Verbier 2024: Dutoit and Fujita

The Verbier Festival is a major classical music event held annually in the summer. Its primary mission is to foster the exchange of experience between renowned masters and young artists from across the globe.

A highlight of the 2024 festival was a concert featuring the Verbier Festival Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the distinguished Swiss maestro Charles Dutoit, with Japanese pianist Mao Fujita as the soloist. The program included works by Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel.

PROGRAM:

H. Berlioz: Overture "Le Carnaval romain" (Roman Carnival), Op. 9;

C. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22;

C. Debussy: "La Mer" (The Sea), symphonic sketches;

M. Ravel: Boléro.

PERFORMERS:

Verbier Festival Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor: Charles Dutoit;

Mao Fujita, piano.

Verbier, 2024