Scroll down for the 2009 Grand Teton Music Festival Summer schedule, including Chamber & Spotlight Concerts, Festival Orchestra Concerts and free Community Concerts:
Chamber & Spotlight Concerts
Tuesdays: Inside the Music
July 7, 14, 28 and August 4, 11 @ 8:00pm
Hosted Chamber Music Concerts
Scratch your musical itch, set aside your fears, and satisfy your curiousity about classical music at FREE hosted concerts on Tuesday evenings! Only 75 minutes long, these casual and interactive performances let our Festival Musicians and special guests take you on an exhilerating and user-friendly ride into the story behind the music.
Wednesdays: Spotlight Concerts
July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and August 5, 12 @ 8:00pm / $40, $10 Students
From crossover performances to recitals by visiting star soloists, Spotlight Concerts are an eclectic offering in the midst of the Festival's renowned classical fare.
July 1: Time for Three July 29: The Gypsies
July 8: Treasure for the Baroque August 5: An Evening With... Thomas Hampson,
July 15: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Lynn Harrell, Donald Runnicles
July 22: Magnificent Mendelssohn August 12: Colcannon
Thursdays: Picnic Concerts
July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 13 @ 8:00pm / $25, $10 Students
Thursday nights feature Festival Musicians performing the finest of the classical music repertoire with unexpected appearances by special guest artists, and the occassional debut of new compositions written by the musicians themselves. A pre-concert picnic is included in the ticket price to enjoy mountainside before the concert!
Sundays at The Center
August 2 & 9 @ 8:00pm / $40-50, $10 Students
Two of the Festival's popular jazz and big band concerts will be offered in downtown Jackson at the Center for the Arts!
August 2: Movin' Downtown with Richard Brown
August 9: Fresh Tracks - Jazz Standards Made New with Pam and Keith Phillips
June
27 Saturday, 6:00 pm Event: Donor
Jackson Hole Wine Auction - Champagne Cheers at Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
28 Sunday, 5:30 pm Event: Donor
Jackson Hole Wine Auction - Auction and Gala Dinner at Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole
July
1 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
TIME FOR THREE at Walk Festival Hall
2 Thursday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
OPENING CONCERTS at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
The Festival's 2009 Summer Season opens with guest conductor Thomas Wilkins leading the Festival Orchestra with the brilliant Taiwanese virtuoso Cho-Liang Lin on hand to perform Prokofiev's fiery Second Violin Conerto. This courageous, brilliant composer survived the Soviet system to create compelling masterpieces--not only 7 symphonies, but legendary film scores of the 20th century.
3 Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
OPENING CONCERTS at Walk Festival Hall
4 Saturday, 3:00 pm Concert: Free Community Concerts
Music in The Hole at Alpine Field: FREE
The Grand Teton Music Festival celebrates the 13th anniversary of the beloved annual outdoor Fourth of July celebration, Music in the Hole. The daylong picnic-style concert at Alpine Field culminates in a performance by the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra led by guest conductor Thomas Wilkins with opera diva Christine Brewer singing patriotic favorites, and features local talent throughout the day up until the orchestra concert.
7 Tuesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Free Music Tuesdays
INSIDE THE MUSIC: Hosted Chamber Music at Walk Festival Hall: FREE
8 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
BAROQUE AND BEYOND at Walk Festival Hall
9 Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Chamber Music Picnic Concerts
CHAMBER CLASSICS PICNIC CONCERT at Walk Festival Hall
10 Friday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
11 Saturday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Walk Festival Hall
An expert in 18th-century style, guest conductor Nicholas McGegan joins the Festival Orchestra for a program that celebrations the 200th birthday anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn whose incidental music for the great Shakespeare work, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is on the program alongside two other masters celebrating anniversaries this year: Haydn and Handel.
14 Tuesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Free Music Tuesdays
INSIDE THE MUSIC: Hosted Chamber Music at Walk Festival Hall: FREE
15 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
LOS ANGELES GUITAR QUARTET at Walk Festival Hall
16 Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Chamber Music Picnic Concerts
CHAMBER CLASSICS PICNIC CONCERT at Walk Festival Hall
17 Friday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
ODE TO JOY at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
Beethoven's celebratory 9th Symphony--with its beloved "Ode to Joy" melody that resounds the world over--is performed here on a grand scale to suit the mountainside, led by Festival Director Donald Runnicles. The San Francisco Festival Chorale (under the leadership of Ian Roberston) and four renowned singers--soprano Twyla Robinson, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, tenor Frank Lopardo, baritone Eric Owens--collaborate with the Festival Orchestra for this spectacular event.
