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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

$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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2023 Season, June 30-August 19

Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles leads Festival Orchestra in an eight-week season Esteemed guest artists include violinist James Ehnes; pianists Yefim Bronfman and Marc-André Hamelin; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor; […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Grand Teton Music Festival’s “La Boheme” this weekend – Jackson Hole News & Guide

The Grand Teton Music Festival will debut its inaugural opera, “La Boheme,” this weekend in Walk Festival Hall. It’s a historic moment for the orchestra, founded 60 years ago in […]

Guest pianist grows with Schumann – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Ingrid Fliter owes her career as an international touring pianist to Schumann, Chopin and other composers of the romantic era. “This kind of music I grew up on,” she said, […]

Four notes, glissando and lots of plucking – Jackson Hole News & Guide

…Elisabeth Remy Johnson has been performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival since 2016, but this will be her first performance outside Walk Festival Hall. “It takes a little extra […]

Grand Teton Music Festival to Livestream ‘La bohème’ with Jose Simerilla Romero & Nicole Cabell – OperaWire

The Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming is set to livestream its semi-staged production of “La bohème.” The production will be streamed on August 27 and features an all-star cast […]

GTMF’s Hooten star in Williams concerto – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Hear the name John Williams and you likely will think of the guy who wrote the rousing themes to “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and scores of other blockbuster movies. But […]

Beat it with festival percussionists – Jackson Hole News & Guide

The Grand Teton Music Festival’s percussion section has put together a traveling show as part of this year’s “On the Road” series, and will present it at 3 p.m. Thursday […]

A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals – The New York Times

I’m not sure that the residents of Jackson Hole, whether they are fortunate enough to enjoy their first or their fourth homes in sight of the Grand Tetons, quite understand […]

Finnish conductor established ‘French connection’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide

When you hear the phrase “French music” your brain likely recalls a certain sound, a certain mood, a certain palette musical colors — a layered shimmering of clustered noted and […]

GTMF serves Schubert’s ‘Trout’ tonight – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Musicians with the Grand Teton Music Festival will perform Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet as part of this week’s Chamber Music Series at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Walk Festival Hall. Also known […]

Idaho pianist wins Runnicles competition – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Pianist Truman Walker, of Eagle, Idaho, far left, was named the winner of the 2022 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition last month. With him are third-place winner, vocalist Kerraline […]

New Marsalis work highlights chamber program – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Wednesday night chamber music program at the Grand Teton Music Festival can offer some of the most exciting and satisfying musical experiences of the season. Audiences usually hear a couple […]

Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ symphony calls to all – Jackson Hole News & Guide

The climactic symphony contemplates the afterlife with “bone-chilling” hymns and calls to the dead. At the halfway point of its 2022 season, the Grand Teton Music Festival will showcase Mahler’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 […]

Violinist Hadelich hopes to thrill – Jackson Hole News & Guide

One of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s favorite guests, Augustin Hadelich returns to Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village to perform chamber music on Wednesday — Ravel’s Violin Sonata with […]

Adventurous programing for Sunday piano recital – Jackson Hole News & Guide

The Grand Teton Music Festival continues its Sunday Matinee Piano Recital series with Joyce Yang, silver medalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Yang promises an “incredibly challenging” […]

O’Donovan brings touch of gold to GTMF – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Aoife O’Donovan visits Jackson Hole for the first time since appearing with Crooked Still some 13 or more years ago. This time she brings her band from her January release, […]

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 […]

Aoife O’Donovan adds singer-songwriter artistry to GTMF lineup – Buckrail

Stylistically wide-ranging, Aoife O’Donovan lives in many musical spaces. With progressive Americana at the core of her artistry, O’Donovan is a Grammy-winning vocalist, guitarist, and pianist chiefly known as founder […]

Jests and jesters animate orchestra program – Jackson Hole News & Guide

With guests the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Festival Orchestra presents John Adams’ “Absolute Jest,” a pastiche that takes bits from several of Beethoven’s late string quartets, as well as […]

Stripling plays for the love of Pops – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Byron Stripling presents the first Gateway concert of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s 2022 season, a show featuring his touring rhythm section, a big band lineup of horns enlisted by […]

