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Press Release: Grand Teton Music Festival Marks Record-Breaking Summer in 2024
63rd season ends with highest-ever attendance and revenue; Board of Directors welcomes new members [JACKSON, WY, September 10, 2024]—The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Walk Festival Hall this past summer, and in doing so, achieved a 13% increase in attendance over last year’s festival,...
Magical Mozart – JH News & Guide
Grand Teton Music Festival ends its 63rd season with a fairy tale opera beloved by all ages for hundreds of years. ...Some magic seems necessary to bring Mozart’s music and Emanuel Schikaneder’s libretto alive — or at least a heck of a lot of forethought, vision, preparation and expertise. With...
Coombs kids strum their stuff Friday at Walk Hall – JH News & Guide
Grand Teton Music Festival, Coombs Outdoors join forces for ukulele club. A baker’s dozen of third, fourth and fifth graders will show off the fruits of a season’s worth of music lessons and practice sessions when the Coombs Ukulele Club performs outside Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village on Friday....
Penultimate GTMF program features 2 new faces – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival winds down its 63rd season with two Teton debuts. Slovak conductor Juraj Valcuha, the music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, will take the baton to lead the Festival Orchestra in works by Melody Eötvös and Béla Bartók. Then, Russian-born pianist Anna Geniushene, the 2022...
Fest fetes hall’s 50th with Yo-Yo Ma – JH News & Guide
...Yo-Yo Ma, now 68, will be the featured guest for the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 50th anniversary celebration of Walk Festival Hall, joining Music Director Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra in Haydn’s Concerto for Cello in C Major. Since his first recording in 1978, his discography has reached well...
Violinist Koh champions new concerto – JH News & Guide
On Friday and Saturday, (Jennifer Koh) will perform the 2022 violin concerto, “Procession,” which composer and friend Missy Mazzoli wrote just for her. Also on the weekend program, guest conductor Dalia Stasevska will lead the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in a symphonic dance by Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) and the Symphony...
Banjo royals do their thing at Walk Hall – JH News & Guide
The pair (Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn) will present their duo show Thursday at Walk Festival Hall, the final installment of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 2024 “Gateway” concert series. A performance typically includes folk standards as well as originals, although it’s sometimes hard to tell them apart. They reshape...
GTMF embarks on epic journey of Mahler’s 5th – JH News & Guide
Donald Runnicles first encountered the music of Gustav Mahler when he was a young music student in Edinburgh. “I was immersed in the music of Richard Wagner,” the music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival recounted recently. “Not just the music of Wagner but in German culture. That’s when...
Sound, visual blend in piano-dance collaboration – JH News & Guide
2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the premiere of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” (Feb. 12, in New York City’s long-defunct Aeolian Hall), so naturally it is everywhere. In fact, the Grand Teton Music Festival already presented it once this season, with guest pianist Michelle Cann and the festival orchestra....
Casper percussionist prevails in 7th annual Runnicles competition – JH News & Guide
After three wildly varied performances by student musicians Sunday afternoon in Walk Festival Hall, three judges named Casper percussionist Evan DePaolo the first-prize winner of the seventh annual Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition, awarding him a $25,000 scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Denver. Jackson’s own...
Grammy-winner Ohlsson samples Beethoven’s 32 sonatas on Tuesday – JH News & Guide
Back in the late 2010s, Grand Teton Music Festival organizers hatched a plan to have Grammy-winning Garrick Ohlsson perform all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos for the 2020 season to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The coronavirus pandemic foiled the birthday idea, but they did pull it...
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...
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...
First ‘Gateway’ concert features family – JH News & Guide
Brazilian guitarist Sérgio Assad began composing and arranging music almost as soon as he picked up his six-stringer. His father, a mandolinist, taught him folk songs, and as a young teen he began writing and arranging music for him and his brother, Odair, with whom he would form the international...
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...
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
The Grand Teton Music Festival has hosted the free community Fourth of July concert since 1997, back when Eiji Oue was music director and Al Hilde Jr. was the recently named president of the organization’s board. Called “Music in the Hole” back then, it attracted crowds of 10,000 or more...
