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PRESS KITTHE SUMMIT OF CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE

ARTIST TRAINING & DEVELOPMENTCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & LEARNING

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VERBIER FESTIVAL – 25th EDITION SUMMARY

EDITORIAL 2

A NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR THE VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA 3

25th EDITION HIGHLIGHTS 4

25th EDITION IN DEPTH

CELEBRATORY CONCERTS 6

LYRIC CONCERTS AND OPERA 7

STAR SOLOISTS 8

POP & FUNK 8

SOIRÉES PROKOFIEV 9

MISCHA MAISKY CARTE BLANCHE 9

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE 10

MUSIC EDUCATION 11

MUSIC DISCOVERY PROGRAMMES 12

PRINCIPAL FESTIVAL VENUES 14

GETTING TO VERBIER 15

TICKETS & PRESS OFFICE 16

SPONSORS & PARTNERS 21

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EDITORIAL VERBIER FESTIVAL FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

For 25 years the greatest musicians in the world have been brought together in a unique Alpine setting by the Verbier Festival, all sharing a mutual passion and a common vision for music, across the generations.

Bagnes, Verbier’s mountainous municipality, offers the most generous welcome to the Verbier Festival, our staff, our artists and audiences. The whole area contributes, from the shops and restaurants in Verbier to our partners, and our friends in the local area, all of us together making it such a special event. The economic impact on the region is significant, ten times higher than the amount taken by the Festival in subsidy and sponsorship, and a testiment to the Festival’s continuing success.

To celebrate these 25 years of music, I have put together a programme which shows the Verbier Festival at its very best. Valery Gergiev, will open the Festival conducting the Verbier Festival Orchestra having taken up the post of Music Director this anniversary year. Christoph Eschenbach will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Iván Fischer, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and there are visits from leading conductors Zubin Mehta and Gianandrea Noseda amongst others.

The world’s great instrumentalists will appear this summer, including Elisabeth Leonskaya performing Beethoven’s last piano sonatas and Daniil Triofonov in a Chopin tribute concert. Violinist Ilya Gringolts will perform Paganini, and Bartók’s glorious Sonata for solo violin will see Maxim Vengerov return to the Verbier stage.

In Salle des Combins, violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Berg’s concerto ‘To the Memory of an Angel’, and, at the piano, Evgeny Kissin is soloist in the second piano concerto by Rachmaninov. Radu Lupu performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Yuja Wang the third and fifth concerti by Prokofiev, and the amazing Mischa Maisky, who reached age 70 years in January, and is one of the Festival’s most loyal collaborators, performs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. These great soloists will also be found away from the main stage to perform in chamber music recitals together—something that has become a trademark of the Verbier Festival.

We celebrate young talent with first appearances in Verbier from two 23-year-old pianists: Seong-Jin Cho and Aaron Pilsan, both recent major competition winners. Graduates from our own Academy will also perform, including the wonderful cellist Kian Soltani, as will pianists Sahun 'Sam' Hong and Do-Hyun Kim, prizewinners of The Vendome Prize, which took place during the 2017 Festival.

A gala concert to celebrate the Verbier Festival over the last 25 years will take place on 25 July featuring a roll-call of the great artists who have made the Festival what it is today. Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan, Lisa Batiashvili, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Martin Fröst, Thomas Quasthoff, András Schiff, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pinchas Zukerman and many more will all join us to celebrate. I hope that you will be one of our guests in this special year too.

Martin T:son EngstroemVerbier Festival Founder and General Manager

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A NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR THE VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

The Verbier Festival is delighted to welcome Valery Gergiev as Music Director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra.

Since his first appearance in Verbier in 2004, when he led the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra for the Festival's opening concert, Valery Gergiev has been a regular guest and has always brought the very best out of our young Orchestra musicians,.Every year the world's finest musicians aged 18 to 28 are given the opportunity to work with the world's great conductors in a professional environment by being part of the Verbier Festival Orchestra.

