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Flex pack
20% discount starting 7 concerts purchased from the Mainstage programme.
Day Pass
10% discount when you book 2 or more concerts on the same day.
Combins pass
Attend all evening concerts at the Salle des Combins in Carré Or seating from July 17 to August 2, 2026.
Bagnard
40% discount for permanent residents of Commune de Val de Bagnes.
Under 35
For adults under 35 for all Mainstage concerts.
Students
For students upon presentation of valid ID for all Mainstage concerts.
Children
For children under 12 for all Mainstage concerts.
Gift cards
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The Verbier Generation
At the heart of the Festival’s mission: nurturing the next generation of great artists.
Academy Programmes
From musical training to musicpreneurship — empowering young musicians to embrace their artistry and forge meaningful careers in music.
Shenzhen 2026
In China, a week of masterclasses with artists of the Verbier Festival.
Masterclasses Verbier 2026
Programme at a glance — Masterclasses are among the Festival's most popular events.
Students 2025
52 young artists from 22 countries joined us last summer.
Prizes & Honours
Celebrating the Academy’s most outstanding talents, including the Prix Yves Paternot — its most prestigious distinction.
Success Stories
Meet alumni making their mark.
The Verbier Generation
At the heart of the Festival’s mission: nurturing the next generation of great artists.
Orchestra Training Programmes
The Verbier Festival Orchestra Training Programmes have become a rite of passage for today’s exceptional young orchestral musicians and conductors
Students
160 young artists from 32 countries joined us last summer.
Success Stories
Meet alumni making their mark.
VFCO
The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Festival’s worldwide ambassador, unites exceptional alumni of its Orchestra Training Programmes who now perform with some of the world’s leading orchestras.
Summer 2026
Your summer of unlimited music starts with these concerts.
Buskers 2026
Calling all street performers! Apply now to play at next summer’s Verbier Festival.
Aftermovie 2025
Relive the energy, the music, and the moments that made UNLTD 2025 shine.
UNLTD Collective
Alumni of the Verbier Festival Academy creating bold, original projects for today.
Amplifiers
Join the community that helps UNLTD spark new sounds and ideas.
Summer 2026
Concerts, workshops and outdoor fun for children during the Verbier Festival.
Storytellers in the Classroom
A journey through words, music and images to dream and create.
Zoo
Short animated films inspired by The Carnival of the Animals.
Ludwig's World
An interactive playspace to discover Beethoven.
Amplifiers
Amplifiers help VF KiDS grow and keep the magic of music alive.
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.
Patrons
The Verbier Festival is grateful to its philanthropic patrons for their generous support
Our Sponsors
The Verbier Festival thanks its sponsors and partners for their valuable support.
Public Funders
The Verbier Festival thanks its public funding partners for their unwavering support.
Donors to the Friends
The Friends is a group of music-loving donors whose support has been a cornerstone of the Festival’s rise to the top.
Become a Friend
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.
VF Green
Aware of climate and sustainability challenges, the verbier festival works to promote sustainable practices.
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Members

Season 2025/2026
The Verbier Festival Friends Association warmly thanks its generous donors for their support during past season.
The 2026 season opened on October 1, 2025, and donations can now be made online, by telephone or by bank transfer.

Donor listings updated 20 November 2025


Patrons

Fondation Gustave Agenor, en mémoire de Robert Hentsch
Monica Paternot
Yuichi and Uny Watanabe


Benefactors

Jiyoung Choi
Famille Destribats
Nadia Guth Biasini
Bertrand and Renée Maus
Penelope Osti, en mémoire de Bertile Fournier-Huguet
Lila Palffy
Christian and Béatrice Schlumberger


Donors

Marianne-Cécile Bolomey
Michael and Yulia Calvey
Claude and Solange Demole
Roch and Martina Doliveux
Virginia H. Drabbe-Seemann
Regnier and Martine Haegelsteen
Stylianos and Stéphanie Karageorgis
Nancy Maruyama
Ying von Schulthess Rechberg
Anonyme (2)


Associates

Aurore Belkin
Findlay and Michelle Black
Werner and Ruth Bühler
Mark and Rebecca Byrne Family
Liz Fuller and Trevor Cook
Sybille Duchâteau
Urs and Yvonne Düggelin
Nicholas and Sylvia Gee
Jennifer Hodgson
Mike and Anouk Hornung
Jan Jelinek and Frédéric Vanbossele
Sagrario Perez Soto
Guy and Pierrette Waldvogel

