Events 60
Events 60
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OLIVIER CAVÉ
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Opening Ceremony
Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:00
Salle des CombinsVerbier
From Scarlatti to Beethoven, Swiss pianist Olivier Cavé explores the early piano sonata in all its richness, variety and invention.
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VFO / RATTLE
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Opening Concert
Friday, 19 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
More than ‘simply’ a symphony, Mahler’s vast and mighty Third was his optimistic musical depiction of the meaning of life as he saw it. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the VFO, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble and Cantiamo Oberwallis.
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YUNCHAN LIM
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
YUNCHAN LIM
Piano Recital
Saturday, 20 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
In 2022, aged 18, Yunchan Lim became the youngest person ever to win gold at the historic Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. For his Verbier debut he plays Chopin’s complete Études, the first of which were composed when Chopin was only 19.
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VFCO / TAKÁCS-NAGY – LES NOCES DE FIGARO
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Opera
Saturday, 20 July 2024 18:00
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the VFCO and Academy members in Mozart’s greatest opera, with a cast headed by Peter Mattei, Golda Schultz, Tommaso Barea and Anna El-Khashem.
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NOA / GIL DOR
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Worl Music
Saturday, 20 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
‘Letters to Bach’ is a clever, original and beautiful musical project created by Noa and guitarist Gil Dor which sees them perform 12 short instrumental pieces by Bach to which Noa sings her own original lyrics, supported by Gil's guitar.
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NOBUYUKI TSUJII
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Sunday, 21 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
From Bach to Kapoustin, Nobuyuki Tsujii, the famous blind Japanese pianist and former winner Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold medalist, explores how composers have drawn inspiration from foreign melodies.
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VFJO / GAFFIGAN / ZEDGINIDZE
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Sunday, 21 July 2024 14:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
The outstandingly gifted young Georgian pianist Tsotne Zedginidze joins James Gaffigan and the VFJO for Bartók’s fierce First Piano Concerto, followed by Ravel’s orchestral transcription of the Mussorgsky masterpiece which began life as a virtuoso piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition.
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EVGENY KISSIN
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Piano Recital
Sunday, 21 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
From Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27 to Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Evgeny Kissin presents an expressively wide-ranging programme full of deft emotional and harmonic dovetails.
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RENCONTRES INÉDITES I
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Sunday, 21 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Two rarely performed chamber gems, interpreted by a constellation of some of the classical world’s brightest new-generation stars.
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MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ / KIRILL GERSTEIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Lyric Concert
Monday, 22 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and pianist Kirill Gerstein in a recital travelling from the folk songs of nineteenth century Moravia to the cabaret halls of early twentieth century Berlin.
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ACADEMY PRESENTS I
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Lyric Concert
Monday, 22 July 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Singers of the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique perform this always popular recital of opera arias with the head of the Atelier’s opera programme, pianist Caroline Dowdle. An opportunity to hear the best of the new generation of emerging opera stars.
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VFO / PETRENKO / LUGANSKY
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Monday, 22 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Vasily Petrenko conducts the VFO in two of Tchaikovsky’s greatest masterpieces, first his piano concerto with pianist Nikolaï Lugansky and then for a unique and funfilled version of the Nutcracker.
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RENCONTRES INÉDITES II
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Monday, 22 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Romanticism past and present, including the world premiere of young Georgian pianist-composer Tsotne Zedginidze’s brand new Piano Trio.
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DMITRY SHISHKIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Critically acclaimed former Tchaikovsky Competition and Concours de Genève prizewinner Dmitri Shishkin uses baroque-inspired music by Debussy as the bridge between baroque works looking ahead to the Romantic era, and two of that era’s greatest masterpieces by Chopin.
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VFCO / RATTLE / KAVAKOS / MÄKELÄ / SHANI
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the VFCO in a Beethoven double-bill featuring two of his younger conductor colleagues, Klaus Mäkelä and Lahav Shani, as the cello and piano soloists in the Triple Concerto, with violinist Leonidas Kavakos; followed by the ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3.
