JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival’s third annual Winter Festival brings a week filled with exciting musical performances, masterclasses, and lectures to venues throughout Jackson Hole January 31- February 3, 2018. The Winter Festival is supported by a generous grant from the Center of Wonder and donors to the Festival’s education and outreach initiatives.

Featuring Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble, whose mission is to create engaging performances and interactive educational programs, the Winter Festival is focused on education and outreach. Festival Musicians will make classroom visits throughout the week, promoting appreciation of the performing arts to our next generation of musicians.

Fifth House Ensemble’s Reed Trio

Praised by the New York Times for its “conviction, authority, and finesse,” the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble harnesses the collaborative spirit of chamber music to reach beyond the traditional envelope of classical music. Featuring music from Dan Visconti, Jenni Brandon, and Robbie McCarthy, this versatile program takes the audience on a 20th-century adventure. Wednesday, January 31 at 7PM at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Cook Auditorium. $25 for adults, students are free.

Music and Community with Dan Visconti

Fifth House Ensemble’s resident composer and Artistic Director Dan Visconti shares his approach to being a composer: someone who is a cultural ambassador and collaborator, deeply integrated in the communities he serves. Thursday, February 1 at 12PM at Teton County Library’s Ordway Auditorium. Free but tickets are required.

Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

Festival Musicians constructed this impressive program with Barber’s immensely popular Adagio for Strings and Dvořák’s complex String Quintet No. 2. In honor of the 2018 Star-Spangled Season theme, a piece by the king of minimalism Philip Glass rounds out the program. Thursday, February 1 at 7PM at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Free but tickets are required.

Jazz, Musical Creativity, and the Brain with Dr. Charles Limb

Within this Lunchtime Learning lecture, presented in partnership with St. John’s Medical Center’s Words on Wellness, Dr. Charles Limb discusses how neuroscientists study the musical brain, experimental findings related to jazz improvisation, and the science of the arts—a compelling new field. Friday, February 2 at 12PM at Teton County Library’s Ordway Auditorium. Free but tickets are required.

Fifth House Ensemble’s Piano Trio

Fifth House Ensemble showcases contemporary piano trios by Stacy Garrop, Dan Visconti, Donald Crockett, and Paul Schoenfield. Explore how these American composers have captured the wildly diverse music of our time. Friday, February 2 at 7PM at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Cook Auditorium. $25 for adults, students are free.

GTMF Presents: Kenari Quartet

Formed in 2012 at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the award-winning Kenari Quartet delivers engaging performances that demonstrate the versatility of the saxophone. The group has earned top prizes at the M-Prize Chamber Music Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Saturday, February 3 at 7PM at the Center for the Arts. $25 for adults, students are free.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. After the summer season, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest performing arts presenter in Jackson Hole with nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The Grand Teton Music Festival and the Center of Wonder present the Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcast of Hansel and Gretel this Thursday, December 14th at 7PM.

Richard Jones’s clever production of Humperdinck’s fairytale opera is based on the Brothers Grimm story. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the sweeping score and delightful cast, including Alice Coote in the role of Hansel and Christine Schäfer as Gretel. This 2008 production—sung in English and only two hours long—is a holiday favorite for audiences of all ages!

“Humperdinck’s Wagnerian score abounds in singable, justly loved tunes, and Mr. Jurowski finds a judicious balance between weight and whimsy in his subtly paced performance, drawing rich textures and inner voices from the orchestra.” (New York Times)

The Metropolitan Opera stages more than 200 performances in New York each year, and the Grand Teton Music Festival is proud to present seven of those performances in Jackson Hole. The Met: Live in HD broadcasts exemplify GTMF’s mission to bring exhilarating music to Jackson Hole year-round.

Please visit gtmf.org/met-2017 to purchase tickets. Please note the Grand Teton Music Festival is unable to present Mozart’s Magic Flute as previously scheduled due to administrative decisions made by the Metropolitan Opera. Ticket holders for Magic Flute do not need to exchange their tickets to attend Hansel and Gretel. If you purchased tickets to Magic Flute and do not wish to attend Hansel and Gretel, please contact the Center Box Office for a full refund.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. After the summer season, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest performing arts presenter in Jackson Hole with nearly 100 events annually.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The Grand Teton Music Festival and the Center of Wonder present another sensational Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcast Thursday, December 14^th at 7PM: Hansel and Gretel. Due to recent administrative decisions made by the Metropolitan Opera, the Grand Teton Music Festival is unable to present Mozart’s Magic Flute as previously scheduled. Ticket holders for Magic Flute do not need to exchange their tickets to attend Hansel and Gretel.

Richard Jones’s clever production of Humperdinck’s fairytale opera is based on the Brothers Grimm story. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the sweeping score and delightful cast, including Alice Coote in the role of Hansel and Christine Schäfer as Gretel.

The Metropolitan Opera stages more than 200 performances in New York each year, and the Grand Teton Music Festival is proud to present seven of those performances in Jackson Hole. The Met: Live in HD broadcasts exemplify GTMF’s mission to bring exhilarating music to Jackson Hole year-round.

Please visit gtmf.org/met-2017 to purchase tickets. The 2018 operas will go on sale in January 2018. If you purchased tickets to Magic Flute and do not wish to attend Hansel and Gretel, please contact the Center Box Office for a full refund.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. After the summer season, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest performing arts presenter in Jackson Hole with nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The 2017-18 season of The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD opens Thursday, November 16 with Norma at 7PM at The Center for the Arts.

Co-presented by the Center of Wonder, The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcast series exemplifies Grand Teton Music Festival’s mission to bring exhilarating music to Jackson Hole year-round.

This new production of Bellini’s masterpiece Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her archrival Adalgisa, is a casting coup for bel canto fans.

“Anticipation had run high for Radvanovsky’s return to the role that vaulted her to the top rank of bel canto sopranos just four years ago… Radvanovsky surpassed all expectations. From the moment she enters to deliver ‘Casta Diva,’ one of the great soprano arias in all opera, Radvanovsky embodies the tormented priestess vocally and physically.” (Huffington Post)

Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.

Audience members are invited to a special opening night reception before the broadcast at 6PM. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. After the summer season, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest performing arts presenter in Jackson Hole with nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The Grand Teton Music Festival presents a free community concert Saturday, November 11 at 7pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

The concert reunites violinist Sherry Sinift and violist James Pryzgocki, both faculty members at the University of Wyoming School of Music in Laramie, with pianist and Grand Teton Music Festival CEO, Andrew Palmer Todd, This free community concert is part of the Festival’s ongoing initiative to present classical music year-round in Jackson Hole.

The program features Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in D major, a youthful work by the composer. Interspersed throughout the concert are pieces for solo piano, including Liszt’s virtuoso transcription of Isolde’s Liebestod from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. Concluding the program is a unique work for viola by the English composer Rebecca Clarke. Influenced by Ravel, Debussy, Wagner, and Vaughan Williams, the Viola Sonata has been one of the staples of the viola repertoire for nearly 100 years.

The concert is free and tickets are not required. The concert begins at 7pm and stay after the concert for cookies and coffee with the musicians. For more information, visit gtmf.org.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. After the summer season, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest performing arts presenter in Jackson Hole with nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The Grand Teton Music Festival and the Center of Wonder are collaborating again to present another sensational season of The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD. Opening Thursday, November 16 at 7PM with Bellini’s Norma, the season runs through May 2018.

The Metropolitan Opera stages more than 200 performances in New York each year, and the Grand Teton Music Festival is proud to present seven of those performances at the Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole. The Met: Live in HD broadcasts exemplify GTMF’s mission to bring exhilarating music to Jackson Hole year-round.

Bellini’s Norma | November 16, 2017        

The 2017–18 Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD season opens with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her archrival, Adalgisa—a casting coup for bel canto fans. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest. 7PM.

Audience members are invited to attend a special season opening reception before the broadcast at 6PM.

Mozart’s The Magic Flute | December 14, 2017

James Levine conducts the full-length version of Mozart’s magical fable, set in Julie Taymor’s spectacular production, which captures both the opera’s earthy comedy and its noble mysticism. 7PM.

Puccini’s Tosca | February 7, 2018

Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a splendid backdrop for soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of the jealous prima donna. 7PM.

Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love | March 1, 2018

The Elixir of Love represents the best of the bel canto tradition—from funny patter songs to rich ensembles to wrenching melody in the solos. Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met with her first Adina opposite the great American tenor Matthew Polenzani. 7PM.

Puccini’s La Bohème  | March 21, 2018

The world’s most popular opera returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production with Sonya Yoncheva singing the role of the fragile Mimì, and Michael Fabiano as the poet Rodolfo. Marco Armiliato conducts. 7PM.

Rossini’s Semiramide | April 12, 2018

Rossini’s masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance—its first in nearly 25 years—with Maurizio Benini on the podium. Angela Meade stars in the title role of the murderous Queen of Babylon, who squares off in breathtaking duets with Arsace, a trouser role sung by Elizabeth DeShong. 6PM.

Mozart’s – Così fan tutte | May 3, 2018

A winning cast comes together for Phelim McDermott’s vision of Mozart’s comedy about the sexes, set in a carnival-esque environment. The Don Alfonso of Christopher Maltman and the Despina of Tony Award–winner Kelli O’Hara lead the action. 6PM. Audience members are invited to a closing night reception at 5PM.

To purchase tickets for the November and December operas, visit gtmf.org/met-2017. The 2018 operas will go on sale in January 2018.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. After the summer season, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest performing arts presenter in Jackson Hole with nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival’s summer of stars in Jackson Hole closed on Sunday, August 20th.

GTMF presented 61 events over seven weeks and reunited 200 orchestral musicians—representing 82 orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America.

Highlights from the season included the 2017 Fundraising Gala with Yo-Yo Ma—raising more than $500,000 for GTMF and its music education initiatives—as well as programs celebrating the Total Solar Eclipse, including Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, Holst’s The Planets, and the new Movies on the Mountain series presenting celestial-themed films each week.

Named one of the Top 10 Classical Music Festivals by The New York Times for two consecutive years, GTMF’s star continues to rise. Total attendance increased from 9,800 in 2014 to 15,700 in 2017 marking a 60% increase. Collaborations with venues around the valley extended the reach of the festival this summer, including chamber music at Diehl Gallery and cellist Ben Sollee at Pink Garter Theatre. GTMF also expanded its popular Free Family Concert series to the Alta branch of Teton County Library.

“I am so impressed and grateful for the support demonstrated by our community year after year. Their attendance is a clear validation that the Jackson Hole Community and its visitors have embraced the expansion of the Festival’s programming,” said Andrew Palmer Todd, GTMF President and CEO stated regarding the record-breaking season.

