Verbier Festival Academy, a springboard for young talents
The Verbier Festival, a well-known meeting point for internationally renowned artists, also provides a stage for promising talents. We already presented string players and chamber music groups who studied at the Verbier Festival Academy. Now we would like to invite you to listen to recordings by some of the pianists and singers who took part in master classes in Verbier and who could also benefit from the Festival's invitations to perform in concerts in front of a large audience. Playlist curated by Corina Kolbe.
Read more…According to the Festival, the Academy "offers an opportunity for learning, for reflection, for inspiration and for making important new connections - all in the majestic setting of the Swiss Alps." Many participants of the training programs have become interpreters celebrated in the whole world.
Among the artists featured in this playlist you can find famous pianists, like Kirill Gerstein, Anna Vinnitskaya and Yevgeny Sudbin; as well as superb singers: the sopranos Sylvia Schwartz and Emőke Baráth or the baritone Jonathan McGovern. Furthermore you get the chance to learn more about "rising stars", for example the pianist Alexandra Dariescu, whom the International Piano Magazine named as "one of 30 pianists under 30 destined for a spectacular career".