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...
Home is where the music is: Toasting the 50th anniversary of Walk Festival Hall – JH News & Guide
Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, Sharon Isbin, Maxim Shostakovich, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, New York Philharmonic, Audra McDonald, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Norah Jones … A guest list like that requires appropriate accommodations. And for 50 years, the Grand Teton Music Festival has been able to welcome such world-class musicians —...
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...
GTMF featured in Gramophone Magazine – May 2024
Grand Teton Music Festival, June 27 - August 17 Eight weeks of orchestral and chamber music plus free community events take place in the foothills of Wyoming's Teton Mountain Range, under Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles. Augustin Hadelich kicks off the Festival Orchestra series with Beethoven's Violin Concerto. The opera...
GTMF named one of 2024’s “Best US Classical Music Festivals” by BBC Music Magazine
Every summer, over 200 musicians from some 70 orchestras converge on Walk Festival Hall for a two-month jamboree currently under the direction of Donald Runnicles. This year, the hall itself is taking (and giving!) centre stage as Yo-Yo Ma helps celebrate its half-century. Nestling among well-loved classics are a new...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces Chamber Music and Community Programs for Summer 2024 – Tickets to All Festival Events on Sale
Download release here Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) announces programs for its Summer 2024 chamber music concerts, including the world premiere of a GTMF co-commisison, as well as its family and community presentations, including Musical Adventures, On the Road, Free Family Concert and FamilyJam, pre-concert talks and open rehearsals, and...
Area schools collaborate harmoniously for StringFest
Eighth-grade string players from the region will get a taste of the big time on April 10, when they come together at Walk Festival Hall for the culminating performance of StringFest 2024. But first they have to prepare under the baton of violinist Barbara Scowcroft, a 26-year veteran of the...
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...
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...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2024 Summer Festival, June 27-August 17
Eight Week Season Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Walk Festival Hall Programming Includes: Premieres of Works by Melody Eötvös and Detlev Glanert Debuts by Guest Conductors David Danzmayr and Juraj Valčuha and Violist Amihai Grosz Distinguished Soloists: Violinists Augustin Hadelich and Jennifer Koh; Pianists Michelle Cann and Anna Geniushene; Third Coast...
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. “This...
GTMF to screen Met’s ‘Dead Man Walking’ – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival commences its 2024 selections of “The Met: Live in HD” with Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s acclaimed operatic adaptation of “Dead Man Walking.” The performance, caught on camera at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, starts at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Center Theater. In 1982, Sister...
GTMF guests celebrate Christmas in song – JH News & Guide
Christmas is a sense of home that might not be a place on a map, said singer-producer Scott Coulter, but “a place in your heart, in your soul, in your mind.” It’s too complicated for words, really, which might be why so many Christmas carols have been written over the...
Festival takes flight with ambitious ‘Madame Butterfly’ – JH News & Guide
“It’s a tricky piece,” said David Lefkowich, the stage director of this weekend’s operatic finale of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 62nd season. “The music is incredible, but the themes are difficult in a modern-day setting.” An Italian composer, an American playwright, a Japanese story: “How do we reframe this,...
‘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. “I adore performing new music...
Thile, audience to make music together – JH News & Guide
For anyone who has ever felt a twinge of envy for a brilliant artist like Chris Thile, rest assured: You are an essential collaborator in his creation. “It’s why playing live is so important,” the Grammy-winning mandolinist and composer told the News&Guide. “We give this thing, give it to you,...
Coombs Outdoors and the Grand Teton Music Festival Partner to Provide Music Lessons to Jackson’s Youth
Local nonprofits collaborate to increase access to community resources (JACKSON, WY, August 3, 2023) - 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...
One of entertainment’s brightest stars gives Broadway hits their due – JH News & Guide
Frank Lesser, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Richard Hammerstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne … they just doesn’t make Broadway tunesmiths like that any more: so witty, so lyrically agile, so capable of communicating a character’s state of mind with a single phrase or rhyme. Fortunately they do...