The Mariinsky Theatre director returned to the Festival in 2008 and, by 2010, with a highly-acclaimed performance of Strauss’ Salome, had built a significant audience in Verbier, He has returned to Salle des Combins almost annually sinceGergiev's appearance in 2016 was perhaps his most memorable, with a rare performance at the piano alongside Denis Matsuev and Daniil Trifonov for Mozart’s Concerto for Three Pianos, followed by a blistering performance of Ravel’s Bolero, performed in front of the composer Rodion Shchedrin in tribute to his late wife, Assoluta Prima Ballerina Maïa Plisetskaïa.

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25th EDITION HIGHLIGHTS

CONCERTS FOR CELEBRATINGOPENING CONCERT

Shchedrin, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Rimsky-KorsakovVERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAValery GERGIEV conductor Daniel LOZAKOVICH violinGeorge LI pianoPretty YENDE soprano

19 July 7 pm | Salle des CombinsPAGE 6

25th ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERTMartha ARGERICH, Gautier CAPUÇON, Valery GERGIEV, Janine JANSEN, Evgeny KISSIN, Mischa MAISKY, Thomas QUASTHOFF, András SCHIFF, Gábor TAKÁCS-NAGY, Daniil TRIFONOV, Yuja WANG, VERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ...and many more25 July 7 pm | Salle des Combins

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LYRIC CONCERTS AND OPERATHE CREATION

HaydnVERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRAGábor TAKÁCS-NAGY conductor Miah PERSSON sopranoPavol BRESLIK tenorPeter MATTEI baritoneRIAS Kammerchor

21 July 7 pm | Salle des CombinsPAGE 7

ADRIANA LECOUVREUR

CileaVERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAValery GERGIEV conductorTatiana SERJAN (Adriana Lecouvreur)Marcelo PUENTE (Maurizio)Ekaterina SEMENCHUK (La Principessa di Bouillon) Željko LUČIĆ (Michonnet)Milan SILJANOV (Il Principe di Bouillon)CHOIR OF THE MARIINSKY THEATRE

26 July 6 pm | Salle des CombinsPAGE 7

RIGOLETTO

VerdiVERBIER FESTIVAL JUNIOR ORCHESTRA Stanislav KOCHANOVSKY conductorVERBIER FESTIVAL ACADEMY singers5 August 2:30 pm | Salle des Combins

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PIANOSOLO

Evgeny KISSIN

22 July 7 pm | Salle des Combins

Grigory SOKOLOV

28 July 8 pm | Église

Daniil TRIFONOV

31 July 7 pm | Salle des CombinsPAGE 8

WITH FRIENDS

VERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRAGábor TAKÁCS-NAGY conductorRadu LUPU piano

30 July 7 pm | Salle des Combins

QUATUOR ÉBÈNEAndrás SCHIFF piano

2 August 11 am | ÉglisePAGE 8

SOIRÉES PROKOFIEV VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAGianandrea NOSEDA conductorDenis MATSUEV piano

4 August 7 pm | Salle des Combins

Yuja WANG piano

5 August 7 pm | Salle des Combins

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VIOLINSOLO

Ilya GRINGOLTSMaxim VENGEROV

22 July 8 pm | Église

Ilya GRINGOLTS

28 July 11 am | Église de Verbier Village PAGE 8

WITH FRIENDS

VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Christoph ESCHENBACH conductorLeonidas KAVAKOS violinYing FANG soprano

23 July 7 pm | Salle des Combins

VERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRAPinchas ZUKERMAN violin & conductor Amanda FORSYTH cello

1 August 7 pm | Salle des CombinsPAGE 8

POP & FUNKRUFUS WAINWRIGHT & FRIENDSwith, among others:Anne Sofie VON OTTERBrooklyn RIDER

20 July 7 pm | Salle des Combins

AL MCKAY’S EARTH WIND & FIRE EXPERIENCE

28 July 7 pm | Salle des Combins

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25th EDITION IN DEPTH CELEBRATORY CONCERTS

For this 25th anniversary, the Verbier Festival gathers many of the legendary musicians who have made the Festival what it is today to celebrate a quarter of a century of shared excellence in music.

