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The Verbier Festival Orchestra is the resident ensemble at Switzerland's Verbier Festival, one of classical music's top summer events. The group consists of 95 musicians from ages 18 to 28.

The Verbier Festival was founded in 1994 in the mountainous resort town of Verbier, Switzerland, by music promoter Martin Engström. The Verbier Festival Orchestra was founded in 2000 as a training ensemble and is regarded as one of the top such groups in the world, with highly competitive admission standards. Each summer, the orchestra players are coached by top orchestral musicians from around the world, including members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. The Verbier Festival Orchestra is one of three groups associated with the festival; others include the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, made up of alumni of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, originally called the Verbier Festival Music Camp Orchestra. In 2006, the group made its recording debut on the album UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra Highlights, and it has continued to appear on similar albums throughout its existence.

The website of the Verbier Festival Orchestra lists conductor Valery Gergiev as the orchestra's music director, and he spent considerable time in Verbier each summer until Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now some documents refer to conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy as the music director, and he has conducted several concerts and given chamber music master classes. The Verbier Festival Orchestra has backed numerous top international soloists in concert, including pianists Lang Lang, Daniil Trifonov, and Yuja Wang, bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. The Verbier Festival Orchestra has been featured on several albums other than compilations, including Michael Tilson Thomas in Verbier and a recording of Stravinsky's Les Noces and Le sacre du printemps in 2023; both appeared on the major Deutsche Grammophon label. ~ James Manheim