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RENCONTRES INÉDITES III
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Luminary and younger-generation Verbier artists join together for three contrasting Romantic works from three different centuries.
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NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Nikolaï Lugansky presents a programme of pianistic song from Mendelssohn’s early Romanticism through to his own transcriptions of scenes from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.
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KIDJO / NAMEKAWA / ORCHESTRE APPASSIONATO / HERZOG
Salle des CombinsVerbier
World Music
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Mathieu Herzog and string players from his critically acclaimed chamber orchestra, Appassionato Orchestra, join forces with pianist Maki Namekawa and five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, Angélique Kidjo for an exceptional evening at the Combins stage. Together, they present a selection of songs from Africa to the Chanson Française of Brel and Piaf, most of them in new arrangements by Herzog. -
RENCONTRES INÉDITES IV
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Mature-career masterpieces for piano and strings by Mendelssohn and Dvořák.
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KISSIN / SMEKHOV – THE UNQUENCHABLE TORCH
Cinéma de VerbierVerbier
Poetry
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 22:00
Cinéma de VerbierVerbier
This literary-musical composition is a collaboration of pianist Evgeny Kissin and actor Veniamin Smekhov commemorating the Soviet Yiddish poets who perished during Stalinist antisemitic campaign.
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YAMEN SAADI / JULIEN QUENTIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Thursday, 25 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
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ACADEMY PRESENTS II
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Lyric Concert
Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Singers of the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique take to the stage for this recital of Lied and Art Song. James Baillieu, Head of the Atelier’s Song Programme, collaborates on piano. An opportunity to hear the best of the new generation of vocal talent.
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VFCO / PELTOKOSKI / WANG
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Thursday, 25 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Yuja Wang stars as piano soloist in George Gershwin’s famous 1924 fusion of classical and jazz, Rhapsody in Blue, bookended by colourfully scored orchestral masterpieces by Ravel and Mozart.
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ANDRÁS SCHIFF
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Thursday, 25 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Sir András Schiff has been making regular returns to the Verbier Festival since 2015, both as a performer and as a teacher imparting his wisdom to Academy musicians. This year he returns with something special: a ‘surprise’ programme, introduced from the stage.
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BRUCE LIU
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Friday, 26 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Canadian Bruce Liu has been a celebrated Chopin interpreter since winning the 2021 Chopin Piano Competition. Here he complements the Second Piano Sonata and ‘Là ci darem la Mano’ variations with works by Rameau and Handel.
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LILY MAISKY
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Chamber Music
Friday, 26 July 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
The Verbier Festival is giving Lily Maisky ‘carte blanche’ to play her own selection of musical.
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VFO / PAPPANO / LIM
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Friday, 26 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Antonio Pappano conducts the VFO in Beethoven’s fifth and final piano concerto, featuring 2022 Cliburn Gold Medalist Yunchan Lim, followed by Bruckner’s final, mighty Ninth Symphony.
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RENCONTRES INÉDITES V
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Friday, 26 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Strauss’s early Piano Quartet, followed by Fauré’s mature Second Piano Quartet, performed by a multi-generational line-up of consummate chamber musicians.
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KIRILL GERSTEIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Saturday, 27 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Pianist Kirill Gerstein returns to Verbier with a programme blending virtuoso bravura and poetry, heartbreak and exuberance.
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QUASTHOFF JUBILEE
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Jazz
Saturday, 27 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Join Thomas Quasthoff and his talented musician friends for a festive evening of toe-tapping fun in celebration of the legendary bass-baritone's 50 years on stage.
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ALEXANDRE KANTOROW
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Saturday, 27 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Alexandre Kantorow presents works by and inspired by Liszt, culminating in the austerely beautiful left-hand transcription of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor by Liszt’s younger sparring partner, Brahms.
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RENCONTRES INÉDITES VI
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Sunday, 28 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Drawn from his film scores, Shostakovich’s 5 Pieces for Two Violins and Piano were arranged by his film director friend, Lev Atovmyan, to keep him financially afloat, and are worlds away from his usual acerbic complexity. By contrast, Dvořák’s 4 miniatures and Smetana’s Piano Trio were labours of love.
