Community Calendar

Celebrate the holiday season with award-winning vocalist and pianist Tony DeSare’s return to the Tetons. DeSare brings his fresh take on old-school class to the seasonal tunes you know and love like Deck the Halls, Let it Snow and more. Don’t miss this festive Jackson Hole tradition with the Grand Teton Music Festival!

Named a Rising Star Male Vocalist in Downbeat magazine, DeSare has lived up to this distinction by winning critical and popular acclaim for his concert performances throughout North America and abroad. From jazz clubs to Carnegie Hall, DeSare has brought his fresh take on old school class around the globe. DeSare has three top ten Billboard jazz albums under his belt and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, NPR, A Prairie Home Companion, the Today Show and more.

Jackson Hole Classical Academy warmly invites the community to gather as our students present classical Christmas music and poetry recitations that reflect the wonder and hope of the holiday.

This year, we are especially delighted to welcome you onto our beautiful new campus, a space we are grateful to share with the Jackson Hole community. Come enjoy an evening of reflection, artistry, and festive cheer with Jackson Hole Classical Academy.

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts this live cinema transmission, part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, presented in Jackson Hole by the Grand Teton Music Festival.

Crowd-favorite woodwind quintet WindSync returns to the Grand Teton Music Festival for an evening of world-class chamber music. Featuring works by Mozart, Phillip Glass, Nadia Boulanger and more, the quintet imbues classic and modern works with their infectious energy and virtuosic musicianship.

Versatile and vibrant, the musicians of WindSync “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts), showing off the uniquely wide-ranging sounds of the wind quintet. WindSync’s charismatic and personal performance style, combined with a three-pronged mission of artistry, education and community-building, lends the group its reputation as “virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too" (Alison Young, Classical MPR).

WindSync is Garrett Hudson (flute), Noah Kay (oboe), Graeme Steele Johnson (clarinet), Anni Hochhalter (horn) and Kara LaMoure (bassoon).

Strauss’ elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. The Grand Teton Music Festival presents this live cinema transmission as part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cinderella is presented with an English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Maestro Emmanuel Villaume leads a delightful cast, which includes mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as Cinderella’s Prince Charming, soprano Jessica Pratt as her Fairy Godmother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and bass-baritone Laurent Naouri as her feuding guardians. The Grand Teton Music Festival presents this cinematic Encore revival from the Metropolitan’s 2021-22 Live in HD series.

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). The Grand Teton Music Festival presents this live cinema transmission as part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Epic Horizons will close out our 75th concert season, featuring guest violinist Aubree Oliverson, who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Oliverson is a young American violinist proving to be one of the most compelling artists of her generation. Praised for her evocative lyricism and joyful, genuine approach, Oliverson is acclaimed as a “masterful” soloist, with recent solo appearances including the Chamber Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, the Utah Symphony, the Peace Orchestra Project, and the Ridgefield Symphony, featuring a pairing of the Barber and Esmail violin concertos.