur Café (Brussels), Rock en Seine (Paris), Roskilde (Denmark), and multiple WOMAD festivals (UK, Sicily, Fuerteventura, Adelaide-Australia, New Zealand), as well as performances in Brazil, the USA, Scandinavia, Tanzania, Israel, and Dubai, among many others.

Jae-Chang Sung received a bachelor’s degree in the trumpet from Seoul National University and also graduated from the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden where he studied with Håkan Hardenberger and Bo Nilsson. Inspired by such achievements, he successfully pursued a Meisterklasse in the trumpet with the highest honours after studying with Prof. Hannes Laübin from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Germany. Furthermore, through actively seeking to display his talent for the trumpet, he won a number of competitions, such as the 27th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition, the 5th Jeju International Brass competition, and the 42nd Dong-A Music competition. Presently, he is working in Seoul National University College of Music as a valued and talented professor. Prior to taking up this post, he was a Professor at Chungnam National University, and played sub-principal trumpet in the Finnish National Opera in Finland, also the Theater Regensburg in Germany.

Håkan Hardenberger is one of the world’s leading soloists, consistently recognised for his phenomenal performances and tireless innovation. Alongside his performances of the classical repertory, he is also renowned as a pioneer of significant and virtuosic new trumpet works.

Hardenberger performs with the world’s foremost orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony Orchestra. Conductors he collaborates with include Daniel Harding, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and John Storgårds.

The works written for and championed by Hardenberger stand as key highlights in the repertory and include those by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Brett Dean, HK Gruber, Hans Werner Henze, Betsy Jolas, Arvo Pärt, Toru Takemitsu, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Rolf Wallin.

In summer 2019 Hardenberger returns to the Tanglewood Music Festival with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons and to the BBC Proms with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Markus Stenz for the UK premiere of Tobias Broström’s double concerto for two trumpets with Jeroen Berwaerts. This is followed by a concert at the Musikfest Berlin with Olga Neuwirth’s concerto “Miramondo Multiplo” with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo. With the latter he can also be heard at the Barbican in November, championing Betsy Jolas’ trumpet concerto “Onze Lieder”. Continuing his residency with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, he performs Mieczysław Weinberg’s trumpet concerto and gives HK Gruber’s concerto “Aerial” its 89thperformance since its premiere. Further highlights include his performance of the Dutch premiere of Robin Holloway’s new concerto with Het Residentie Orkest and Nicholas Collon, his return to Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Andris Nelsons, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin with Alain Altinoglu, Bamberger Symphoniker with John Storgårds as well as Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg with Daniel Harding. Hardenberger embarks on his residency with the Seoul Philharmonic in 2020, and appears in a podium swap with HK Gruber with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He also returns to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in concert as well as curating their Metropolis Festival for contemporary music.

Conducting is an integral part of Hardenberger’s music making. In 2019/20 he conducts the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Seoul Philharmonic, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Duo partnerships include pianist Roland Pöntinen and percussionist Colin Currie, with whom he released a duo recording featuring duo works by composers such as Brett Dean and André Jolivet.

To add to his prolific discography on the Philips, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon and BIS labels, Hardenberger anticipates the release of a concerto recording including Sally Beamish, Betsy Jolas and Olga Neuwirth music (BIS) as well as a recording of Peter Eötvös new version of his trumpet concerto “Jet Stream”.

From 2016 to 2018 Hardenberger was the Artistic Director of the Malmö Chamber Music Festival. Hardenberger was born in Malmö, Sweden. He began studying the trumpet at the age of eight with Bo Nilsson in Malmö and continued his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, with Pierre Thibaud, and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens. He is a professor at the Malmö Conservatoire.

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.

Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone, a depth of emotion and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques. When you hear Marsalis play, you’re hearing life being played out through music.

Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principals of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues). With his evolved humanity and through his selfless work, Marsalis has elevated the quality of human engagement for individuals, social networks and cultural institutions throughout the world.

