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.

Members

Season 2024/2025
The Verbier Festival Friends Association warmly thanks its generous donors for their support during past season.
The 2025 season opened on October 1, 2024, and donations can now be made online, by telephone or by bank transfer.

Donor listings updated 03 June 2025


Patrons

Anders et Maria Bergendahl
Jiyoung Choi
Federica et Patrice Feron
Antoine et Christina Firmenich
Fondation Agenor, en mémoire de Robert Hentsch
Lila Palffy
Monica Paternot
Zaheer Sitabkhan et Tyhoa Kobler
Pierre et Hélène Vareille, Fondation Vareille
Yuichi et Uny Watanabe
Anonymous


Benefactors

Amorim Fine Violins Cremona
Bermet et Mairam Akaeva
Jean-Paul et Martine Clozel
Marijke Cordia Van Der Laan
Stephen et Margaret de Heinrich
Bénédict et Viviane Hentsch
Patrick et Astrid de Preux
Famille Destribats
Thierry et Amanda Dorsaz
Fonds de dotation Toinette de Hatvany-Montferrand, en mémoire d’Aymeric de Monferrand
Jacques et Dominique Garaialde – Fonds GaraiEmana
Nadia Guth Biasini
Bernard et Catherine Haccius
Patrik et Camilla Hannell
Jonathan Leitersdorf
Bertrand et Renée Maus
Aziza Musakulova
Penelope Osti, en mémoire de Bertile Fournier-Huguet
Marianne Oundjian
Louise Paternot
François et Caroline Reyl
Christian et Béatrice Schlumberger
Cynthia Wang So


Donors

Gwen Baumgartner
Marianne-Cécile Bolomey
The Shimpo Foundation
Michael et Yulia Calvey
Isabelle de La Touche-Nicod
Thierry et Catherine de Marignac
Thierry et Claude de Preux / Anne de Rham
Grégoire et Linn de Rham
Stéphane Decoutère et Corinne Walthert
Claude et Solange Demole
Roch et Martina Doliveux
Marie-Christine Dutheillet de Lamothe
Andrea Fessler
Patricia Fuchs-Wenzlau
Fondation Favre-Gilly
Philippe et Helen Gleize
Regnier et Martine Haegelsteen
Stylianos et Stéphanie Karageorgis
Alexander Kuriksha
Thierry Loth
David Lyons
Alain Nicod
Gérald et Maya Page
Jean-Charles et Michèle Roguet
Dawn Sarasin
Fritz Werner et Marie-Irène Schultze
Christina Shaftesbury
Maria A. Solaro Del Borgo
Giuseppe et Giovanna Spadafora
Julien Tron et Mariuca Grossu
Jérôme et Chantal Viellet
Ying von Schulthess Rechberg
Anonyme (2)


Associates

Sally Alderson
Jean-Damien Artarit
Catherine Barré
Odile Batty
Anthony et Carol Berg
Findlay et Michelle Black
Jacques et Sonia Boissonnas
Hans et Barbara Bölsterli
Werner et Ruth Bühler
Mark et Rebecca Byrne
Liz Fuller et Trevor Cook
Jorien et Johannes Crol
Géry et Anne-Marie Daeninck
Peter et Karin de Kroon-de Kroes
Charles-Louis et Sophie de Laguiche
Yves et Claire de Le Court Berghmans
Philippe et Michèle de Preux
Jacques et Iman de Saussure
Virginia H. Drabbe-Seemann
Hugues et Anne Duchâteau
Sybille Duchâteau
Urs et Yvonne Düggelin
Martin et Blythe Engstroem
Hervé Felli, Banque Lombard Odier & Cie SA
Philip G. et Marie Firmenich
Nicholas et Sylvia Gee
Françoise Grondahl
Blaise et Martha Haldimann
Chaeyoon Han
Dominique Hess
Jennifer Hodgson
Mike et Anouk Hornung
André et Sylvie Hurter
James R. et Cheryl Jackson
Sibylle Klötzer-Vierhub
Thomas et Ute Krayenbuehl
Marie-France Mandosse
John Mann et Jane Howze
Melissa Marquardt
Irene Miller
Björn et Margareta Mydske – Norwood SA
Etienne et Claudine Olivet
Damiano et Beatrice Paterno Castello
Sagrario Perez Soto
Audrey Perkins
Antoine Rothmayr et Urs Hirschi
Florence Stern
Floriane Tissières
Francesca Tondi Guy
Jacqueline et Benedict Turrettini
Dietrich et Annabel Von Boetticher
Guy et Pierrette Waldvogel
Eckart et Britta Windhagen
John et Amelia Winter
Emanuele Zanon Di Valgiurata
Anonymous (4)

