Category: Press Releases
GTMF named one of 2024’s “Best US Classical Music Festivals” by BBC Music Magazine
Every summer, over 200 musicians from some 70 orchestras converge on Walk Festival Hall for a two-month jamboree currently under the direction of Donald Runnicles. This year, the hall itself is taking (and giving!) centre stage as Yo-Yo Ma helps celebrate its half-century. Nestling among well-loved classics are a new...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces Chamber Music and Community Programs for Summer 2024 – Tickets to All Festival Events on Sale
Download release here Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) announces programs for its Summer 2024 chamber music concerts, including the world premiere of a GTMF co-commisison, as well as its family and community presentations, including Musical Adventures, On the Road, Free Family Concert and FamilyJam, pre-concert talks and open rehearsals, and...
Area schools collaborate harmoniously for StringFest
Eighth-grade string players from the region will get a taste of the big time on April 10, when they come together at Walk Festival Hall for the culminating performance of StringFest 2024. But first they have to prepare under the baton of violinist Barbara Scowcroft, a 26-year veteran of the...
College-bound musicians compete for $50K – JH News & Guide
Attention Jackson Hole student musicians: The application period for the 2024 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition is open, with a May 6 deadline to submit a video online for a chance to compete for $50,000 in scholarship funds. The competition is open to high school seniors from Wyoming, Idaho...
GTMF to toast its Walk Hall on its 50th anniversary – JH News & Guide
It’s a formula that has worked for 62 years: Bring together some of the finest classical musicians in North America in one of the most beautiful natual spots anywhere on Earth and set them loose upon both the environment and four-plus centuries of repertoire. Present it to the public in...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2024 Summer Festival, June 27-August 17
Eight Week Season Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Walk Festival Hall Programming Includes: Premieres of Works by Melody Eötvös and Detlev Glanert Debuts by Guest Conductors David Danzmayr and Juraj Valčuha and Violist Amihai Grosz Distinguished Soloists: Violinists Augustin Hadelich and Jennifer Koh; Pianists Michelle Cann and Anna Geniushene; Third Coast...
It’s 4 o’clock and Time for Three at Center Theater – JH News & Guide
Still aglow from their 2023 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, and about halfway through its current tour, Time for Three returns to Jackson for its fifth visit, promising audiences its unique twist on classical, bluegrass, rock and folk music, and maybe some new original material as well. “This...
GTMF to screen Met’s ‘Dead Man Walking’ – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival commences its 2024 selections of “The Met: Live in HD” with Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s acclaimed operatic adaptation of “Dead Man Walking.” The performance, caught on camera at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, starts at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Center Theater. In 1982, Sister...
GTMF guests celebrate Christmas in song – JH News & Guide
Christmas is a sense of home that might not be a place on a map, said singer-producer Scott Coulter, but “a place in your heart, in your soul, in your mind.” It’s too complicated for words, really, which might be why so many Christmas carols have been written over the...
Festival takes flight with ambitious ‘Madame Butterfly’ – JH News & Guide
“It’s a tricky piece,” said David Lefkowich, the stage director of this weekend’s operatic finale of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 62nd season. “The music is incredible, but the themes are difficult in a modern-day setting.” An Italian composer, an American playwright, a Japanese story: “How do we reframe this,...
‘Clustered Vine’ premieres this weekend – JH News & Guide
Reaching the seventh week of its 2022 season, the Grand Teton Music Festival will showcase mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor to perform a world premiere of Kareem Roustom’s “The Clustered Vine – Songs of Love, Loss and Remembrance” on Friday and Saturday nights in Walk Festival Hall. “I adore performing new music...
Thile, audience to make music together – JH News & Guide
For anyone who has ever felt a twinge of envy for a brilliant artist like Chris Thile, rest assured: You are an essential collaborator in his creation. “It’s why playing live is so important,” the Grammy-winning mandolinist and composer told the News&Guide. “We give this thing, give it to you,...
