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深圳·韦尔比耶音乐节 2026
Verbier Festival 2026 Shenzhen
The inaugural Verbier Festival in Shenzhen: 30 January to 8 February 2026
March 20, 2026 – Vevey (Switzerland) — The Verbier Festival unveils a new album on its VF Gold label, in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, revealing a gem from the archives of the 2018 edition: Christoph Eschenbach conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, alongside renowned soprano Ying Fang and the Verbier Festival Orchestra.
Mahler’s Fourth Symphony evokes a childlike vision of paradise, a world where innocence replaces gravity. A great contemplator of nature, Mahler believed that every work should contain a fragment of the infinite; this is expressed here in a more concise form, performed by a reduced orchestra and imbued with an almost candid spirit. Under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach, the Verbier Festival Orchestra leads us to Das himmlische Leben, the symphony’s final movement and culmination, where Ying Fang’s crystalline voice seems to elevate us to celestial spheres.
Christoph Eschenbach conducts Mahler 4 will be available from March 20, 2026, on Apple Music Classical and all streaming platforms.
Christoph Eschenbach conducts Mahler 4 album programme:
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 Christoph Eschenbach, Ying Fang, VFO
VERBIER FESTIVAL SHENZHEN 2026 CONCLUDES ITS INAUGURAL EDITION, LAUNCHING A THREE-YEAR COLLABORATION WITH THE CITY OF SHENZHEN
February 9, 2026 (Shenzhen, China) — The Verbier Festival has concluded the inaugural edition of Verbier Festival Shenzhen 2026, held from January 30 to February 8, 2026, marking the first time the Verbier Festival has been presented outside Europe and a significant step in its long-term international development.
Planning for this expansion began three years ago through dialogue between Martin T:son Engstroem, Founder and Co-CEO of the Verbier Festival, and Jiatong Wu, Founder of Wu Promotion, with the ambition of establishing a lasting presence for the Festival in Asia.
Unfolding over ten days across Shenzhen’s leading cultural venues, the Festival presented 24 concerts, seven public masterclasses and a professional roundtable, welcoming audiences to symphonic programmes, chamber music, solo recitals and educational activities, and reaching a total live audience of more than 23,000 spectators.
Long regarded as a laboratory for the future of classical music, the Festival has helped redefine how artists, audiences and institutions engage with the art form in a global, digital age. Through its early engagement with digital platforms and sustained international touring activity, notably through the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Festival has cultivated a global audience well beyond Switzerland.
“This first edition in Shenzhen has shown how strongly the Verbier Festival’s values of artistic excellence, education and collaboration resonate here,” said Martin T:son Engstroem, Founder and Co-CEO of the Verbier Festival. “Shenzhen is a city defined by innovation and openness, where technological leadership, global connectivity and cultural ambition increasingly intersect, and that spirit aligns naturally with the way the Verbier Festival approaches classical music— as a living art form shaped by exchange, curiosity and new encounters. We are delighted to build on this momentum through a longer-term collaboration with the city.”
At the heart of the Festival, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Gábor Takács-Nagy, performed a series of symphonic programmes. Across the Festival, audiences also heard internationally celebrated artists including Yuja Wang, Lang Lang, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Janine Jansen, Joshua Bell, Mischa Maisky, Gautier Capuçon and Bryn Terfel, alongside a wide range of chamber music and solo performances. Alongside these performances, public masterclasses formed an integral part of the programme, welcoming students, young professionals and music lovers, and offering direct insight into artistic practice.
The Festival programme also included a professional roundtable, Developing Young Musicians: Global Perspectives, bringing together Verbier Festival leadership and representatives from leading Chinese cultural institutions to exchange views on artist development and long-term international collaboration.
Presented in close collaboration with Shenzhen Concert Hall and the Longgang International Arts Center, with Wu Promotion as Presenting Partner, the Shenzhen edition supported the introduction and long-term development of the Verbier Festival in China. The programme marked the inauguration of the Arts Center’s new state-of-the-art concert hall, located in Shenzhen’s Longgang district.
“From a China perspective, this collaboration demonstrates the potential for sustained engagement between international cultural institutions and Chinese cities,” said Jiatong Wu, Founder of Wu Promotion. “Shenzhen’s role as a major innovation and connectivity hub makes it a strong platform for projects of this scale, with audiences drawn not only from the city itself but from across the Asia-Pacific region.”
Audience engagement extended well beyond the city itself. Preliminary data indicates that approximately 30% of audiences were based in Shenzhen, while around 70% travelled from outside the city, including major Chinese cities and the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, as well as visitors from across Asia beyond China’s borders — a strong result for a first edition.
