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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.
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Founder & Director
En 1991, Martin Engstroem put the wheels in motion for what in 1994 would become the Verbier Festival & Academy.
VF Green
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피아니스트 임윤찬은 14세에 국제 음악 무대에 데뷔했습니다. 그는 2018년 클리브랜드 국제 청소년 피아노 콩쿠르(Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists)에 첫 출전하여 2위를 차지하고 쇼팽 특별상을 수상했습니다. 그 이듬해, 15세의 나이에 그는 대한민국 윤이상 국제 콩쿠르(Isang Yun International Competition)에서 최연소 우승을 차지했으며, 두 개의 특별상도 수상했습니다.
2022년에는 더 큰 성과를 거두었으며, 미국에서 열린 **반 클라이번 국제 피아노 콩쿠르(Van Cliburn International Piano Competition)에서 1위를 수상하며 세계적인 주목을 받았습니다.
그는 대한민국의 주요 오케스트라인 코리안 심포니 오케스트라(Korea Symphony), 수원 필하모닉(Suwon Philharmonic), 부산 필하모닉(Busan Philharmonic) 등과 협연했으며, **한국 문화원(Korea Cultural Center in Spain)**의 초청으로 **마드리드(Madrid)**에서도 연주했습니다.
임윤찬은 현재 뉴잉글랜드 음악원 (New England Conservatory) 에 재학중이며 손민수(Minsoo Sohn) 교수를 사사하고있습니다

 

Lynn Renouil-Hata began cello at age seven.  She has had success at several international competitions, including First Prizes at the Vatelot-Rampal Competition and the International FLAME Competition in Paris. Gautier Capuçon has served  as a mentor and coach to Lynn ever since she was named a winner of the well-known France2 programme, Prodiges, in 2020.  The young cellist is regularly invited to play as soloist, both in France and abroad, including concerts at the Marcello Theatre in Rome and the Classissimo Festival in Brussels. Lynn studies with Annie Cochet-Zakine and Marie-Paule Milone at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris.  She is also coached by  Raphaël Pidoux, professor at the Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

From his training at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean Sautereau’s career as a soloist and chamber music is on a clear upward trajectory. He has received numerous awards, is regularly supported by various foundations, and is invited to play at the most prestigious festivals. Jean was recently named Laureate of the Fondation Porosus and by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and was awarded the Prix André Hoffman at the Sommets musicaux de Gstaad. He plays a new viola built by Charles Coquet, to which he aligns his vision for the future of music-making—shared musical experiences that are living, vibrant and while still mirroring tradition.

Edward Walton was awarded Second Prize in the junior division of the 2021 Menuhin International Violin Competition. He is the youngest musician selected for the 2022 ABC Young Performer Awards (Australia), and in 2019, was awarded First prize at the Il Piccolo Violino Magico in Italy, the Medallion International Concerto Competition (USA) the Jeunes Artistes musicals du Centre in France and the International Grand Prize Virtuoso competition in London. Edward has appeared as a soloist with orchestras internationally and has performed recitals in Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and at London’s Royal Albert Hall. In 2022 he makes his debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has attended the Kronberg Academy, Interlaken and Keshet Eilon master courses receiving masterclasses from Maxim Vengerov, Mauricio Fuks and Zakhar Bron. He studies with Robin Wilson and Emily Sun, and plays a Gagliano violin on loan through Beare’s International Violin Society.

Kinga Wojdalska has won numerous prizes in solo and chamber music competition, among them the Karl Doctor Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. She began her musical training in Warsaw and, in 2021, obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Royal College of Music in London. Currently, she is studying for a master’s soloist degree at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in Lawrence Power’s class. She is supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Lyra Stiftung. Kinga performed at Musikverein in Vienna and the Wigmore Hall in London, and has appeared in festivals including Encuentro de Santander (Spain) and West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival (UK) ,where she shared the stage with Vilde Frang, Ivan Monighetti and Miklós Perényi. Since 2020, she has been a member Brompton Quartet. Kinga plays a modern viola by Jerzy Maslanka.

Cornelius Zirbo was born in Cluj Napoca where he began his musical studies at age nine. He is now studying at the National University of Music Bucharest under the mentorship of Marin Cazacu. In 2016-2017 was in the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle of Gautier Capuçon, held at Fondation Louis Vuitton. He has given recitals and concerts with orchestra in prestigious venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Rudolfinum in Prague, St Martin-in-the-Fields (London), National Library Concert Hall (Beijing) and The Grand Hall of Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest). He is an alumnus of the 2017 Verbier Festival Academy and has taken part in masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Accademia europea di Palazzo Ricci Montepulciano, George Enescu Festival, and Lisbon’s Verão Classico Festival 2021 in Lisabon. He plays a modern cello made by Frank Ravatin provided by Le fonds instrumental of ‘Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot’.

AAndrew Byun is a Canadian cellist currently pursuing his Masters of Music with Natasha Brofsky at The Juilliard School. He has appeared in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Jian Wang, Frans Helmerson, and Laurence Lesser among others and has worked closely with the Borromeo, Brentano, Dover, and Emerson Quartets. Andrew has performed solo at Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and has been featured on the WMFT radio station and NPR’s From The Top as a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.  A passionate chamber musician, he has been invited to the Taos School of Music, I-M-S Prussia Cove, and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. Andrew attended the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music in Philosophy and Cello Performance. He has studied with Hans Jorgen Jensen, Myung-wha Chung, Yeesun Kim.

Justus Friedrich Eichhorn studies with Grigory Gruzman at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar, where he also studies composition and conducting. In 2020, Justus was a pupil of Matti Raekallio at The Juilliard School during his family’s stay abroad for several months. He made his debut at age ten with Haydn’s Concerto in D. Since then, he has given concerts with several orchestras, including Mozart’s Concerto in A K. 414 with the Moscow Soloists, conducted by Yuri Bashmet. Justus has won numerous piano competitions, including First Prize in the Bechstein Competition Berlin. In 2021 he performed at the Elba Festival and was awarded the festival’s Promotional Prize. In 2022 he received the Swiss Charity Award at Tonhalle Zürich and performed Beethoven’s Second Concerto. In 2023 he makes his debut with the Korean Chamber Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Center and later performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in Germany.

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.

Violinist Jaewon Wee recently won the First and Audience Prizes at the 2022 Washington International Competition and the Second and Best Performance of the Commissioned Work Prizes at the 37th Klein International Competition. Last year, she was also awarded the Second & the Special iPalpiti Prizes at the George Enescu International Competition and, in 2019, as a winner of the Juilliard Violin Concerto Competition, she made her New York debut at Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall. Jaewon has appeared as soloist with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Italy Palermo Festival Symphony Orchestra and Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, among others. Graduate of the Juilliard’s Master of Music Degree programme, Jaewon continues in a Graduate Diploma programme on full scholarship at the New England Conservatory, studying with Donald Weilerstein.

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