Coombs Outdoors and the Grand Teton Music Festival Partner to Provide Music Lessons to Jackson’s Youth
Local nonprofits collaborate to increase access to community resources (JACKSON, WY, August 3, 2023) - Coombs Outdoors and the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) are excited to announce a collaborative partnership that creates access to music lessons and opportunities for Coombs Outdoors participants. The two local nonprofits have worked together...
One of entertainment’s brightest stars gives Broadway hits their due – JH News & Guide
Frank Lesser, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Richard Hammerstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne … they just doesn’t make Broadway tunesmiths like that any more: so witty, so lyrically agile, so capable of communicating a character’s state of mind with a single phrase or rhyme. Fortunately they do...
GTMF parties with Richard Brown, Motown – JH News & Guide
Just about anyone who has been to a few Grand Teton Music Festival concerts over the past 45 years knows veteran percussionist Richard Brown. And who isn’t familiar with at least a couple of songs released by the Motown label in the ’60s or ’70s? Put them together and what...
Francophones join forces on Ravel – JH News & Guide
Hold onto your piano bench: Piano superhero Marc-André Hamelin is in the area to perform this weekend with the Grand Teton Music Festival. Hamelin will perform Ravel’s “Concerto for Left Hand” with guest conductor Stéphane Denève leading the Festival Orchestra on Friday and Saturday evening. Also on the program are...
George Li concludes piano recital series on Sunday – JH News & Guide
George Li is a touring concert pianist who has performed as a soloist and with orchestras throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Russia, Germany, England, Sweden, Australia, Japan, China, France and many other countries. He received the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2012 Gilmore Young Artist...
Runnicles celebrates with Haydn, Webern, Strauss – JH News & Guide
...This weekend Runnicles will lead the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 (finished in 1793 or ’94), nicknamed “The Clock” for the metronomic tick-tock of its second movement. Bookending Haydn are Anton Webern’s breezy “Im Sommerwind” and Richard Strauss’ tone poem “Ein Heldenleben,” featuring rigorous soloing by...
Mambo Kings (and 1 queen) trace origins of Latin music at Teton Village on Thursday – JH News & Guide
What we call Latin music straddles several genres, with one foot in the classical realm, one foot in folk and pop, and a third foot (third foot? sure) in jazz. Which gives soprano Camille Zamora a lot of terrain to explore, which she will Thursday when she joins the Mambo...
Village hosts small concerts – JH News & Guide
If you’re looking for something free, fun and family-friendly to do on Thursdays, check out the Teton Village Association’s Alive@5 concert. The ongoing concert series runs from 5 to 6 p.m. and features chamber ensembles of musicians from the Grand Teton Music Festival’s orchestra. This week’s program showcases a brass...
$50K awarded to 3 teen musicians – JH News & Guide
Last Monday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village, saxophonist Nickoli Kumm, of Cody High School, held the small but supportive audience rapt with his performance of French composer Paule Maurice’s “Tableaux de Provence.” Tyler McKay, from Madison High School in Rexburg, Idaho, wowed the 70 or so listeners with...
National Youth Orchestra to play Barber, Berlioz – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival’s audience can catch these potential stars at the start of their trajectory when they visit Walk Festival Hall as part of a national tour that will take the orchestra from the East Coast to the West through the end of JulyThis year, Sir Andrew Davis...
Grand Teton Music Fest luxuriates under ‘summer nights’ with Bullock, Reif – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival and its guests — soprano Julia Bullock and conductor Christian Reif — celebrate the season this weekend with a lushly romantic “Summer Nights” program featuring Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Ballade” and Hector Berlioz’s orchestral version of his expressive song cycle “Les nuits...
Van Cliburn finalist to recitalize Sunday – JH News & Guide
Though Clayton Stephenson has been playing piano since the age of 7, it has only been since becoming a finalist in the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition that he has been able to devote himself to music. “Before that I just didn’t have the time to put my full...