Supporters

Joseph and Diane Assemat-Tessandier
Philippe and Wei-Ta Baroz
Philippe and Sophie Bioul
Jorien and Johannes Crol
Grégoire and Linn de Rham
Yvonne and Yvonne Gagnebin
Joan Goodman
Blaise and Martha Haldimann
James R. and Cheryl Jackson
Jan Jelinek
Thomas and Ute Krayenbuehl
Peter Jan and Touran Kroon
Françoise Labro
Barry and Elisabeth Lando
Agnès Lustigue
Jean-Claude and Maya Marchand
Jean-François and Lise-Marie Michellod, Boutique Chez Lise
Irene Miller
Jean-Pierre Naz
Yves Noël and Stéphanie Vuadens
Etienne and Claudine Olivet
Audrey Perkins
Philippe and Danièle Renardet
Antoine Rothmayr and Urs Hirschi
René and Dora Schenk
Olivier and Danielle Schlemmer
Bertrand and Isabelle Schwab
Floriane Tissières
Edward and Amanda Van Kersbergen
Alexander and Nadia Verburg
Eckart and Britta Windhagen
John and Amelia Winter
Hui Feng Zhu
Anonyme


Duo Partners

Patrick and Nicole Aebischer
Diana Asher
Anne-Marie Aspell
Florence Bacchetta
Alfred Blaser
Frederik and Annemarie Buijn-Buissink
Gordon Cameron
Selina Chan-Ying
Christine Chaponnier and Micheline Bouland-Monney
Philippe and Ysé Chappuis
Stephanie Chatelanat Marmier
Yi Ting Chen
Pierre and Béatrice Dallèves
Guillaume de Lalène
Philippe and Michèle de Preux
Philippe de Selliers
Gilles and Corina Demottaz
Marc D’Espine
Hans and Susan Dijkstra
Illarion Dobkin
Tanja and Bernd Fahlbusch Zeilfelder
Anna Fedorova
Patrick Fellay
Robert Findling
Jacques and Corinne Finkbeiner
Michael and Eva Fisher
Paul-Henri and Caroline Forestier
Daniel Gander and Elisabeth Franzetti
Daniel and Danièle Frossard-Laedermann
Acacio Gaudencio da Silva
Simon Gleave
Isabelle and Jean Lucien Gloor
Jean-Pierre and Reyes Gross
André and Rolande Guigoz
Soren Jessen-Petersen
Marie-Madelaine Gabioud and Jean-Philippe Jutzi
Volkan Kisakürek
Peter Kwon
Rose Lai
Rudolf and Renata Lanz-Beer
Catherine Lecomte
Yumi Lee
Patrick Leuzinger
Ilia Levitov
Gavin and Anne Lickley
Jaron and Tsippy and Tsippy Lotan
Christophe and Lise Michele Marquot
Mary E. Duffy and Bob Stokinger
Soojin Moon
Claude and Maya Nordmann
Woonjung Park
Eugène and Chantal Riethmann
Lucrezia Rospigliosi
Christa Roth
Jean-Pierre and Floriane Roth
Laurent Saglio
Michael and Evelyne Scherer
Diana Schmid
Tania Segu
Art Siegel
Jana Sohail
Anne Stewart
Hans and Blanche Stocker-Brunner
Ena and Esther Su
Richard and Jeanne-Marie Sutton-Brasnett
Ryo Suzuki
Gavin and Vanessa Taylor Neil
Nicolas Testart
Anthony Tolis
William Vanderfelt
Jean-Pierre and Jacqueline Weber
Karen and Barry Wilson
Jennifer Rebecca Wong
Jiong Yan
Valentin Zavadnikov
Elie and Gilly Zilkha
Anonyme (3)