Over 30 soloists will take part in a grand gala concert at Salle des Combins. The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra musicians will join this big Verbier family for this secret, celebratory programme that combs the great repertoire to offer memorable musical surprises. It will be an opportunity to reacquaint with Martha Argerich, a leading figure of the Festival since her first appearance in 1997, who makes something of a comeback in Valais following a three year absence, among many other stars who will contribute to this milestone event.

Valery Gergiev will conduct the opening concert of this anniversary Festival. The conductor brings together several young promising talents of the new generation along with the Verbier Festival Orchestra musicians. With 19th to 21th century masterpieces—his favourite repertoire—Gergiev conducts the young violinist Daniel Lozakovich, 17 year-old and former Verbier Academy musician, who will make his fouth official Festival appearance, as well as the young pianist George Li, sensational winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition (2015), also well-known to Verbier audiences.

Valery Gergiev has chosen Russian music traditional and new, performing Sheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as a 2009 work by his friend and countryman Rodion Shchedrin. In this centenary year of Leonard Bernstein, Gergiev also conducts Glitter and be Gay from Bernstein’s only opera Candide.

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LYRIC CONCERTS AND OPERA

Like every year, the 25th Verbier Festival showcases the most beautiful of all instruments: the human voice.

The vocal programme will feature two of the peaks of the sacred repertoire: Haydn’s Creation and Fauré’s Requiem. Impressed by Handel’s work for the London Court during his trips to England in the 1790s, Joseph Haydn, already in his 60s, dedicated his final years to the composition of The Creation, his final masterpiece. Also a late work for Gabriel Fauré, the Requiem written in 1888 conveys a peaceful vision of death. "My Requiem was said to express not so much the idea of a dreadful death but rather, as someone called it, a death lullaby. And this is the way I feel death: similar to a joyful delivery, the longing for happiness above and beyond." For his first season as Music Director of the VFO, the Valery Gergiev has chosen to train young musicians on verisma operas with the great masterpiece by Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur. Soprano Tatiana Serjan, a Mariinsky soloist, makes her Verbier Festival debut, singing the eponymous role of the ill-fated diva, and Ekaterina Semenchuk plays Princess Bouillon, her cruel rival in what became one of the most famous crime stories of the 18th century.

Another great tragedy of the Italian repertoire will see the young singers of the Academy interpret Verdi’s Rigoletto. The singers train extensively for three weeks as part of the Academy's Atelier Lyrique, where they are coached and take part in masterclasses by top-ranking singers, some of whom also perform in the Festival. They give a performance of the opera on the final day with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, conducted for a second year by Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky.

South-African soprano Pretty Yende returns to the Verbier Festival in the opening concert, singing Glitter and be Gay from Leonard Bernstein’s opera Candide. Yende made her debut at La Scala, Milan, as Museta in Puccini’s La bohème in 2012. The following year, with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, she firmly established herself in the international opera world when she stepped in for in indisposed Nino Machaidze in the role of Adèle in Rossini's opera, Le Comte Ory.

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STAR SOLOISTS

The world’s great pianists from across the generations perform at the Verbier Festival this year, as soloists with orchestra and in solo and chamber music recitals. Radu Lupu returns to the Festival to perform Beethoven's fourth piano concerto with conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy; he first appeared at the Festival in 1996. This concert will be available live on medici.tv, a rare live broadcast for Lupu, who normally doesn’t allow such recordings.

Grigory Sokolov returns to Verbier for a fifth year, having first appeared in 2013. He performs a recital at the Église, in what has become a much-anticipated regular feature of the Verbier Festival’s programme.

Another relatively recent collaborator in Verbier, pianist Andràs Schiff, will be back for the fourth consecutive year since he was introduced to the Festival by his friend Gábor Takács-Nagy. He has devised a programme of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and will be joined by the soloists Vilde Frang and Tabea Zimmermann, together with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Last year his recital at Salle des Combins was one of the highlights of the summer.

Evgeny Kissin makes his 21st trip to the Festival for a recital of Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin and Debussy, and a performance of one of his favourite works, Rachmaninov's second piano concerto, with the VFO and conductor Zubin Mehta.