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VFJO / GAFFIGAN / ŠPAČEK
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Sunday, 28 July 2024 14:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
James Gaffigan conducts the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra in two early-career masterpieces, Barber’s Violin Concerto with Josef Špaček as soloist, and Stravinsky’s multicoloured Firebird Suite.
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VFCO / PAPPANO / PLETNEV
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Sunday, 28 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Antonio Pappano leads the VFCO in a programme between whose fizzing Rossini and Bizet outer ends sits Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 26, with Mikhail Pletnev as soloist.
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LEONIDAS KAVAKOS / MAO FUJITA
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Sunday, 28 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
From heartbreak to folky vim, violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Mao Fujita join together for a musically multi-faceted programme of Mozart, Brahms, Bartók and Schubert.
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BOMSORI KIM / JULIEN QUENTIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Monday, 29 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Violinist Bomsori Kim makes her Verbier Festival debut, partnering with pianist Julien Quentin for a multicoloured programme of French and French-inspired works.
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JOAQUÍN ACHÚCARRO
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Piano Recital
Monday, 29 July 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Spanish pianist Joaquín Achúcarro presents a programme of waltzes, nostalgia and lavish-textured lyricism.
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VFO / SHANI / BARENBOIM / WEILERSTEIN / KANTOROW
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Monday, 29 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Lahav Shani conducts the VFO in a multi-soloist night, Alexandre Kantorow joining them for Brahms’s mighty Second Piano Concerto, before cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violist Michael Barenboim play the lead roles in Strauss’s ‘Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character,’ Don Quixotte.
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DAVID FRAY
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Piano Recital
Monday, 29 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Described as ‘Perhaps the most inspired, certainly the most original Bach player of his generation,’ pianist David Fray plays the Goldberg Variations.
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QUATUOR ÉBÈNE / LAHAV SHANI
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Quatuor Ébène won a 2023 Gramophone Award® for its Mozart String Quintets. Here it performs the first of his brightly melodic ‘Prussian’ quartets, before joining forces with Lahav Shani for Dvořák's similarly brightly songful Piano Quintet No. 2 – punctuated by Schnittke’s dark Third String Quartet.
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WULFSON / CONUNOVA / TEH ENGSTROEM / QUENTIN
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Chamber Music
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Violinists Alexandra Conunova and Eduard Wulfson, and violoist Blythe Teh Engstroem perform three jewels of the string duo and trio repertoire, before pianist Julien Quentin partners Wulfsun for Chausson’s much-loved Poème.
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YUJA WANG
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Piano Recital
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
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AVI AVITAL / KSENIJA SIDOROVA
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Mandolinist Avi Avital and accordionist Ksenija Sidorova present a glittering programme of folk-themed transcriptions.
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MICHAEL BARENBOIM / JULIEN QUENTIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Violinist Michael Barenboim and pianist Julien Quentin present a programme of lyrical and impassioned French miniatures.
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ACADEMY PRESENTS III
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Lyric Concert
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Accomplished singers and instrumentalists of the Verbier Academy's Atelier Lyrique and Soloists & Ensembles programme join forces in a captivating vocal chamber recital. This popular concert not only presents the remarkable talents of these performers but also shines a spotlight on some of the most captivating yet often underappreciated chamber music repertoire.
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VFCO / HARDING / LIU
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Bruce Liu first came to the world’s attention when he won the Chopin Piano Competition 2021 in Warsaw. Here he joins the VFCO under Daniel Harding for Chopin’s poetic Piano Concerto No. 1, followed by Dvořák’s mighty Seventh Symphony.
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DANIEL LOZAKOVICH / DAVID FRAY
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
From violin sonatas to the solo keyboard partita, violinist Daniel Lozakovich and pianist David Fray explore Bach’s groundbreaking and multifaceted instrumental works of the 1720s.
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THE MOREAUS
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Thursday, 1 August 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
French brothers, cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist Jérémie Moreau, present three dialogue-rich cello sonatas from three different centuries.