The Festival also achieved significant digital and media visibility. An integrated cross-platform communication strategy across Chinese and international channels generated an estimated 17 million impressions in the media, as well as numerous interviews with participating artists and Festival representatives. Notably, the Xiaohongshu (RedNote) social media platform represented 2 million views.
The concentration of performances across Shenzhen’s major venues also generated a tangible cultural and tourism impact for the city, contributing to increased demand for accommodation, dining and cultural travel during the Festival period and underlining the role of high-level cultural events as drivers of wider urban activity.
“The Verbier Festival Shenzhen reflects our city’s commitment to fostering a vibrant and open cultural ecosystem,” said Simon Ding, Deputy Director, Shenzhen Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism. “By welcoming international artists and strengthening collaboration with cultural institutions, this initiative contributes to Shenzhen’s role as an international cultural city.”
The inaugural Verbier Festival Shenzhen edition launches a three-year initial collaboration with the city of Shenzhen, reflecting a shared commitment to artistic excellence, education and sustained international cultural exchange, and laying the foundation for future editions and continued dialogue. The next edition of the Verbier Festival Shenzhen will take place from February 9 to 18, 2027.
ABOUT THE VERIBER FESTIVAL
Founded in Switzerland in 1994, the Verbier Festival is one of the world’s leading classical music festivals, bringing together top international artists and emerging talent through performances, professional training and artistic exchange.
FACTS AND FIGURES
Dates: 30 January – 8 February 2026
Duration: 10 days
Concerts: 24 — Shenzhen Concert Hall: 18; Longgang International Arts Center: 6
Public masterclasses: 7
Roundtable: Developing Young Musicians: Global Perspectives
After a 2025 edition marked by unprecedented artistic and public success, the Verbier Festival unveils today the programme for its 33rd edition, which will take place from July 16 to August 2 2026.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2026 VERBIER FESTIVAL PROGRAMME.
TICKET SALES OPEN ON 24 NOVEMBER 2025.
November 21, 2025 – Verbier (Switzerland) — After a 2025 edition marked by unprecedented artistic and public success (ticket sales up 21% compared to 2024), the Verbier Festival unveils today the programme for its 33rd edition, which will take place from July 16 to August 2 2026.
Over 60 Mainstage concerts, and close to 100 masterclasses, and numerous free events will be offered to audiences during these 18 days in the heart of the Valais resort.
Faithful to its values of excellence and discovery, and with young talent development at the core of its mission, the Verbier Festival will present many unmissable events for music lovers from around the world. Notable artists this year include:
Conductors: Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lahav Shani, Gianandrea Noseda, Daniel Harding, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Gábor Takács-Nagy, James Gaffigan and Vasily Petrenko.
Pianists: Martha Argerich, Yunchan Lim, Evgeny Kissin, Khatia Buniatishvili, András Schiff, Alexandre Kantorow, Kirill Gerstein, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Mao Fujita, Lucas Debargue, Bruce Liu, Nikolaï Lugansky, Minsoo Sohn, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Dmitry Shishkin, Sunwook Kim, Julien Quentin and Richard Goode.
Other Soloists: Janine Jansen, Joshua Bell, Leonidas Kavakos, Clara-Jumi Kang, Daniel Lozakovich, Marc Bouchkov, Augustin Dumay, Blythe Teh Engstroem, Mischa Maisky, Steven Isserlis, Kian Soltani, Daniel Blendulf, Pablo Sainz-Villegas, Pierre Génisson… Many of them will appear in the famed Rencontres Inédites, chamber-music encounters unique to Verbier.
Three operas will be presented this summer:
Mozart, Così fan tutte with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by its Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy
Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle conducted by Simon Rattle, with Magdalena Kožená and Gerald Finley
Verdi, La Traviatawith the singers of the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra conducted by its Music Director James Gaffigan.
Singers: Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Peter Mattei, Michelle DeYoung, Benjamin Krimmel, Johanna and Rebecka Wallroth, Thomas Quasthoff and, Anna El-Khashem.
The Festival’s 33rd edition will open officially on Thursday July 16, 2026 with a ceremony followed by a concert highlighting leading Swiss ensembles: the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble and the Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan.The Opening Concert on July 17, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in his highly anticipated return to Verbier
(his last appearance, Elektra in 2017, remains unforgettable), will feature Wagner’s Götterdämmerung finale scene and Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie.Discovering and nurturing the most promising talents remains a core priority of the Verbier Festival. This year, audiences will hear pianist-composer Tsotne Zedginidze, violinists Amira Abouzahra, Stephen Waarts, Yamen Saadi and Paloma So, violist Timothy Ridout, and cellist Pablo Ferrández, several of whom are alumni of the Verbier Festival Academy.
This mission is embodied in the Festival’s resident training orchestras: the Verbier Festival Orchestra (100 musicians aged 18–28, 25 nationalities, selected from over 1,200 candidates) and Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (60 musicians aged 15–18, 40 nationalities, selected from over 300 candidates).