“The Festival’s footprint continues to expand outside the walls of Festival Hall, continuing the effort to experiment with venues in Jackson, and expanding to Alta with family concerts this summer.”

After three prosperous years of leadership, this summer marks the end of esteemed chairperson Sylvia Neil’s tenure. Todd continues, “The number of events during the summer has nearly doubled, fundraising from individual contributions has doubled, and total attendance has increased 60%. That all of this was accomplished in such a short period of time is testament to Sylvia’s tenacity, vision, philanthropy, and love for this unique Festival.”

At the Festival’s Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors on August 18, 2017, Allan Tessler was elected to succeed Ms. Neil as Chairman. The Festival is honored to announce that Kakie Brooks and Laurentius Marais were also elected to join the board.

Looking ahead to 2018, GTMF is pleased to announce the theme will be Americana. Celebrating the life and career of Leonard Bernstein, born in 1918, the concert version of West Side Story will be the season’s grand finale. Play it cool and we look forward to welcoming you back for the 57^th season of Grand Teton Music Festival on July 2, 2018.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

GTMF’s Summer of Stars Concludes, Sets New Attendance Record

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival’s summer of stars comes to a close this Sunday. Celebrate the imminent eclipse in Teton Village with marvelous music all weekend long.

Tonight, America’s most popular classical music program Performance Today hosts an evening of conversation and chamber music recorded for national broadcast at Walk Festival Hall at 8PM. Festival musicians team up for performances of well known chamber music works by Mendelssohn, Debussy, and Haydn. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson also makes a special appearance.

The final Festival Orchestra weekend reunites pianist Garrick Ohlsson with Maestro Runnicles for a magical evening of Mozart. National Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef opens the concert as soloist in the ethereal Lark Ascending.

Befitting the Big Bang finale of a sublime season, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41—the Jupiter Symphony—concludes the program on Friday, August 18 at 8PM and Saturday, August 19 at 6PM. All August 19 ticketholders are invited to join us on stage after the concert on Saturday for a post-concert celebration with the Festival Orchestra.

Crowning the 56th season with a special Sunday night concert, GTMF presents Pink Martini on the eve of the eclipse. Effervescent little orchestra Pink Martini blends pop, world, jazz, and chamber music into lush arrangements, creating a big band sound that allures audiences worldwide. Sunday, August 20 at 8PM.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival’s evanescent summer of stars comes to a close on Sunday, August 20th.

Tonight, enjoy Teton Village Association-sponsored Movies on the Mountain with Star Wars: The Force Awakens at 7PM. Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat appears. To combat the legions and save the New Republic, the resistance must team-up with some unlikely heroes. Enjoy this continuation of the Star Wars saga with candy and popcorn available 30 minutes prior to the screening!

Stellar string quintet Sybarite5 returns to GTMF with a program entitled Outliers, combining classical compositions with modern works, Tuesday, August 15 at 8PM. Known for their passionate performances, Sybarite5 is the first string quintet ever to win the Concert Artists Guild International Competition.

On Wednesday, August 16 at 2PM, join Sybarite5 for a family-friendly encore at the Teton County Library. Kids of all ages are invited to join this free family concert that will surely spark some moving and grooving. Tickets are required for this free event.

GTMF presents pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Wednesday, August 16 at 8PM. Mr. Ohlsson has been one of the foremost interpreters of Chopin since winning the International Chopin Competition in 1970. This program features Bach and Chopin as well as a sonata by Chopin’s Polish compatriot, Szymanowski.

As America’s most popular classical music program, Performance Today pulls more than three million listeners into their orbit on a weekly basis. Join host Fred Child for an evening of conversation and chamber music recorded for national broadcast at Walk Festival Hall. Thursday, August 17 at 8PM.

The final Festival Orchestra weekend reunites pianist Garrick Ohlsson with Maestro Runnicles for a magical evening of Mozart. National Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef opens the concert as soloist in the ethereal Lark Ascending. Befitting the Big Bang finale of a sublime orchestra season, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41—the Jupiter Symphony—concludes the program. Friday, August 18 at 8PM and Saturday, August 19 at 6PM.

Crowning the 56th season with a special Sunday night concert, GTMF presents Pink Martini on the eve of the eclipse. Effervescent little orchestra Pink Martini blends pop, world, jazz, and chamber music into lush arrangements, creating a big band sound that allures audiences worldwide. Celebrate GTMF’s astronomical summer on Sunday, August 20 at 8PM.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Violinist James Ehnes returns to Walk Festival Hall tonight at 8PM for an evening of chamber music. Hailed for his “piercing clarity and sweet lyricism” (The Times), Ehnes performs Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor—the ultimate test for any string player. Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichordist, specializing in the music of baroque masters like Bach and Vivaldi, continues her GTMF residency.

On Friday and Saturday, celebrate the imminent total eclipse with the Festival Orchestra. Gustav Holst’s The Planets surveys the cosmic and the divine, creating an expansive musical solar system. The Planets has inspired more movie scores than any other classical music work in the 20^th century – from The Imperial March in Star Wars, The Right Stuff, and even Super Mario Brothers! Guest artist James Ehnes performs Beethoven’s enduring Violin Concerto in D major. Friday, August 11 at 8PM and Saturday, August 12 at 6PM.

Only 10 days remain of GTMF’s 2017 summer festival—don’t miss any of these cosmic-inspired concerts. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Houston, we have a problem! It’s hard to believe, but the Grand Teton Music Festival’s summer of stars has just two weeks of performances remaining.

Tonight, enjoy Teton Village Association-sponsored Movies on the Mountain with space adventure docudrama Apollo 13 at 7PM. Tickets are free but required, and don’t forget to complete the movie experience with popcorn and candy on the pavilion!

GTMF Assistant Conductor Jerry Hou hosts Inside the Music on Tuesday, August 8 at 8PM. Focusing on the works of Hungarian composers Dohnányi and Ligeti, as well as the popular Hungarian Dances of Brahms, all of the works on the program represent Hungary’s rich tradition of folk music. Inside the Music: Hungary for More is free but ticketed.

Wednesday August 9 offers two musical occasions: a Free Family Concert at Teton County Library in Alta at 3PM, and GTMF Presents: Baroque Night with Jeanette Sorrell at 8PM.

Introduce your family to the woodwind family at the Teton County Library over the pass in Alta. Open to kids of all ages; this event is free, informal, and fun! Tickets are required.

GTMF Artist-in-Residence Jeannette Sorrell presents an evening of her early music favorites, including Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, which she leads from the harpsichord. Festival Musicians join Sorrell to create this special baroque orchestra Wednesday, August 9 at 8PM.

Violinist James Ehnes returns to GTMF on Thursday, August 10 at 8PM for an evening of chamber music. Hailed for his “piercing clarity and sweet lyricism” (The Times), Ehnes performs music by Bach—the ultimate test for any string player. Jeannette Sorrell continues her residency with works by Biber and Froberger.

Celebrate this month’s total eclipse with the Festival Orchestra: Celestial Sounds. Musica Celestis by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis and Holst’s The Planets survey the cosmic and the divine, creating an expansive musical solar system. James Ehnes performs Beethoven’s enduring Violin Concerto in D major. Friday, August 11 at 8PM and Saturday, August 12 at 6PM.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Winner of the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition, Denis Kozhukhin joins Festival Musicians for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Trio in G minor tonight at 8PM. The 31 year-old pianist combines the brilliance and power of his playing with a masterful sense of form and sensitivity. Festival Musicians follow Rachmaninoff with a pillar of the chamber music repertoire—Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat major.

Mr. Kozhukhin performs one of the all-time most popular and romantic works for piano and orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor on Friday, August 4 at 8PM and Saturday, August 5 at 6PM. Maestro Fabien Gabel, Music Director of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, makes his GTMF debut leading the Festival Orchestra in Brahms’ pastoral Second Symphony.

Also on Saturday, August 5 at 11AM, Festival Musicians Carole Bean and Anne Preucil Lewellen lead this week’s free family concert. Listen and learn as they perform an informal flute and harp concert for music-lovers of all ages at the Teton County Library in Jackson. This family fun is free, but ticketed.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The Grand Teton Music Festival presents Yo-Yo Ma for the must-see event of the year in Jackson Hole: the Fundraising Gala on Tuesday August 1 at 7PM. Hailed as the transcendent musician of our time, Mr. Ma will perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Donald Runnicles. This SOLD OUT event benefits GTMF and its year-round music education programs and outreach activities.

The festive week kicks off with another installment of Music on the Mountain with Back to the Future on Monday, July 31 at 7PM. After an experiment with Doc Brown goes awry, Marty McFly travels back in time and must find his way back to the future! Sponsored by Teton Village Association, Movies on the Mountain offers free movies on Mondays throughout the summer. Candy and popcorn are available for sale on the Hartley Pavilion 30 minutes prior to the movie.

As part of the Festival’s initiative to present great music in unique venues throughout Jackson Hole, the Diehl Gallery hosts an artful evening of chamber music featuring a quartet of Festival Musicians on Wednesday August 2 at 5:30PM. Peruse the current collection of Donald Martiny – The River Series – while enjoying the music. A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition benefit GTMF! Tickets are limited and include a complimentary glass of wine and chocolates from Meeteetse Chocolatier.

On Thursday, August 3, virtuosic pianist Denis Kozhukhin joins Festival Musicians for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Trio in G minor at 8PM. Festival Musicians then team-up for one of the pillars of chamber music repertoire—Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat major.

Maestro Fabien Gabel makes his GTMF debut as he leads the Festival Orchestra in Brahms pastoral Second Symphony on Friday, August 4 at 8PM and Saturday, August 5 at 6PM. Mr. Kozhukhin then performs one of the most popular works for piano and orchestra of all time: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.

Also on Saturday, August 5, Festival Musicians Carole Bean and Anne Preucil Lewellen lead this week’s free family concert. Listen and learn as they perform an informal concert for music-lovers of all ages at the Teton County Library in Jackson, 11AM. This family fun is free, but ticketed.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival’s summer continues with three nights of music inspired by centuries of folk traditions. As the famous quote goes, “If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it’s a folk song.”

Tonight’s evening of chamber music features the 2017 Van Cliburn gold medalist, 28-year old Yekwon Sunwoo in Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, a work whose rhythms, melodies and harmonies are deeply rooted in Bohemian folk music. Mr. Sunwoo won the prestigious Van Cliburn competition in June and is currently on his worldwide victory tour.

The popular chamber music program also includes one of Beethoven’s lively string quartets and songs by French composer Maurice Ravel. Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor takes center stage for the songs, themselves folk-like in nature. The performance begins at 8PM.

Friday and Saturday Festival Orchestra concerts feature the inaugural performances of Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs sung by Kelley O’Connor. Berio explores the world of folk influences with songs from the United States, France, Italy, and Armenia.

