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Venues & Accessibility
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Where to Stay
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Eat and drink
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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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Broadcast and streaming
The Verbier Festival lets music-lovers worldwide enjoy concerts live or on replay.
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.
Patrons
The Verbier Festival is grateful to its philanthropic patrons for their generous 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.
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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.
Contact
Our telephone numbers, email and postal addresses, office hours and directory of personnel.
Board of Directors of the Verbier Festival
Learn more about the Verbier Festival's Board of Directors.
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Members

Season 2024/2025
the friends
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 8 August 2025

Patrons

Anders et Maria Bergendahl
Jiyoung Choi
Federica et Patrice Feron
Antoine et Christina Firmenich
Farhad et Rati Forbes
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
Anonyme

Benefactors

Bermet et Mairam Akaeva
Amorim Fine Violins Cremona
Jean-Paul et Martine Clozel
Marijke Cordia Van Der Laan
Stephen et Margaret de Heinrich
Patrick et Astrid de Preux
Laure de Preux-Gallone et Philippe Gallone
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
Bénédict et Viviane Hentsch
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
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
Delia Mamon
Alain Nicod
Bernard Nicod
Gérald et Maya Page
Jean-Charles et Michèle Roguet
Dawn Sarasin
Fritz Werner et Marie-Irène Schultze
Christina Shaftesbury
The Shimpo Foundation
Maria A. Solaro Del Borgo
Charles et Anne-Marie Pictet
Giuseppe et Giovanna Spadafora
Julien Tron et Mariuca Grossu
Jérôme et Chantal Viellet
Ying von Schulthess Rechberg
Anonyme (2)

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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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