GTMF parties with Richard Brown, Motown – JH News & Guide
Just about anyone who has been to a few Grand Teton Music Festival concerts over the past 45 years knows veteran percussionist Richard Brown. And who isn’t familiar with at least a couple of songs released by the Motown label in the ’60s or ’70s? Put them together and what...
Francophones join forces on Ravel – JH News & Guide
Hold onto your piano bench: Piano superhero Marc-André Hamelin is in the area to perform this weekend with the Grand Teton Music Festival. Hamelin will perform Ravel’s “Concerto for Left Hand” with guest conductor Stéphane Denève leading the Festival Orchestra on Friday and Saturday evening. Also on the program are...
George Li concludes piano recital series on Sunday – JH News & Guide
George Li is a touring concert pianist who has performed as a soloist and with orchestras throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Russia, Germany, England, Sweden, Australia, Japan, China, France and many other countries. He received the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2012 Gilmore Young Artist...
Runnicles celebrates with Haydn, Webern, Strauss – JH News & Guide
...This weekend Runnicles will lead the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 (finished in 1793 or ’94), nicknamed “The Clock” for the metronomic tick-tock of its second movement. Bookending Haydn are Anton Webern’s breezy “Im Sommerwind” and Richard Strauss’ tone poem “Ein Heldenleben,” featuring rigorous soloing by...
Mambo Kings (and 1 queen) trace origins of Latin music at Teton Village on Thursday – JH News & Guide
What we call Latin music straddles several genres, with one foot in the classical realm, one foot in folk and pop, and a third foot (third foot? sure) in jazz. Which gives soprano Camille Zamora a lot of terrain to explore, which she will Thursday when she joins the Mambo...
Village hosts small concerts – JH News & Guide
If you’re looking for something free, fun and family-friendly to do on Thursdays, check out the Teton Village Association’s Alive@5 concert. The ongoing concert series runs from 5 to 6 p.m. and features chamber ensembles of musicians from the Grand Teton Music Festival’s orchestra. This week’s program showcases a brass...
$50K awarded to 3 teen musicians – JH News & Guide
Last Monday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village, saxophonist Nickoli Kumm, of Cody High School, held the small but supportive audience rapt with his performance of French composer Paule Maurice’s “Tableaux de Provence.” Tyler McKay, from Madison High School in Rexburg, Idaho, wowed the 70 or so listeners with...
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...
Grand Teton Music Fest luxuriates under ‘summer nights’ with Bullock, Reif – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival and its guests — soprano Julia Bullock and conductor Christian Reif — celebrate the season this weekend with a lushly romantic “Summer Nights” program featuring Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Ballade” and Hector Berlioz’s orchestral version of his expressive song cycle “Les nuits...
Van Cliburn finalist to recitalize Sunday – JH News & Guide
Though Clayton Stephenson has been playing piano since the age of 7, it has only been since becoming a finalist in the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition that he has been able to devote himself to music. “Before that I just didn’t have the time to put my full...
Weilerstein returns to GTMF with Barber concerto – JH News & Guide
Composer Samuel Barber was still on active duty with the U.S. Army Air Corps when in 1944 he was commissioned to write a concerto for Russian ex-patriot cellist Raya Garbousova. The result, his Concerto for Violoncello, is very technically challenging — “pyrotechnic,” even, according to cellist Alisa Weilerstein. As such,...
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles Renews Agreement through 2029, Bringing Tenure with GTMF to 23 Years
Grand Teton Music Festival Looks Forward to a Vibrant Future with Dedicated Leadership at the Helm GTMF’s 62nd Season Opened June 30 and Features Eight Weeks of Concerts in the Tetons The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the extension of Music Director Sir...
Young musicians to vie for Donald Runnicles scholarship competition – JH News & Guide
Over the past five years, the Grand Teton Music Festival has awarded $210,000 in scholarships to high school seniors from Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to help them continue to pursue their musical studies. Next Monday another $50,000 will be distributed among three finalists in the sixth annual Donald Runnicles Musical...