Maestro Runnicles, heralded as one of the leading Mahler interpreters of his generation, then leads the Festival Orchestra in a performance of the composer’s final symphony. Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 is an eloquent farewell—a work of heartbreaking resignation, renunciation, and at last, a peaceful departure. Throughout Mahler’s symphonic masterpieces and the ninth symphony, the composer invokes the folk traditions of his native Bohemia and the countryside of his adopted home Austria. Performances take place on Friday, July 28 at 8PM and Saturday, July 29 at 6PM.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival moves from the ridiculous to the sublime this week with events guaranteed to delight!

The week opens on the lighter side with Mel Brooks’ screwball comedy Spaceballs at Walk Festival Fall tonight at 7PM. Set in a distant galaxy, captain Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog sidekick Barf (John Candy) fight the evil Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) to save Princess Vespa and her planet. Sponsored by Teton Village Association, Movies on the Mountain is a free series that complements the live events currently offered throughout the Village Tuesday through Friday. Popcorn, candy, beer and wine are available for sale 30 minutes before the movie.

On Tuesday, July 25 at 8PM Inside the Music returns. Festival Musician and Concertmaster of the Chattanooga Symphony, Holly Mulcahy hosts The Language of Music. She’ll explore how composers communicate thoughts, feelings, and emotions through music and the individual interpretations that arise with selections and audience discussion. Highlighting Festival CEO and pianist Andrew Palmer Todd, this concert is free but a ticket is required.

Learn what makes string instruments unique at our Free Family Concert on Wednesday, July 26 at 2PM at the Teton County Library in Jackson. A string quartet of Festival Musicians presents this hour-long program of music and exploration. Tickets are free but required for this popular program.

On Wednesday, July 26 at 8PM, gold medalist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 28-year-old Yekwon Sunwoo performs at Walk Festival Hall in a program that will not disappoint. Hailed for “his total command over the instrument and its expressiveness” (San Francisco Examiner), Yekwon Sunwoo also performs the Dvořák Piano Quintet on Thursday, July 27 at 8PM. He will be joined by a string quartet comprised of Festival Orchestra musicians.

Friday and Saturday Festival Orchestra concerts begin with Berio’s Folk Songs, sung by mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor. Maestro Runnicles then leads the Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s final symphony—a work of heartbreaking resignation. Friday, July 28 at 8PM Saturday, July 29 at 6PM.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

Internationally acclaimed pianist, and audience favorite, Yefim Bronfman performs at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole tonight, July 20th through Saturday, July 22nd.

Bronfman takes the stage at Walk Festival Hall at 8PM. “A marvel of digital dexterity, warmly romantic sentiment, and jaw-dropping bravura,” (Chicago Tribune) Bronfman’s residency begins with Debussy’s work for solo piano, Suite bergamasque. Within Suite bergamasque is timeless classic and nod to this year’s eclipse, Clair de Lune (“Moonlight”). Following Bronfman’s performance of this charming work of impressionism, Festival Musicians kick off a weekend of Brahms with two of the composer’s chamber music masterpieces: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor and Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor.

Three great Bs are featured on Friday, July 21 at 8PM and Saturday, July 22 at 6PM —Bartók, Brahms, and Bronfman. The concert opens with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a virtuosic work perfect for showcasing each section of the Festival Orchestra. The concert closes with Bronfman’s performance of Brahms’ epic and inspirational Second Piano Concerto, a tour de force of the piano repertoire.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience Yefim Bronfman’s masterful interpretation of Brahms.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival’s celestial summer continues with world-renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman in Jackson Hole.

Before Yefim Bronfman and Brooklyn Rider take the stage at Walk Festival Hall, WALL•E will be screened for free on Monday, July 17 at 7PM as part of GTMF’s new Movies on the Mountain series sponsored by Teton Village Association. WALL•E is the heartwarming story of the last robot on earth charged with sifting through humanity’s waste and refuse. After 700 years of isolation, WALL•E meets new robot EVE and the two embark on a quest to restore planet Earth. Movie-style concessions will be available 30 minutes before the film-candy, artisanal popcorn from Jackson Hole POP, beer and wine!

GTMF presents Brooklyn Rider on Tuesday, July 18 at 8PM. “Take two violins, a viola, a cello. Add the world. Persian, Silk Road, Bartók, Beethoven, Roma, klezmer, Minnesota, Brooklyn, Philip Glass – and you’ve got Brooklyn Rider. The spell-casting, trail-blazing string quartet out of Brooklyn and all over.” (NPR)

On Wednesday, July 19 at 1PM, Brooklyn Rider heads over the hill to continue their residency with a Free Family Concert at Teton County Library branch in Alta. Known for their education programs and family-oriented offerings, the group will present a fun and eclectic 45-minute program suitable for our youngest music lovers.

GTMF’s family-friendly events continue with From Screen to Stage: The Music of John Williams – a Free Family Orchestra Concert Wednesday, July 19 at 6PM. Ticketholders can join us at 5pm on the Hartley Pavilion for refreshments and an instrument petting zoo!

This event is completely SOLD OUT, but please contact the Fritz Box Office if you would like to be added to the waitlist.

Yefim Bronfman, a leading pianist of this generation, takes the stage at Walk Festival Hall beginning Thursday, July 20 at 8PM. “A marvel of digital dexterity, warmly romantic sentiment, and jaw-dropping bravura,” (Chicago Tribune) Bronfman begins his residency with solo piano works by Debussy, and Festival Musicians kick off a weekend of Brahms with two of the composer’s chamber music masterpieces: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor and Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor.

Three great Bs are featured on Friday, July 21 at 8PM and Saturday, July 22 at 6PM —Bartók, Brahms, and Yefim Bronfman. The concert opens with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a virtuosic work perfect for showcasing each section of the Festival Orchestra. The concert closes with powerhouse Bronfman’s performance of Brahms’ epic and inspirational Second Piano Concerto.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s summer season continues with a diverse lineup of musical stars, headlined by artist-in-residence Maja Bogdanović.

Hailed by The Strad after her Carnegie Hall recital for “an outstanding performance of exceptional tonal beauty, great maturity of interpretation, and technical excellence,” Maja Bogdanović continues to reward audiences worldwide as one of the leading cellists of today.

Her residency begins with a Chamber Music performance on Thursday, July 13 at 8PM. This must-hear program includes Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring in its original version for thirteen instruments. Rachmaninoff’s lush sonata for cello performed by Bogdanović and Festival pianist Jason Hardink will cap off the evening.

Maja Bogdanović makes her Festival Orchestra debut with the ebullient Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 on Friday, July 14 at 8PM and Saturday, July 15 at 6PM. Maestro Cristian Măcelaru returns to the podium to lead the Festival Orchestra in Prokofiev’s masterful take on Romeo and Juliet as well as Romanian Rhapsody, a work by Mr. Măcelaru’s fellow countryman George Enescu.

Maja Bogdanović’s residency also includes a free family concert at Walk Festival Hall on Saturday, July 15 at 11AM. Children and families get a chance to get up-close with the cello and enjoy music selections for young ones. This is a free event, but tickets are required for this family affair.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s expanded summer lineup continues with eight events this week. Headlining the week’s performances are appearances by Ben Sollee, Maja Bogdanović, and the Festival Orchestra. A new weekly series at the Festival – Movies on the Mountain – also launches this week.

1980s family classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opens Movies on the Mountain, on Monday, July 10 at 7PM. In this beloved Steven Spielberg film, brother and sister Elliot and Gertie assist a gentle alien stranded on Earth. The film is free, but ticketed. Complete your movie screening experience with popcorn and candy at the concessions counter! Movies on the Mountain is the Festival’s newest series and is intended to provide family entertainment. This year’s lineup is inspired by the total solar eclipse.

The popular Inside the Music series begins on Tuesday, July 11 at 8PM with a program exploring minimalism through the lens of American composers. Minimalism began in the 1940s as a west coast reaction to the abundance of atonal compositions. Hosted by Festival Musicians Stephanie Key, clarinet, and David Mollenauer, cello, Inside the Music: American Minimalism is a one-hour program including conversation and questions from the audience. Free, but a ticket is required.

On Wednesday July 12, GTMF presents cellist Ben Sollee at the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson at 8PM. Soulful singer and bluegrass-inspired, multi-talented Ben Sollee returns for what promises to be a moving and eclectic summer evening in Jackson.

Cellist Maja Bogdanović stars in a Chamber Music performance on Thursday, July 13 at 8PM. This not-to-be-missed program includes Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring in its original version for thirteen instruments. Rachmaninoff’s lush sonata for cello performed by Bogdanović and pianist Jason Hardink will cap off the evening.

Bogdanović makes her Festival Orchestra debut with the ebullient Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 on Friday, July 14 at 8PM and Saturday, July 15 at 6PM. Maestro Cristian Măcelaru returns to the podium to lead the Festival Orchestra in Prokofiev’s masterful take on Romeo and Juliet as well as Romanian Rhapsody, a work by Mr. Măcelaru’s fellow countryman George Enescu. The Festival Orchestra opens their Friday rehearsal to the public at 10AM on July 14. Experience a working session in which Maestro Măcelaru creates and shapes the weekend’s Festival Orchestra concerts.

Our weekly family concert is Saturday, July 15 at 11am. Children have an opportunity to get up-close with the cello and enjoy music suited for young ones when cellist Maja Bogdanović continues her weeklong residency. This free event is also ticketed.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

Opening week of the Grand Teton Music Festival continues with three performances by virtuoso violinist Augustin Hadelich.

Grammy Award-winning violinist and GTMF artist-in-residence Augustin Hadelich is the opening weekend soloist, performing July 6-8. “A young artist with no evident limitations,” (The New Yorker) Hadelich is one of the most sought-after soloists in the world today. His residency begins with a recital on Thursday, July 6 at 8PM with pianist Jason Hardink. Their program includes selections from Paganini’s Caprices—one of the composer’s most challenging works. Mr. Hadelich then stars in the Festival Orchestra’s opening concerts.

Maestro Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra begin their star-studded season with Masters in the Mountains Friday, July 7 at 8PM and Saturday, July 8 at 6PM. Heralded as one of today’s leading conductors of Wagner, Maestro Runnicles starts the season with a signature work – Wagner’s heroic, inspired overture from Die Meistersinger. Maestro Runnicles and Mr. Hadelich team up for a performance of the violin concerto by Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius.

One of Beethoven’s most admired symphonies, his seventh, concludes the evening. It’s a work that has been featured on stage and screen, most notably in the Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech.

