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How to: Go Beyond Your Limits · Villars music retreat

5-6 december 2026 | VILLARS PALACE, VILLARS-SUR-OLLON, SWITZERLAND

A weekend of music, dialogue and discovery bringing together world-renowned musicians, scientists and specialists in human performance, alongside the Rising Stars of the Villars Music Soloists Lab.

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Shlomo Mintz joins the upcoming villars music retreat How to: go beyond your limits

We are delighted to welcome the legendary violinist Shlomo Mintz to Villars this December. He will be with us for the first Villars Music Soloists Lab and for How to: Go Beyond Your Limits, the first Villars Music Retreat, on 5–6 December. Over the weekend, he will give open masterclasses and a personal talk, offering a rare chance to learn from one of the great violinists of our time.

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Jasper Parrott joins the upcoming villars music retreat How to: go beyond your limits

Jasper Parrott, co-founder of the artist management agency HarrisonParrott, joins the weekend at Villars Palace on 5-6 December. His decades alongside some of the world's great musicians bring another perspective on what it takes to build a life in music and keep going beyond your limits.

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Sophie Lee wins Fifth Prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Yesong Sophie Lee, winner of the Villars Music Academy 2025, has been awarded Fifth Prize at the 2026 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, one of six finalists in this year’s competition. In the final round, she performed Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112, with Leonard Slatkin and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Congratulations to Sophie on this achievement and on her outstanding performance. Symphony Orchestra.

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Eva ARDERÍUS AT gstaad new year music festival

5 JANUARY 2027 | GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND

The winner of the Villars Music Academy 2026 will perform at the prestigious Gstaad New Year Music Festival, joining an exceptional international line-up of celebrated artists and emerging talents.

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