Chamber music concert Wednesday at Walk Festival Hall – JH News & Guide
Want to hear what “The Creation of the World” sounds like? Wednesday, an 18-person ensemble of Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra members will play Darius Milhaud’s “La Création du Monde, Opus 81a,” which premiered a century ago in Paris. The ensemble performing “The Creation of the World” will be the...
Michelle Cann to tickle the ivories Sunday – JH News & Guide
Since the age of 14, internationally renowned pianist Michelle Cann has played in orchestras all over the world. At 3 p.m. Sunday, she will make her Grand Teton Music Festival debut in Walk Festival Hall. A true veteran of the stage, Cann has performed as a soloist with the Cleveland...
Chamber music begins today – JH News & Guide
The grand opening of Grand Teton Music Festival’s chamber music series will take place today with “Opening Fanfare,” a concert poised to start the chamber series off with a bang. “Historically, a ‘fanfare’ signals an important event or a grand entrance,” said pianist and singing coach Adelle Eslinger, who runs...
GTMF vet stars in Mozart Bassoon Concerto – JH News & Guide
You’re 18 years old, on top of the world after a triumphant tour of Italy and with a plum gig as court musicians for the prince-archbishop of Salzburg. How could your first bassoon concerto be anything other that buoyant, vernal and exhilarating? “The piece is quite charming,” said Sue Heineman,...
Beethoven, Bruch & Mendelssohn this weekend – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival will kick off its 62nd season begins with a Bruch, Beethoven and Mendelssohn concert on Friday and Saturday in Walk Festival Hall. The concert will feature Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony No. 3. The program will be conducted...
Independence Day – JH News & Guide
...The holiday falls right at the start of the annual Grand Teton Music Festival, which is dedicating the nights of both July 3 and 4 to patriotic programming. “We are celebrating the Fourth of July both on the third — at our family concert, a program called ‘Home of the...
Music festival jumpstarts Friday – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival is entering its 62nd summer season and continues to provide unprecedented access to classical music for the Jackson community. This summer, the goal for GTMF is clear: Bring as much music as possible to as many people as possible. “Music is for everyone,” said Emma...
GTMF & Four Seasons Jackson Hole featured in Forbes Magazine
The Five-Star hotel (Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole) pairs Wyoming’s majestic landscapes with an equally awe-inspiring soundscape courtesy of the eight-week run of the Grand Teton Music Festival from June 30 to August 19. With talents like violinist James Ehnes, pianists Yefim Bronfman and Marc-André Hamelin, cellist Alisa...
Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recording named a best new classical recording by Gramophone
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recording — played by Grammy®-winning Garrick Ohlsson, performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles — has been named a best new classical recording in Gramophone's July 2023 issue. "...Here soloist and conductor outdo themselves in the execution of Beethoven’s...
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A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals – The New York Times
I’m not sure that the residents of Jackson Hole, whether they are fortunate enough to enjoy their first or their fourth homes in sight of the Grand Tetons, quite understand what they have going for them at Walk Festival Hall, a happily unpretentious, 700-seat indoor theater beside the gondolas in...
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
REFERENCE RECORDINGS is proud to present The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos played by Grammy®-winning Garrick Ohlsson, performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. This album was recorded during live Festival performances in July 2022. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson is especially...
Met opera latest fold in ‘The Hours’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The hours of our days are so full of fluff: buying flowers, baking cakes, string at a blank page hoping words will appear there. Think about it too much, and it will drive you to distraction — or worse. “The Hours” was the working title of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel...
Julia Bullock, Kelley O’Connor, Ana María Martínez Headline Grand Teton Music Festival 2023 Season – OperaWire
The Grand Teton Music Festival has announced its 2023 season, which runs between June 30 and August 19, 2023. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal and operatic performances. Soprano Julia Bullock will headline Berlioz’s “Les nuits d’été” with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, under...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2023 Season, June 30-August 19
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads Festival Orchestra in an eight-week seasonEsteemed guest artists include violinist James Ehnes; pianists Yefim Bronfman and Marc-André Hamelin; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor; soprano Julia Bullock; and mandolinist/vocalist Chris ThileAfter a successful introduction last year, Festival continues its opera initiative with Puccini’s Madame Butterfly...