 The program also includes the western premiere of Marc Neikrug’s The Unicorn of Atlas Peak, a joint-commission between GTMF and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The Festival is committed to commissioning new orchestral works from the world’s leading composers with partner organizations around the country. Mr. Neikrug is equally at home as composer and pianist, having been for years the Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival for nearly twenty years. The composer will be in attendance for both performances.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s 56th season, See the Stars in Jackson Hole, begins TONIGHT with two completely SOLD OUT performances.

The festivities begin with Cabaret Night featuring Broadway Star Nikki Renée Daniels at 6PM & 8PM, and the tremendously popular Patriotic Pops on July 4th at 6PM. Please contact the Fritz Box Office at 307-733-1128 to be added to our waitlist for these two events or to return your tickets if you can no longer attend.

Conductor Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra open their spectacular season with “Masters in the Mountains” Friday, July 7 at 8PM and Saturday, July 8 at 6PM. The evening begins with an inspired overture from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger. Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich takes center stage with Sibelius’ much-loved violin concerto. The concert concludes with one of Beethoven’s most admired symphonies, his seventh – a work that has been featured on stage and screen, most notably in the Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech.

Augustin Hadelich also performs on Thursday, July 6 at 8PM. “An intimate performer whose self-effacing quality allows the music to soar,” (Los Angeles Times) Hadelich is one of the most sought-after soloists in the world today. His recital with pianist Jason Hardink includes Ravel’s gypsy inspired Tzigane—a true crowd-pleaser.

 Wednesday, July 5 includes two opportunities to enjoy the Festival in downtown Jackson Hole with a Free Family Concert at the Teton County Library at 2PM, and The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD at the Center for the Arts at 6PM. Seize your last chance to see opera superstar Renée Fleming in Der Rosenkavalier. Ms. Fleming’s performance received a glowing review from the New York Times for her “melting lyricism, subtle expressivity, and emotional vulnerability.”

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

 The Grand Teton Music Festival’s 56^th season is about to begin! The star-studded opening week is packed with exhilarating performances to kick off the season with a bang.

The festivities begin Monday, July 3^rd with Cabaret Night featuring Broadway Star Nikki Renée Daniels at 6PM & 8PM. A popular event, both performances are completely SOLD OUT. Also SOLD OUT, Patriotic Pops returns on July 4^th at 6PM. Please contact the Fritz Box Office at 307.733.1128 to be added to our waitlist for these two events, or, to return your tickets if you can no longer attend.

On Wednesday, July 5, seize your last chance to see opera superstar Renée Fleming in The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD presentation of Der Rosenkavalier. In one of her signature roles, Renée Fleming performs Marschallin opposite Elina Garanca as Octavian, the title character. Ms. Fleming’s performance received a glowing review from the New York Times for her “melting lyricism, subtle expressivity, and emotional vulnerability.” Presented at the Center for the Arts Wednesday, July 5 at 6PM.

Grammy Award-winning violinist and GTMF artist-in-residence Augustin Hadelich returns July 6-8. “A young artist with no evident limitations,” (The New Yorker) Hadelich is one of the most sought-after soloists in the world today. His residency begins with a recital on Thursday, July 6 at 8PM with pianist Jason Hardink, with a program including Ravel’s gypsy inspired Tzigane—a true crowd-pleaser. Hadelich then stars in the Festival Orchestra’s opening weekend.

Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra open their season with “Masters in the Mountains” Friday, July 7 at 8PM and Saturday, July 8 at 6PM. The concert begins with an inspired overture from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger. Augustin Hadelich takes center stage with Sibelius’ much loved violin concerto. The concert concludes with one of Beethoven’s most admired symphonies, his seventh – a work that has been featured on stage and on screen, most notably in the Oscar winning film, The King’s Speech.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

 The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is proud to offer eight free concerts specifically fit for young music lovers of all ages. Experience the joy of music and learn about different instrument families with your family at these performances.

The Free Family Concert series, sponsored by Christine and Ross Hartley, kicks off with Festival percussionist Craig Hauschildt and friends at Teton County Library’s Jackson location. Clap and dance along to the beat during this interactive 45-minute program on Wednesday, July 5 at 2PM.

On Saturday, July 15 at 11AM families can learn about the cello when artist-in-residence Maja Bogdanović performs at Walk Festival Hall.

Wednesday, July 19 has TWO free family events! String quartet Brooklyn Rider heads over Teton Pass for a Free Family Concert to the Teton County Library’s Alta branch at 1PM. Known for their education programs, the group will present an upbeat and eclectic 45-minute program perfect for kids.

Travel to a galaxy far, far away before ascending through the clouds with Superman and E.T. in this all-John Williams program at Walk Festival Hall! Featuring music from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Superman, and more, John Williams is this country’s most recognizable compositional voice in film. The concert begins at 6PM, but be sure to join us for refreshments and an instrument petting zoo at 5PM on the Hartley Pavilion!

At the Teton County Library in Jackson on Wednesday, July 26 at 2PM, and Saturday, August 5 at 11AM, Festival Musicians present hour-long programs of music and exploration for all ages.

Follow the sounds of a woodwind trio (flute, oboe, and clarinet) to Alta and introduce your family to the woodwind family! A woodwind trio from the Festival Orchestra performs a kid-friendly program at the Teton County Library branch in Alta on Wednesday, August 9 at 3PM.

The final concert of the series is Wednesday, August 16 at 2PM. Join string quintet Sybarite5 for their special family-friendly encore performance. This musical afternoon will surely spark some moving and grooving.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is excited to announce that every program on its weekly Thursday Chamber Music series will feature a star soloist. All Thursday night concerts begin at 8pm.

New this season, visiting artists will make guest appearances with the Festival Orchestra musicians, giving audiences opportunities to hear them collaborate with members of the Festival’s resident all-star orchestra in an intimate format.

Cellist Maja Bogdanović performs Rachmaninoff’s lush sonata for cello performed with pianist Jason Hardink on Thursday, July 13. The program also puts the spotlight on Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring in its original version for thirteen instruments conducted by associate conductor Jerry Hou.

Yefim Bronfman, widely considered a leading pianist of this generation, takes the stage with Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque (of Clair de lune fame!) on Thursday, July 20. Festival Musicians kick off the Three Bs weekend with two of Brahms’ chamber music masterpieces.

Renowned mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor joins Festival Musicians for a performance of Ravel’s enigmatic Chansons madécasses on July 27. Closing the concert, the winner of the 2017 Van Cliburn Competition Yekwon Sunwoo joins Festival string players for a performance of the Dvořák Quintet.

On August 3, virtuosic pianist Denis Kozhukhin joins Festival Musicians for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Trio in G minor. Festival Musicians then team-up for one of the pillars of chamber music repertoire—Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat major.

August 10 is a baroque-inspired event, beginning with artist-in-residence and harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell with baroque works from Biber and Froberger. Opening the second half, violinist James Ehnes performing music by Bach for unaccompanied violin—the ultimate test for any string player.

The 2017 chamber music concerts conclude with Performance Todayon Thursday August 17, recorded for national broadcast. Join host Fred Child for an evening of conversation and chamber music. Pianist Garrick Ohlson, artist-in-residence, will perform selections for solo piano by the mystical Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

 The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is excited to announce Movies on the Mountain – a free, weekly event Mondays at 7PM in Walk Festival Hall.

The selected films are celestial and fun – celebrating the 2017 Festival theme “See the Stars in Jackson Hole.” From a lonely computer-animated robot to the original Marty McFly, from E.T. eating Reese’s Pieces to the latest search for a missing Luke Skywalker; icons of the otherworldly and outer space will be screened for free in Walk Festival Hall. To complete the ‘theater’ experience, the GTMF concessions counter will offer artisanal popcorn from Jackson Hole POP, candy boxes, soda, beer and even wine!

Beginning on Monday July 10, join us for the 1980s family classic: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In this beloved Steven Spielberg film, brother and sister Elliot and Gertie assist a gentle alien stranded on Earth.

After E.T., meet WALL•E. Playing July 17, WALL•E is the heartwarming story of the last robot on earth charged with sifting through humanity’s refuse. After 700 years of isolation, WALL•E meets robot EVE and the two embark on a quest to restore planet Earth.

On July 24, John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Bill Pullman star in Mel Brooks’ campy Star Wars spoof Spaceballs. Set in a distant galaxy, captain Lone Starr and his half-man, half-dog sidekick Barf fight to save Princess Vespa and her resource-rich planet Druidia.

July 31^st features the classic Back to the Future. After an experiment with Doc Brown goes awry, Marty McFly travels back in time and must find his way…Back to the Future! His journey gets complicated when he awkwardly meets his parents as peers.

On August 7, it’s 1970, in Houston, and we have a problem. NASA must act quickly to save Apollo 13 en route to the moon by solving engineering challenges from 200,000 miles away in this 1995 film based on a true story.

August 14^th completes the first Movies in the Mountains series with a modern twist: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. To combat new evils and save the New Republic, the resistance must team-up with some unlikely heroes. This rollicking sequel to the Star Wars trilogy takes place thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire.

The Grand Teton Music Festival begins Monday July 3rd and concludes with a special eclipse-eve performance on Sunday, August 20. Free Family Concerts and Movies on the Mountain are part of the Festival’s Community Concert Series, inspiring the next generation of music lovers. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

The Grand Teton Music Festival presents a free community concert this Thursday, June 15, 7PM at Walk Festival Hall.

Flutist Nadine Luke, faculty from BYU-Idaho, violinist Hyeri Choi, and cellist Eleanor Christman Cox, string faculty from Idaho State University, join GTMF Executive Director and pianist Andrew Palmer Todd on stage. This preview of the summer season includes Widor’s Suite for Flute and Piano, Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet, and Mendelssohn’s First Piano Trio. The concert is approximately 90 minutes including intermission. Limited concessions will be available beginning at 6:30pm.

This free community concert is part of the Festival’s ongoing initiative to present classical music year round to the Jackson Hole community.

The selected pieces in Thursday’s preview concert will be performed later in the summer at the following concerts:

On Friday and Saturday July 14 and 15, the Festival Orchestra performs Prokofiev’s masterful take on Romeo and Juliet as well as Romanian Rhapsody by George Enescu.

Widor’s Suite for Flute and Piano will be performed during Inside the Music: The Language of Music on July 25 at 8PM. Festival Musician and Concertmaster of the Chattanooga Symphony Holly Mulcahy demonstrates how composers communicate thoughts, feelings, and emotions through music. Inside the Music events are free but tickets are required.

Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 will be performed during America’s most popular classical music program, Performance Today. On Thursday, August 17 at 8PM, join Performance Today host Fred Child for an evening of conversation and chamber music—all recorded for national broadcast.

