Community Calendar

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. Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich leads programs that are accessible to all ages and bring music to life with explanations and demonstrations.

Percussion Extravaganza: Everything you can strike, shake, or scrape takes center stage for this exciting program featuring the GTMF percussion section. From ragtime to Latin jazz, get ready for a world of sounds like no other. Join us for the fourth year of our partnership with the Teton Village Association’s Alive@5 series! Before and after, enjoy the Jackson Farmer’s Market in Teton Village!

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.

Program
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat Major
Anna Clyne: Strange Loops
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C Minor

Festival musicians

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.

Program
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
Puccini: Scenes, Interludes, Arias

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Eleni Calenos, soprano
Daniel 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.

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.

Program
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
Puccini: Scenes, Interludes, Arias

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Eleni Calenos, soprano
Daniel Luis Espinal, tenor

Join us in the lobby at 5 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.

Appalachian Spring

Jackson Hole Chamber Music, The Center and Dancers’ Workshop join forces to present an evening of chamber music featuring Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” a ballet born from the American soil. Its folk hymns, open skies, and the joyful story of a young couple starting life on the frontier have made this one of America’s most beloved works. Complementing Copland’s masterpiece are works by Viet Cuong, Shelley Washington, and Arthur Foote, music that spans the full range of the American chamber tradition and makes this one of the most anticipated evenings of the fall season.

Repertoire:
Viet Cuong: Fine Lines
Shelley Washington: MIDDLEGROUND for string quartet
Arthur Foote: Night Piece
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Dancers: Charlotte Landreau, Michaela Ellingson, Fran Romo

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.