Verbier Festival

From July 19, 2018 to August 5, 2018

http://www.verbierfestival.com

2018 Edition

25 YEARS OF THE VERBIER FESTIVAL

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, Richard Goode, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Thomas Quasthoff, and other brilliant pedagogues...

10 HOURS OF LIVE WEBCAST JULY 25!

The “Folle Journée” (“Mad Day”)! July 25th is sure to be full of surprises as the festival celebrates its 25th anniversary! For this big day, medici.tv is planning 10 hours of uninterrupted livestream(!), beginning with an exciting recital by Andrei Ioniţă and Seong-Jin Cho and followed by an interview stage where behind the scene videos and live conversations with this year’s artists will be interwoven with archival footage from past festivals. The day closes with an extraordinary gala concert. Although the concert’s program remains a secret, the all-star artists who will perform are not... imagine Evgeny Kissin, Sir András Schiff, Yuja Wang, Sergei Babayan, Mikhaïl Pletnev, and Daniil Trifonov all together on one stage!

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Verbier Festival

2018 Edition

25 YEARS OF THE VERBIER FESTIVAL

10 HOURS OF LIVE WEBCAST JULY 25!

Valery Gergiev conducts Shchedrin, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Bernstein, and Rimsky-Korsakov – With Daniel Lozakovich, George Li, and Pretty Yende

Alexandra Conunova and Denis Kozhukhin perform Beethoven, Prokofiev, Brahms, and Ravel

Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Haydn's Creation – With Miah Persson, Bernard Richter, Peter Mattei, and Andreas Bauer

Seong-Jin Cho performs Debussy, Schumann, and Chopin

Christoph Eschenbach conducts Mahler – With Ying Fang

Marc Minkowski conducts Mozart, Bach, and Fauré – With Vilde Frang, Ying Fang, and Peter Mattei

Andrei Ioniţă and Seong-Jin Cho play Cassadó, Beethoven, Schumann, and Shostakovich

Studio 25 presented by Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Christian Thompson

Verbier Festival 25th Anniversary Gala

Sir András Schiff, Tabea Zimmermann, and the Arod Quartet perform Brahms and Schumann

Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (opera in concert)

Vadim Repin and Andrei Korobeinikov perform Grieg and Prokofiev

Sir András Schiff conducts Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven – With Vilde Frang and Tabea Zimmermann

Ilya Gringolts performs Paganini and Sciarrino

Alain Altinoglu conducts Mozart and Mendelssohn – With Richard Goode

Mikhaïl Pletnev conducts Glazunov's The Seasons

The Michelangelo String Quartet and Jan Lisiecki play Schubert, Bartók, and Schumann

Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Haydn and Beethoven – With Sir András Schiff

Evgeny Kissin performs Chopin, Schumann, and Debussy

Daniil Trifonov plays Mompou, Schumann, Grieg, Barber, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Chopin

Kian Soltani and Aaron Pilsan play Bach, Brahms, Larcher, Vali, and Piazzolla

Sir András Schiff and the Ébène Quartet perform Schumann and Franck

François López-Ferrer, Gabor Takács-Nágy, and Sir Simon Rattle conduct Bernstein, Dvořák, and Beethoven – With Mischa Maisky

Johannes Keller conducts Monteverdi – With Magdalena Kožená

Gianandrea Noseda conducts Prokofiev – With Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Daniil Trifonov

Stanislav Kochanovsky conducts Verdi's Rigoletto (opera in concert)

Gianandrea Noseda conducts Prokofiev – With Yuja Wang

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

Sergei Babayan plays Ryabov, Couperin, Arvo Pärt, Rameau, and Mozart

Master Class with Barbara Frittoli

Master Class with Miklós Perényi

Master Class with Thomas Quasthoff

Master Class with Richard Goode

Master Class with Tabea Zimmermann

Master Class with Sir András Schiff

Master Class with Sir András Schiff – Chamber Music

Master Class with the Quatuor Ébène

Master Class with Gábor Takács-Nagy

Master Class with András Keller

Maria Callas, Born for Singing

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