The 2017 Summer Festival officially kicks off Monday July 3^rd with Cabaret Night featuring Nikki Renée Daniels, and concludes on Sunday August 20^th with an eclipse-eve concert by Pink Martini.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 82 different orchestras and 57 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. The Grand Teton Music Festival is the single largest presenter of performing arts events in Jackson Hole, presenting nearly 100 events annually.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Since 2014, the Grand Teton Music Festival has seen a 51% increase in its total attendance. The Festival’s commitment to presenting classical music in non-traditional venues and formats has been instrumental to the organization’s successful audience growth. This audience initiative continues this summer with unique events throughout the Festival’s seven-week season.

Broadway Star Nikki Renee Daniels opens the festival on Monday, July 3 with a fun and festive cabaret-style concert. Accompanied by a rhythm section, Ms. Daniels delights audiences with musical theatre standards and her effervescent stage presence. Guests will be seated on-stage and served a complimentary glass of wine, transforming Walk Festival Hall into a cozy cabaret. Ms. Daniels performs at 6PM and 8PM. Only a few tickets remain.

On Wednesday, July 12 classically-trained cellist Ben Sollee comes back to Jackson Hole to play at the Pink Garter Theatre. Mr. Sollee’s eclectic arrangements are inspired by popular, hip-hop, and bluegrass music and united by personal narrative. This singer-songwriter-cellist promises a moving and soulful summer evening in Jackson. His show starts at 8PM.

Pink Martini ends the season on a high note on Sunday, August 20 at 8PM with a special eclipse-eve celebration. This multilingual “little orchestra” is ultra-glamorous, crossing classical, jazz, and old-fashioned pop genres for a fun and sexy big band sound.

Tickets for Nikki Renée Daniels, Ben Sollee, and Pink Martini are not included in season subscriptions, so act quickly to reserve your seats. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites 200 celebrated orchestral musicians. These musicians represent 90 different orchestras and 50 institutions of higher learning throughout Europe and North America. In total, the Festival presents 60 events during its summer season. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

 Music Director Donald Runnicles leads the world’s best orchestral musicians over seven weeks in Jackson Hole. From sensational cellist Yo-Yo Ma to renowned pianists Yefim Bronfman and Garrick Ohlsson, every week promises memorable performances from the world’s most brilliant musical stars.

Opening Week (7/7 & 7/8) features Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 and a new orchestral work by composer Marc Neikrug co-commissioned with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

During the second week (7/14 & 7/15), Cristian Măcelaru returns to conduct the thematically inspired star-crossed lovers in Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet and Maja Bogdanović performs the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1.

On July 21 and 22, Yefim Bronfman, widely considered a leading pianist of this generation, performs Brahms’ epic and inspirational Second Piano Concerto with Vasily Petrenko on the podium.

Festival regular mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor returns to Walk Festival Hall (7/28 & 7/29) and opens with Berio’s Folk Songs. Maestro Runnicles leads the Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s final symphony—a work of heartbreaking resignation.

For one evening only, Yo-Yo Ma performs the must-see event of the year in Jackson Hole: a special Fundraising Gala concert on August 1 at 7pm. Young virtuosic pianist Denis Kozhukhin finishes the week (8/4 & 8/5) performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.

Star-themed orchestral works including Holst’s The Planets, and Aaron Jay Kernis’s Musica Celestis build the excitement for the upcoming eclipse, and James Ehnes performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (8/11 & 8/12).

The closing week is nothing short of orchestral splendor with Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” Piano Concerto No. 9 performed by pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and the “Jupiter” Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (8/18 & 8/19).

The stars can be seen on the Grand Teton Music Festival stage all summer long. The Festival begins Monday July 3rd and concludes with a special eclipse-eve performance on Sunday, August 20. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

The Grand Teton Music Festival is proud to offer two free pre-season concerts for the community in anticipation of the 56th Summer Season.

On Wednesday, May 31, trumpeter and 26 year member of the Festival Orchestra, Charles Daval performs with the brass faculty of BYU-Idaho in a program featuring appealing brass quintets from Malcom Arnold and Victor Ewald. This performance will be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church at 7PM. This is a free and unticketed concert.

Then, on Thursday June 15, flutist Nadine Luke from BYU-Idaho, along with violinist Hyeri Choi and cellist Eleanor Christman Cox from Idaho State University, join Festival Executive Director and pianist Andrew Palmer Todd for a preview of works from the 2017 Summer Season. Featuring Widor’s Suite for Flute and Piano, Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet, and Mendelssohn’s First Piano Trio, community members will have the opportunity to sample some of the exhilarating sounds before the Festival officially kicks off on July 3rd. This concert will be held at Walk Festival Hall at 7PM and is free, but ticketed.

The 2017 Summer Season is packed with exciting opportunities to experience stellar musicians from around the world in Jackson Hole. Festival highlights with a nod to the total solar eclipse include programming such as Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony and Holst’s The Planets. Maestro Runnicles conducts the Festival Orchestra with prominent soloists including pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Augustin Hadelich. The 2017 Festival runs Monday, July 3, 2017, through Sunday, August 20, 2017, closing with a special eclipse-eve performance by Pink Martini.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

The New York Times names the Grand Teton Music Festival a top ten classical summer music festival of 2017. This marks the second consecutive year the Festival has been nationally recognized in the annual summer festivals guide.

“I am genuinely excited that The New York Times has recognized our wonderful Festival as one of the best in the country for the second year in a row,” said Executive Director Andrew Palmer Todd. “It is a well deserved acknowledgement of what Music Director Donald Runnicles, our musicians, and our audience have known for decades—Grand Teton Music Festival is a world-class destination for classical music.”

Following a record-setting 2016 season, the Grand Teton Music Festival has programmed a star-studded summer. “See the Stars in Jackson Hole” celebrates the total solar eclipse occurring this August and builds on last year’s momentum—presenting over 50 events that reached more than 15,000 people and representing a total attendance increase of 51% between 2014 and 2016.

Festival highlights with a nod to the eclipse include Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony and Holst’s The Planets. Prominent pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Augustin Hadelich will appear with the Festival Orchestra as soloists, but without a doubt, the season’s crown jewel is cellist Yo-Yo Ma taking center stage at Walk Festival Hall for the sold-out Fundraising Gala on August 1. Hailed as the most transcendent musician of our time, Mr. Ma will perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra under the baton of our esteemed Music Director Donald Runnicles. Additionally, Mr. Ma will join Festival musicians for performances of well-known chamber music works.

The 2017 Festival begins Monday, July 3, 2017 and concludes on Sunday, August 20 with a special performance by Pink Martini.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING 

The Grand Teton Music Festival presents Pink Martini, Sunday, August 20 at 8PM at Walk Festival Hall.

GTMF presents the vivacious Pink Martini for a special eclipse-eve performance, embracing the eclipse revelry. Highly cosmopolitan and ultra glam, Pink Martini blends pop, world, jazz, and chamber music into lush arrangements for string and brass, creating a sexy big band sound that romances audiences worldwide.

Singing in 22 languages and drawing inspiration internationally, Pink Martini was founded by pianist Thomas Lauderdale in 1994 to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. One year later, Lauderdale recruited Harvard classmate China Forbes as lead singer and co-writer, and their first song “Sympathique” became an overnight sensation in France.

Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 and quickly became an international phenomenon. In November 2010 the band released their fifth album, Joy To The World—a festive, multi-denominational holiday album featuring songs from around the globe. Joy To The World received glowing reviews and was carried in Starbucks stores during the 2010 and 2011 holiday seasons. All five Pink Martini albums have gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey.

Pink Martini has just released its latest studio album, Je dis oui!. With 15 tracks spanning eight languages, it affirms the band’s 22-year history of global inclusivity and collaborative spirit.

Pulling from their illustrious pool of rotating guest performers, Je dis oui! includes Ari Shapiro of NPR; fashion guru Ikram Goldman; civil rights activist Kathleen Saadat; and musician Rufus Wainwright.

Celebrate the eve of the eclipse with this swanky, sexy, starry concert. Featuring lead singer China Forbes, the program will be announced from the stage. Tickets are $95. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the GTMF ticket line at 307.733.1128.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in January, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival and Center of Wonder present Mozart’s Idomeneo tonight, Thursday, April 13 at 6PM at Jackson’s Center for the Arts.

After an 11-year hiatus, Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to The Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by famed Music Director Emeritus James Levine.

Set in ancient Crete, King Idomeneo begins his return from the Trojan War, sending the captured princess Ilia ahead. Upon her arrival, she meets Idamante, Idomeneo’s son, and the two fall in love. Princess Elettra also arrives in Crete, and falls in love with Idamante.

Meanwhile, during his long journey home, Idomeneo is shipwrecked in a storm. In exchange for salvation, he vows to the sea god Neptune to sacrifice the first man he sees on land. Consequently, it is Idamante, throwing the king and his son into turmoil.

The superb ensemble includes Matthew Polenzani as the king torn by a rash vow, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of his noble son Idamante, and soprano Nadine Sierra as Ilia.

In celebration of a successful season, audience members are invited to attend a special Closing Night reception preceding the broadcast at 5PM, sponsored by Bistro Catering.

With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center of Wonder, and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season officially closes during the summer festival with a special presentation of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, featuring opera superstar and GTMF favorite Renée Fleming in farewell performance. The broadcast takes place on Thursday, July 5 at 6PM.

GTMF and the Center of Wonder present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in Januaray, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival is pleased to announce that world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will take center stage for the annual Fundraising Gala on Tuesday, August 1, 2017. Hailed as the transcendent musician of our time, Yo-Yo Ma will be making his first ever appearance at the acoustically-acclaimed Walk Festival Hall. Mr. Ma will perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, an audience favorite, with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, under the baton of esteemed Music Director Donald Runnicles. Additionally, Mr. Ma will join Festival musicians for performances of well-known chamber music works.

Tickets to the Fundraising Gala Concert are $250 per ticket.

In addition to the Fundraising Gala Concert, the Grand Teton Music Festival is offering two additional opportunities to meet Yo-Yo Ma personally.

The Festival is offering a VIP Experience, which includes a premier seat to the Fundraising Gala performance as well as an invitation to an after-party on the Walk Festival Hall stage. Michelin-starred chef Markus Glocker of Bâtard will prepare delectable hors d’oeuvres, wines from Domaine Drouhin and champagne from Taittinger will be served, and attendees have the exclusive opportunity to meet and mingle with Yo-Yo Ma.

VIP Tickets are $500 each and include a $225 tax-deductible donation.