Pianist, quartet join forces for music stories – Jackson Hole News & Guide
...Part of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s winter concert series, the keyboardist (Michael Stephen Brown) and the (Harlem Quartet) will perform works by Amy Beach, Billy Strayhorn, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and others starting at 7 p.m. in the Center Theater. Brown and the Harlem Quartet — IImar Gavilán and...
GTMF brings Met Opera’s HD programs back to Center – Jackson Hole News & Guide
“La Traviata,” the title of Giuseppe Verdi’s immortal 1853 opera, means, roughly, “a fallen women.” But, as often happens in opera and tragedy in general, its heroine, Violetta, winds up the most sympathetic, even the most noble, character in the end. Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan in...
Canadians bring brass for GTMF event – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival gets in on the Yuletide glee with a holiday concert from the Canadian Brass. Widely considered the greatest brass quintet on Earth, the 52-year-old musical institution founded in Toronto is certainly the best known and probably the widest recorded. The group has created more than...
Broadcasts, brass, operas on tap for GTMF – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Folks who missed the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 61st season this past summer — or those who didn’t but who just can’t get enough — can tune in to WyomingPBS this week and catch highlights captured on film and in sound at Walk Festival Hall. The broadcast launches a winter’s...
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Grand Teton Music Festival’s “La Boheme” this weekend – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival will debut its inaugural opera, “La Boheme,” this weekend in Walk Festival Hall. It’s a historic moment for the orchestra, founded 60 years ago in a tent at the base of Teton Village. Festival conductor Sir Donald Runnicles is world-renowned for conducting opera and has...
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Guest pianist grows with Schumann – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Ingrid Fliter owes her career as an international touring pianist to Schumann, Chopin and other composers of the romantic era. “This kind of music I grew up on,” she said, speaking from her native Buenos Aires, where she was visiting family. “It has been inside of me since I was...
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Four notes, glissando and lots of plucking – Jackson Hole News & Guide
...Elisabeth Remy Johnson has been performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival since 2016, but this will be her first performance outside Walk Festival Hall. “It takes a little extra planning to move the harp, so I am very excited that this worked out,” Johnson said. There are not a...
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Grand Teton Music Festival to Livestream ‘La bohème’ with Jose Simerilla Romero & Nicole Cabell – OperaWire
The Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming is set to livestream its semi-staged production of “La bohème.” The production will be streamed on August 27 and features an all-star cast led by Nicole Cabell as Mimì, Jose Simerilla Romero as Rodolfo, Meechot Marrero as Musetta, Ryan Speedo Green as Colline,...
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GTMF’s Hooten star in Williams concerto – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Hear the name John Williams and you likely will think of the guy who wrote the rousing themes to “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and scores of other blockbuster movies. But does the word “composer” come to mind? Funny thing that it doesn’t immediately for so many people. After all, those...
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Beat it with festival percussionists – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival’s percussion section has put together a traveling show as part of this year’s “On the Road” series, and will present it at 3 p.m. Thursday at Teton County Library and 3 p.m. Friday in the Center for the Arts Amphitheater. Both shows are free. “It’s...
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Finnish conductor established ‘French connection’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide
When you hear the phrase “French music” your brain likely recalls a certain sound, a certain mood, a certain palette musical colors — a layered shimmering of clustered noted and wide-open chords — a musical language that was dismissed as nonsense by the conservative critics of the late 19th and...
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GTMF serves Schubert’s ‘Trout’ tonight – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Musicians with the Grand Teton Music Festival will perform Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet as part of this week’s Chamber Music Series at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Walk Festival Hall. Also known as the Piano Quintet in A Major, it is five movements for piano and stringed instruments. Austrian composer Franz Schubert...