The younger generation of pianists is showcased this year in Verbier too. The Vendome Prize serves as a stepping stone for pianists ready to launch a career. In partnership with Verbier, the competition offers its winners the opportunity to perform at the Festival. This year Do Hyun Kim and Sahun 'Sam' Hong, joint prizewinners (2017), each give their first recitals at the Festival. The 24 year-old Korean pianist Seong Jin Cho, winner of Warsaw's Chopin Competition (2015), performs a solo recital of Chopin, Debussy and Schumann, and a chamber music recital with 25 year-old cellist Andrei Ioniță.

VIOLINFrom the young Daniel Lozakovich to Eduard Wulfson, generations of renowned violonists have crossed each other’s paths at the Verbier Festival over the years. This year Maxim Vengerov and Ilya Gringolts will perform together in recital; Janine Jansen will perform Mozart’s G major concerto with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra; and Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto.

PIANO

POP & FUNK

Rufus Wainwright can be guaranteed to switch genres with perfect aplomb—and to surprise. This return performance also features string quartet Brooklyn Rider and soprano Anne Sophie von Otter.

Al McKay's Earth, Wind & Fire Experience offers an evening of dazzlement and delirium—with the mountains dancing in the background.

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SOIRÉES PROKOFIEV MISHA MAISKYCARTE BLANCHE

To mark the 125th birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, the Festival features the great composer eight times throughout its programme. Vadim Repin, Andreï Korobeinikov, Ilya Gringolts and Maxim Vengerov have each opted for his chamber music, while conductor Gianandrea Noseda dedicates two entire evenings to his lyrical music. The first concert features a performance of the composer's 'Classical' symphony as well as his first two piano concerti interpreted by Denis Matsuev. The second invites us to delight in the orchestral suite of Love for Three Oranges and the dazzling Yuja Wang at the piano for the third and fifth concerti. Wang will be joined by her long time musical collaborators Leonidas Kavakos, Martin Fröst and Pamela Frank in a performance of the Overture on Hebrew Themes at the Église where, in 2008, her Verbier experience began.

Mischa Maisky is given carte blanche for a chamber music recital featuring his children Lily and Sascha—respectively pianist and violinist, who are regular collaborators at Verbier and around the globe. Together, they celebrate the Festival's 25th birthday and the cellist's own 70th birthday in a chamber music concert featuring Beethoven, Franck and Mendelssohn. Carte blanche has given to the magnificent cellist who will perform several chamber music masterpieces by Beethoven, Mendelssohn or César Franck that are close to his heart.

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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

ANNIVERSARY BOOKTo properly celebrate its first quarter-century, the Verbier Festival embarks on a new and exciting project: the publication of a magnificent book giving pride of place to pictures taken each summer by those talented photographers who have come through Verbier. Memorable concerts, behind the scenes shots, the unprecedented encounters of the Rencontres Inédites, the community that has established itself around the Festival—all this is recounted in image and text. The book will fasci-nate both the connoisseur and those who are discovering the Festival for the first time. Either way, this luxurious volume offers an entry into this magical world, this music-lovers’ paradise, that is the Verbier family.

Published in November 2018 by Éditions Noir sur Blanc, the anniversary book will be available in all good bookshops. Visitors to Verbier this summer will have the opportunity to pre-order a copy.

CONCERT BROADCASTSOnline broadcasts of Verbier Festival concerts, rehearsals and special features reached more than 1.5 million viewers via medici.tv in 2017. The Festival again invites music-lovers around the globe to experience its 25th edition as it happens or at their leisure.

For the 11th consecutive year, the Festival collaborates with the production team at Idéale Audience for live and on-demand broadcasts via medici.tv. RTS Espace 2 (Swiss Radio) will also feature live and re-broadcast concerts. Official audio streaming partner, IDAGIO, will stream exclusive 25th anniversary playlists and offer exclusive streams of Festival concerts too. The Festival's newest audiovisual partner, DakApp, will stream Academy masterclasses starting in 2018.