For those seeking the ultimate, once-in-a-lifetime moment with Mr. Ma, the Festival is offering a Grand Experience with Yo-Yo Ma. The event includes an exclusive dinner party at an elegant private Jackson Hole home with Yo-Yo Ma on Monday, July 31. The evening includes a private performance by Yo-Yo Ma; one-on-one time with this world famous artist; a multi-course dinner prepared by chef Markus Glocker of Bâtard; the coveted Burgundy wines of the renowned house of Drouhin presented by Veronique Drouhin; and a champagne toast with Taittinger. There will never be another experience like this in Jackson Hole! Tickets to the Grand Experience with Yo-Yo Ma also include a premier seat at the Fundraising Gala Concert as well as a ticket to the VIP after-party.

Tickets for the Grand Experience are $7,500 per person and include a $6,250 tax-deductible donation.

Tickets to the Fundraising Gala—and all other 2017 summer events—will be available on March 1, 2017.

All proceeds from the Fundraising Gala will support the Festival’s yearlong music education programs, outreach activities, and exhilarating musical events for the Jackson Hole community.

The New York Times named the Grand Teton Music Festival as one of the nation’s Top Ten Essential Festivals, and Yo-Yo Ma will undoubtedly be a highlight of the 2017 summer season. The Jackson Hole community is extremely fortunate to have the world’s best musicians in residence for seven weeks each summer, and fundraising events like the Yo-Yo Ma Gala contribute to broadening the impact and abilities of the Grand Teton Music Festival.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival presents the 2017 Winter Festival this week, February 7-10. The second annual series includes performances, educational events, and lectures in venues and schools throughout Jackson Hole. To purchase tickets, call 307.733.1128 or visit GTMF.ORG. Students are invited to attend concerts for free, and Day-Of Rush tickets will be offered through the Center for the Arts Box Office at 307.733.4900.

OPENING NIGHT | Tuesday, February 7
An Evening with Violinist Benjamin Beilman and Pianist Andrew Tyson
The festival opens with a performance from duo Benjamin Beilman, violin, and Andrew Tyson, piano. Individually accomplished, the two have toured together throughout Europe and Australia, earning great acclaim. Their GTMF debut performance will include works from Mozart and Janácek.
7PM | Center for the Arts | $25

Wednesday, February 8
Chamber Music with Festival Musicians
GTMF welcomes home Festival Musicians Jaren Atherholt, oboe, and Benjamin Atherholt, bassoon, in an intimate concert with pianist Andrew Palmer Todd. The trio will present a program of jazz-inspired chamber music by Poulenc, André Previn, and Bill Douglas. Audiences are invited to join us for a reception immediately following the concert in Fellowship Hall, hosted by the Festival Auxiliary.
7PM | St. John’s Episcopal Church | Free; No Ticket Required

Thursday, February 9
A Piano Recital with Lise de la Salle
Rising star pianist Lise de la Salle has performed with the world’s finest orchestras but makes a stop in Jackson Hole for a solo recital of works from Beethoven, Ligeti, and Brahms. Ms. de la Salle is one of today’s most exciting young artists, pairing musical maturity with impassioned performance.
7PM | Center for the Arts | $25

 Friday, February 10
From Perception to Pleasure: Musical Processing in the Brain with Dr. Robert Zatorre
Dr. Robert Zatorre is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. His area of expertise includes the process of auditory cognition, primarily as it pertains to speech and music. Within this Lunchtime Learning lecture, presented in partnership with St. John’s Medical Center Words on Wellness, Dr. Zatorre discusses the brain’s mechanisms that allow us to perceive and perform music; the brain’s response to pleasurable music; and the implications of this research on mental health and other clinical applications.
12PM | Teton County Library | Free; Ticket Required

CLOSING NIGHT | Friday, February 10
GTMF Presents: Portland Cello Project
Presenting a repertoire that ranges from Bach to Britney, the Portland Cello Project has earned acclaim from classical media and MTV alike. Their sensational musicianship and popular mash-ups energize audiences across the musical spectrum.
7PM | Center for the Arts | $25

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival and Center of Wonder present Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette on Wednesday, February 1st at 7PM at Jackson’s Center for the Arts.

When Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo starred opposite each other in Massenet’s Manon at The Met in 2015, The New York Times said, “the temperature rises nearly to boiling every time [they] are on stage together.” Now they’re back as opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation, boasting a smoldering chemistry and impassioned lyricism.

Despite the longstanding quarrel between their families, Juliette Capulet and Romeo Montague fall in love and marry secretly. Unaware, Juliette’s father arranges her marriage to another suitor. Juliette then woefully plots to avoid the obligation, setting afoot her and Romeo’s own demise.

The production, by director Bartlett Sher, has already won acclaim for its vivid 18th-century milieu and stunning costumes during runs at Salzburg and La Scala. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the sumptuous score in what has been called Gounod’s finest opera.

With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center of Wonder, and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season’s sensational line-up includes favorites from operatic greats Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, and Dvořák, with many productions returning to the stage with new life. The season continues with:

Dvořák’s Rusalka – March 8, 2017
Verdi’s La Traviata – March 23, 2017
Mozart’s Idomeneo – April 13, 2017
Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier – July 5, 2017

GTMF and the Center of Wonder present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival and Center of Wonder present Verdi’s Nabucco on Thursday, January 19th at 7PM at Jackson’s Center for the Arts.

It’s sixth century B.C. in Jerusalem and the Israelites are praying for salvation from the villainous Babylonian King Nabucco. Meanwhile, Nabucco’s daughter, the formidable and power-hungry Abigaille, is determined to rule the empire. Scorned from Ismaele’s love for her sister and her father’s rejection, Abigaille undermines the King, eventually causing the fall of Babylon.

After his 2015 GTMF debut, tenor Russell Thomas makes an on-screen return to Jackson Hole, starring as Ismaele. The legendary baritone Plácido Domingo thrills as the title role, and Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts the score, which fluctuates between riveting arias and some of the greatest choral music ever written. The tremendous success of Nabucco propelled Verdi to a series of triumphs that made him a true Italian hero.

 With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center of Wonder, and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season’s sensational line-up includes favorites from operatic greats Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, and Dvořák, with many productions returning to the stage with new life. The season includes:

Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette – February 1, 2017
Dvořák’s Rusalka – March 8, 2017
Verdi’s La Traviata – March 23, 2017
Mozart’s Idomeneo – April 13, 2017
Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier – July 5, 2017

GTMF and the Center of Wonder present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
Grand Teton Music Festival announces its 2017 Winter Festival, February 7-10. This annual series includes sensational performances and educational events throughout Jackson Hole.

The 2017 Winter Festival is 4 days of exhilarating musical events, including a concert with internationally acclaimed duo violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Andrew Tyson; a free evening of Chamber Music with Festival favorites oboist Jaren Atherholt, bassoonist Benjamin Atherholt, and pianist Andrew Palmer Todd; a solo recital from the young and prodigious pianist Lise de la Salle; daily in-school educational programs throughout Jackson Hole; a lecture on the brain’s musical processing; and a closing night concert with the Portland Cello Project—a group hailed for their electrifying genre-bending combination of mash-ups and classical mainstays. To purchase tickets, call 307.732.1128 or visit GTMF.ORG. Tickets for select events may also be purchased at the Center for the Arts Box Office.

GTMF WINTER FESTIVAL | FEBRUARY 7–10, 2017

 Tuesday, February 7
An Evening with Violinist Benjamin Beilman and Pianist Andrew Tyson
Young dynamic duo Benjamin Beilman and Andrew Tyson highlight the vibrancy of their musical personalities in a diverse program including works from Mozart and Janácek. They are both recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. As a musical duo, they have been praised for their mature and insightful interpretations as well as their musical leadership.
7PM | Center for the Arts | $25

Wednesday, February 8
Chamber Music with Festival Musicians
Festival Musicians Jaren Atherholt (oboe) and Benjamin Atherholt (bassoon) return to Jackson Hole to perform an intimate concert of jazz inspired music by Poulenc, André Previn, and Bill Douglas with pianist Andrew Palmer Todd. Audiences are invited to join us for a reception immediately following the concert in Fellowship Hall, hosted by the Festival Auxiliary.
7PM | St. John’s Episcopal Church | Free; No Ticket Required

 Thursday, February 9
A Piano Recital with Lise de la Salle
Amidst an exuberant international career, Lise de la Salle lights up the Center stage with impassioned performances of Beethoven, Ligeti, and Brahms. Ms. de la Salle has established a reputation as one of today’s most exciting young artists and as a musician of uncommon sensibility and maturity. Her playing inspired a Washington Post critic to write, “For much of the concert, the audience had to remember to breathe … the exhilaration didn’t let up for a second until her hands came off the keyboard.”
7PM | Center for the Arts | $25

Friday, February 10
From Perception to Pleasure: Musical Processing in the Brain with Dr. Robert Zatorre
Dr. Robert Zatorre is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. His area of expertise includes the process of auditory cognition, primarily as it pertains to speech and music. Within this Lunchtime Learning lecture, presented in partnership with St. John’s Medical Center Words on Wellness, Dr. Zatorre discusses the brain’s mechanisms that allow us to perceive and perform music; the brain’s response to pleasurable music; and the implications of this research on mental health and other clinical applications.
12PM | Teton County Library | Free; Ticket Required

Friday, February 10
GTMF Presents: Portland Cello Project
Mixing genres and blurring musical lines, the Portland Cello Project has energized audiences with their sensational musicianship and popular mash-ups. With three mandates in mind—to bring cello to new audiences; to play a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach to Britney; and to build a bridge of collaboration across musical genres—the troupe appeals to a full spectrum of music enthusiasts.
7PM | Center for the Arts | $25

 About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Festival in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival partners with the Center of Wonder to present a seventh season of Live in HD broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera. The series opens Thursday, July 10th at 7PM with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, a humorous retelling of the legend of Don Juan.

After its opening five years ago, the Michael Grandage production finally returns to stage. Charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside makes his triumphant return as the salacious title hero, whose lifelong misdeeds and promiscuity force him to contemplate his morality. Preferring his torrid life of more than 2,000 alleged conquests to redemption, Giovanni descends into an eternity of damnation in Mozart’s dark comedy.

The story is told through Mozart’s rich score, which often personifies each character through music. Sweet, playful, seductive, and dark, the composition is masterfully controlled by famed conductor Fabio Luisi, Principal Conductor of The Metropolitan Opera.

In celebration of the new season, audience members are invited to attend a special Opening Night reception preceding the broadcast at 6PM, sponsored by Bistro Catering.

With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center of Wonder, and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season’s sensational line-up includes favorites from operatic greats Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, and Dvořák, with many productions returning to the stage with new life. The season includes:

Verdi’s Nabucco – January 19, 2017
Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette – February 1, 2017
Dvořák’s Rusalka – March 8, 2017
Verdi’s La Traviata – March 23, 2017
Mozart’s Idomeneo – April 13, 2017
Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier – July 5, 2017

GTMF and the Center of Wonder will present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Music series in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival partners with the Center of Wonder to announce another exciting season of The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcasts. The season opens Thursday, November 10 at 7PM with Mozart’s masterful Don Giovanni and runs through July 2017.

