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 pianist Jason Hardink — and to join the Festival Orchestra on Friday and Saturday for Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles conducts the program that also includes Glinka’s “Ruslan and Lyudmila” Overture and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10.
Hadelich’s intense and heartfelt playing has captivated GTMF audiences since his first visit in 2015.
Prokofiev’s second violin concerto is a “wild roller-coaster,” Hadelich said. “It’s really thrilling and energetic … very Russian.”
But because he finished it in Spain, it also has Iberian touches, like castanets.
