Verbier Festival announces 2021 programme

The festival will be ensuring the safety of its audiences by capping concerts' length at 70 minutes, removing intervals, and streaming online (as opposed to hosting live) pre-concert chats.

The programme will include performances by the likes of András Schiff, Daniel Hope, Evgeny Kissin, Janine Jansen, and Joshua Ball.

Founder and director Martin T:son Engstroem said: 'All of us in the music world - festivals, orchestras, concert halls, not to mention technicians and, of course, countless musicians - need the support of audiences now more than ever. It goes without saying that financial support is always needed. But this year it goes beyond that.

'After such a long period without live performance, we all need our enthusiastic audiences to return.

'We’ve created a full scale Verbier Festival for 2021 with enhancements that are both artistically exciting and put the safety of our public, artists and festival team at the forefront. We were among the first to see that it would not be possible to present a festival in 2020 and now we are among the first to re-emerge stronger and ready to share our wonderful festival once again.'

The festival will collaborate once again with medici.tv, who will video-stream more than 30 live and on demand performances. Plus, official audio streaming partner IDAGIO will stream playlists and concerts.

For more information and programme visit verbierfestival.com.