Community Calendar

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.

Join Atlanta Symphony Principal Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson for an evening of transcendent beauty. Renowned for her tireless advocacy for women composers, Johnson brings the harp’s delicate resonance into the warmth of a home environment. This unique opportunity to witness the greatness of a true orchestral legend firsthand is not to be missed.

Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp

Thank you to our hosts for this Teton House Concert, Charles & Michele Goodman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.