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Festival Orchestra takes ‘a tour of England’ – JH News&Guide

This Friday and Saturday in Walk Festival Hall, Amihai Grosz will play the viola concerto of English composer William Walton (1902-1983) with GTMF Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles conducting the Festival Orchestra, which will give audiences a great opportunity to see and hear all that the instrument is capable of.

Singer-pianist sings songs for Sinatra lovers – JH News&Guide

For the past 20 years or so, Tony DeSare, now a widely recorded pianist and vocalist who travels extensively to perform, has expressed his love and admiration of Ol’ Blue Eyes with his show “Sinatra and Beyond,” which he will present Thursday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village as the latest “Gateway” concert of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 63rd season.

Assad, Third Coast ready to ‘Play!’ at GTMF – JH News&Guide

This weekend at Walk Festival Hall, (Third Coast Percussion) will perform one of the latest pieces written for it, “Play!” by American-Brazilian vocalist-multi-instrumentalist-composer Clarice Assad. Assad will appear in the performances as well, singing, narrating and otherwise vocalizing through the three movements, with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra led by guest conductor David Danzmayr.

First ‘Gateway’ concert features family – JH News&Guide

Sergie and Clarice Assad are two members of what has been called “Brazil’s First Family of Music.” They will appear together Thursday in Walk Festival Hall for the Grand Teton Music Festival’s first “Gateway” concert of the 2024 season.

Percussionists to jam with their audience – JH News&Guide

With the most rudimentary tools, a percussionist can create rhythms, experiment with different sounds and even compose melodies. That’s what Third Coast Percussion hopes to demonstrate with its program “Think Outside the Drum,” which the famed Chicago quartet will present at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Walk Festival Hall for what the Grand Teton Music Festival is calling a “Family Jam.”

Double dose of pianist Cann this weekend – JH News&Guide

(Michelle) Cann visited the Tetons last summer to play a solo recital. That invitation came when she performed Florence Price’s “Piano Concerto in One Movement” with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where Donald Runnicles, Grand Teton’s music director, is resident guest conductor. Runnicles was impressed and invited her to come West.

Jenkins returns for third Patriotic Pops spectacle – JH News&Guide

Capathia Jenkins was guest soloist on that program in 2022, and is back again for her third Patriotic Pops. “I’m really looking forward to it,” she said last week from her home in Georgia. “For anyone to get invited anywhere, that’s such an honor, but the sweet spot is to get invited back.”

Hadelich, Glanert open GTMF’s 63rd season – JH News&Guide

Augustin Hadelich makes his fifth visit in nine years to help open the 63rd season of the Grand Teton Music Festival this week. The Italian-born, German-American violinist will play a short work by Dvorak during Thursday night’s opening chamber music program. That also will feature a wind quintet arrangement of the overture to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” Brahms’ Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Romanza for Four Violas (in which the composer, Nashville’s Christopher Lowry, will perform) and Brooklyn-born bassoonist Bernard Garfield’s Quartet for Bassoon and String Trio.