Menuhin's Heritage Artists
A new loyalty programme, duration five years (minimum)
We are pleased to present a new «contract of confidence» that the festival’s founder certainly would have been proud of! A «win-win» collaboration over five years (minimum) with young artists that like Menuhin demonstrate prodigy talents, charisma and an openness to the world that merit them the status as an ambassador to his memory...
Rachmaninov: Second Piano Concerto
Khatia Buniatishvili will perform Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto on 2 September
The Georgian pianist has decided to switch to Rachmaninov instead of Prokofiev for the closing concert of the 61st Gstaad Menuhin Festival. Music lovers of great late-romantic works will be delighted…
Jaap van Zweden in Gstaad
12th & 19th August Festival-Tent
Jaap van Zweden is back this summer as artistic director not only of the Gstaad Conducting Academy but also of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra. The Dutch star will lead the orchestra in concerts with pianist Fazil Say (Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2) and organist Peter Solomon (Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3) on 12 August as well as on 19 August with Sol Gabetta for Lalo’s magnificent Cello Concerto.