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Idaho pianist wins Runnicles competition – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Pianist Truman Walker, of Eagle, Idaho, far left, was named the winner of the 2022 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition last month. With him are third-place winner, vocalist Kerraline Bemis, of Kalispell, Montana; runner-up violinist Evelyn Lee, Rigby, Idaho; and judges Stephanie Key, Sir Donald Runnicles and David Coucheron....
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New Marsalis work highlights chamber program – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Wednesday night chamber music program at the Grand Teton Music Festival can offer some of the most exciting and satisfying musical experiences of the season. Audiences usually hear a couple of familiar works by favorite GTMF orchestra players. Often, however, programs also include something different an unexpected: a rare gem...
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Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ symphony calls to all – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The climactic symphony contemplates the afterlife with “bone-chilling” hymns and calls to the dead. At the halfway point of its 2022 season, the Grand Teton Music Festival will showcase Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection,” with nearly 200 musicians packing the stage at Walk Festival Hall this weekend....
The power of music in nature – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The breeze picked up ever so slightly, catching a handful of dandelion seeds and spinning them into the summer sun. As people gathered on the quiet side of the Tetons under a white tent under a bright blue sky, four professional musicians found their seats just behind the Alta Branch...
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Violinist Hadelich hopes to thrill – Jackson Hole News & Guide
One of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s favorite guests, Augustin Hadelich returns to Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village to perform chamber music on Wednesday — Ravel’s Violin Sonata with pianist Jason Hardink — and to join the Festival Orchestra on Friday and Saturday for Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2....
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Adventurous programing for Sunday piano recital – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival continues its Sunday Matinee Piano Recital series with Joyce Yang, silver medalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Yang promises an “incredibly challenging” program made up of “many small pieces of contrasting moods and colors.” “I hope people will feel like there’s a...
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O’Donovan brings touch of gold to GTMF – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Aoife O’Donovan visits Jackson Hole for the first time since appearing with Crooked Still some 13 or more years ago. This time she brings her band from her January release, “Age of Apathy” — Isa Burke on electric guitar, fiddle and vocals; Ethan Jodziewicz on vocals and bass and Robin...
Library and GTMF team up for free mini concerts – Buckrail
Teton County Library will play host to several of Grand Teton Music Festival’s “On The Road” series of free family friendly mini concerts that bring live classical music into the community. The “On The Road” ensembles are made up of Festival Orchestra musicians and presented with engaging hosts and discussion. GTMF...
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Aoife O’Donovan adds singer-songwriter artistry to GTMF lineup – Buckrail
Stylistically wide-ranging, Aoife O’Donovan lives in many musical spaces. With progressive Americana at the core of her artistry, O’Donovan is a Grammy-winning vocalist, guitarist, and pianist chiefly known as founder of string band Crooked Still. She’s also one-third of two different female trios—Sometymes Why and I’m with Her—the latter with...
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Jests and jesters animate orchestra program – Jackson Hole News & Guide
With guests the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Festival Orchestra presents John Adams’ “Absolute Jest,” a pastiche that takes bits from several of Beethoven’s late string quartets, as well as other fragments and “tattoos” you’d swear you heard before, and mashes them up into a fast, fun and fractalled work...
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Stripling plays for the love of Pops – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Byron Stripling presents the first Gateway concert of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 2022 season, a show featuring his touring rhythm section, a big band lineup of horns enlisted by the festival and vocal powerhouse Carmen Bradford. The music will start at 8 p.m. Thursday in Walk Festival Hall. ...Thursday’s...
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Pianist Barnatan ‘time travels’ for matinee recital – Jackson Hole News & Guide
There’s something undeniably mysterious about music. Like how a youngster might be drawn to the piano even through no one else in his family is especially musical. Or how composers converse across the decades and centuries, their ideas seemingly traveling forward and backward through time. Or just how certain aspects...
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Pianist Ohlsson stars in ‘Beethoven Extravaganza’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Oh, Ludwig. Perhaps Western civilization’s first “modern” composer, Beethoven (1770-1827) transformed music, pushing it beyond its classical conventions and using it to convey and explore the deep philosophical questions of his (and, still, ours) day. One can witness the metamorphosis through the 17 string quartets he wrote between 1799 and...