CHINA AND DUBAI TOURS

To launch the 25th anniversary celebrations, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, under its beloved Music Director Gábor Tákacs-Nagy, tours China from 23 March to 1 April 2018. The orchestra is joined by Festival favourites George Li, Gautier Capuçon and Daniel Lozakovich. En route home, the tour makes a final stop at Dubai's new opear house.

CD RELEASES

Deutsche Grammophon will release a 25th anniversary CD retrospective box set in late spring 2018.

NZZ am Sonntag also reaches into the Verbier Festival archives for its 2018 CD box set release that showcases the diversity of Swiss classical music festivals.

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MUSIC EDUCATION25 YEARS OF ARTIST TRAINING

Verbier Festival Artist Training and Development Programmes are life-changing. They offer opportunities to learn, to be inspired, to make life-long connections and friendships.

THE VERBIER GENERATION

For 25 years, the Verbier Festival has developed a generation of the world’s most talented musicians through its Academy and Orchestras. Many of these 3,000 young musicians from 75 countries have gone on to positions with leading orchestras and are among today’s most sought-after soloists. The most accomplished alumni of the Verbier Festival Orchestra are invited to be part of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Festival’s professional resident and touring ensemble.

Verbier Festival Academysoloists, chamber musicians, singersAge 16-30

Verbier Festival OrchestraAge 18-28

Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra Age 15-18

An unequalled roster of mentors, coaches, conductors and Festival artists work directly with and alongside musicians of the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestras to develop their musical skills while challenging them to explore engaging and meaningful ways to reach audiences in and beyond the concert hall. Academy masterclasses and most Academy and Junior Orchestra concerts are free to the public as are Verbier Festival Orchestra general rehearsals.

Don’t miss these Verbier Festival Academy alumni who return to celebrate the Festival’s 25th anniversaryin 2018:

Daniel BLENDULF, Renaud CAPUÇON, Alexandra CONUNOVA, Vilde FRANG, Andrei IONIȚĂ, George LI, Daniel LOZAKOVICH, Aaron PILSAN, QUATUOR ÉBÈNE et Milan SILJANOV.

PianoSergei BabayanMichel BéroffRichard GoodeAndrás Schiff

ViolinPamela FrankAndrás KellerMihaela MartinPinchas Zukerman

ViolaYuri BashmetGerard CausséNobuko ImaiTabea Zimmermann

CelloNicolas AltstaedtFrans HelmersonMiklós Peréyni

Chamber MusicMichel BéroffPamela FrankAndrás KellerGábor Takács-NagyQuatuor ÉbèneAndrás SchiffAlasdair Tate

Atelier LyriqueBarbara FrittoliDimitri PlataniasThomas QuasthoffTim Carroll

2018 MASTERCLASS FACULTY

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MUSIC DISCOVERY PROGRAMMESPUBLIC ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL EDUCATION

The Verbier Festival is committed to offering artistic and cultural education. The Festival’s Music Discovery programmes aim to engage public of all-ages by stimulating curiosity for arts and culture, with a focus on music.

CHILDREN (Ages 6 to 9)

PETITS FESTIVALIERS

Exploration 'Ballades' throughout the Verber Station

Musical nature walks through the alps

Storytelling, drawing and animation

Musicology and composition for kids

Musical performance

Chaperoned attendance at concerts and rehearsals

ADULTS

VERBIER TALKS

Pre-Concert Chats Learn about the Festival’s mainstage evening concerts at informative chats led by musicologist, writer and broadcaster Michèle Larivière (French), and writer, broadcaster and composer Stephen Johnson (English).

Conversations A series of lively discussions about music and about its connection to our daily lives: education, health, social justice, technology. Conversations in French are led by broadcaster Charles Sigel and are presented in association with Espace 2.

FILM Documentary and music-based films

FOR EVERYONE

OPEN-AIR Concerts on terraces and at high altitude (slopes of La Chaux)

LES GONDOLIERS Meet musicians of the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestras for performances aboard Verbier’s ski lift cabins—the smallest and most mobile concert halls in the world!

