Community Calendar

Opening night of the Festival Orchestra Series features not one but two popular monuments of the orchestral canon. Montana native and 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition winner Tanner Jorden returns to the Grand Teton Music Festival to perform Rachmaninoff’s timeless and melodically rich Second Piano Concerto. Rounding out the program is Tchaikovsky’s dramatic symphonic reckoning with the immensities of fate.

Program
Key: Star Spangled Banner
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Tanner Jorden, piano – 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship winner

Join us in the lobby at 6 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Opening weekend of the Festival Orchestra Series features not one but two popular monuments of the orchestral canon. Montana native and 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition winner Tanner Jorden returns to the Grand Teton Music Festival to perform Rachmaninoff’s timeless and melodically rich Second Piano Concerto. Rounding out the program is Tchaikovsky’s dramatic symphonic reckoning with the immensities of fate.

Program
Key: Star Spangled Banner
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Tanner Jorden, piano – 2021 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship winner

Join us in the lobby at 5 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Folk influences, a heartfelt literary connection and some inventive instrumentation make this suite of pieces a fascinating expansion of the typical chamber music soundworld. Don’t miss this chance to hear from GTMF musicians who don’t always get to share the spotlight.

Program
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 in G Major
Kevin Lau: A Simple Secret
Brahms: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano in E-flat Major

Festival musicians

Beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces. In contrast to Mozart’s meaningful late utterance are two more youthful works by important 20th century icons – a playful literary overture by American Samuel Barber, The School for Scandal Overture, and an incredibly precocious college graduation project by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Symphony No. 1.

Program
Barber: The School for Scandal Overture
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
José González Granero, clarinet

Join us in the lobby at 6 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces. In contrast to Mozart’s meaningful late utterance are two more youthful works by important 20th century icons – a playful literary overture by American Samuel Barber, The School for Scandal Overture, and an incredibly precocious college graduation project by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Symphony No. 1.

Program
Barber: The School for Scandal Overture
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
José González Granero, clarinet

Join us in the lobby at 5 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with true Jackson Hole spirit! The Festival Orchestra, led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles, brings the wide-open landscapes of the American West to life in a rousing program of classical Western tunes, including Copland’s Rodeo, excerpts from Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite, Young’s Shane Suite and more.

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Deposit tickets are available for this event. Tickets with your seating assignment will be issued and sent at a later date.

The Festival Orchestra is the heart of GTMF. While Walk Festival Hall is renovated, join us for a special night of classical favorites overlooking the Hall on Teton Village Commons, led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles. Tap your feet and dance along to Dance of the Hours, selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite and more.

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Deposit tickets are available for this event. Tickets with your seating assignment will be issued and sent at a later date.

Punch Brothers, formed in 2006, are a virtuosic quintet featuring mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Brittany Haas. Known for pushing the boundaries of acoustic music, the band has garnered critical acclaim, including a GRAMMY® for Best Folk Album for All Ashore (2018). These trailblazers in contemporary acoustic music bring “bluegrass to its next evolutionary stage, drawing equal inspiration from the brain and the heart.” – The Washington Post

Over the years, they’ve become pioneers in modern string music, with albums like Antifogmatic (2010), Who’s Feeling Young Now (2012) and The Phosphorescent Blues (2015) showcasing their genre-defying sound. Rolling Stone praised their work as “wild virtuosity used for more than just virtuosity,” cementing their reputation as trailblazers in contemporary acoustic music.

Gear up for the concert at 5:30 PM on the Center for the Arts Lawn at the Community Bluegrass Jam, a free event co-led by GTMF’s Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich and Teton Music School’s Clay Humphrey!

Join Festival musicians and Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich as they present a musical fairy tale for all ages. Composer Kevin Lau tells the story of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale on a program with selections from Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons, featuring violinist Maria Ioudenitch, and a world premiere by Festival musician & composer José González Granero.

Program
Kevin Lau: The Nightingale
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Selections
José González Granero: Hojoki (World Premiere)

Festival musicians
Maria Ioudenitch, violin
Meaghan Heinrich, narrator

The Wyoming Sheep & Wool Festival is an annual event that moves across the state of Wyoming. Join us for workshops, demonstration, dinners, tours, art & woolcraft shows, a vendor fair, and live music celebrating the sheep and wool industries, their communities, and culture, in Wyoming. In 2026, the Festival will be held in Powell, WY at the Park County Fairgrounds in Powell, WY.