Yuri Bashmet gives $25,000 to Verbier Festival boss
mainJust to show they are more than Facebook friends, the Yuri Bashmet International Charitable Fund has awarded its 2014 Dmitry Shostakovich prize – $25k and a statuette – to the Verbier Festival founder, Martin Engstrom.
Past winners include Denis Matsuev, Yefim Bronfman, Maxim Vengerov and Evgeny Kissin.
Do that mean we get some of our tourist tax back that pays for the festival??
Eventually to accept a prize from a clear Putin’s vassal is a real shame for Verbier and his artistic director.
What do they call this again? “Logrolling”?