This is GTMF’s seventh season of presenting broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera. With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center for Wonder and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season’s sensational line-up includes favorites from operatic greats Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, and Dvořák, with many productions returning to the stage with new life. The season includes:

Mozart’s Don Giovanni | November 10, 2016
Based on the legend of the amorous Don Juan, the Michael Grandage revival returns to the stage after a 5-year hiatus. Charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside also makes his return to The Met as the title hero who goes to hell in a dazzling coup de théâtre. Supporting Mr. Keenlyside is a cast of the Metropolitan Opera’s brightest—Adam Plachetka plays Don Giovanni’s servant Leporello and Hibla Gerzmava stars as Giovanni’s latest target, Donna Anna. In his final season as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, famed conductor Fabio Luisi leads the score.

Audience members are invited to attend a special opening night reception beginning at 6PM hosted by Bistro Catering.

Verdi’s Nabucco | January 19, 2017
It’s sixth century B.C. in Jerusalem and the Israelites are praying for help against the brutal Babylonian King Nabucco. The legendary baritone Plácido Domingo adds another title role at the Met under the baton of Music Director Emeritus James Levine. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires, and Jamie Barton is the heroic Fenena. Dmitri Belosselskiy is the stentorian voice of the oppressed Hebrew people in this masterpiece, which effectively established Verdi as the major opera composer of his time.

Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette | February 1, 2017
When Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo starred opposite each other in Manon at the Met in 2015, the New York Times said, “the temperature rises nearly to boiling every time [they] are on stage together.” Now they’re back as opera’s classic lovers, in Gounod’s romantic Shakespeare adaptation. The production, by director Bartlett Sher, has already won acclaim for its vivid 18th-century milieu and stunning costumes during runs at Salzburg and La Scala. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the lush score. 

Dvořák’s Rusalka | March 8, 2017
Kristine Opolais stars in the role that helped launch her international career, the mythical Rusalka, who sings the haunting “Song to the Moon.” Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption. Brandon Jovanovich, Jamie Barton, Katarina Dalayman, and Eric Owens complete the all-star cast, and Maestro Mark Elder conducts.

Verdi’s La Traviata | March 23, 2017
The Metropolitan Opera presents a Willy Decker revival of Verdi’s great masterpiece. Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampson as his father, Germont. Music Director of the San Francisco Opera Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Mozart’s Idomeneo | April 13, 2017
Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by Music Director Emeritus James Levine. The superb ensemble includes Matthew Polenzani as the king torn by a rash vow; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of his noble son Idamante; soprano Nadine Sierra as Ilia; and soprano Elza van den Heever as the volatile Elettra, who loves Idamante to the bounds of madness.

Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier | July 5, 2017
The dream cast of Renée Fleming as the Marschallin and Elīna Garanča as Octavian star in Strauss’ grandest opera. In his new production, Robert Carsen, the director behind the Met’s recent Falstaff, places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera’s subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask, in a staging that also stars Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs. Sebastian Weigle conducts the sparklingly perfect score.

GTMF and the Center of Wonder will present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Music series in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
On August 20, 2016, the Grand Teton Music Festival concluded its record-setting 2016 season with a sold-out performance. During seven weeks, the Festival presented more than 50 musical events in six different venues throughout Jackson Hole reaching a total audience of 15,000—more than the most recent census population for Jackson Hole of 10,135. This marks a 16% increase in attendance over 2015, and a total increase of 51% since 2014. This is just one of the many reasons The New York Times named the Grand Teton Music Festival as one of the top ten essential festivals in the country.

With articles frequently eulogizing the death of classical music, something special is certainly taking place in Jackson Hole. The fresh mountain air, combined with the picturesque landscapes and musician kinship, creates a utopian alchemy of beauty, deep emotion, and music. The Festival spearheaded several audience initiatives this summer, including a concert at the Pink Garter Theatre, a season-long Family Series, gallery concerts, a pop-up concert at Dornan’s, artist-in-residence programs, and a stage-seated concert. The closing concert featured a program that included the US Premiere of Kareem Roustom’s Ramal, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with 19-year old violinist Simone Porter, and Rachmaninoff’s epic Second Symphony featuring the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Donald Runnicles. The concert marked a fitting conclusion to Maestro Runnicles’ 10^th anniversary season

Andrew Palmer Todd, Grand Teton Music Festival’s Executive Director comments, “I continue to be amazed at the level of support and enthusiasm from our local community for the Festival. While the Festival Orchestra is an all-star line up of the nation’s finest orchestra members, our musicians routinely remind us that our audience is one of the most enthusiastic and attentive in the country. This year, we were happy to welcome violin superstar Joshua Bell as our gala artist. And we continued to branch out and experiment with new venues and formats such as presenting Time for Three at the Pink Garter. Throughout the summer, we had one highlight after another while celebrating Donald Runnicles’ Ten Years in the Tetons. Grand Teton Music Festival is now a music destination for classical music lovers, and the record-breaking attendance increase speaks to the dedication of the Jackson Hole community”

Today, GTMF announces 2017 Festival highlights. The season “Come See the Stars in Jackson Hole” takes a nod to next year’s total solar eclipse with programming such as Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony and Holst’s The Planets. Maestro Runnicles conducts the Festival Orchestra with prominent soloists including pianist Yefim Bronfman, and violinist Augstin Hadelich. The 2017 Festival runs Monday, July 3, 2017 through Saturday, August 19, 2017.

At the Festival’s Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors recognized Dick Scarlett, one of many steadfast supporters. Mr. Scarlett has actively supported the Festival in multiple capacities as a Lifetime Director. This honor is bestowed upon individuals who have served the Festival in an exceptional capacity. Also at the Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors recognized directors Dave Augé, Ken Begelman, John Nyheim, Joni Mack, and Emily Janak who rotated off the board due to term limits. John Whitmore, John Costello and Festival Auxiliary President Pam Niner were elected to the Festival’s Board of Directors.

The Grand Teton Music Festival invites the worldwide classical music community to break attendance records again for Season 56!

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Music series in February, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival announces a star-studded line-up to celebrate Music Director Donald Runnicles’ “Ten Years in the Tetons.” The 2016 Summer Festival runs seven weeks from July 4 to August 20 and includes more than 50 musical events. Highlights include:

Beethoven Symphony No. 9: The National Collegiate Chorale of Scotland joins the Festival Orchestra and star soloists under the baton of Maestro Runnicles (July 8 & 9).

Gala Concert with Violinist Joshua Bell: With Maestro Runnicles leading the Festival Orchestra, the virtuoso violinist performs Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3, “Summer” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, as well as works by Piazzolla (July 13).

Cellist Johannes Moser: The German-Canadian cellist performs Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, for which he won the Tchaikovsky competition’s top prize (July 15 & 16).

Violinist Nicola Benedetti: The superstar violinist performs Beethoven’s final Violin Sonata with Donald Runnicles at the piano (July 21) and concludes her residency with the Korngold Violin Concerto (July 22 & 23).

Twin Pianists the Naughton Sisters: Piano duo Christina and Michelle Naughton perform three programs of music, including Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of Animals, and Poulenc’s acerbic and witty Concerto for Two Pianos (July 28, 29, & 30).

Percussionist Colin Currie: One of the world’s best percussionists joins the Festival Orchestra in a performance of Rouse’s percussion concerto, Der Gerettete Alberich (August 5 & 6).

Pianist Jonathan Biss and Beethoven: The American pianist returns to Jackson Hole to present a series of Beethoven concerts, including a selection of Sonatas (August 10) and the Piano Concerto No. 2 (August 12 & 13).

Rising-star Violinist Simone Porter: The Festival’s finale features one of classical music’s bright, young stars violinist Simone Porter performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (August 19 & 20).

“Ten Years in the Tetons” celebrates Maestro Runnicles’ tenth anniversary as Music Director with performances of his favorite music and musicians—all to honor his dedication and musical leadership within the Jackson Hole community and abroad. Events include weekly Festival Orchestra concerts, the Independence Day favorite Patriotic Pops, as well as weekly chamber music, interactive music lectures, and free family concerts.

To begin the festival, Maestro Runnicles brings his homeland to Jackson Hole with The National Collegiate Chorale of Scotland performing Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9. Maestro Runnicles also performs as a pianist in an evening of chamber music with mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor and legendary cellist Lynn Harrell.

Superstar violinist Joshua Bell joins the Festival Orchestra in the second annual gala concert during the second week of the festival. Other star soloists during the seven weeks include cellist Johannes Moser, violinist Nicola Benedetti, twin pianists the Naughton Sisters, percussionist Colin Currie, pianist Jonathan Biss, and violinist Simone Porter.

Tickets are on sale now by calling 307.732.1128 or visiting GTMF.ORG. 

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): 
The Grand Teton Music Festival has served the community of Jackson Hole with exhilarating music since 1962. At its core, GTMF presents a seven-week classical music festival each summer. Set at the foot of America’s most iconic mountain range, prestigious soloists and musicians from renowned orchestras flock to stunning Jackson Hole to renew their artistic inspiration and share in their talents and passion. Since 2006, internationally acclaimed Maestro Donald Runnicles has led the Festival as Music Director and has lifted the orchestra to new heights.

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s mission to provide exhilarating musical experiences does not stop when the summer ends. Committed to ensuring that Jackson Hole is a year round destination for the arts, GTMF provides a variety of events and community programs throughout the year. Broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD series, several education and outreach programs, and a Winter Music festival complete GTMF’s year-long programming.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: 307.733.3050

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
This week, the Grand Teton Music Festival launches its inaugural winter festival, GTMF Presents Winter Music. This annual series takes place March 15–18, with events occurring throughout Jackson Hole.

Winter Music features more than 10 events, including a concert by rising star pianist Charlie Albright; chamber music with Festival Orchestra favorites Jennifer Ross, violin, and Gail Williams, horn, along with pianist Andrew Palmer Todd; an interactive lecture detailing the effects of music on the mind by Dr. Petr Janata; a Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcast of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut; numerous in-school educational programs including an intensive String Camp with the Jackson and Star Valley 8th grade orchestral students; and a closing night concert with young, vibrant classical crossover group Sybarite5. Tickets are on sale now by calling 307.732.1128 or visiting gtmf.org.