Weilerstein returns to GTMF with Barber concerto – JH News & Guide
Composer Samuel Barber was still on active duty with the U.S. Army Air Corps when in 1944 he was commissioned to write a concerto for Russian ex-patriot cellist Raya Garbousova. The result, his Concerto for Violoncello, is very technically challenging — “pyrotechnic,” even, according to cellist Alisa Weilerstein. As such,...
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles Renews Agreement through 2029, Bringing Tenure with GTMF to 23 Years
Grand Teton Music Festival Looks Forward to a Vibrant Future with Dedicated Leadership at the Helm GTMF’s 62nd Season Opened June 30 and Features Eight Weeks of Concerts in the Tetons The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the extension of Music Director Sir...
Young musicians to vie for Donald Runnicles scholarship competition – JH News & Guide
Over the past five years, the Grand Teton Music Festival has awarded $210,000 in scholarships to high school seniors from Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to help them continue to pursue their musical studies. Next Monday another $50,000 will be distributed among three finalists in the sixth annual Donald Runnicles Musical...
Chamber music concert Wednesday at Walk Festival Hall – JH News & Guide
Want to hear what “The Creation of the World” sounds like? Wednesday, an 18-person ensemble of Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra members will play Darius Milhaud’s “La Création du Monde, Opus 81a,” which premiered a century ago in Paris. The ensemble performing “The Creation of the World” will be the...
Michelle Cann to tickle the ivories Sunday – JH News & Guide
Since the age of 14, internationally renowned pianist Michelle Cann has played in orchestras all over the world. At 3 p.m. Sunday, she will make her Grand Teton Music Festival debut in Walk Festival Hall. A true veteran of the stage, Cann has performed as a soloist with the Cleveland...
Chamber music begins today – JH News & Guide
The grand opening of Grand Teton Music Festival’s chamber music series will take place today with “Opening Fanfare,” a concert poised to start the chamber series off with a bang. “Historically, a ‘fanfare’ signals an important event or a grand entrance,” said pianist and singing coach Adelle Eslinger, who runs...
GTMF vet stars in Mozart Bassoon Concerto – JH News & Guide
You’re 18 years old, on top of the world after a triumphant tour of Italy and with a plum gig as court musicians for the prince-archbishop of Salzburg. How could your first bassoon concerto be anything other that buoyant, vernal and exhilarating? “The piece is quite charming,” said Sue Heineman,...
Beethoven, Bruch & Mendelssohn this weekend – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival will kick off its 62nd season begins with a Bruch, Beethoven and Mendelssohn concert on Friday and Saturday in Walk Festival Hall. The concert will feature Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony No. 3. The program will be conducted...
Independence Day – JH News & Guide
...The holiday falls right at the start of the annual Grand Teton Music Festival, which is dedicating the nights of both July 3 and 4 to patriotic programming. “We are celebrating the Fourth of July both on the third — at our family concert, a program called ‘Home of the...
Music festival jumpstarts Friday – JH News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival is entering its 62nd summer season and continues to provide unprecedented access to classical music for the Jackson community. This summer, the goal for GTMF is clear: Bring as much music as possible to as many people as possible. “Music is for everyone,” said Emma...
GTMF & Four Seasons Jackson Hole featured in Forbes Magazine
The Five-Star hotel (Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole) pairs Wyoming’s majestic landscapes with an equally awe-inspiring soundscape courtesy of the eight-week run of the Grand Teton Music Festival from June 30 to August 19. With talents like violinist James Ehnes, pianists Yefim Bronfman and Marc-André Hamelin, cellist Alisa...
Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recording named a best new classical recording by Gramophone
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recording — played by Grammy®-winning Garrick Ohlsson, performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles — has been named a best new classical recording in Gramophone's July 2023 issue. "...Here soloist and conductor outdo themselves in the execution of Beethoven’s...
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
REFERENCE RECORDINGS is proud to present The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos played by Grammy®-winning Garrick Ohlsson, performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. This album was recorded during live Festival performances in July 2022. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson is especially...
