Festival Orchestra: Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

Opening weekend of the Festival Orchestra Series features not one but two popular monuments of the orchestral canon. Montana native and 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition winner Tanner Jorden returns to the Grand Teton Music Festival to perform Rachmaninoff’s timeless and melodically rich Second Piano Concerto. Rounding out the program is Tchaikovsky’s dramatic symphonic reckoning with the immensities of fate.

program

Key: Star Spangled Banner
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Tanner Jorden, piano – 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship winner

meet the musician

Tanner Jorden

Piano

Tanner Jorden

Piano

Shortly before leaving his home in Montana, Tanner Jorden received first prize at the Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition. In 2023, Jorden won second prize at the Music Teacher National Association (MTNA) Young Artist National Piano Competition, being the youngest among finalists who were deep into their graduate studies. In 2024, he won first prize in the MTNA National Chamber Music Competition with the Aspen Grove Trio as well as second prize at the PianoArts North American Piano Competition.

Jorden is a frequent soloist with professional symphonies. Recent engagements include Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Sir Donald Runnicles and the Montana Youth Symphony, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C with Yaniv Danur and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Anne Harrigan and the Billings Symphony.

Jorden is pursuing a Master’s degree at The Juilliard School in the studio of Yoheved Kaplinsky. He previously studied with Scott Holden and Stephen Beus while completing his Bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University, as well as Dorothea Cromley during his high school years. An avid mountain biker and outdoorsman, Jorden believes that time away from the instrument is best spent finding oneself in nature.

Join us in the lobby at 5 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.