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Verbier Festival

Verbier Festival

Genre	Classical music
Dates	July/August
Location(s)	Verbier, Switzerland
Years active	1994–present
Website	verbierfestival.com

Music of Switzerland

General topics

2005 in Swiss music
2006 in Swiss music
Opera
Swiss composers

Genres

Hip hop
Rock
Schlager
Volksmusik
- Volkstümliche Musik

Specific forms

Guggenmusik
Kuhreihen
Ländler
Yodeling

Media and performance

Music awards
Swiss Music Awards
Music charts
Swiss Hitparade
Music festivals
Lucerne Festival Montreux Jazz Festival Nox Illuminata Verbier Festival
Music media
MTV (Swiss TV channel)

Nationalistic and patriotic songs

National anthem
"Swiss Psalm"

Regional music

Local forms
Appenzell
Related areas
Liechtenstein

The Verbier Festival is an annual international music festival that takes place for two weeks in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland.

Founded by Swedish expatriate Martin T:son Engström [fr] in 1994, it has attracted international soloists such as Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Lera Auerbach, Emanuel Ax, Sergei Babayan, Khatia Buniatishvili, Seong-Jin Cho (2018),^[1] Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Evgeny Kissin, Magdalena Kožená, Lang Lang, Mischa Maisky, Mikhail Pletnev, Lawrence Power, Thomas Quasthoff, Julian Rachlin, Andrea Rost, Anoushka Shankar, András Schiff, Bryn Terfel, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, Julian Lloyd Webber, Gautier Capuçon, and Renaud Capuçon.

The Verbier Festival is also nurturing young musicians with its Academy and three orchestras: the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (formerly known as the Verbier Festival Music Camp Orchestra).

Activities of the Fest'Off, including jazz concerts and special walks in the environs of Verbier, are also available to the public for free during the 17 days of the festival.