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Press Release: Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2022 Season, July 3-August 27
The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is thrilled to announce its 61st season, led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles, July 3 to August 27, 2022. Over the course of eight weeks, the 2022 Festival features an opera initiative, a new Sunday afternoon piano recital series showcasing virtuosic pianists, robust orchestral offerings, and the continuation of the Gateway Series and GTMF On the Road performances. GTMF is pleased to present guest artists including the St. Lawrence String Quartet, pianists Garrick Ohlsson and Ingrid Fliter, violinist Augustin Hadelich, cellist Johannes Moser, soprano Capathia Jenkins, and guest conductors Eun Sun Kim, Dalia Stasevska and Markus Stenz.
Conductor Donald Runnicles Knighted – Berliner Morgenpost
Prince Charles has knighted the General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper, Donald Runnicles, at Windsor Castle
Press Release: Looking Back at Grand Teton Music Festival’s 60th Season
Grand Teton Music Festival’s (GTMF) 60th Season, which boasted 20 sold-out concerts and an audience of 16,000 people both in-person and online, marked a monumental season. Over one thousand people attended GTMF’s community outreach events and the Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition Finals, which were presented during the Festival season for the first time this year.
Where Ancient Peaks Embrace Old Friends, Music Adds Its Wonder – Classical Voice North America by Thomas May
It’s a setting that easily nourishes music’s transcendent power. No wonder so many of the musicians who make up the GTMF Orchestra are long-timers, returning, summer after summer, as if compelled by a migratory instinct.
A “Guest” Visit from Donald Runnicles at Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May
The warm bond Runnicles enjoys with the Festival musicians was gloriously evident, moving to behold and experience. He led the orchestra in an account of the Four Sea Interludes from Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes — with such a fierce intensity that the entire opera seemed distilled into this purely instrumental music of transition and commentary.
Hitting the Sweet Spot: Third Coast Percussion at Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May
Week 4 of the Grand Teton Music Festival continued with an enthusiastically received performance by Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion making their Festival debut.
A Homecoming for the Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May
With its marriage of valley and dramatic, looming scarps, it’s obvious how the Jackson Hole area beckoned as an ideal spot to make music. The Grand Teton Music Festival opened on 2 July, following the all-too-familiar hiatus, and is now into Week 4 of a seven-week season — which also marks the Festival’s 60th anniversary.
Classical training meets jam-band bliss – Jackson Hole News&Guide
Founding members Ranaan and violinist Nick Kendall return to the valley with new musical partner Charles Yang to launch the Grand Teton Music Festival’s new “Gateway Series” at 8 p.m. Thursday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village.
The Grand Teton Music Festival Returns For Its 60th Season – Wyoming Public Media
The Grand Teton Music Festival is underway and it's celebrating its 60th season. Over seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival unites more than 200 celebrated orchestral musicians led by music director Donald Runnicles.
GTMF Featured in United Airlines’ Hemispheres Magazine
Returning for its 60th season, the Grand Teton Music Festival once again graces Jackson Hole, Wyoming, right next to Grand Teton National Park. This idyllic summer retreat attracts nearly 200 top musicians from around the country, led by internationally renowned music director Sir Donald Runnicles.