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Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival –
A National Radio Broadcast & Podcast

Welcome to Season Seven 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 2024 radio series includes appearances by:

Madeline Adkins – Jader Bignamini – Yefim Bronfman – Gregory Clinton – Stéphane Denève – James Ehnes – Caroline Gilbert – José González Granero – Laura Ha – Marc-André Hamelin – Sue Heineman – Jerry Hou – Ling Ling Huang – Jennifer Humphreys – Conrad Jones – Kimi Kawashima – Stephanie Key – Marta Krechkovsky – Anna Kruger –  Thomas Lehman – Allegra Lilly – Megan Marino – Ana Maria Martinez – Jessica Mathaes – Thalia Moore – Holly Mulcahy – Kelley O’Connor – Christopher Oglesby – Garrick Ohlsson – Christian Reif – Rodell Rosel – Adelle Eslinger Runnicles – Maria Semes – William Guanbo Su – Alisa Weilerstein

This year’s series provides a sampling of the first-ever commercial recording project for the festival, The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Garrick Ohlsson and conductor Donald Runnicles. These incredible performances were recorded in stereo and surround sound in the wonderful acoustics of Walk Festival Hall for Reference Recordings. The radio series presents Concerto No. 1 from this set.

Also, the series presents Act 1 from its production of Madama Butterfly, with Ana María Martinez and Christopher Oglesby in the title roles. In addition, Kelley O’Connor sings the world premiere of The Clustered Vine: Songs of Love, Loss and Remembrance by Kareem Roustom.

There are performances that are not to be missed. Marc-André Hamelin gives us a remarkable performance of Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. James Ehnes joins Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra for a sublime Bruch Violin Concerto No.1. Yefim Bronfman joins the Festival for an epic Brahms Piano Concerto No.1. And Sue Heineman brings her beautiful bassoon sound to the rarely heard Concerto for Bassoon by Mozart.

Finally, Donald Runnicles conducts sublime performances of the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, the Mendelssohn “Scottish” Symphony and Richard Strauss’ masterpiece, Ein Heldenleben.

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is funded in part by the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole  

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.  

Live from the GTMF Season 7 will be aired on Wyoming Public Radio and Classical Wyoming on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT from January 17 through April 10. Listen online! | more details

Season 4-7 episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Amazon. Season 7 episodes will be uploaded weekly through mid-April. 

Season 7 – 2024

S7, Episode 1
Mozart at His Early Best

Sue Heineman with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492

Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major, K. 191
Sue Heineman, bassoon

Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183

S7, Episode  2
A Scottish Chapel

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Carl Maria von Weber

Der Freischütz Overture

Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, “Scottish”

S7, Episode 3
Ohlsson plays Beethoven

Garrick Ohlsson with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven

Egmont Overture, Op. 84

Concerto for Piano No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

S7, Episode 4
Shostakovich Five

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Myroslav Skoryk

Melodie
Marta Krechkovsky, violin

Dimitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

S7, Episode 5
Bruch, Ehnes and Some Surprises

James Ehnes with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
Christian Reif, conductor

Anton Webern

Im Sommerwind
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Max Bruch

Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor, Op. 26
James Ehnes, violin; Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

S7, Episode 6
The Creation of the World

Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

André Caplet

Conte fantastique
Laura Ha, violin; Ling Ling Huang, violin, Caroline Gilbert, viola, Jennifer Humphreys, cello; Allegra Lilly, harp

Bohuslav Martinů

La revue de cuisine, H. 161
Stephanie Key, clarinet; Sue Heineman, bassoon; Conrad Jones, trumpet; Maria Semes, violin; Gregory Clinton, cello; Kimi Kawashima, piano

Darius Milhaud

La création du monde, Op. 81a
Festival Chamber Ensemble; Jerry Hou, conductor

S7, Episode 7
Great Performances

Marc-André Hamelin with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Franz Joseph Haydn

Symphony No. 101 in D Major, Hob. I/101, “The Clock”
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Steven Sérpa

Mountain Fado: Fado da montanha (World Premiere)
Holly Mulcahy, violin; Adelle Eslinger Runnicles, piano

Maurice Ravel

Concerto for Piano in D Major, “Left Hand”
Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Stéphane Denève, conductor

S7, Episode 8
Barber and Bernstein

Alisa Weilerstein with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Samuel Barber

Concerto for Cello, Op. 22
Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Jader Bignamini, conductor

Leonard Bernstein

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Jader Bignamini, conductor

S7, Episode 9
New Explorations

Kelley O’Connor with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

José González Granero

Paisajes (Landscapes)
Ling Ling Huang, violin; Jessica Mathaes, violin; Anna Kruger, viola; Thalia Moore, cello; José González Granero, clarinet

Kareem Roustom

The Clustered Vine: Songs of Love, Loss and Remembrance (World Premiere)
Kelley O’Conner, mezzo-soprano; Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Detlev Glanert

Idyllium (US Premiere)
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

S7, Episode 10
Love and Loss

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor

Jennifer Higdon

blue cathedral

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet

S7, Episode 11
Butterfly

Ana María Martinez, Cio-Cio-San
Christopher Oglesby, Pinkerton
Megan Marino, Suzuki
Thomas Lehman, Sharpless
Rodell Rosel, Goro
William Guanbo Su, Bonze
Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Giacomo Puccini

Madama Butterfly, Act 1

S7, Episode 12
Bronfman plays Brahms

Yefim Bronfman with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven

The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43

Johannes Brahms

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
Yefim Bronfman, piano

S7, Episode 13
A Hero’s Life

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Mikhail Glinka

Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture

Richard Strauss

Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Madeline Adkins, concertmaster

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