The Sion Festival 2024 promises to be exceptional. The Sion Festival will be celebrating its 60th anniversary, and our new artistic co-direction, composed of Pavel Vernikov and Janine Jansen, will be co-creating their first programme. All good reasons not to miss the 2024 edition! We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Since May 2017, the Sion Violin Music Foundation (SVM) has brought together the three events founded by the Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga almost 60 years ago: the Tibor Varga Music Academy, the Sion Festival, and the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. In 2018, the Tibor Junior International Violin Competition was added. Each entity retains its artistic independence. The Academy is managed by a six-member Artistic Commission, the Competition by the President of the Jury, and the Festival by an Artistic Director (Pavel Vernikov since 2013).