GTMF announces 2026-27 winter season – JH News&Guide
The Grand Teton Music Festival wrapped up its 65th summer season in August, but it wasted no time filling its 2026-27 winter with European opera, American folk and Canadian Brass.
“While we’re most known for our summer concert seasons, GTMF serves the Jackson Hole community all year, Executive Director Emma Kail said, “from supporting music education in Teton County schools to presenting world-class music at the Center for the Arts.”
The series starts Dec. 15 with the return of the multi-Grammy-winning quintet Canadian Brass, back for another holiday concert of everything from early music to traditional carols to beloved pop standards.
Widely considered the greatest brass quintet on earth, the 56-year-old Toronto ensemble is certainly the best-known and probably the most widely recorded, with more than 130 albums and DVDs. Its repertoire of some 600 works includes scores of commissions and bespoke arrangements that it presents with its signature blend of virtuosic technique and cheeky humor.
The Festival welcomes the New Year, and starts its 15th season, presenting the Metropolitan Opera’s wildly successful “Live in HD” series, on Jan. 10 with Mozart’s 1790 screwball opera “Cosi fan tutte.” This high-definition screening of a live performance by the famed New York City company sets the action in 1950s Coney Island, with all its attractions and distractions, and counts among its cast soprano Ana María Martínez as the maid Despina, who GTMF audience members will recognize from her turn as Cio-Cio-San in the Festival’s 2023 production of “Madama Butterfly.”
Later that month, the Festival hosts American Patchwork Quartet. Led by multi-Grammy winner guitarist-vocalist Clay Ross, with Hindustani-inflected vocals from Falu out front, the group contemporizes ageless American folks songs and their themes with rock, jazz, African and East Asian influences, which earned a nomination for Best Folk Album in the 2025 Grammy Awards for the group’s self-titled debut.
“Their incredible musicianship makes them a great fit for the Grand Teton Music Festival,” Kail said.
The series continues through the spring with screenings of the Met’s “Live in HD” productions of Verdi’s take on Shakespeare’s dark and bloody “Macbeth” (March 13), Puccini’s take on the drama of the American frontier “La Fanciulla del West” or “The Girl of the Golden West” (May 23), and Jules Massenet’s enduring romance “Manon” (June 6).
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