Supporters

Hyunyoung Ahn
Joseph et Diane Assemat-Tessandier
Auguste Betschart
Philippe et Sophie Bioul
Jennifer Calame
Ken et Fiona Costa
Agnès Coste
Christian et Kristine de Juniac
Alexis de Selliers
Marc et Vinciane Dumont
Jean-Manuel et Sylvie Escalas
Ute et Marteen Esser
Jean-Albert Ferrez
Georges et Yvonne Gagnebin
Anne-Claire Givel Fuchs
Joan Goodman
William et Jacqueline Govett
Leo-Hendrik Greve
Peter Jan et Touran Kroon
Dimitri et Isabella Kullmann
Philippe et Françoise Labro
Béatrice Lombard
Chantal Lucas
Agnès Lustigue
Francine Maeyens
Jean-Claude et Maya Marchand
Elisabeth Moorkens
Jean-Pierre Naz
Laurent Nicod
Laurence Papeians de Morchoven
James et Ann Peterson
Martine Piaget
Roland Polli, Polli & Cie SA
Philippe et Danièle Renardet
Serge et Isabelle Rochat
Stéphane Sallmard
René et Dora Schenk
Olivier et Danielle Schlemmer
Bertrand et Isabelle Schwab
Hans Ulrich et Adrienne Stehli
Steiger&Cie Verbier SA
Ruth et Chye Teh
Elly Van Der Rijst
Edward et Amanda Van Kersbergen
William Vanderfelt
Alexander et Nadia Verburg
Valentein et Laurence Villard
Friedrich et Marie-Rose Von Oppenheim
Jean-Pierre et Jacqueline Weber
Jorgen Winroth
Anonymous


Duo Partners

Patrick et Nicole Aebischer
Samuel Amos
John et Benedicte Atkinson
BFID SA
Patrick Bachofner
Cynthia Bake
Philippe et Wei-Ta Baroz
Hans-Peter et Valérie Bichelmeier
Alexis et Laurence Blum
Michel Pierre et Odile Bongi
Reinier et Marieke Brakema
Isabelle Breed
Christophe et Anita Brinkley
Jacqueline Bugnion
Frederik et Annemarie Buijn-Buissink
Patrice et Dominique Bula
Pierre-Hubert et Anne-Marie Bydzovsky
Gordon Cameron
Raymond et Everdina Capré
Cem Cesmig
Selina Chan-Ying
Philippe et Ysé Chappuis
Radu Cojocaru
Alexandre et Rita Colonna Walewski
Stefan et Alexandra Cserveny
Laurence et Stéphane Custot
Pierre et Béatrice Dallèves
Guy de Blonay
Renaud et Marie Aimée de Rham
Gilles et Corina Demottaz
Gisèle Der Hagopian
Claude de Selliers
Alain Dubois
Mary E. Duffy
Edward Jiran et Frank Farrow
Jean-Baptiste Ferrari
Robert Findling
Paul-Henri Forestier
Daniel Gander et Elisabeth Franzetti
Nicolas et Alexia Frossard
Danièle Frossard-Laedermann
Acacio Gaudencio da Silva
Margaret de Marchi
Christian et Marilynn Geiger
Simon Gleave
Isabelle Gloor
Jean-Pierre et Reyes Gross
Yolande Gross
Walter et Caroline Gubert
André et Rolande Guigoz
Pierre Hallade
Ursula Holtbecker
Felix et Myriam Israel
Adriaan et Françoise Jacobovits de Szeged
David Jacquet
Marie-Madelaine Gabioud et Jean-Philippe Jutzi
Robert et Ilona Kamp
Donald et Michiyo Stanford
Volkan Kisakürek
Sophie Kogevinas
Jean et Francine Kohler
Rudolf et Renata Lanz-Beer
Yumi Lee
Gérard et Anne Leutenegger
Patrick Leuzinger
Gavin Lickley
Jaron Lotan
Philippe et Marie-Aude Magarshack
Christophe et Lise Michele Marquot
William T. et Clare Martin
Catherine Masoni et Louis Zeltner
Alexandre et Christine May
Stephen McHolm et Alexandre Baud
Jean-François et Lise-Marie Michellod, Boutique Chez Lise
Moti Ravid et Dahlia Moore
Karlheinz et Dorothé Moosecker
Edana Morrell
Nicolas Musolino
Miso Myung
Claude et Maya Nordmann
Suna Oh
David Panicek
Bernard Hanier et Jacqueline Peier-Hertig
Anthony Graham Post et Alison Jill Post
Alex et Monique Pythoud
Miloch et Pascale Radovic
Tobias et Angelika Richter
Norbert et Monique Riesen
Christa Roth
Jean-Pierre et Floriane Roth
Ariane Schurink-Mottier
Andrew et Irène Skarbek-Borowski
Yvonne Steck
Hans et Blanche Stocker-Brunner
Isabelle Stoffels de Saint-Georges
Ena et Esther Su
Marc et Chiara Sunnen
Richard et Jeanne-Marie Sutton-Brasnet
Nicolas Testart
Henri et Axelle Thijssen
Famille Robert Veldhuyzen
Gérard et Janine Viatte
Bruno et Isabelle Vocat
Robin Williams
Gilly Zilkha
Anonymous (3)

