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How to Get Here
Verbier is easily accessible by various means of transport.
Venues & Accessibility
Learn more about our performance venues and accessibility.
Where to Stay
Explore available accommodation options in Verbier.
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)
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.
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.
Storytellers
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.
The Friends
Music-loving donors supporting the Verbier Festival.
Patronage
Gifts to the Verbier Festival Foundation.
Legacy Giving
Help us build a sustainable future.
Sponsorship
A partnership built for success.
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.

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Offer Housing

The Friends of the Verbier Festival
become a friend
Housing represents a significant cost to the Verbier Festival. By offering accommodation to a visiting artist, student or one of the more than 200 members of staff, you allow the Festival to devote more funds to artistic and learning programmes while benefitting from newly formed friendships.

Host a Verbier Festival Academy Musician

The Verbier Festival Academy has been a career launchpad for many of today’s most sought-after musicians. Every year, young emerging artists come to Verbier to benefit from mentorship of the great masters, to fine-tune their musical skills and to exchange creative ideas. The Friends of the Verbier Festival host and/or provide accommodation to musicians of the Academy’s Soloists & Ensembles Programme, Atelier Lyrique, and Audio Recording Programme. Musicians are normally aged 16 to 32 and come from around the globe. These Friends play an important part in each musician’s learning experience. Many hosts renew their involvement year after year and have developed long-term friendships with Academy musicians. Approximately 60 rooms are needed for 2025.

what is involved?

  • Hosts provide musicians with a bedroom of their own, either for a limited number of days or for the entire Festival. The Academy’s soloists, ensembles, singers and audio engineer interns will arrive on the Sunday before the start of the Festival (Sunday, 13 July 2025) and will depart the Monday following the Festival (Monday, 4 August 2025). Their busy schedules include personal work and daytime rehearsals punctuated by concerts until late in the evening. When possible, we ask that hosts provide daily breakfast to students. The Festival holds insurance in the unlikely event of damage to your property or belongings.
  • Hosts are offered membership in The Friends of the Verbier Festival and are eligible for membership benefits subject to the type of accommodation and the duration that housing is made available. Benefits, all of which are administered by the Friends Office, are listed online here


  • Once they have agreed to welcome a student into their home, hosts will be sent a link to an on-line questionnaire by the Academy team which aids in matching guests with hosts. For new hosts, the Festival’s Housing team will arrange a time to visit your home.
  • Housing matters leading up to, during and after the Festival are managed directly with the Housing Department, including cleaning and laundry services (applicable only to hosts who are not in-residence with their guest(s). The Academy team of course works closely with the Housing team.

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Please contact the Friends office for more information, including information about corresponding membership benefits.

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