2026 Festival Orchestra Series
The 2026 Festival Orchestra Series, led by Sir Donald Runnicles, features five weeks of concerts on Fridays & Saturdays at the Jackson Hole High School Auditorium with soloists Maria Ioudenitch, Madeline Adkins, Eleni Calenos, Daniel Luis Espinal & José González Granero and works from Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Korngold & Puccini, culminating in a celebratory Night at the Opera.
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Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Tickets $40-$75; children/students $5
The 2026 Festival Orchestra Series features gems across the classical repertoire and renowned soloists, including Maria Ioudenitch, Madeline Adkins, Eleni Calenos, Daniel Luis Espinal, and José González Granero, alongside GTMF’s own Festival Orchestra Musicians led by Sir Donald Runnicles. The Festival Orchestra Series is the heart of GTMF and includes Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky’s Fifth on July 10 and July 11, featuring pianist Tanner Jorden, a 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship winner; Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on July 17 and July 18, featuring clarinetist José González Granero; Melodies of Britain on July 31 and August 1, featuring violinist Maria Ioudenitch; Beethoven & Korngold on August 7 and August 8, featuring violinist Madeline Adkins; and the Festival Finale: Night at the Opera on August 14 and August 15, featuring soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal.
Events
Festival Orchestra: Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Opening night of the Festival Orchestra Series highlights not one but two popular monuments of the orchestral canon, featuring pianist and 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition winner Tanner Jorden.
Festival Orchestra: Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Opening night of the Festival Orchestra Series highlights not one but two popular monuments of the orchestral canon, featuring pianist and 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition winner Tanner Jorden.
Festival Orchestra: Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces.
Festival Orchestra: Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces.
Festival Orchestra: Melodies of Britain
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles celebrates his home islands with two distinct visions of Great Britain. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch makes her GTMF debut with Mendelssohn’s “jewel of the heart,” the moving Violin Concerto.
Festival Orchestra: Melodies of Britain
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles celebrates his home islands with two distinct visions of Great Britain. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch makes her GTMF debut with Mendelssohn’s “jewel of the heart,” the moving Violin Concerto.
Festival Orchestra: Beethoven & Korngold
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
GTMF Concertmaster Madeline Adkins performs Korngold’s lush, film-inspired Violin Concerto before the Festival Orchestra concludes the program with Beethoven’s eternal and appropriately cinematic ode to nature, the “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.
Festival Orchestra: Beethoven & Korngold
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
GTMF Concertmaster Madeline Adkins performs Korngold’s lush, film-inspired Violin Concerto before the Festival Orchestra concludes the program with Beethoven’s eternal and appropriately cinematic ode to nature, the “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.
Festival Orchestra Finale: Night at the Opera
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
The annual tradition of opera at the Grand Teton Music Festival continues with an evening of arias, duets and orchestral interludes from none other than Giacomo Puccini, featuring soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal.
Festival Orchestra Finale: Night at the Opera
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium
The annual tradition of opera at the Grand Teton Music Festival continues with an evening of arias, duets and orchestral interludes from none other than Giacomo Puccini, featuring soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal.
meet the artists
Learn more about the 250+ world-class artists who make Season 65 of the Grand Teton Music Festival possible.
music director Sir Donald Runnicles
Sir Donald Runnicles has been GTMF's Music Director since 2005 and has held chief artistic leadership positions at Deutsche Oper Berlin (2009-2026), San Francisco Opera (1992-2008), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (2009-16) and Orchestra of St. Luke’s (2001-07). He was appointed Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, beginning with the 2025-26 season.
meet our Festival Orchestra
GTMF welcomes top talent from world-renowned orchestras to Jackson Hole each year. Under the baton of Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles, these 250+ musicians come together to gather inspiration from the mountain setting, to renew their artistic vows to music making and to provide exhilarating music for Festival patrons.