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Patriotic Pops Concert – Jackson Hole Daily
As conductor Sir Donald Runnicles leads the orchestra, Broadway star Capathia Jenkins sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to the large crowd gathered on the Center for the Arts lawn Monday evening during the Grand Teton Music Festival’s Fourth of July concert. (Jackson Hole Daily front page coverage) Photo: Kathryn Ziesig
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Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite – The New York Times
Some ensembles have decided not to perform Tchaikovsky’s overture, written as commemoration of Russia’s defeat of Napoleon’s army. ...In recent weeks, more than a dozen ensembles in Connecticut, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and Wyoming and elsewhere have decided to forgo the piece because of concerns about backlash from Ukrainians...
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A Guide to Jackson, Wyoming’s Increasingly Chic Mountain Town – The Wall Street Journal
Wyoming’s premier ski town is a magnet in summer too. Here, four locals—including a rancher and pro snowboarder—on where to spot wildlife, paddleboard in Grand Teton National Park and sip cocktails with a view As the largest town in Jackson Hole—the broad Wyoming valley in the shadow of the Teton...
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GTMF goes deep for 61st season – Jackson Hole News & Guide
After two years of COVID-induced uncertainty and instability, we all deserve a little something — a treat or a bonus, something that begins to make up for all the time lost social distancing and isolating. The Grand Teton Music Festival is doing its part. Its 61st season begins Sunday and...
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Music festival starts early for youngsters – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Teton kids are the luckiest. They grow up with clean air to breathe, expansive forests to explore, mountains to climb, rivers to float, a loving community devoted to nourishing their bodies and minds — and the Grand Teton Music Festival. Jackson Hole’s classical music institution has over the years offered...
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The top 10 classical music festivals in the US this summer – Financial Times
Nestled at the base of the Teton mountain range in Wyoming and within easy reach of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Teton Music Festival offers unrivalled access to the natural world as well as eight weeks of music. Under the leadership of music director Donald Runnicles, the programme will open...
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3 idyllic US music festivals to attend this summer – Pianist Magazine
Summer is swiftly approaching, and with it comes the opportunity to take a road trip and enjoy music outdoors. The US is home to many summer festivals with robust offerings, but three in particular stand out for their idyllic settings and the spotlight they shine on the piano this season. The...
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Music Festival takes to airwaves – Jackson Hole News & Guide
With the recent announcement of its Musical World Tour set for March 24 and preliminary details about its 61st summer season of concerts, set to start July 3, the Grand Teton Music Festival is generating some early season buzz among the region’s classical musical community. “Buzz” naturally leads to “obsessive...
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Music Festival lays out full 8-week season – Jackson Hole News & Guide
If you need something to hang onto to get through these darkest days of winter, hang onto this: It’s a mere 158 days until the opening concert of the 2022 Grand Teton Music Festival. The venerable Jackson Hole nonprofit announced preliminary details of its 61st season, which is scheduled to...
News Release: Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2022 Season, July 3-August 27
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads Festival Orchestra in extended eight-week season Esteemed guest artists include the St. Lawrence String Quartet; pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Joyce Yang, Inon Barnatan and Ingrid Fliter; violinist Augustin Hadelich; cellist Johannes Moser; soprano Capathia Jenkins and guest conductors Eun Sun Kim, Dalia Stasevska and Markus...
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Conductor Donald Runnicles Knighted – Berliner Morgenpost
The original article is in German; below is a translation via Google Translate. Prince Charles has knighted the General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper, Donald Runnicles, at Windsor Castle. It's a great old tradition, whereby in the Middle Ages the accolade could take place right on the battlefield. It...
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Beloved wind quintet visits for the holidays – Jackson Hole News & Guide
That’s kind of a hand-crafted program we worked on with Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts,” WindSync horn player Anni Hochhalter said of Monday’s concert, speaking last week from Houston. “It’s definitely holiday-inspired, but also fun and elegant Christmas is one of those times when the extended family gathers so that...