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Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, hailed by the The Economist as “opera’s newest star”, has taken the classical music world by storm since winning the much coveted Operalia competition in 2015. Her resounding debuts in all the most prestigious international venues have garnered overwhelming critical attention: “It’s been a long time since a singer has generated […]

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a […]

Born to Polish parents what is today Lyvov, Ukrain, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. Mr. Ax made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won […]

Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello repertoire, collaborating with communities and institutions to explore culture’s role in society, or engaging unexpected musical forms, Yo-Yo strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce […]

Zubin Mehta was born in 1936 in Bombay and received his first musical education under his father’s Mehli Mehta’s guidance who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. After a short period of pre-medical studies in Bombay, he left for Vienna in 1954 where he eventually entered the conducting […]

Shchedrin first visited Verbier 25 years ago in 1997, when Maxim Vengerov and Antonio Pappano performed his new Violin Concerto. He has since then been an annual guest at the Festival with his late wife Maya Plissetskaya, and has over the years composed many new works from his modest chalet lent to him by one […]

Rena Shereshevskaya is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and a postgraduate of this institution, a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), a laureate of the Ippolitov-Ivanov International Prize in Musical Education and an Honorary Professor of the Moscow Ippolitov-lvanov Musical and Pedagogical Institute. She taught at the Central Special […]

Ruth Phillips is internationally recognised as a cellist, performance coach, and writer. Working at the intersection of music and mindfulness, she is a graduate of Mindfulness programmes with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield and draws on neuroscience, contemplative practice, somatic awareness, and four decades as a professional musician. Her coaching, mindfulness retreats for creatives, and […]

Gary Leboff is the UK’s leading Performance Psychologist. A unique figure in the arena of coaching, Leboff has devoted his life to helping people achieve their ambitions, creating a myriad of leading-edge tools and techniques, and transforming performance across the spheres of business, music and sport. He also works with young people and adults from […]

Patrick Jeanneret is an international tax specialist. After working in Geneva and New York for Ernst & Young and then as a tax manager for the Reuters news agency’s HQ in Geneva, for which he travelled throughout Africa, Europe and the former USSR, he was hired as deputy director of the tax department at Nestlé […]