Met opera latest fold in ‘The Hours’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The hours of our days are so full of fluff: buying flowers, baking cakes, string at a blank page hoping words will appear there. Think about it too much, and it will drive you to distraction — or worse. “The Hours” was the working title of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel...
Julia Bullock, Kelley O’Connor, Ana María Martínez Headline Grand Teton Music Festival 2023 Season – OperaWire
The Grand Teton Music Festival has announced its 2023 season, which runs between June 30 and August 19, 2023. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal and operatic performances. Soprano Julia Bullock will headline Berlioz’s “Les nuits d’été” with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, under...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2023 Season, June 30-August 19
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads Festival Orchestra in an eight-week seasonEsteemed guest artists include violinist James Ehnes; pianists Yefim Bronfman and Marc-André Hamelin; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor; soprano Julia Bullock; and mandolinist/vocalist Chris ThileAfter a successful introduction last year, Festival continues its opera initiative with Puccini’s Madame Butterfly...
Pianist, quartet join forces for music stories – Jackson Hole News & Guide
...Part of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s winter concert series, the keyboardist (Michael Stephen Brown) and the (Harlem Quartet) will perform works by Amy Beach, Billy Strayhorn, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and others starting at 7 p.m. in the Center Theater. Brown and the Harlem Quartet — IImar Gavilán and...
GTMF brings Met Opera’s HD programs back to Center – Jackson Hole News & Guide
“La Traviata,” the title of Giuseppe Verdi’s immortal 1853 opera, means, roughly, “a fallen women.” But, as often happens in opera and tragedy in general, its heroine, Violetta, winds up the most sympathetic, even the most noble, character in the end. Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan in...
Canadians bring brass for GTMF event – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival gets in on the Yuletide glee with a holiday concert from the Canadian Brass. Widely considered the greatest brass quintet on Earth, the 52-year-old musical institution founded in Toronto is certainly the best known and probably the widest recorded. The group has created more than...
Broadcasts, brass, operas on tap for GTMF – Jackson Hole News & Guide
Folks who missed the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 61st season this past summer — or those who didn’t but who just can’t get enough — can tune in to WyomingPBS this week and catch highlights captured on film and in sound at Walk Festival Hall. The broadcast launches a winter’s...
The power of music in nature – Jackson Hole News & Guide
The breeze picked up ever so slightly, catching a handful of dandelion seeds and spinning them into the summer sun. As people gathered on the quiet side of the Tetons under a white tent under a bright blue sky, four professional musicians found their seats just behind the Alta Branch...
Library and GTMF team up for free mini concerts – Buckrail
Teton County Library will play host to several of Grand Teton Music Festival’s “On The Road” series of free family friendly mini concerts that bring live classical music into the community. The “On The Road” ensembles are made up of Festival Orchestra musicians and presented with engaging hosts and discussion. GTMF...
News Release: Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2022 Season, July 3-August 27
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads Festival Orchestra in extended eight-week season Esteemed guest artists include the St. Lawrence String Quartet; pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Joyce Yang, Inon Barnatan and Ingrid Fliter; violinist Augustin Hadelich; cellist Johannes Moser; soprano Capathia Jenkins and guest conductors Eun Sun Kim, Dalia Stasevska and Markus...
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces New “Gateway Series” and “GTMF on the Road” Program, Further Expanding Community Engagement in 60th Season
Single tickets for all festival events now on sale, Festival dates: July 2–August 21, 2021 Concerts featured in Gateway Series include Time For Three, Grammy®-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion, and a “Broadway Through the Ages” evening JACKSON, WY, June 1, 2021 – Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) announces the inaugural launch...
Grand Teton Music Festival Welcomes Musicians and Audiences Back to Celebrate 60th Season, July 2–August 21, 2021
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads the Festival Orchestra including a world premiere by Melody Eötvös and co-commission by Jessie MontgomeryEsteemed guest artists include violinists James Ehnes and Leila Josefowicz, Broadway star Capathia Jenkins, soprano Julia Bullock, pianist Yefim Bronfman, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and conductors Gemma New, Stéphane Denève, and...