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College-bound musicians compete for $50K – JH News&Guide
Attention Jackson Hole student musicians: The application period for the 2024 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition is open, with a May 6 deadline to submit a video online for a chance to compete for $50,000 in scholarship funds. The competition is open to high school seniors from Wyoming, Idaho and Montana who are planning to pursue a music degree in performance or education at an accredited four-year college or conservatory.
GTMF to toast its Walk Hall on its 50th anniversary – JH News&Guide
It’s a formula that has worked for 62 years: Bring together some of the finest classical musicians in North America in one of the most beautiful natual spots anywhere on Earth and set them loose upon both the environment and four-plus centuries of repertoire. Present it to the public in a venue known throughout the business for its finely tuned acoustics, and you have an apt description of the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2024 Summer Festival, June 27-August 17
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and Executive Director Emma Kail announce programming for its 63rd season—from June 27-August 17, 2024—featuring eight weeks of performances by the Festival Orchestra, four Gateway Series presentations, five chamber music concerts, two special events, and family and community presentations.
It’s 4 o’clock and Time for Three at Center Theater – JH News&Guide
Still aglow from their 2023 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, and about halfway through its current tour, Time for Three returns to Jackson for its fifth visit, promising audiences its unique twist on classical, bluegrass, rock and folk music, and maybe some new original material as well.
Festival takes flight with ambitious ‘Madame Butterfly’ – JH News&Guide
“Madame Butterfly” is Lefkowich’s third collaboration with the Grand Teton Music Festival. He worked with Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles for years at the San Francisco Opera and in 2018 was invited to stage the festival’s concert version of “West Side Story,” with some costumes and theatrical lighting and a bit of choreography. Last year he and the festival stepped it up a notch with a production of “La Bohème” adding projections to serve as the work’s Parisian setting.
‘Clustered Vine’ premieres this weekend – JH News&Guide
Reaching the seventh week of its 2022 season, the Grand Teton Music Festival will showcase mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor to perform a world premiere of Kareem Roustom’s “The Clustered Vine – Songs of Love, Loss and Remembrance” on Friday and Saturday nights in Walk Festival Hall.
Thile, audience to make music together – JH News&Guide
The crowd at Walk Festival Hall will have a chance to collaborate with Thile on Thursday, when he will give a solo performance for the final “Gateway Series” concert of the 2023 season of the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Press Release: Coombs Outdoors and the Grand Teton Music Festival Partner to Provide Music Lessons to Jackson’s Youth
Coombs Outdoors and the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) are excited to announce a collaborative partnership that creates access to music lessons and opportunities for Coombs Outdoors participants. The two local nonprofits have worked together to launch a summer-long program, the Coombs Ukulele Club, that offers Ukulele lessons to Coombs participants once a week for the duration of the summer.
National Youth Orchestra to play Barber, Berlioz – JH News&Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival’s audience can catch these potential stars at the start of their trajectory when they visit Walk Festival Hall as part of a national tour that will take the orchestra from the East Coast to the West through the end of JulyThis year, Sir Andrew Davis — conductor laureate of the Toronto, Melbourne and BBC symphony orchestras — leads the 120-member NYO, presenting in Jackson Hole Berlioz’s “Symphony Fantastique” and Valerie Coleman’s “Giants of Light,” commissions for the ensemble’s 10th anniversary by Carnegie Hall, the group’s parent organization.
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles Renews Agreement through 2029, Bringing Tenure with GTMF to 23 Years
The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the extension of Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles’ contract previously effective through 2026, now effective through 2029. This brings his tenure with the Festival to 23 years.