GTMF PRESENTS WINTER MUSIC | MARCH 15–18, 2016

Tuesday, March 15 | 7PM | Center for the Arts | $20 (plus $2 ticketing fee)
An Evening with Pianist Charlie Albright: Beethoven and Chopin
Piano virtuoso Charlie Albright returns to Jackson Hole for an evening of Beethoven and Chopin. Mr. Albright opened the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 2015 Season with an extraordinary sold-out concert and remains at the forefront of a new generation of piano superstars. Leading an interactive performance, Mr. Albright improvises based on audience request and suggestion. Of his aptitude and artistry, the Washington Post writes, “[Charlie Albright is] among the most gifted musicians of his generation.”

Wednesday, March 16 | 12PM | Teton County Library | FREE
Lunchtime Learning: Music, Memories, and the Brain with Dr. Petr Janata
Dr. Petr Janata is a Professor in the University of California Davis Psychology Department and Center for Mind and Brain. His projects often examine the relationship between imagery, memory, emotion, and rhythm, focusing specifically on musical situations that elicit strong emotional experiences. Within this lecture presented in partnership with St. John’s Medical Center Words on Wellness, Dr. Janata will discuss how music is an effective trigger of nostalgia, the effects of music-evoked memories on the brain, and how personalized music programming may improve quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer’s. General admission seating is limited to the first 100 attendees.

 Wednesday, March 16 | 7PM | St. John’s Episcopal Church | FREE
Chamber Music: Brahms’ Horn Trio
Summer Festival Orchestra favorites Jennifer Ross, Principal Second Violin, and Gail Williams, Principal Horn, join pianist and GTMF Executive Director Andrew Palmer Todd for an intimate evening of chamber music, concluding with Brahms’ Horn Trio.

Thursday, March 17 | 7PM | Center for the Arts | $12-20
The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Broadcast of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Described by Puccini himself as a story of “desperate passion,” Manon Lescaut is an obsessive and provocative tale of desire. Critically acclaimed soprano and Manon-veteran Kristine Opolais revives the title role as a Parisian temptress conflicted with love and luxury. Tenor Roberto Alagna is des Grieux, the object of Manon’s affection.

Friday, March 18 | 4:30PM | Center for the Arts | FREE
StringFest Showcase with Barbara Scowcroft and Local Orchestra Students
Throughout GTMF Presents Winter Music, visiting artists appear in Jackson-area schools, engaging and inspiring future generations of musicians and music-lovers. The week’s educational activities conclude with Festival Musician and Music Director of the Utah Youth Symphony, Barbara Scowcroft, leading 8th grade orchestra students in a concert to showcase the students’ newly refined skills and talents.

Friday, March 18 | 7PM | Center for the Arts | $20 (plus $2 ticketing fee)
Elgar to Radiohead with Sybarite5
Sybarite5, a classical crossover string quintet, closes the week-long festival performing repertoire ranging from Mozart to Radiohead and Visconti to Akiho. Sybarite5’s eclectic repertoire and commanding performance style is turning heads throughout the music world. As the Arizona Daily Star writes, “Expect an experience that will satisfy your inner rock star and your secret Mozart.”

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a week of Winter Music, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Manager, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival and Center of Wonder present another exquisite Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcast this week—Giacomo Puccini’s exotic fairy tale Turandot. Offering a view comparable to the Met’s best seat, the presentation takes place on Thursday, February 11 at 7PM at the Center for the Arts.

Experience Puccini’s epic final opera through the opulent and golden lens of director Franco Zeffirelli. A vintage revival of Mr. Zeffirelli’s 1987 staging, the legendary production pairs an innovative, yet still recognizably-Puccini score with an equally elaborate and spectacular set. After 29 years on stage, the production still dazzles audiences, epitomizing the operatic experience.

As one of the greatest contemporary dramatic sopranos, Christine Goerke takes on the title role of the proud and cold-hearted princess of ancient China, whose riddles doom every suitor who seeks her hand. Tenor Marcelo Álvarez is Calàf, the brave prince who sings “Nessun dorma,” ultimately winning her love. Paolo Carignani conducts the passion-filled score, leading the orchestra and chorus to a level deemed by The Huffington Post as pure magnificence.

With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center of Wonder and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season’s sensational line-up includes favorites from operatic greats Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Bizet, with many productions returning to the stage with new life. The season’s remaining broadcasts are also Puccini works —Manon Lescaut on March 17 at 7pm and Madama Butterfly on April 14 at 7pm, a fitting conclusion for such a diverse and imaginative series.

GTMF and the Center of Wonder will present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Music series in March, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Associate, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
The Grand Teton Music Festival and Center of Wonder continue their exciting season of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts this week with Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers on Thursday, January 28 at 7PM at the Center for the Arts.

After a century, Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing returns to the Met stage. Director Penny Woolcock explores the timeless themes of love, betrayal, vengeance and friendship in a production that vividly creates an on-stage undersea world. The incomparable soprano Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, the Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl divers. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone Mariusz Kwiecień who sing the duet “Au fond du temple saint,” an aria long adored by opera fans.

Amidst news of his recent appoint as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., internationally acclaimed conductor Gianandrea Noseda brings his signature romantic flair to the lush score from the composer of Carmen. Boasting a brilliant combination of talent, design, and exoticism, The Pearl Fishers’ opening gala earned abundant praise from The New York Times, which proclaimed the opera as “The sleeper hit of the Metropolitan Opera season.”

With exquisite scores, legendary stories, and dramatic sets, GTMF, the Center of Wonder and The Met: Live in HD bring world-class opera to the Jackson Hole community. The season’s sensational line-up includes favorites from operatic greats Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Bizet, with many productions returning to the stage with new life. The season’s remaining broadcasts are all works from monumental composer Giacomo Puccini—Turandot on Thursday, February 11 at 7pm; Manon Lescaut on March 17 at 7pm; and Madama Butterfly on April 14 at 7pm, a fitting conclusion for such a diverse and imaginative series.

GTMF and the Center of Wonder will present all broadcasts at Jackson’s Center for the Arts. Tickets to The Met: Live in HD are $20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF): For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a Winter Music series in March, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Associate, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING | December 3, 2015The Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming announces its inaugural winter festival, GTMF Presents Winter Music, which takes place March 1518, 2016. Further solidifying the Grand Teton Music Festival as one of the nations premier cultural destinations, the expanded programming seeks to provide year-round events for Jackson Hole residents and visitors.

The 2016 winter festival features more than 10 events, including a concert by rising star pianist Charlie Albright; chamber music with Festival Orchestra favorites Jennifer Ross, violin, and Gail Williams, horn; an interactive lecture on music and the mind by Dr. Petr Janata; a Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD broadcast of Puccinis Manon Lescaut; numerous in-school educational programs including an intensive string camp with the Jackson and Star Valley 8th grade orchestral students; and a closing night concert with classical crossover group Sybarite5. GTMF Presents Winter Music events take place in locations throughout downtown Jackson. Tickets go on sale in January 2016.

GTMF PRESENTS WINTER MUSIC | MARCH 1518, 2016

Tuesday, March 15 | 7pm | Center for the Arts
Pianist Charlie Albright performs Beethoven and Chopinand takes requests!
Mr. Albright opened the Grand Teton Music Festivals 54th Season with an extraordinary sold-out performance and is at the forefront of a new generation of piano superstars. Leading an interactive performance, Mr. Albright improvises based on audience request and suggestion. The Washington Post writes, [Charlie Albright is] among the most gifted musicians of his generation.

Wednesday, March 16 | 7pm | St. Johns Episcopal Church
An Evening of Chamber Music: Brahms Horn Trio in E-flat Major
Summer Festival Orchestra members Jennifer Ross, Principal Second Violin, and Gail Williams, Principal Horn, join pianist and GTMF Executive Director Andrew Palmer Todd for an intimate evening of chamber music.

Thursday, March 17 | Time and location to be announced
A Lecture with Dr. Petr Janata: Your Brain on Music
Dr. Janata is a professor in the University of California Davis Psychology Department and the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. He specializes in cognitive neuroscience, and more specifically, the relationship between music, emotion, and memories. Dr. Janatas lecture will include his discoveries in music-evoked memories as well as in the psychological phenomenon of being in the groove.

Thursday, March 17 | 7pm | Center for the Arts
The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Broadcast of Puccinis Manon Lescaut
Described by Puccini himself as a story of desperate passion, Manon Lescaut is an obsessive and provocative tale of desire. Critically acclaimed soprano and Manon-veteran Kristine Opolais revives the title role as a Parisian temptress conflicted with love and luxury. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is des Grieux, the object of Manons affection. Tickets are on sale now$20 for adults and seniors, and $12 for students and children. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit gtmf.org or call the Center for the Arts box office at 307.733.4900.

Friday, March 18 | Time and location to be announced
Educational Outreach Showcase
Throughout GTMF Presents Winter Music, musicians will appear in Jackson schools, engaging and inspiring future generations of musicians and music-lovers. This collaboration between local schools and visiting musicians is in part of a long-standing GTMF outreach program known as StringFest. The weeks activities conclude with a showcase of the students newly refined skills and talents.

Friday, March 18 | 7pm | Center for the Arts
Mozart to Radiohead with Sybarite5
Sybarite5, a classical crossover string quintet, closes the week-long event, performing repertoire ranging from Mozart to Radiohead and Visconti to Akiho. Sybarite5s eclectic repertoire and commanding performance style is turning heads throughout the music world. As the Arizona Daily Star writes, Expect an experience that will satisfy your inner rock star and your secret Mozart.

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About the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) For seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival reunites a celebrated orchestra of musicians led by Music Director Donald Runnicles. Throughout the winter, GTMF provides various community outreach programs, a week of winter music in March, as well as broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series.

For media and interview requests, please contact Brittany Laughlin, Marketing Associate, Grand Teton Music Festival: brittany@gtmf.org or 307.733.3050.]]>

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING – September 11, 2014 – The Grand Teton Music Festival’s Tune-Up program, a collaboration with the Teton County School District, provides supplemental music instruction for every student in the Teton County School District’s Middle and High School band and orchestra programs. Since 2004 nearly 400 students each year have received this additional music instruction through Tune-Up. Continue Reading…

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JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING – July 9, 2014 –The Grand Teton Music Festival Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that Maestro Donald Runnicles has renewed his contract with the Grand Teton Music Festival through the summer of 2019.

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JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING – July 7, 2014 –Thanks to the success of our annual fundraiser, the Jackson Hole Wine Auction, and the generosity of four donors, students can now attend all 2014 Summer Season concerts free. During the Long Reimer Winegar Beppler Paddle Raise for Music Education Gale & Shelby Davis, Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel, Mary Linn & Bill Wecker, and Cynthia Walk & Charles Wolfinger all raised their paddles at the $5,000 level to ensure that any student who wants to attend a Grand Teton Music Festival concert this summer will be able to! Continue Reading…