A space for exchange: privileged dialogues with your favourite artists and inspiring encounters with major figures from the international cultural scene. Discover a new TALK every day at the Forum, exploring the richness and diversity of the Verbier Festival. Each one-hour TALK will be hosted and presented by renowned journalists and musicologists.
The TALKS will be held in English or French. Simultaneous translation will be offered to the audience depending on the language of the guests.
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Pavillon des Combins
TALKS PROGRAMME
FRI 17.07 – 5:00 PM | Mischa Maisky
SAT 18.07 – 4:00 PM | Kengo Kuma, architect of the Verbier Cultural Centre, with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
This TALK takes place at 4:00 PM in the Combins Hall
SUN 19.07 – 5:00 PM | Alexandre Kantorow & Lucas Debargue
MON 20.07 – 5:00 PM | Music & Sustainability: Challenges and Perspectives, with Marie-Jo Valente, Justine Tincq and Steve Chambovey
TUE 21.07 – 5:00 PM | Evgeny Kissin
WED 22.07 – 5:00 PM | From Stage to Landscape: Culture in Verbier. Mireille Fulpius and the Verbier 3-D Sculpture Park
THU 23.07 – 5:00 PM | Verbier Cultural Centre, with the project teams
FRI 24.07 – 3:00 PM | 20 years of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Blythe Teh Engstroem and Michael Fuller
FRI 24.07 – 5:00 PM | Presentation of Bartók’s opera “Bluebeard’s Castle”, with Michèle Larivière
SAT 25.07 – 3:00 PM | Music & Artificial Intelligence, with Cybel’Art
SAT 25.07 – 5:00 PM | Sandrine Piau, with the singers of the Atelier Lyrique
SUN 26.07 – 5:00 PM | “Nicholas Angelich, the absolute piano”, with Nathalie Krafft
MON 27.07 – 3:30 PM | Shenzhen Verbier Festival, with Martin Engstroem and the Shenzhen delegation
MON 27.07 – 5:00 PM | Gianandrea Noseda
TUE 28.07 – 5:00 PM | Kian Soltani
WED 29.07 – 5:00 PM | James Gaffigan, with the musicians of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra
THU 30.07 – 5:00 PM | Renée Fleming, with Chris Bailey from the World Health Organization
FRI 31.07 – 5:00 PM | The Verbier Festival Archives, with Alain Dufaux, from EPFL, and Claire-Aimée Allyndrée
SAT 01.08 – 5:00 PM | Music & Therapy, with Ygal Rabinovici & Noa Rabinovici and Professor Arseny Sokolov
SUN 02.08 – 5:00 PM | Martin T:son Engstroem