Solo Partners

Hyunyoung Ahn
Jaeeun Ahn
Jan Andresen
Bruce Barclay
Marc-André Barras
Violaine Barrelet
David Bartley
Rita Baumgartner
Christine Bayat
Corinne Benoist
Fabien Bergerat
Petra Beron
Olga Blagova
Annie Claire Blum-Bigar
Lenny Bord
Luisanna Breitling
Enrico Brignone
Françoise Brunisholz
Anny Cailloux
Ronie Cardoso Filho
Plinio Carenini
Pang Wei Chang
Kyunghee Cho
Jaewon Choi
Sun Ah Choi
Kanako Clarke
Juliane Cosandier
Stefan and Alexandra Cserveny
John Cuddy
Michelle de Rham Crochet
Eric E. Derrer
Marie-Christine Dutheillet de Lamothe
Leni du Plessis
Christophe Dupre
Landau Elena
Brigitte Esteve
Sari Esteve
Renata Fackler
Yunping Feng
Anne-Claude Foletti
Anne-Claude Froidevaux
Christine Fung
Nathalie Gay
Rosemarie Gredig
Anne Guyot
Jaemin Ha
Patricia Hamilton
Nicholas Hayes
Yen Sil Her
Hsiang-Yu Ho
Margaretha Hoff
Audrey Hung
Eun Kyeong Hwang
Kayo Ishibashi
Mariko Iwase
Linde Iynedjian
Yonsil Jeong
Mijung Jung
Kumiko Kaneko
Sooyoung Kang
Cynthia Kaplan
Georges Kaplanski
Donald and Michiyo Stanford
Motoko Kawaguchi
Jenny Kernohan
Albert Kim
Ho Jeong Kim
Hyehwa Kim
Jeong Ran Kim
Minjin Kim
Youngah Kim
Youngkyung Kim
Eunha Kim Dabo
Jeroen Kohnstamm
Daniel Kolakofsky
Jae Hyang Koo
André Kotlarevsky
Pierre and Loraine Krafft
Ilse Kriebel
Junelle Kwon
Anna Lebedeva
Daniela Lederer
Chungwoo Lee
Dangsun Lee
Doyeon Lee
Hau Bin Lee
Heejoo Lee
Hyunjoo Lee
Tracy Lee
Woosung Lee
Béatrice Lemaire
Françoise Lemarchand
Vivien Leong
Pin Han Lin
Andrew Lynch
Danielle Magnolato
Benoît and Ariane Mandosse
Merran Mclaren
Richard Melde
Elisabeth Memik
Antony Michaelson
Patricia Millett
Kristin Moon
Ernst Müller
Yuko Nakata
Saul Nathan
Laurence Naville
Josette Ngô
Rose Marie Nicod
Béatrice Nicollier de Weck
Eugene Nizker
Aegyung Noh
Hyunah Oh
Suna Oh
Maria Papadatou
Inbae Park
Jieun Park
Jin Woo Park
Sealrim Park
Yumin Park
Lauren Pasche-Haskiya
Françoise Perez
Hans Ulrich Peter
Marcel Petignat Mangeat
Françoise Posternak
Michel Posternak
Valerie Pytjuk
Mengling Qin
Marianne Reymond
Marion Righetti
Kathleen Roberts
Fabienne Roccarino
Hendrik G. Roelofsen
Katharina Roth
Alexandre Sanchez
Lee Sang Hoon
Stefano Sanguinetti
Toshiko Sato
Constantin Schizas
Corinne Schnyder
Eliane Schurgast-Jotterand
Maria Sevdali
Alexandr Shalukhin
Galina Sheynberg
Nicky Shinder
Ivan Smirnov
Hyeryung So
Borim Song
Hee Kyung Song
Barbara Stähli
Meeran Anne Zemitis
Kristina Steinegger
Ekaterina Tebus
Béatrice Troillet
Nancy van Deusen
Anne-Brigitte Vaudan
Maria Inés Velazco
Alain Viglino
Christina Villard Hasenclever
Gail Von Bergen-Ryan
Isabel Von Fliedner
Sonia Von Fliedner
Theresia Vonlanthen
Béatrice Vuille
Eun Ha Wang
Martyn Wesley
Robin Williams
René Winzeler
Yasunao Yokota
Noriko Yukihara
Yana Zoloeva
Anonyme (5)


Many Friends make gifts of scholarships to Academy and Orchestra students, underwrite programmes, offer housing to Academy students, Festival musicians and members of staff, and host post-concert dinners. Many of these gifts are made in addition to general membership donations. These donations are acknowledged in the Festival’s printed official programme. All donations are acknowledged by membership category according to their cumulative value. 



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