Solo Partners

Jaeeun Ahn
Yoram et Marilyn Anselm
Minsook Baek
Marc-André Barras
Violaine Barrelet
Dominique Bauer
Rita Baumgartner
Christine Bayat
Aurore Belkin
William Bodenlos
Myriam Bongard-Stadler
Luisanna Breitling
Erica Bruce
Françoise Brunisholz
Plinio Carenini
Hôtel Mirabeau, Sylvie Carlucci
Vincent Carron
Allison Chang
Jean-Marc Chauvin
Kyunghee Cho
Sun Ah Choi
Alessio Cimoli
Juliane Cosandier
Michelle de Rham Crochet
Claude de Selliers
Virginie Delorme
Tuyet Vân Demottaz
Eric E. Derrer
Marc D’Espine
Geneviève Destrem
Mikael Detout
Leni du Plessis
Corinne Francisca Dupasquier
Bernadette Elöd
Brigitte Esteve
Renata Fackler
Tanja Fahlbusch
Anne-Claude Foletti
Madeline Foster
Christian Frohnholzer
Anne-Claude Froidevaux
Marceline Gans
Christine Gerritzen
Margaret Glavin
James Gorney
Rosemarie Gredig
Simon Groom
Tatiana Grushunova
Olivier Gurtner
Anne Guyot
Hae-Soon Hahn
Patricia Hamilton
Olivier Hamoir
Donga Han
Nicholas Hayes
Yen Sil Her
Christian et Sylvie Herbeau
Florian Herman
Edith Herzog
Valérie Holz Bouillaguet
Joseph Illick
Alexa Intrator
Linde Iynedjian
Patrick Jeanneret et Valérie Kirschmann
Machiko Jotani
Mijung Jung
Sooyoung Kang
Georges Kaplanski
Jocelyne Kaufmann
Michel Kazatchkine
Gérard Kemper
Philippe Kern
Jenny Kernohan
Hyehwa Kim
Jeong Ran Kim
Joolie Kim
Junga Kim
Nora Kim
Yesol Kim
Helen Kim Kress
Marie Cécile Kithsiri
Kuniko Klee Komada
Andrea Kocsis
Katya Kohn
Jeroen Kohnstamm
Jae Hyang Koo
Pierre et Loraine Krafft
Yvette Kummer
Joyce Lam
Katarina Langer
Elizabeth Lawrie
Anna Lebedeva
Daniela Lederer
Chungwoo Lee
Keun-Gwan Lee
Jeremy et Koo Leggett
Catharina Leijnse
Béatrice Lemaire
Françoise Lemarchand
Danielle Magnolato
Nina Marder
Delia Mamon
Rowena Mariano
Sanjeev Mariathasan
Doris Mengyuan Maritz
Serge et Bernadette May
Kristin Moon
Laurent Mulin, Pharmacie de la Croix de Coeur
Sujin Nam
Laurence Naville
Béatrice Nicollier de Weck
Aegyung Noh
Ji Hyun Oh
Heon Joo Park
Jieun Park
Yumin Park
Lauren Pasche-Haskiya
Françoise Perez
Hans Ulrich Peter
Marcel Petignat
Denise Poncioni
Julie Popescu
Françoise Posternak
Michel Posternak
Marianne Reymond
Dominique Ridley
Marion Righetti
Corine-Isabelle Robert
Fabienne Roccarino
Hendrik G. Roelofsen
Michel Rossellat
Katharina Roth
Benjamin Ruey
Jiyeon Ryu
Jiyoung Ryu
Marie Satori
Xavier Saudan
Constantin Schizas
Eliane Schurgast-Jotterand
Jennie Shin
Ekaterina Shukhobodskaia
Olga Sihtar
Meeran Anne Zemitis
Mark Stawman
Madeleine Steininger
Julie Stuberg
Magda Studzinska
Vincent Subilia
Jacqueline Svalander
Ekaterina Tebus
Charles Teicher
Francis Tobolski
Béatrice Troillet
Nicole Vallotton
Nancy van Deusen
Anne-Brigitte Vaudan
Alain Viglino
Anne Vincent
Gail Von Bergen-Ryan
Sonia Von Fliedner
Sophie Warshaw
Jieun Wax
William Wegener
René Winzeler
Jill Wolf
Kanghee Won
Jennifer Rebecca Wong
Lee Yeseo
Yasunao Yokota
Doyoung Yoon
Anonyme (6)


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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