The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2026.A true global ambassador of the Festival, the VFCO undertakes major tours and recordings throughout the year. In 2026 it will perform: China at the first Shenzhen Verbier Festival (January 30–February 8, 2026), South Korea (April), Japan, including Suntory Hall, Tokyo (October 14, 2026). Many publications and special events are planned to mark this anniversary. The orchestra is composed exclusively of alumni of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, now established as soloists or principals in major international orchestras.
Widely regarded as a benchmark among international summer music academies, the Verbier Festival Academy — uniting the Soloists & Ensembles and Atelier Lyrique programmes — will once again welcome nearly 60 young artists to work with today’s foremost masters.Nearly 100 public masterclasses will be offered free of charge, led by distinguished artists including Renée Fleming, András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Richard Goode and Nikolaï Lugansky. The Prix Yves Paternot, awarded to the most accomplished and promising musician of each year’s Academy, celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2026. A special concert reuniting several past laureates will take place on July 21.
UNLTD, Verbier Festival’s creative laboratory, will present around 20 events, including 6 concerts at the Verbier Cinema featuring artists as diverse as Sandrine Piau, the Cesária Évora Orchestra, Adèle Charvet (in a concert dedicated to Joséphine Baker), a ciné-concert tribute to Miles Davis marking the centenary of his birth with trumpet player Shems Bendali, the Franco-Cameroonian duo OKALI, and a trio led by Cuban pianist Rolando Luna. Other concerts, present in innovative formats, will include the world premiere of a reimagining of In a Silent Way, Miles Davis’s cult album, by the string quintet Wooden Elephant. UNLTD’s Open Air progamme (Balades musicales and high-altitude concerts) will be announced early in 2026.
Finally, the Festival continues to broaden its engagement with young audiences through an ever more dynamic VF KiDS offering: year-round workshops and performances in schools throughout the cantons of Valais, Vaud and Fribourg, and a varied line-up of activities during the Festival. Highlights include: Peter and the Wolf, illustrated with children’s drawings and visuals by multimedia artist Marc Philippin; What on Earth!, the award-winning stage work by ensemble inn.wien that explores our relationship with the planet through music, movement and visual imagination; the annual Storytellers performance, featuring Terrokois, a new creation by René-Claude Emery with Prix Yves Paternot Laureates, Trio Concept.
Remaining faithful to its values and origins, the Verbier Festival continues to renew itself and expand internationally through the launch of theShenzhen Verbier Festival (21 concerts and a series of masterclasses with leading soloists), an ambitious audiovisual strategy, and major touring projects for the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra planned through the 2028/29 season.
A 33rd Festival edition shaped by connection, generosity and artistic friendship, the qualities that continue to define Verbier.
TICKET OFFICE
Ticket Office opens Monday, November 24, 2025 at 10:00.
T +41 (0)848 771 882 ticketing@verbierfestival.com
The 33rd edition of the Verbier Festival will take place from July 16 to August 2, 2026 in Verbier (Switzerland). It is made possible thanks to the essential support of all its public and private partners: public institutions, including the Commune of Val de Bagnes, Loterie Romande and the Canton of Valais, Banque REYL Intesa Sanpaolo as Principal Sponsor, as well as all sponsors, foundations, patrons and The Friends of the Verbier Festival.
As previously announced, the first Shenzhen Verbier Festival will take place between January 30 – February 8, 2026. The all-together 25 performances and educational activities will be at the Shenzhen Concert Hall. The programming will reflect the unique programs of the Verbier Festival in offering many of the worlds leading interpreters making music together and at the same time offering a platform for the new generation of artists. The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra with its Music Director Gabor Takacs-Nagy will form the backbone of its activities.
For ticketing information, please contact us at shenzhen@verbierfestival.com
For the first time, the prestigious Swiss festival is heading to China, from January 30 to February 8, 2026. The program includes 25 concerts, masterclasses, and unique encounters with world-renowned artists such as Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Mischa Maisky, Janine Jansen, and Mikhail Pletnev. The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy, will also perform six exceptional concerts.
This event is part of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Switzerland, strengthening cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Residency Presented by Stanford Live in Collaboration with the Stanford Department of Music April 21-25, 2025
Stanford Live Hosts the Verbier Festival’s Historic First U.S. Residency. Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Returns to the U.S. After 16 Years.
Announcement of the 2025 Verbier Festival Programme and ticket sales opening on novembre 25, 2024.
REGISTER NOW: Looking to spend your summer making music in the Swiss Alps? Join our online Academy & Orchestra information sessions.
PRESS RELEASE: Verbier Festival and Apple Music Classical bring Verbier’s eminent classical artists & renowned repertoire to audiences around the world