STORYTELLERS Narrated stories set to music

RANDO-MUSICALES Exploring the Alps in the company of musicians

CHESS BY NEVA FOUNDATION Chess workshops and tournaments featuring Festival artists, including a simulataneous match between Festival stars and Grand Master Vladimir Kramnik

VERBIER GENERATION CONCERTS Free and low-cost concerts performed by members of the Verbier Festival Artist Training Programmes in Verbier and throughout Valais during the Festival.

Academy Presents Daily concerts at the Cinema that showcase musicians of the Verbier Festival Academy—the world's most promising soloists, chamber ensembles and singers.

Academy en Valais Free concerts in churches and hospitals throughout Verbier and Valais during the Festival.

Windows on the Orchestras Members of the Verbier Festival Orchestras perform free chamber music recitals.

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VERBIER FESTIVAL AFTER DARK

Experience the Verbier Festival after dark a series of free and low-cost events that appeal to the musically-curious and transcend the boundaries of classical music and musical expectations.

SECRET CONCERTS CHF 25.–

Artists and venues are kept secret until the last minute for these intimate one-of-a-kind performances by distinguished artists of the Festival.

EDGE SERIES CHF 15.–

Performances that both embrace and challenge music of the classical tradition. Performers include composer, producer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev, and pianist Julien Quentin in collaboration with boundary-pushing composer and electronic musician, Kaan Bulak.

VERBIER UNSCRIPTED Free

Music is often best when it’s unscripted. Join musicians of the Verbier Festival Academy and Orchestras as they let loose during late-night jam and karaoke sessions.

VERBIER GENERATION Free

Free and low-cost concerts performed by members of the Verbier Festival Artist Training Programmes in Verbier and throughout Valais throughout the Festival, plus daily 'Academy Presents' concerts that showcase the world's most promising talents in classical music.

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Salle des Combins (1,700 seats)

Salle des Combins is the principal venue of the Verbier Festival. The raked seating allows excellent views for the whole audience, and, though a temporary structure, it has fine acoustics and an excellent atmosphere.

Concerts begin at 7 pm except where noted.

Address : Chemin de Plan Pra, Verbier

Église de Verbier (500 seats)

The Église hosts morning and evening concerts and is an intimate setting for chamber music.

Concerts begin at 11 am, 5 pm and 8 pm except where noted.

Address : Chemin de l’Église, Verbier

PRINCIPAL FESTIVAL VENUES

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BY CAR: Motorway A9/E62 to Martigny, take route du Grand-Saint-Bernard exit. At Sembrancher, follow the signs left to Verbier. 1hr 45 from Geneva and 3 hrs from Zurich.

BY PLANE: Regular and charter airlinesGeneva: 160 km from VerbierZurich: 280 km from VerbierSion: 55 km from Verbier

USING PUBLIC TRANSPORT:High-speed train to Geneva or Lausanne. Cisalpino from Milan to Sion. Train to Martigny and then to Le Châble. Transfers by bus or lifts.

CABLE CAR:The cable car between Verbier and Le Châble is open during the Festival from 8 am to 5:30 pm. verbierbooking.com

VERBIER / MARTIGNY BUSESBuses are available from Verbier to Martigny station after concerts at Salle des Combins. Book tickets or get more information at the ticket office or at verbierfestival.com

GETTING TO VERBIER

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PRESS & COMMUNICATIONSARAH TURINT. +41 (0)79 606 41 12

SÉGOLÈNE ROULLET-SOLIGNACT. +41 (0)21 925 90 60

ENGLISH PRESSKENNY [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL PRESS: FR / BEL / LUXTHIERRY MESSONNIERTHE PUBLICISTST. +33 (0) 6 84 67 84 [email protected]

ONLINE

The online ticket shop allows you to choose your seats in the concert hall, add them to your shopping basket and pay by credit card. Tickets can be downloaded and printed at home (e-tickets are available in PDF format), or sent by post.

BY PHONE +41 (0) 848 771 882, from Monday to Friday 11 am to 5 pm Payment by credit card, payment slip or bank transfer

BY POST OR FAX

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