David Guerrier commence l’étude de la trompette à sept ans et sort en juin 2000 avec un Premier Prix (mention très bien à l’unanimité, félicitations du Jury, mention spéciale pour la qualité exceptionnelle de la prestation) au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. Il étudie également le cor au CNSM de Lyon.

David Guerrier complète son éducation musicale au sein de l’Orchestre des Jeunes de l’Union Européenne avec Sir Colin Davis et Bernard Haitink en 1999 et Vladimir Ashkenazy en 2000, ainsi qu’à l’Académie de Musique du XXème siècle avec Pierre Boulez et David Robertson en juillet 1999.

Depuis il enchaîne les succès : avec l’Orchestre National de Bordeaux et Hans Graf à Bordeaux et aux Folles Journées de Nantes, avec l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, au Théâtre des Champs Elysées dans le Chostakovitch avec l’orchestre de chambre de Moscou. Il a depuis été l’invité de l’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris / John Nelson, le Philharmonique de Radio France / Christian Zacharias et Diego Matheuz, Orchestre National de France / Yoel Levi et Kurt Masur, Les Siècles / François-Xavier Roth, les orchestres de Lille / Thierry Fischer et Theodor Guschlbauer, Lyon / Hugh Wolff et Jun Märkl, Marseille, Pau, l’Ensemble Matheus / Jean-Christophe Spinosi, La Chambre Philharmonique et les Orchestres du Luxembourg et de Barcelone / Emmanuel Krivine, NDR de Hanovre, l’orchestre Rio de Janeiro, les Wiener Symphoniker/Fedosseyev, l’Orchestre d’Euskadi/ Paul McCreesh, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Marek Janowski, ainsi que des festivals de Saint-Denis, Strasbourg, la Roque d’Anthéron, La Grange de Meslay, Colmar, Radio-France et Montpellier, Schwarzenberg, Verbier, Rheingau. En décembre 2011, il effectue une tournée européenne avec l’Orchestre de chambre du Verbier Festival et Martha Argerich.

David Guerrier a reçu de nombreuses distinctions : en octobre 2000, le Premier Prix du Concours International Maurice André (à Paris) et en septembre 2001, le Premier Prix du Concours International Philys Jones (à Guebwiller) avec le Quintette de Cuivres Turbulences. En janvier 2003 il reçoit lors du Midem à Cannes le Prix AFAA (Association Française d’Action Artistique) et à New York le Prix du «Young Concert Artists Auditions ». En 2003, il remporte le premier prix au concours de l’ARD de Munich. Le dernier à avoir obtenu le premier prix de trompette était Maurice André. Il est « Soliste instrumental de l’Année » aux Victoires de la Musique 2004 et 2007.

Discographie Virgin Classics / Erato : Septuor de Camille Saint-Saëns (« Choc » / Le Monde de la Musique, disque du mois / Gramophone) et concertos de Mozart (père et fils) pour cor et trompette avec l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris et John Nelson chez Virgin Classics. Chez Naïve : le Konzertstück pour quatre cors de Schumann avec La Chambre Philharmonique et Emmanuel Krivine.

En DVD, le concerto de Chostakovitch avec Martha Argerich et l’Orchestre de chambre du Verbier Festival (Idéale Audience). Il a été cor solo de l’Orchestre National de France et l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg. Il enseigne au CNSM de Lyon.

Timur Martynov is an outstanding trumpet player, one of the golden cast of Maestro Gergiev’s musicians. Every performance he gives is filled with great talent and virtuosity, whether he plays solo or with the orchestra.

Timur Martynov was born in 1979 to a family of musicians. At the age of eight he started to study trumpet and later continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

During his career, Timur has given performances at many prestigious venues around the world and participated in various festivals such as BBC Prom, Salzburg Music Festival, Beethoven Festival, Diaghilev Festival Perm, Stars of the White Nights and the Moscow Easter Festival. In 2010, at the BBC Proms he performed a solo trumpet part in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the World Orchestra for Peace.

Beside performing, Timur founded himself in lecturing and coaching. He regularly gives masterclasses in Russia and abroad and has been teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at the Special music school of the conservatory since 2019.

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