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.
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 Podcasts, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Amazon Music. You can also listen to past seasons on our website.