Pianist Barnatan ‘time travels’ for matinee recital – Jackson Hole News & Guide

There’s something undeniably mysterious about music. Like how a youngster might be drawn to the piano even through no one else in his family is especially musical. Or how composers […]

Pianist Ohlsson stars in ‘Beethoven Extravaganza’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Oh, Ludwig. Perhaps Western civilization’s first “modern” composer, Beethoven (1770-1827) transformed music, pushing it beyond its classical conventions and using it to convey and explore the deep philosophical questions of […]

Patriotic Pops Concert – Jackson Hole Daily

As conductor Sir Donald Runnicles leads the orchestra, Broadway star Capathia Jenkins sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to the large crowd gathered on the Center for the Arts lawn Monday […]

Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite – The New York Times

Some ensembles have decided not to perform Tchaikovsky’s overture, written as commemoration of Russia’s defeat of Napoleon’s army. …In recent weeks, more than a dozen ensembles in Connecticut, Indiana, New […]

A Guide to Jackson, Wyoming’s Increasingly Chic Mountain Town – The Wall Street Journal

Wyoming’s premier ski town is a magnet in summer too. Here, four locals—including a rancher and pro snowboarder—on where to spot wildlife, paddleboard in Grand Teton National Park and sip […]

GTMF goes deep for 61st season – Jackson Hole News & Guide

After two years of COVID-induced uncertainty and instability, we all deserve a little something — a treat or a bonus, something that begins to make up for all the time […]

Music festival starts early for youngsters – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Teton kids are the luckiest. They grow up with clean air to breathe, expansive forests to explore, mountains to climb, rivers to float, a loving community devoted to nourishing their […]

The top 10 classical music festivals in the US this summer – Financial Times

Nestled at the base of the Teton mountain range in Wyoming and within easy reach of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Teton Music Festival offers unrivalled access to the natural […]

3 idyllic US music festivals to attend this summer – Pianist Magazine

Summer is swiftly approaching, and with it comes the opportunity to take a road trip and enjoy music outdoors. The US is home to many summer festivals with robust offerings, but […]

Music Festival takes to airwaves – Jackson Hole News & Guide

With the recent announcement of its Musical World Tour set for March 24 and preliminary details about its 61st summer season of concerts, set to start July 3, the Grand […]

Music Festival lays out full 8-week season – Jackson Hole News & Guide

If you need something to hang onto to get through these darkest days of winter, hang onto this: It’s a mere 158 days until the opening concert of the 2022 […]

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 […]

Conductor Donald Runnicles Knighted – Berliner Morgenpost

The original article is in German; below is a translation via Google Translate. Prince Charles has knighted the General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper, Donald Runnicles, at Windsor Castle. […]

Beloved wind quintet visits for the holidays – Jackson Hole News & Guide

That’s kind of a hand-crafted program we worked on with Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts,” WindSync horn player Anni Hochhalter said of Monday’s concert, speaking last week from Houston. “It’s […]

Looking Back at Grand Teton Music Festival’s 60th Season

Celebrating a Successful Season and Welcoming a New Director of Development and Board Members JACKSON, WY, October 12, 2021 – Grand Teton Music Festival’s (GTMF) 60th Season, which boasted 20 […]

Josefowicz, Stravinsky close festival – Jackson Hole News & Guide

“This will be my first real solo violin concerto back in public — not virtual, not chamber.”  ~Leila Josefowicz, violin As the centerpiece of these final concerts of the festival’s […]

‘Freedom Songs’ continue to move forward – Julia Bullock will perform Jessie Montgomery’s work at GTMF – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Vocalist Julie Bullock performs Jessie Montgomery’s new song cycle, “Five Freedom Songs,” with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Thursday through Saturday at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village. The word […]

Beethoven, Bronfman and the universe – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Beethoven runs in pianist Yefim Bronfman’s blood. It’s only natural, since two of his teachers, Rudolph Serkin and Leon Fleisher, were widely considered among the 20th century’s greatest interpreters of […]

Where Ancient Peaks Embrace Old Friends, Music Adds Its Wonder – Classical Voice North America by Thomas May

…It’s a setting that easily nourishes music’s transcendent power. No wonder so many of the musicians who make up the GTMF Orchestra are long-timers, returning, summer after summer, as if […]

