Author: Holly Hickman
Stripling brings jazzy sensibilities of Christmas chestnuts – JH News & Guide
Communion, connection and spirit-lifting are all on the agenda when the Grand Teton Music Festival hosts Stripling, his rhythm section and vocalist Sydney McSweeney for his “Holiday Swing!” program Dec. 18 in the Center Theater. “Christmas to me … it’s religious, but it’s also about family,” he said, whether that’s...
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....
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...
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...
$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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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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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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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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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...
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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Looking Back at Grand Teton Music Festival’s 60th Season
Celebrating a Successful Season and Welcoming a New Director of Development and Board Members JACKSON, WY, October 12, 2021 – Grand Teton Music Festival’s (GTMF) 60th Season, which boasted 20 sold-out concerts and an audience of 16,000 people both in-person and online, marked a monumental season. Over one thousand people...
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‘Freedom Songs’ continue to move forward – Julia Bullock will perform Jessie Montgomery’s work at GTMF – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Vocalist Julie Bullock performs Jessie Montgomery’s new song cycle, “Five Freedom Songs,” with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Thursday through Saturday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village. The word “freedom” has become fraught with politics in the 21st century. Can one exercise one’s freedom without compromising the freedoms of...
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Where Ancient Peaks Embrace Old Friends, Music Adds Its Wonder – Classical Voice North America by Thomas May
...It’s a setting that easily nourishes music’s transcendent power. No wonder so many of the musicians who make up the GTMF Orchestra are long-timers, returning, summer after summer, as if compelled by a migratory instinct. Numbering about 200 total, they come from 80 orchestras and more than 50 other institutions...
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A “Guest” Visit from Donald Runnicles at Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May
Gemma New was originally scheduled to make her Grand Teton Music Festival debut conducting this week’s full orchestral program. But when she had to cancel at the last minute, GTMF’s music director Sir Donald Runnicles stepped in to save the day, adding two more concerts to those for which he...
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Hitting the Sweet Spot: Third Coast Percussion at Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May
Week 4 of the Grand Teton Music Festival continued with an enthusiastically received performance by Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion making their Festival debut. Presented without intermission, the concert unfolded with unflagging energy as each member of the quartet — David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and Sean Connors — took...
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A Homecoming for the Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May
With its marriage of valley and dramatic, looming scarps, it’s obvious how the Jackson Hole area beckoned as an ideal spot to make music. The Grand Teton Music Festival opened on 2 July, following the all-too-familiar hiatus, and is now into Week 4 of a seven-week season — which also...
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Classical training meets jam-band bliss – Jackson Hole News & Guide
It’s time to make time for Time For Three. It has been five years, almost to the day, since the classically trained jam trio last performed in Jackson Hole, and a whole lot has happened since then: new music, new members, a soundtrack for a new movies, new teaching opportunities...
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The Grand Teton Music Festival Returns For Its 60th Season – Wyoming Public Media
The Grand Teton Music Festival is underway and it's celebrating its 60th season. Over seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival unites more than 200 celebrated orchestral musicians led by music director Donald Runnicles. The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is one of America's leading summer classical music festivals and...
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Festival premieres Eötvös’ ‘Deciding Machine’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide
A May 2020 article in The Wall Street Journal heralds the dawn of the age of the “decision machine,” when supercomputers and artificial intelligence are able to sort through the myriad possible consequences of complex, dynamic situations to predict the most likely outcomes. But the idea of such a mechanical...
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Music Festival plays on Center lawn
Four outdoor concerts will be presented on the lawn outside the Center for the Arts, with many guest artists. One of the best ways to make an occasion special — be it a holiday, a road trip or a dinner party — is with music. Which is why for many...
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GTMF Featured in United Airlines’ Hemispheres Magazine
Returning for its 60th season, the Grand Teton Music Festival once again graces Jackson Hole, Wyoming, right next to Grand Teton National Park. This idyllic summer retreat attracts nearly 200 top musicians from around the country, led by internationally renowned music director Sir Donald Runnicles. The first week of concerts...
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GTMF rounds out its 60th season
Single tickets on sale for orchestral concerts, chamber recitals and ‘Gateway Series.’ If BBC Young Musician of 2016 Sheku Kanneh-Mason, violin superstar Leila Josefowicz or prodigious young conductor Gemma New weren’t enough to get classical music fans excited about the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 2021 season, the venerable valley arts...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces New “Gateway Series” and “GTMF on the Road” Program, Further Expanding Community Engagement in 60th Season
Single tickets for all festival events now on sale, Festival dates: July 2–August 21, 2021 Concerts featured in Gateway Series include Time For Three, Grammy®-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion, and a “Broadway Through the Ages” evening JACKSON, WY, June 1, 2021 – Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) announces the inaugural launch...
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GTMF Featured in Symphony Magazine, Spring 2021
The Grand Teton Music Festival and Executive Director Emma Kail are featured in the "Festival Overtures" article of the Spring 2021 edition of Symphony Magazine, published by the League of American Orchestras. | Read full article
Grand Teton Music Festival Welcomes Musicians and Audiences Back to Celebrate 60th Season, July 2–August 21, 2021
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads the Festival Orchestra including a world premiere by Melody Eötvös and co-commission by Jessie MontgomeryEsteemed guest artists include violinists James Ehnes and Leila Josefowicz, Broadway star Capathia Jenkins, soprano Julia Bullock, pianist Yefim Bronfman, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and conductors Gemma New, Stéphane Denève, and...