Two hundred and twenty-seven musicians from 43 countries have been invited to take part in the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestra Training programmes in 2026. One hundred and thirty-four of them join the Verbier Generation for the first time.
Students selected for the Verbier Festival 2026 masterclasses in Shenzhen are presented separately at the bottom of the page.

soloists & ensembles
Piano
Hoi Leong Cheong Hong Kong
Lucas Chiche Switzerland Junior Student
Katherine Hibbs Switzerland Artist of Promise
Roman Fediurko Ukraine
Zhexiang Li China
Laura Mota Pello Spain
Yoav Roth Israel
Mikołaj Woźniak Poland
Violin
Mariam Abouzahra Egypt / Germany / Hungary
Anais Feller United States
YiWei Gu China
Wenlan Jackson United States
Hyun Seo Kim South Korea
Sergei Mkrtichian Russian Federation
Christina Nam United States
Jeremias Pestalozzi Switzerland
Viola
Héloïse Houzé France
Nicolas Perkins United States
Stephen Savage United States
Yanan Wang China
Alessandra Yang United States
Semin Yim South Korea
Cello
Fabian Broman Crawford-Phillips Sweden Junior Student
Lyam Chenaux Switzerland
Jisoo Kim South Korea
Alessandro Sacchetti Italy
Paolo Tedesco Italy
Benett Tsai Australia
Carlos Vidal Spain
Ensembles
Fibonacci Quartet
Kryštof Kohout Czechia violin
Luna De Mol Belgium violin
Elliot Kempton United Kingdom viola
Findlay Spence United Kingdom cello
inn.wien ensemble
Emil Geber Austria violin
Rahel Neyer Austria violin
Marlene Penninger Austria violin
Xenia Rubin Austria violin
Theresa Singer Austria violin
Sophie Trobos Austria violin
Marinus Kreidt Germany viola
Fridolin Schöbi Germany viola
Joe Pritchard United Kingdom cello
Rahel Rupprechter Germany cello
Benjamin Lampert Austria double bass
atelier lyrique
Soprano
Huiying Chen China
Ana Oniani Georgia
Estere Katrina Pogina Latvia
Josephine Shaw United Kingdom
Fanny Soyer France
Arina Verevkina Russian Federation
Seonwoo Lee South Korea
Mezzo-soprano
Marie-Juliette Ghazarian France
Tenor
Sebastian Hill United Kingdom
Michael McDermott United States
Baritone
Yu He China
David Roy Poland
Redmond Sanders United Kingdom
Bass
Jasurbek Khaydarov Uzbekistan
creative project development residency
Sofía Ros Spain accordion
audio recording programme
Bartosz Gardziński Poland
Ana Maria Gonzalez Sarmiento Canada
Annemarie Hoffmann Germany
Michel Miersch Germany

