Gstaad Menuhin Festival
Gstaad Menuhin Festival takes place Jul 16 - Sep 5, 2026 (in progress) in Gstaad, Switzerland. The dress code is Smart casual Alpine - jacket without tie for men, elegant separates for women. The concert tent is unheated, so bring a layer for evening performances. Typical cost ranges from 800 to 2200 EUR per person.
Seven weeks of chamber music, orchestral concerts and recitals staged across Gstaad and the Saanenland, founded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin in 1957. Performances run in village churches, a purpose-built concert tent and mountain venues reached by cable car. The 2026 edition is the 70th festival.
- When
- Jul 16 - Sep 5, 2026 (in progress)
- Where
- Gstaad, Switzerland
- Dress code
- Smart casual Alpine - jacket without tie for men, elegant separates for women. The concert tent is unheated, so bring a layer for evening performances.
- Cost
- Typical cost ranges from 800 to 2200 EUR per person.
- Weather
- 16 - 24C by day, cool Alpine evenings
- When to book
- The programme is published in winter and single tickets go on open sale in spring, with headline soloist concerts in the tent and the Saanen church going first. Gstaad hotels need 4 - 6 months' notice for festival weekends. For the current season, returns and restricted-view seats surface on the festival site in the week before each concert.
- Getting there
- GVA (Geneva), 2h 30m to Gstaad by car or via the scenic GoldenPass rail route
- Where to stay
- The Alpina Gstaad, Gstaad Palace, Hotel Bernerhof Gstaad
- Official site
- https://www.menuhin.ch
How to attend
Tickets are sold at menuhin.ch and through the Gstaad ticket office, with the programme released in winter and open sale from spring. Church and chapel recitals start around CHF 40, while premium tent seats for star soloists reach CHF 200 - 300. There is no invitation-only tier, but the festival's Friends scheme gets priority booking, which is how the sold-out nights get taken.
Insider tip
Concerts in the Mauritius church at Saanen have the best acoustics of any venue in the festival and cost less than the big tent - book those before anything else.
Get inside Gstaad Menuhin Festival
Booking matters here: the programme is published in winter and single tickets go on open sale in spring, with headline soloist concerts in the tent and the Saanen church going first. Gstaad hotels need 4 - 6 months' notice for festival weekends. For the current season, returns and restricted-view seats surface on the festival site in the week before each concert. Members track that window, what it really costs, and 573 more events across the season.
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