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Venues & Accessibility
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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)
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 17 July 2026 to 2 August 2026. Contact the Ticket Office to buy your Pass.
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.
Masterclasses 2026
Programme at a glance — Masterclasses are among the Festival's most popular events.
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.
Summer 2026
Your summer of unlimited music starts with these concerts.
Buskers 2026
Calling all street performers! Apply now to play at next summer’s Verbier Festival.
Aftermovie 2025
Relive the energy, the music, and the moments that made UNLTD 2025 shine.
UNLTD Collective
Alumni of the Verbier Festival Academy creating bold, original projects for today.
Amplifiers
Join the community that helps UNLTD spark new sounds and ideas.
Summer 2026
Concerts, workshops and outdoor fun for children during the Verbier Festival.
Storytellers in the Classroom
A journey through words, music and images to dream and create.
Zoo
Short animated films inspired by The Carnival of the Animals.
Ludwig's World
An interactive playspace to discover Beethoven.
Amplifiers
Amplifiers help VF KiDS grow and keep the magic of music alive.
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.
Patrons
The Verbier Festival is grateful to its philanthropic patrons for their generous support
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.
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
Learn more about the Verbier Festival's Board of Directors.
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Members

Season 2025/2026
the friends
The Verbier Festival Friends Association warmly thanks its generous donors for their support during past season.
The 2026 season opened on October 1, 2025, and donations can now be made online, by telephone or by bank transfer.

Donor listings updated 10 November 2025

Patrons

Yuichi et Uny Watanabe

Benefactors

Jiyoung Choi
Fonds de dotation Toinette de Hatvany-Montferrand, en mémoire d’Aymeric de Monferrand
Christian and Béatrice Schlumberger

Donors

Marianne-Cécile Bolomey
Regnier and Martine Haegelsteen
Nancy Maruyama

Associates

Werner and Ruth Bühler
Mark and Rebecca Byrne
Liz Fuller and Trevor Cook
Urs and Yvonne Düggelin
Nicholas and Sylvia Gee
Jennifer Hodgson
Peter Jan and Touran Kroon
Sagrario Perez Soto

Supporters

Joseph and Diane Assemat-Tessandier
Philippe and Sophie Bioul
Françoise and Françoise Labro
Agnès Lustigue
Philippe and Danièle Renardet
Edward and Amanda Van Kersbergen
William Vanderfelt
Hui Feng Zhu
Anonyme

Duo Partners

Florence Bacchetta
Philippe and Wei-Ta Baroz
Frederik and Annemarie Buijn-Buissink
Gordon Cameron
Selina Chan-Ying
Christine Chaponnier and Micheline Bouland-Monney
Philippe and Ysé Chappuis
Stephanie Chatelanat Marmier
Guillaume de Lalène
Philippe and Michèle de Preux
Philippe de Selliers
Gilles and Corina Demottaz
Robert Findling
Jacques and Corinne Finkbeiner
Michael and Eva Fisher
Daniel Gander and Elisabeth Franzetti
Daniel and Danièle Frossard-Laedermann
Volkan Kisakürek
Rudolf and Renata Lanz-Beer
Yumi Lee
Jaron and Tsippy Lotan
Christophe and Lise Michele Marquot
Bob Stokinger and Mary E. Duffy
Suna Oh
Woonjung Park
Eugène and Chantal Riethmann
Michael Scherer
Tania Segu
Art Siegel
Anne Stewart
Ena and Esther Su
Anthony Tolis
Elie and Gilly Zilkha
Anonyme

Solo Partners

Jaeeun Ahn
Bruce Barclay
Marc-André Barras
Violaine Barrelet
David Bartley
Aurore Belkin
Corinne Benoist
Annie Claire Blum-Bigar
Enrico Brignone
Plinio Carenini
Pang Wei Chang
John Cuddy
Eric E. Derrer
Marc D’Espine
Leni du Plessis
Brigitte Esteve
Sari Esteve
Tanja and Bernd Fahlbusch Zeilfelder
Yunping Feng
Anne-Claude Froidevaux
Yen Sil Her
Margaretha Hoff
Kayo Ishibashi
Mijung Jung
Kumiko Kaneko
Sooyoung Kang
Georges Kaplanski
Hyehwa Kim
Jeong Ran Kim
Minjin Kim
Youngah Kim
Eunha Kim Dabo
Jeroen Kohnstamm
André Kotlarevsky
Anna Lebedeva
Daniela Lederer
Chungwoo Lee
Hau Bin Lee
Woosung Lee
Françoise Lemarchand
Vivien Leong
Danielle Magnolato
Benoît and Ariane Mandosse
Antony Michaelson
Kristin Moon
Ernst Müller
Laurence Naville
Béatrice Nicollier de Weck
Eugene Nizker
Maria Papadatou
Sealrim Park
Yumin Park
Françoise Perez
Hans Ulrich Peter
Michel Posternak
Marianne Reymond
Marion Righetti
Katharina Roth
Alexandre Sanchez
Stefano Sanguinetti
Toshiko Sato
Maria Sevdali
Alexandr Shalukhin
Galina Sheynberg
Nicky Shinder
Hyeryung So
Meeran Anne Zemitis
Gavin and Vanessa Taylor Neil
Ekaterina Tebus
Béatrice Troillet
Anne-Brigitte Vaudan
Alain Viglino
Gail Von Bergen-Ryan
Béatrice Vuille
Eun Ha Wang
Martyn Wesley
Jennifer Rebecca Wong
Anonyme (5)

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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