Denève, Ehnes reunite at Walk Hall – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Traveling the world, meeting new people, working with old friends, all in the name of the profession you love — pianist-conductor Stéphane Denève lives the dream. “I don’t know how […]

A “Guest” Visit from Donald Runnicles at Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May

Gemma New was originally scheduled to make her Grand Teton Music Festival debut conducting this week’s full orchestral program. But when she had to cancel at the last minute, GTMF’s […]

Hitting the Sweet Spot: Third Coast Percussion at Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May

Week 4 of the Grand Teton Music Festival continued with an enthusiastically received performance by Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion making their Festival debut. Presented without intermission, the concert unfolded with […]

A Homecoming for the Grand Teton Music Festival – Memeteria by Thomas May

With its marriage of valley and dramatic, looming scarps, it’s obvious how the Jackson Hole area beckoned as an ideal spot to make music. The Grand Teton Music Festival opened […]

Winners in 4th Runnicles Competition named – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Two pianists, harpist split $50K in scholarships after July 19 finals in fourth annual contest. Three young classical musicians got a major boost to their educations and maybe their careers […]

GTMF trombonist to share his ‘Hallucinations’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Back in the year 2000, when famed conductor-pianist Daniel Barenboim was still music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he led the group in a performance of Leopold Mozart’s Concerto […]

Jackson Hole News & Guide Music, July 28

Gateway percussion It’s difficult to know who is having more fun at a Third Coast Percussion performance: the audience or the performers. The Grand Teton Music Festival welcomes the Grammy-winning […]

Harth-Bedoya leads orchestra, audience on tour of the world – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Wrapping up week three of its 2021 60th anniversary season, the Grand Teton Music Festival welcomes back guest conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya to lead the Festival Orchestra in an international program […]

Classical training meets jam-band bliss – Jackson Hole News & Guide

It’s time to make time for Time For Three. It has been five years, almost to the day, since the classically trained jam trio last performed in Jackson Hole, and […]

The Grand Teton Music Festival Returns For Its 60th Season – Wyoming Public Media

The Grand Teton Music Festival is underway and it’s celebrating its 60th season. Over seven weeks each summer, the Grand Teton Music Festival unites more than 200 celebrated orchestral musicians led by […]

Festival premieres Eötvös’ ‘Deciding Machine’ – Jackson Hole News & Guide

A May 2020 article in The Wall Street Journal heralds the dawn of the age of the “decision machine,” when supercomputers and artificial intelligence are able to sort through the […]

Walk Hall reopens with Kanneh-Mason, Dvořák – Jackson Hole News & Guide

The music returns to Walk Festival Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, when Kanneh-Mason joins the Festival Orchestra with Sir Donald Runnicles conducting. …Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason loves performing. “When […]

6 musicians vie for $50k in scholarships – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Borah High School graduate Fernando Perez was overcome by joy last July to be named the first-place winner of the 2020 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition. “I’m thinking about […]

Giving people the music they deserve – Jackson Hole News & Guide

Great music, performed well, is for everyone. “And I believe everyone deserves it,” insisted Meaghan Heinrich, education curator for the Grand Teton Music Festival. “And that everyone has the capacity […]

Music Festival plays on Center lawn

Four outdoor concerts will be presented on the lawn outside the Center for the Arts, with many guest artists. One of the best ways to make an occasion special — […]

GTMF Featured in United Airlines’ Hemispheres Magazine

Returning for its 60th season, the Grand Teton Music Festival once again graces Jackson Hole, Wyoming, right next to Grand Teton National Park. This idyllic summer retreat attracts nearly 200 […]

GTMF rounds out its 60th season

Single tickets on sale for orchestral concerts, chamber recitals and ‘Gateway Series.’ If BBC Young Musician of 2016 Sheku Kanneh-Mason, violin superstar Leila Josefowicz or prodigious young conductor Gemma New […]

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 […]

GTMF Featured in Symphony Magazine, Spring 2021

The Grand Teton Music Festival and Executive Director Emma Kail are featured in the “Festival Overtures” article of the Spring 2021 edition of Symphony Magazine, published by the League of […]

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 Montgomery Esteemed guest artists include violinists James Ehnes and Leila […]

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