16ème édition des Variations Musicales de Tannay

Les Variations Musicales de Tannay welcomes you from 22 to 31 August for the 2025 edition. As in previous years, this year's line-up will feature a host of great artists, many of whom will be performing in the Lake Geneva region for the first time. There are two main themes: great female pianists, and up-and-coming musicians.

Friday 22 August 2025 at 8pm
Martha Argerich & Tedi Papavrami
For an immediate and total immersion in the heart of the music, two world-renowned soloists will offer the audience the most intense, the most ‘inhabited’, the performance of a series of works that will remind us that music is lived before it is thought. A moment of happiness, an exceptional moment.

Saturday 23 August 2025 at 5pm
Emmanuel Bigand, Amélia Donnier & Rolling String Quartet
A stage show, with a set and musician-actors. The mastermind, both musician and scientist, stages our brain, its convolutions, its movements, its intimate life, as if we were inside ourselves. He lets us see the invisible, hear the resonance of each sound, and understand the unspeakable.

Saturday 23 August 2025 at 8.15pm
Arielle Beck
This genial teenager offers us a programme that is at once the most classical and the most ambitious: Bach, Schubert, Schumann - the power of formal perfection, of emotional depth, and of romantic dreaming and wandering.

Sunday 24 August at 5pm
(Free admission without reservation - Children welcome from 4pm)
Les Contes de la rue de Broca
Students, children and teenagers in training, will be demonstrating that value is not measured in years. Together with two narrators, they will take their audience on a whimsical journey through the tales of Pierre Gripari - and inspire them to join in.

Monday 25 August 2025 at 8pm
Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra & Kerson Leong
A Hungarian chamber orchestra and a Canadian soloist will meet on the Tannay stage. Between the world of formal rigour and gypsy dance on the one hand, and a virtuoso who plays as he breathes on the other, the fusion can only be total. From Bach to Chausson and Sarasate, they'll lead the way in irresistible style.

Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 8pm
Nicolas Altstaedt
Altstaedt is currently imposing a new vision of his instrument, a kind of reconciliation of all the cello's possibilities, hitherto scattered among different performers. In Tannay, this has led to the most astonishing journey, between pure Baroque, French modernity and the harsh depths of the Hungarian school. Bach, Dutilleux, Kodaly: voices with reputations for dissimilarity that, while preserving their style, find a common purpose.

Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 8 pm
Queen Elizabeth College of Music
The combination of stars and young talent orchestrated each year by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel goes from discovery to success throughout the world. Its variable geometry will give us the pleasure of hearing a quartet (Beethoven), a quintet (Mozart) and the earliest masterpiece in the history of music: Mendelssohn's Octet, composed by Mendelssohn at the age of 16!

Thursday 28 August 2025 at 8pm
Svetlin Roussev & Yeol Eum Son
Love, love of music: what better programme could there be? These two musicians make an astonishing pair, capable of making us dream by embroidering a musical tapestry around Tristan and Isolde, then of wowing us by letting us choose which work they will perform from a list of 50 titles on offer.

Friday 29 August 2025 at 8pm
Figure Humaine Kammerchor
Make way for the choir, this marvellous, unique musical formation that ignores any hierarchy or individual ‘show’. Thanks to his transcriptions of German Lieder and French mélodies, Denis Rouger will offer us works by Bizet, Fauré, Hensel, Wolf and others in a version that highlights their harmonic lines in their purest form.

Saturday 30 August 2025 at 5 pm
Hautes Écoles de Musique de Lausanne & Genève
Between Geneva and Lausanne and their respective music schools, Tannay has a duty to present and promote their students, who for their part must learn to live and breathe with the audience. In changing formations and on a variety of instruments - including a few rarities - they will introduce us to the works they are learning today.

Saturday 30 August 2025 at 8.15pm
Yulianna Avdeeva
An heir to the Russian piano tradition, to which she brings her own artistic quest, this winner of the first prize in the Chopin Competition - the first since Martha Argerich - will bring together two sets of Preludes: those by Shostakovich and those by Chopin, highlighting the secret links that unite them.

Sunday 31 August 2025 at 5 pm
François Leleux & the Potsdam Academy Orchestra
To close this festival, a classical firework display, with an orchestra that Leleux has just taken over as conductor. Symphonies (Haydn) whose interpretation, for a long time soporific, now takes on a new vigour, and transcriptions for flute of arias (Mozart) and concertos (Bach) that we will hear with a whole new ear.