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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.

GTMF priortizes educational programming in 2024 – JH News&Guide

For the next eight weeks (Meaghan) Heinrich, who also teaches oboe and chamber music at the Wisconsin Music Conservatory, will lead or host more than three dozen free programs designed to introduce the community to some of the fundamentals of music and music making, members of the Festival Orchestra and a few of the works to be performed in Walk Festival Hall.