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Sound, visual blend in piano-dance collaboration – JH News&Guide

Sound, visual blend in piano-dance collaboration – JH News&Guide

2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the premiere of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” (Feb. 12, in New York City’s long-defunct Aeolian Hall), so naturally it is everywhere. In fact, the Grand Teton Music Festival already presented it once this season, with guest pianist Michelle Cann and the festival orchestra.

Casper percussionist prevails in 7th annual Runnicles competition – JH News&Guide

After three wildly varied performances by student musicians Sunday afternoon in Walk Festival Hall, three judges named Casper percussionist Evan DePaolo the first-prize winner of the seventh annual Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition, awarding him a $25,000 scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Denver.

Festival Orchestra takes ‘a tour of England’ – JH News&Guide

This Friday and Saturday in Walk Festival Hall, Amihai Grosz will play the viola concerto of English composer William Walton (1902-1983) with GTMF Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles conducting the Festival Orchestra, which will give audiences a great opportunity to see and hear all that the instrument is capable of.

Singer-pianist sings songs for Sinatra lovers – JH News&Guide

For the past 20 years or so, Tony DeSare, now a widely recorded pianist and vocalist who travels extensively to perform, has expressed his love and admiration of Ol’ Blue Eyes with his show “Sinatra and Beyond,” which he will present Thursday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village as the latest “Gateway” concert of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 63rd season.

Assad, Third Coast ready to ‘Play!’ at GTMF – JH News&Guide

This weekend at Walk Festival Hall, (Third Coast Percussion) will perform one of the latest pieces written for it, “Play!” by American-Brazilian vocalist-multi-instrumentalist-composer Clarice Assad. Assad will appear in the performances as well, singing, narrating and otherwise vocalizing through the three movements, with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra led by guest conductor David Danzmayr.

First ‘Gateway’ concert features family – JH News&Guide

Sergie and Clarice Assad are two members of what has been called “Brazil’s First Family of Music.” They will appear together Thursday in Walk Festival Hall for the Grand Teton Music Festival’s first “Gateway” concert of the 2024 season.

Percussionists to jam with their audience – JH News&Guide

With the most rudimentary tools, a percussionist can create rhythms, experiment with different sounds and even compose melodies. That’s what Third Coast Percussion hopes to demonstrate with its program “Think Outside the Drum,” which the famed Chicago quartet will present at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Walk Festival Hall for what the Grand Teton Music Festival is calling a “Family Jam.”

Double dose of pianist Cann this weekend – JH News&Guide

(Michelle) Cann visited the Tetons last summer to play a solo recital. That invitation came when she performed Florence Price’s “Piano Concerto in One Movement” with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where Donald Runnicles, Grand Teton’s music director, is resident guest conductor. Runnicles was impressed and invited her to come West.

Jenkins returns for third Patriotic Pops spectacle – JH News&Guide

Capathia Jenkins was guest soloist on that program in 2022, and is back again for her third Patriotic Pops. “I’m really looking forward to it,” she said last week from her home in Georgia. “For anyone to get invited anywhere, that’s such an honor, but the sweet spot is to get invited back.”