Community Calendar

Beloved Festival Orchestra member Conrad Jones moves from the brass section to the front of the stage to perform Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, one of the finest concertos ever written for the instrument, and the only one Haydn ever wrote. In contrast to Haydn’s singular piece are two 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
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Conrad Jones, trumpet

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.

GTMF will host the 9th Annual Scholarship Competition in honor of Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles. The competition is open to graduating high school seniors from Wyoming, Idaho or Montana who are pursuing a music degree in college.

Learn more about the Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition at gtmf.org/scholarship.

New in 2026, GTMF is partnering with the Downtown Driggs Association's Downtown Sounds series for a night of free classical music!

In partnership with the Driggs Downtown Sounds Concert Series, this special collaboration between the Grand Teton Music Festival and the Teton Valley Chamber Music Festival will feature a string quartet and five vocalists. Celebrate the beauty of opera with solo arias, duets, instrumental interludes, and a combined grand finale!

Free and open to the public! On the Road brings live classical music to audiences in Teton County and surrounding communities through free concerts performed by Festival Orchestra musicians and hosted with our community partners.

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.

Free and open to the public! On the Road brings live classical music to audiences in Teton County and surrounding communities through free concerts performed by Festival Orchestra musicians and hosted with our community partners.

This event is sold out. To join the waitlist, please call the Box Office at 307.733.1128.

Festival musicians David Coucheron (Concertmaster, Atlanta Symphony), Susan Gulkis Assadi (former Principal Viola, Seattle Symphony), and Silver Ainomäe (Associate Principal Cello, Minnesota Orchestra) come together for an intimate program of string trios. These exceptional artists offer an unfiltered look at the passion, interplay and elegance that define world-class chamber music.

David Coucheron, violin
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola
Silver Ainomäe, cello

Thank you to our hosts for this Teton House Concert, Carolyn Vaughan & John Massucco.

These one-of-a-kind social and musical experiences include a cocktail hour, performance and time to mingle with world-class musicians. The address for this concert’s venue will be shared with ticket holders prior to the event.

Free, registration required! Join GTMF musicians at the Teton Raptor Center for a performance featuring chamber music and other works inspired by nature's endless groove.

Reeds and Raptors: Meet a feathered friend, then hear the soaring sounds of GTMF’s oboe and English horn trio in the beautiful barn loft of the Teton Raptor Center. Learn what makes these instruments so special and how spectacular they sound when they come together!

Join us at 2:45 PM for a bird meet & greet.

This event is free, but parking is limited – registration required.

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

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.

Program
James MacMillan: Britannia
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, “London”

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Maria 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.