Festival Friends

Music Needs Friends

Whether past, present or future, an event such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad requires a great deal of private support in order to endure. The contributions from the Association of Festival Friends cover nearly 10% of the annual budget and provide a guarantee for the high standard of the festival concerts. Become a member of this group of music lovers and benefit from its many advantages as well!

Everything you need to know to become a member of the Association of Festival Friends

Julia Fischer

The 2012 programme

The green of fall has made way for a majestic blanket of white: Gstaad and the surrounding regions are ready to celebrate an enchanting winter season. The Menuhin Festival and its intendant Christoph Müller are proud to present as of today the programme for the 2012 festival which will take place under the motto of “air”.

Gstaad Festival Orchestra

2012–2013: The Gstaad Festival Orchestra on concert tour

The Gstaad Festival Orchestra is not only a fantastic attraction for visitors at the Menuhin Festival: it is also an eloquent representative of the Saanenland region abroad, a symbol of excellence, innovation and openness.

Audi

Audi – “official car”

With this collaboration the German automotive maker underscores its cultural commitment and establishes itself as a solid partner. “The collaboration with the Menuhin Festival is one of the pillars of our involvement in and dedication to culture”, emphasized Ernesto Larghi, Audi brand manager.

«Klick-Klack» & Sol Gabetta

The Stars from the Menuhin Festival on «Klick-Klack» on BR Klassik

You already know her as a cellist, but have you had the chance to experience Sol Gabetta’s talents as a moderator? She has such a natural and disarming manner with her peers on her weekend programme “Klick-Klack” on BR Klassik.

The 55^th Menuhin Festival: a blazing edition!

The 55^th Menuhin Festival Gstaad celebrated its last round of fireworks this weekend with an evening of music by Bach, Haydn and Mendelssohn with Emmanuel Pahud and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra at the church in Saanen on Friday, and a Romantic celebration featuring Saint-Saëns’ First Cello Concerto (soloist: Sol Gabetta) and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the Festival Tent on Saturday.

Sol Gabetta

Zubin Mehta

A dream finale

The 55^th edition of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad came to a close on Saturday, 3 September, in a sold-out tent for a sure-thing triumph: the first collaboration between brilliant cellist Sol Gabetta and legendary conductor Zubin Mehta at the head of “his” Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

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Emmanuel Pahud

Pahud in Saanen

He is one of the best flutists of our time, and he demonstrated it once again at the church in Saanen in collaboration with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Budapest on Friday, 2 September.

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Ivan Fischer

Nikolaj Znaider

Slavissimo!

Saturday evening, 27 August, in the Festival Tent in Gstaad – you truly could have thought you were in Bohemia.

Emmanuel Pahud

Sol Gabetta

Week 7: Emmanuel Pahud, Lionel Cottet, Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, Sol Gabetta, Zubin Mehta…

The last week – already! – of the 55^th edition of the festival, this year under the signs of sun and fire. And there will still be plenty of heat for the last three events of the final weekend, beginning with a concert at the church in Saanen on Friday evening featuring star flutist Emmanuel Pahud.

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Message for our guests of yesterday’s concert:

Due to the heavy storm forecast the management of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad was obliged to cancel the tent concert of August 26th.

The management will voluntarily refund all tickets for yesterday evening's concert.

Holders of season passes or free tickets are not entiteled for any refund.

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Lionel Cottet

Matinée des Jeunes Etoiles VIII: Lionel Cottet

In remaining faithful to the spirit of its founding father the Menuhin Festival provides a superb platform year after year to upcoming young artists. The “Matinées des Jeunes Etoiles” at the chapel in Gstaad is a beautiful example of this commitment. We suggest that you peruse the short interviews (in French and German) with tomorrow’s stars.

Comment un enfant de Bombay – certes fils d'un grand musicien – a-t-il pu si rapidement atteindre les sommets du monde classique occidental? Le parcours de Zubin Mehta donne le tournis. Elève (comme Iván Fischer) de Hans Swarowsky à Vienne et lauréat en 1958 du Concours international de Liverpool et de l'Académie d'été de Tanglewood, il n'est pas aujourd'hui de grand orchestre ou de scène prestigieuse où il n'ait dirigé. Il a dès lors l'esprit totalement libre pour développer les projets qui lui tiennent à cœur.

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Nikolaj Znaider

Silvana & Cecilia Bartoli

Week 6: Gala Johann Strauss, Nikolaj Znaider, Ivan Fischer, Cecilia Bartoli…

For the sixth (and already second-to-last) week of the festival intendant Christoph Müller and his team have prepared another dream weekend in the Tent in Gstaad for you: an evening dedicated completely to Johann Strauss on Friday with a pure Viennese orchestra conducted by Alfred Eschwé, and on the following evening a “Slavic romance” with violinist Nikolaj Znaider performing Brahms’ violin concerto and the Budapest Festival Orchestra interpreting the Hungarian Dances and Dvorak’s 8^th Symphony under the direction of Ivan Fischer.

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