{"id":589384,"date":"2026-08-19T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589384\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:44:15","slug":"the-strad-news-verbier-festival-academy-announces-prizewinners-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strad News &#8211; Verbier Festival Academy announces prizewinners for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"VFA_260730_Chamber Music Master Class_G.Takacs_\u00a9 LaureN Pasche-0902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/44394_vfa_260730_chambermusicmasterclass_g.takacs_laurenpasche0902_382713.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"8256\" height=\"4574\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more news stories here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 33rd Verbier Festival ran from 16 July\u20132 August in Verbier, Switzerland. In its final week, the festival\u2019s academy announced the recipients of its prizes for 2026. This year the most prestigious award, the Prix Yves Paternot, was given to Georgian soprano Ana Oniani.<\/p>\n<p>Australian cellist Benett Tsai won the Prix Jean-Nicholas Firmenich, an award exclusively for cellists, receiving CHF10,000. The Prix Reyl for violinists was awarded to German\u2013Egyptian\u2013Hungarian violinist Mariam Abouzahra, receiving CHF5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Goldman Sachs Gives Award was won by the UK-based Fibonacci Quartet, receiving CHF5,000. The CHF5,000 Prix Rodolphe et Helen Tissi\u00e8res for artists of merit was awarded to South Korean violinist Hyunseo Kim.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss cellist Lyam Chenaux won this year\u2019s CHF5,000 Prix Rotary for Swiss musicians. The Prix APCAV, for students who contributed to the festival\u2019s spirit through commitment to community and public engagement, was awarded to French violist H\u00e9lo\u00efse Houz\u00e9. She receives CHF3,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read more news stories here\u00a0 The 33rd Verbier Festival ran from 16 July\u20132 August in Verbier, Switzerland. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-589384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}