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VFO / MÄKELÄ / WANG
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Thursday, 1 August 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Yuja Wang joins Klaus Mäkelä and the VFO for Rachmaninoff’s urgent, virtuosically glittering Fourth Piano Concerto, followed by Mahler’s much-loved Fifth Symphony.
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ABEL SELAOCOE
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Cello Recital
Thursday, 1 August 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
One of classical music’s most exciting new voices, South African cellist Abel Selocoe brings western classical and traditional African music alongside each other, singing as well as playing. For his Verbier debut he performs his own compositions and arrangements together with Baroque works.
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AUGUSTIN DUMAY / JULIEN QUENTIN
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Friday, 2 August 2024 11:00
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
French violinist Augustin Dumay has recorded the three Brahms violin sonatas not once but twice, with the latest praised for his distinctive warmth and luminous clarity. Now he brings his interpretations to Verbier, in partnership with Julien Quentin.
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ACADEMY PRESENTS IV
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Chamber Music
Friday, 2 August 2024 15:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
The Verbier Festival Academy has discovered some of today’s leading chamber music ensembles: the Calidore, Arod, and Ébène Quartets among them. Musicians of the 2024 edition of the Academy’s Ensembles programme look to carry on this legacy. They take to the stage in this hour-long recital to showcase their talent.
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MAO FUJITA
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Piano Recital
Friday, 2 August 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
After last year’s highly acclaimed Beethoven violin sonata cycle with Marc Bouchkov, pianist Mao Fujita returns to Verbier with a recital putting a spotlight on the poetry and crystalline clarity of his playing.
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QUATUOR ÉBÈNE
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Friday, 2 August 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Quatuor Ébène presents a multi-coloured trio of quartets, Bartók’s vigorous, folk-inspired Third Quartet acting as the palette-cleanser between Haydn’s and Schubert’s respective battles between G minor darkness and G major light.
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ACADEMY PRESENTS V
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Chamber Music
Saturday, 3 August 2024 11:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
After three weeks of study and performance, the pianists, violinists, violists, and cellists of the Verbier Festival Academy’s Soloists Programme come together for this first of two chamber music recitals. A celebration of young talent to signal the final weekend of the Festival.
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VFCO / TAKÁCS-NAGY / DOVGAN
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Saturday, 3 August 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
From the symphony’s grandfather to symphonic grandeur, Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the VFCO in Haydn’s and Brahms’s first symphonies, between which rising star pianist Alexandra Dovgan performs as soloist in Grieg’s thrilling Piano Concerto in A minor.
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THE MAISKYS
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Chamber Music
Saturday, 3 August 2024 19:30
Eglise de Verbier StationVerbier
Heavenly trinities: cellist Mischa Maisky, his pianist daughter Lily Maisky and his violinist son Sascha Maisky, present three chamber works by musical history’s most famous relationship triangle, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
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ACADEMY PRESENTS VI
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
Chamber Music
Sunday, 4 August 2024 11:00
Eglise de VerbierVerbier
A time to celebrate the young talents of the Verbier Festival Academy. This second of two concerts performed by Academy soloists features chamber music collaborations by the programme’s pianists, violinists, violists, and cellists. The recital is followed by the presentation of Academy awards.
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VFJO / GAFFIGAN / ACADEMY – FALSTAFF
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Opera
Sunday, 4 August 2024 14:00
Salle des CombinsVerbier
James Gaffigan leads the VFJO and a cast of young talents from the Atelier Lyrique in the opera with which Verdi chose to crown his career : his comic masterpiece, Falstaff.
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VFO / DUTOIT / FUJITA
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Symphonic Concert
Sunday, 4 August 2024 18:30
Salle des CombinsVerbier
Charles Dutoit conducts the VFO in a programme guaranteed to play the Festival out with a bang, Mao Fujita joining them as soloist in Saint-Saëns’s dramatic Second Piano Concerto, before an orchestral fireworks show in the shape of Respighi’s three Rome-themed tone poems.