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Simon Wiget is the Director of Verbier Tourism.

Jean-François Bobillier was born in Orsières in 1973. After his beginnings with the Echo d’Orny brass band, he completed his studies in music theory, euphonium, and conducting at the Sion Conservatory in 1994. In 1995, he attended the first military music officers’ school in Zurich, training that enabled him to conduct various military music orchestras. […]

Gaëtan Juge is a French sound engineer trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and the Universität der Künste Berlin. He has worked on recordings for Warner, Alpha, Apparté, and Château de Versailles Spectacles, collaborating with artists such as Huw Montague Rendall, Pene Pati, Florian Sempey, and ensembles including […]

Australian soprano Eden Shifroni is a member of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where she studies with Russell Smythe as the recipient of the Alastair Jackson International Opera Award. She won the 2024 IFAC Australian Singing Competition and received the Audience Prize at the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award. Operatic […]

Aleksandra Melaniuk is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a Salonen Conducting Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at the Colburn School, in partnership with the San Francisco Symphony. Recent highlights include her subscription concert debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, appearances with the San Francisco Symphony in the SoundBox series, and her participation in the […]

Conductor and composer Joseph Bozich has gained accolades in symphonic, operatic, and contemporary music. In 2025 Bozich received the prize for “Best Interpretation of a Work by Khachaturian” at the Khachaturian Conducting Competition with the Armenian State Symphony. He has been assistant conductor with the Hungarian State Opera, Opera Maine, Juilliard Opera, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, […]

Beginning in the 2025/26 season, Nicholas Sharma joins the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as TSO RBC Resident Conductor and Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has led performances with orchestras across North America, earning recognition for his versatility and musical artistry. Recent highlights include débuts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Eugene Symphony, […]

Celia Llácer completed her Master’s degree in conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), studying with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller. She has conducted orchestras including the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra and […]

Dr Manuela Filippa obtained her PhD in Psychology from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre and she is currently Maître Assistante (Assistant Professor) at the University of Geneva. Her work aims to advance an embodied and integrative science of emotion, bridging brain, physiology, and behavior at the origins of intersubjectivity. She studies neural and physiological […]

Soprano Emily Rocha is a Second Prize winner of the Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition and a current member of the COC Ensemble Studio. In spring 2027, she performs Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Canadian Opera Company. Her 2025/26 season also includes appearances as Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto) and covering Gilda, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), […]