Martin T:son Engstroem: Opening speech for the Verbier Festival 2018

Watch Martin T:son Engstroem's opening speech for the Verbier Festival 2018!

This summer, the Verbier Festival celebrates its first quarter of a century! Like every year, artists and audiences will come together to be part of incredible music in the heart of the Alps. The 2018 festival program features an astonishing array of the international scene’s greatest classical musicians. From the opening concert led by star maestro—and the Verbier Festival Orchestra’s new Music Director—Valery Gergiev, to the 25th Anniversary Gala, this year’s festival is made up of one not-to-be-missed event after another, to the delight of music lovers everywhere! New this year, in addition to the more than 29 concerts streamed live, medici.tv will offer a livestream of a rehearsal of one of the symphonic concerts, and will webcast selection of master classes with Sir András Schiff, Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Goode, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Thomas Quasthoff, and other brilliant pedagogues...