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Grand Teton Music Festival | Walk Festival Hall – HGA
Modernizing a Cultural Icon Walk Festival Hall has anchored the Grand Teton Music Festival for over fifty years, drawing world-class performers and audiences to one of the most breathtaking natural settings in the American West. HGA was engaged to expand and modernize the hall while...
Casper student places in prestigious Grand Teton Music Festival scholarship competition – Oil City News
Young Casper pianist Oliver Soulek has extended his long list of awards after finishing in second place at the 2026 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition at the Grant Teton Music Festival on Sunday in Jackson. Soulek, who graduated from KWHS in May, was the...
Celebrating 25 years with Wiley A. Sykes
In celebration of her 25th anniversary, Wiley authored the following passage, which is also included in the 2026 summer program book. Wiley A. Sykes Percussion It’s hard to believe that I’ve been at GTMF for 25 years, but funnily enough, until recently, I was still...
Punch Brothers’ adventures continue at Center Theater – JH News&Guide
Punch Brothers has a new album with a track titled “New Bike” spotlighting the quintet’s newest member, Brittany Haas. “It’s the first track on the album, to introduce our new fiddler,” Paul Kowert, the band’s bassist since 2008, said from Terrytown, New York, where all...
GTMF take works by Carrie Saladino ‘On the Road’ – JH News&Guide
Underscoring the “community” in its free community concert series, the Grand Teton Music Festival has programed two works by Jackson’s own Carrie Saladino. Saladino’s “Family Portrait,” for string quartet, will be performed at Friday’s “On the Road” concert at Sage Living, starting at 2 p.m....
Boise pianist wins Runnicles Scholarship competition – JH News& Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival honored three more talented young musicians Sunday at the ninth annual Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition. This year’s field of five semifinalists was flutists — Ella Charette and Devon Meyers, both from Billings, Montana, and Corinne Inglet, of Idaho...
Orchestra paints vivid musical images – JH News&Guide
Certain pieces of music evoke instant associations: Rossini’s “William Tell” overture = The Lone Ranger; Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” = a nation mourning; Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” = Bugs Bunny (IYKYK). The Grand Teton Music Festival evokes all kinds of memories, and maybe creates new...
Celebrating 25 years with Rachel Swerdlow
In celebration of her 25th anniversary, Rachel authored the following passage, which is also included in the 2026 summer program book. Rachel Swerdlow Violist Although I’m celebrating my 25th year with the Festival, my first summer here was 40 years ago in 1987. It was...
GTMF samples composer Lau’s musical storytelling – JH News&Guide
Canadian composer Kevin Lau remembers going to “Jurassic Park” when he was 13. He was captivated by the genetically resurrected dinosaurs, of course, but what really struck him was John Williams’ soundtrack. “It jolted me out my seat,” Lau said of the action on the...
Whole lotta trumpet at GTMF this weekend – JH News&Guide
Lots of classical music has been composed for trumpet over the years, but that wasn’t the case back when Joseph Haydn composed his own Trumpet Concerto in 1797. “The way this came about is this virtuoso trumpeter invented an instrument that could play a significantly...