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Welcome to Season Eight of Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival, GTMF’s radio broadcast series, co-hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts, who also serves as General Manager of the Festival.

The all-new 2025 radio series includes appearances by:

  • Clarice Assad
  • Michelle Cann
  • Thomas Carpenter
  • Connor Chaikowsky
  • Yvonne Chen
  • Lucina Horner Cosby
  • David Danzmayr
  • Ingrid Fliter
  • Anna Geniushene
  • Caroline Gilbert
  • José González Granero
  • Amihai Grosz
  • Susan Gulkis Assadi
  • Ling Ling Huang
  • Tomoki Iguchi
  • Alice Kogan Weireb
  • Jennifer Koh
  • Christopher Lowry
  • Benjamin Manis
  • Joseph McFadden
  • Christian Reif
  • Elisabeth Remy Johnson
  • Erin Roy
  • SOLI Chamber Ensemble
  • Dalia Stasevska
  • Phillip Stevens
  • Third Coast Percussion
  • Juraj Valčuha
  • Gail Williams

The 2025 series presents previews of two new commercial recording projects for Reference Recordings conducted by Donald Runnicles. First, the series previews a new recording of Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, along with the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s companion piece for the Symphony No 3, Vexierbild. And then on Program 13, radio listeners will get a preview of the exciting new recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and legendary brass players, Tom Hooten, trumpet, and Gail Williams, horn. These performances will be released by Reference Recordings, showing off the wonderful acoustics of Walk Festival Hall.

Once again, there are performances on the radio series that are not to be missed! Michelle Cann gives us sparkling performances of Ravel’s Concerto in G and Rhapsody in Blue. Amihai Grosz joins Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra to deliver a stunning performance of Walton’s Viola Concerto. Pianist Ingrid Fliter joins the Festival for a sublime Schumann Piano Concerto. And Jennifer Koh brings us an electrifying performance of Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, “Procession”.

In addition, Clarice Assad presents her exciting new concerto, PLAY!, written for and performed with Third Coast Percussion and Clarice herself takes on the vocal parts. And finally, Donald Runnicles conducts exceptional performances of Debussy’s Iberia and Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No 5.


Live from the GTMF Season 8 will be aired on Wyoming Public Radio on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT from February 5 through April 30, 2025.

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This program is a production of Classic Digital Syndications. For radio stations that wish to carry this show, the program is now available for free on the PRX. Seasons 4-8 are available on Apple PodcastsYouTubeSoundCloud, and Amazon Music. You can also listen to past seasons on our website.

Season 8, Episode 1: Lands of Riches

Michelle Cann with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major
Michelle Cann, piano
Alborada del gracioso
Claude Debussy
Iberia from Images


Season 8, Episode 2: The Miraculous… Viola

Amihai Grosz with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor and Chamber Music with Festival musicians

Edward Elgar
Cockaigne, Op. 40, “In London Town”
Christopher Lowry
Romanza for Four Violas, Op. 15
Christopher Lowry, viola
Caroline Gilbert, viola
Lucina Horner Cosby, viola
Phillip Stevens, viola
William Walton
Concerto for Viola
Amihai Grosz, viola


Season 8, Episode 3: The Miraculous Mandarin and Other Treats

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

John Adams
Slonimsky’s Earbox
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Melody Eötvös
Pyramidion (US Premiere)
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Kaija Saariaho
Ciel d’hiver
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Bela Bartók
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Juraj Valčuha, conductor


Season 8, Episode 4: New World

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and David Danzmayr, conductor

William Grant Still
Darker America
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”


Season 8, Episode 5: Brahms 3 and Detlev Glanert

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Detlev Glanert
Vexierbild (World Premiere)
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90


Season 8, Episode 6: Music From Now… For Now

Jennifer Koh, Clarice Assad and Third Coast Percussion with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Clarice Assad
Bonecos de Olinda
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Missy Mazzoli
Violin Concerto, “Procession”
Jennifer Koh, violin
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Clarice Assad
PLAY! (GTMF Co-Commission)
Third Coast Percussion with Clarice Assad, vocalist
David Danzmayr, conductor


Season 8, Episode 7: Rach 2

Anna Geniushene with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Chamber Music with Festival musicians

Alberto Ginastera
Malambo from Estancia: Four Dances, Op. 8a
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Claude Debussy
Danse sacrée et danse profane
Ling Ling Huang, violin
Connor Chaikowsky, violin
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola
Thomas Carpenter, cello
Joseph McFadden, bass
Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Anna Geniushene, piano
Juraj Valčuha, conductor


Season 8, Episode 8: Copland, Gershwin… Schoenberg

Michelle Cann with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring: Suite
Benjamin Manis, resident conductor
GTMF Chamber Orchestra
Adam Schoenberg
Ahava
Tomoki Iguchi, violin
Thomas Carpenter, cello
Alice Kogan Weinreb, flute
José González Granero, clarinet
Yvonne Chen, piano
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Michelle Cann, piano
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor


Season 8, Episode 9: Schumann and Azmeh

Ingrid Fliter with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor, and Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

Kinan Azmeh
Essays on Solitude and other Ambiguous Emotions
SOLI Chamber Ensemble
Ertan Torgul, violin
David Mollenauer, cello
Stephanie Key, clarinet
Carolyn True, piano
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
Ingrid Fliter, piano
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor


Season 8, Episode 10: From the British Isles

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
Christian Reif, conductor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D Major
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor


Season 8, Episode 11: Potpourri

Narrator Erin Roy with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 88 in G Major
Anna Clyne
This Midnight Hour
Benjamin Britten
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Erin Roy, narrator


Season 8, Episode 12: Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Aaron Jay Kernis
Musica Celestis
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Dalia Stasevska, conductor


S8, Episode 13: Mahler’s Symphony No. 5

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, Movements 1 and 2
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, Movement 3
Gail Williams, horn