18 Saturday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
ODE TO JOY at Walk Festival Hall
21 Tuesday, 6:15 pm Concert: Free Community Concerts
6:15 MUSIC MACHINE: Carnival of the Animals at Walk Festival Hall: FREE
A perennial favorite of the Festival audiences, the 6:15 Music Machine returns this year under the direction of our very own Music Director Donald Runnicles. Join the Music Machine (Festival Orchestra) for a special performance of the very whimsical Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens. Listen as different instruments from the Orchestra depict each of the featured animals in the music. 6:15 Music Machine is a free, all-ages concert recommended for ages 3 and up.
22 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
MAGNIFICENT MENDELSSOHN at Walk Festival Hall
23 Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Chamber Music Picnic Concerts
CHAMBER CLASSICS PICNIC CONCERT at Walk Festival Hall
24 Friday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
ROMANCE & HARMONY at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
Music Director Donald Runnicles commands the Festival Orchestra in a uniquely provocative program that opens with Norman Krieger performing the gorgeous resonances of Brahms' beloved Piano Concerto No. 2--a geniune blockbuster mastered by only the greatest virtuosos. For witty surprises and rhythmic thrills, the program features Harmonielehre by John Adams, long on the top rung of living American composers.
25 Saturday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
ROMANCE & HARMONY at Walk Festival Hall
28 Tuesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Free Music Tuesdays
INSIDE THE MUSIC: Hosted Chamber Music at Walk Festival Hall: FREE
29 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
THE GYPSIES at Walk Festival Hall
30 Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Chamber Music Picnic Concerts
CHAMBER CLASSICS PICNIC CONCERT at Walk Festival Hall
31 Friday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
OSMO GOES WEST at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
A conducting sensation from Finland and current music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska commands worldwide attention for his concerts and recordings. Now making his Grand Teton Music Festival debut with the brilliant, young Yevgeny Sudbin in Rachmaninoff's popular Piano Concerto No. 1, Maestro Vanska also brings a masterpiece by his homeland's most famous composer: the Second Symphony of Jean Sibelius, a score whose beauty and breadth are a match for our Wyoming mountains.
August
1 Saturday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
OSMO GOES WEST at Walk Festival Hall
2 Sunday, 8:00 pm Concert: Sundays at the Center
SUNDAYS AT THE CENTER: Movin' Downtown with Richard Brown at Center for the Arts
4 Tuesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Free Music Tuesdays
INSIDE THE MUSIC: Hosted Chamber Music at Walk Festival Hall: FREE
5 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
AN EVENING WITH...Thomas Hampson, Lynn Harrell, and Donald Runnicles at Walk Festival Hall
6 Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Chamber Music Picnic Concerts
CHAMBER CLASSICS PICNIC CONCERT at Walk Festival Hall
7 Friday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
POETRY & FANTASY at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
Music Director Donald Runnicles--also a world-renowned opera conductor--returns with America's finest baritone, Thomas Hampson, brining the great poetry of America's Walt Whitman to the concert hall in John Adams' The Wound Dresser. Completing the exciting program will be the most dramatic and innovative of early Romantic symphonies, the obsessively thrilling Symponie fantastique by Hector Berlioz, whose theatricality intensifies the colorful symphony orchestra.
8 Saturday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
POETRY & FANTASY at Walk Festival Hall9Sunday, 8:00 pm Concert: Sundays at the Center
SUNDAYS AT THE CENTER: Fresh Tracks at Center for the Arts
11 Tuesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Free Music Tuesdays
INSIDE THE MUSIC: Hosted Chamber Music at Walk Festival Hall: FREE
12 Wednesday, 8:00 pm Concert: Spotlight Concerts
COLCANNON, An Evening of Celtic Music at Walk Festival Hall
13 Thursday, 8:00 pm Concert: Chamber Music Picnic Concerts
CHAMBER CLASSICS PICNIC CONCERT at Walk Festival Hall
14 Friday, 10:00 am Concert: Open Rehearsals
OPEN REHEARSAL at Walk Festival Hall
Friday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
A PREMIERE ENDING at Walk Festival Hall: $50 / $10 Students
Donald Runnicles and the 101-member Festival Orchestra, joined by a Festival favorite and friend, cellist Lynn Harrell, close the brilliant 2009 Summer Season with the world premiere of a Festival commission: a brand new piece for cello by one of America's most lyric and accessible composers, Minnesota-based Stephen Paulus. To conclude a resplendent season: the enthralling "Alpine Symphony" of Richard Strauss, whose colorful score highlights every instrument in the vast orchestra as it takes the listener on a virtual alpine hike--an homage to our very own Teton mountains.
15 Saturday, 8:00 pm Concert: Festival Orchestra Concerts
A PREMIERE ENDING at Walk Festival Hall