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Runnicles laureates are off and running – JH News&Guide
Bass-baritone Brian Wacker, who graduated from Cheyenne East High School, earned his bachelor’s degree in music from Oberlin College and Conservatory and is currently training with the Metropolitan Opera’s Keith Miller. He’s getting ready to apply to graduate schools and is preparing for a production...
The King’s Singers bring lush vocal harmonies to Jackson – KHOL 89.1 FM
When Piers Connor Kennedy joined The King’s Singers in 2025, he joined a rich history of classically trained British vocalists. He began singing somewhat by accident, having grown up a jazz pianist and grew to obsess over composition. His deep bass vocal register helped him...
Scholarship winner Jorden back for Rachmaninoff – JH News&Guide
Thanks to his international conducting career, Sir Donald Runnicles has, over his 20 years as music director for the Grand Teton Music Festival, brought to Jackson Hole scores of musicians he has worked with from throughout the United States, Berlin and Dresden, Scotland and, since...
GTMF chamber music series starts Thursday – JH News&Guide
The chamber music repertoire — including works for soloists, duos, trios and larger ensembles — is vast. And getting increasingly so every year. Over its 65 years, the Grand Teton Music Festival has always offered chamber music concerts, and its participating players — this year,...
Celebrating 25 years with Dorris Dai Janssen
In celebration of her 25th anniversary, Dorris authored the following passage, which is also included in the 2026 summer program book. Dorris Dai Janssen Violin Back in college studying violin performance, I hoped that opportunities in music would include traveling to beautiful places. After joining...
Grand Teton Music Festival opens 65th season with slate of free events – Buckrail
JACKSON, Wyo. — The Tetons are about to be alive with the sound of music. Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) will begin its 65th season next week. While its home base Walk Festival Hall is being renovated, the musicians will be out and about more than...
20 Questions for 20 Years with Sir Donald Runnicles
Two decades can feel like a lifetime — or like the opening movement of a beautiful partnership still unfolding. The Grand Teton Music Festival is proud to celebrate two decades with Sir Donald Runnicles at the helm as Music Director. As we honor 20 years...
King’s Singers make GTMF debut in Center Theater – JH News&Guide
For hundreds of years, 7-year-old boys have undertaken intensive musical training in order to help provide choral music for daily Church of England services. Many go on to train as adults at prestigious universities. That’s how the founding members of the King’s Singers got started,...
‘Patriotic Pops’ reviews 250-plus years of American music – JH News&Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival and guest conductor Donato Cabrera strove to create a Fourth of July “Patriotic Pops” program befitting a significant milestone. “The fact that it’s the 250th anniversary got me thinking about the entirety of music-making,” Cabrera told the News&Guide. “Could I...
American music launches GTMF’s 65th season – JH News&Guide
Conductor Donato Cabrera fondly recalls listening to his grandmother play the piano while he was growing up in Reno, Nevada. “She was someone who always gathered the family after dinner and played old Mexican waltzes that her father had taught her,” he said. “That idea,...