Marchand completes the management of the Verbier Festival
Laurence Marchand, who has been Head of Production and Artistic Coordination at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for 17 years, is joining the Verbier Festival management team. Together with founder and managing director Martin T:son Engstroem, she will drive the development of the festival from fall 2016.
Strengthened by an international network of artistic and institutional contacts, Laurence Marchand has creatively directed a musical and choreographic program with numerous co-productions in Paris, writes the Verbier Festival.
Previously, as administrator of the international artist agency IMG Artists, she developed productions for the Mariinsky Theater/Valery Gergiev, the Monteverdi Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner, the choreographer Sylvie Guillem and numerous symphonic ensembles around the world.
Laurence Marchand will take up her post at the Verbier Festival in fall 2016, replacing Kim Gaynor, who was Administrative Director of the Festival for more than eleven years. Kim Gaynor will take over as General Manager of Vancouver Opera, the second largest opera house in Canada, in September.
