June 22nd, 2:00 PM
In 1977, Yehudi Menuhin founded the International Menuhin Music Academy in Saanen with Alberto Lysy, his disciple and friend. In 2015, Institut Le Rosey welcomed the IMMA to its Rolle campus and offered it the position of resident orchestra of the Rosey Concert Hall under the direction of Renaud Capuçon.
The musicians of the Academy are between 18 and 27 years old and are selected from the best virtuosos worldwide. The ambition of the Menuhin Academy remains that of its founder: to train, for three years, a group of 16 to 19 virtuoso students of all nationalities, and to make them, as soloists and chamber musicians, ambassadors of a tradition of musical excellence, capable of transmitting the humanistic heritage of great classical works and contributing, through their influence, to peace in the world through harmony and solidarity.