verbier festival orchestra (vfo)
Violin
Capucine de Bellefroid France
Jiachen Cao China
Hyunseo Cho South Korea
Marta Dettlaff Poland
Julia Dueñas Spain
Caroline Durham United States
Jisoo Hong South Korea
Yanxiong Huang China
Deurim Jung South Korea
William Kinney United States
Eunseo Lee South Korea
Joohye Lee South Korea
Rubi Lee United States
Arthur Legros France
Aijia Li China
Matteo Morbidelli Italy
Emilie Moreau France
Dexter Mott United States
Yujeong Nam South Korea
Anja Ovaskainen Serbia
Ina Park Germany
Samuele Parrini United States
Marija Radovanovic Serbia
Chaeeun Ryu South Korea
Polina Senatulova Russian Federation
Caroline Smoak United States
Jessie Sun Canada
Moshi Tang United States
Joshua Tavenier Netherlands
Yuhan Tian China
Po-Heng Wang Taiwan
Viola
Alexander Beggs Canada
Nicolás Bernal-Montaña Colombia
Jutta Demuynck Belgium
Riko Eto Japan
Jamie Howe United Kingdom
Mack Jones United States
Oleksandra Kanke Ukraine
Sanford Whatley United States
Moeko Kikuta Japan
Hoyoon Kim South Korea
Daniel Simmons United States
Chengzhan Wu China
Cello
Derek Bondet de la Bernardie France
Minjae Kim South Korea
Ania Lewis United States
Nicco Mazziotto United States
Eric Schindler United States
Clara Schlotz Switzerland
Sebastian Stoger United States
Austin Topper United States / Poland
Emile Traelnes Switzerland
Fiona Tsang United States
Double Bass
Riccardo Baiocco Italy
Mika Ben Aharon Israel / Germany
Nicola Carrara Italy
Ruth Christopher United States
James Perera United States
Margarita Rybkina Russian Federation
Gabriel Rodriguez Venezuela
Oliver Spalter New Zealand
Flute
Mathilde Alvin Besson France
Julin Cheung United States
Goeun Kwon South Korea
Nikolai Song South Korea
Oboe
Pietro Bodini Italy
Pedro Pais Capelão Portugal
Salome Harth Germany
Evan Yonce United States
Clarinet
Beatrice Aragona Italy
Mathias Landeau France
Alberto Sánchez García Spain
Yebin Seo South Korea
Bassoon
Joana Barbosa Portugal
Simon Demangeat France
Michael Quigley Canada
Pedro Silva Portugal
Horn
Helene Fleuter Germany
Ruben Hudnik Slovenia
Simon Kandel France
Yi-An Liao Taiwan
Claudio Minervini Italy
Pau Riedweg Canturri Spain
Trumpet
Amelia Kowalewska Poland
Franz Maury France
João Pedro Moreira Fernandes Portugal
Guillermo Serrano Marchena Spain
Trombone
Kean Adair United States
Francesco Maffei Italy
Diogo Mendes Portugal
Tomer Schwartz Austria / Israel
Tuba
Itamar Elis Israel
Percussion
William Chinn United States
Henrique Miguel Sousa Ramos Portugal
Mariia Shmeleva Russian Federation
Marco Santos Portugal
Léo Simon United States
Harp
Ekaterina Dvoretskaia Russian Federation
Séphora Foucher De La Fuente France
Berfin Saysel Turkey
verbier festival junior orchestra (vfjo)
Violin
Leonard Behrend United Kingdom
Flavio Casazza Switzerland
Jeremy Cha United States
Aiden Chantemsin United States
Youngwoo Choi South Korea
Gabriel Dweik Canada
Emmy Gu Germany
Andrei Ivascu Spain
Chanhee Jin South Korea
Glenn Krause United States
Mathis Lesueur Switzerland
Yixuan Li United States
Yingai Liu China
Quan Nguyen United States
Lorelei Schoenhard United States
Kah Yan Sha Malaysia
Sofia Știuca Moldova
Anaïs Tissus France
Saki Tokunaga Japan
Santiago Vinaccia Italy
Viola
Irene Caldas Sánchez Spain
Evelyn Freeman United Kingdom
Lucas Garcia Conrad Malta
Irati Gañan Rodriguez Spain
Tanav Gowda United States
Marco Llavero Don Spain
Ignacio Serrano Spain
Miha Zupan Slovenia
Cello
Leonor De Andrés Switzerland
Pauline Français France
Fredrik Heistø Carlsen Norway
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason United Kingdom
Raphael Ott Switzerland
Mizuki Sideri Greece
Double Bass
Grace Campling United States
Mauro Castillo Conti Spain
María Nela García Lorente Spain
Anna Komala Poland
Flute
Carl Idris Fowler France
Katja Jazbinšek Slovenia
Oboe
Eric Davidson Canada
Irene Lee South Korea / United States
Clarinet
Baptiste Amet France
Jazmin Szurcsik Norway
Bassoon
Serhan Bereketlioğlu Turkey
Anaïs Williner Switzerland
Horn
Lila Gattet France
Éloïse Hostiou France
Salvador José Domingo Spain
Robin Stewart France
Trumpet
Benjamin Mitchell United States
Romane Vuilleumier Switzerland
Trombone
Marcel Muñoz Salvador Spain
Massimiliano Nese Italy
Tuba
Samuel Serra Chouza Spain
Percussion
Miguel Coelho Portugal
Sungah Hannah Lim South Korea
Xiang Ni China
Elias Stoffel Switzerland
conducting mentorship
Joseph Bozich United States
Aleksandra Melaniuk Poland
Nicholas Sharma Canada

students by masterclass
Timothy Ridout – viola
31 January 2026
Chengzhan Wu China, 20 years old
Xinran Lai China, 18 years old
Marc Bouchkov – violin
1 February 2026
Fiona Zhonghan Chen China, 22 years old
Carine Suparman Australia, 14 years old
Gautier Capuçon – cello
2 February 2026
Haozheng Niu China, 14 years old
Tingyu Xie China, 15 years old
Gábor Takács-Nagy – Beethoven Sonatas
4 February 2026
Julia-Xiaozhuo Wang China, 18 years old — violin
Kunba Yate China, 16 years old — cello
Mischa Maisky – cello
5 February 2026
Huiying Cao China, 22 years old
Lu Chen China, 15 years old
Janine Jansen – violin
7 February 2026
Haewon Lim South Korea, 22 years old
Xiaowen Zhang China, 15 years old
Minsoo Sohn – piano
8 February 2026
Qifan Jiang China, 19 years old
Yeseo Nam South Korea, 15 years old