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Jul 31 Friday
Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles celebrates his home islands with two distinct visions of Great Britain. Haydn’s final symphony was written and premiered in London, a city that adored him like a native son, while James MacMillan’s orchestral fantasy on patriotic British themes, Britannia, creates a “tapestry” of “surprising scenarios in the mind of the listener.” Not to be missed, violinist Maria Ioudenitch makes her GTMF debut with Mendelssohn’s “jewel of the heart,” the moving Violin Concerto.
ProgramJames MacMillan: Britannia Mendelssohn: Violin ConcertoHaydn: Symphony No. 104, “London”
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductorMaria Ioudenitch, violin
Join us in the lobby at 6 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by GTMF violinist Heather Kurzbauer. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.
Aug 01 Saturday
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.
Join us in the lobby at 5 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by GTMF violinist Heather Kurzbauer. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.
Aug 02 Sunday
Aug 05 Wednesday
Free and open to the public! Geared for listeners ages one through five, Musical Adventures provides a fun environment for children and their caregivers to enjoy music, led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Don't miss this popular program's visit to Victor, Idaho! Sponsored in part by Valley of the Tetons Library.
Aug 06 Thursday
Contrasting string quartets by Kevin Lau and Beethoven highlight the emotional range of every Grand Teton Music Festival chamber music setting. Festival Orchestra brass players share the stage with their string section colleagues in a concert that features an intoxicating mix of the familiar and the new.
ProgramMozart: String Duo No. 1 in G MajorKevin Lau: and from the heart there flows a songAndre LaFosse: Suite ImpromptuKevin Lau: String Quartet No. 7, “Surfacing”Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, No. 1
Festival musicians
Aug 07 Friday
What do a certain Austrian composer and his English counterpart have in common? Hollywood, of course! Both John Barry and Erich Wolfgang Korngold found their way to the big screens of America and their music blurred the lines between the concert hall and the movie theater. GTMF Concertmaster Madeline Adkins performs Korngold’s lush, film-inspired Violin Concerto before the Festival Orchestra concludes the program with Beethoven’s eternal and appropriately cinematic ode to nature, the “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.
ProgramBarry: Themes from Out of Africa and Dances With WolvesKorngold: Violin ConcertoBeethoven: Symphony No. 6
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductorMadeline Adkins, violin
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.
Aug 08 Saturday
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.
Aug 13 Thursday
Good things. Small packages. The 2026 Benoliel Chamber Music Series comes to a close with works by two living female composers and pieces by masters of centuries past. Nothing less than the full circle of human expression is on display in this program of miniature masterpieces.
ProgramCaroline Shaw: Entr’acteMozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat MajorAnna Clyne: Strange LoopsVaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C Minor
Aug 14 Friday
The annual tradition of opera at the Grand Teton Music Festival continues with an evening of arias, duets and orchestral interludes from none other than Giacomo Puccini, featuring soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal. These two world-class voices join Maestro Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra in this aural feast of melody and drama, but not before we see Italy through the eyes of Felix Mendelssohn, who visited the country in 1830 and set down his impressions in both musical notes and vibrant watercolors.
ProgramMendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, “Italian”Puccini: Scenes, Interludes, Arias
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductorEleni Calenos, sopranoDaniel Luis Espinal, tenor
Join us in the lobby at 6 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by GTMF violinist Hasse Borup. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.