Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival - Season 8

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Melody Eötvös
The Deciding Machine (world premiere/GTMF commission)

Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition

S5, Ep. 1 - Back Home - Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven

Overture from Egmont, Op. 84
Fabien Gabel, conductor

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
James Ehnes, violin; Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

S6, Ep. 11 - James Ehnes

Mark Wigglesworth guest conducts the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Ravel La Mere, 3rd Part, Laideronette, Imperatrice Des Pagodes

Donald Runnicles conducts the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra 

Beethoven Symphony No. 8 In F Major, Op. 93 Mvt. IV: Allegro Vivace

Bernard Labadie guest conducts the Grand Teton Music Festival and mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabo stars as the soloist

Handel Ariodante Overture

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Myroslav Skoryk
Melodie
Marta Krechkovsky, violin

Dimitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

S7, Ep. 4 – Shostakovich Five

James Ehnes with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
Christian Reif, conductor

Anton Webern
Im Sommerwind
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Max Bruch
Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor, Op. 26
James Ehnes, violin; Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

S7, Ep. 5 - Bruch, Ehnes and Some Surprises

Donald Runnicles conducts the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra 


Dvorak Symphony No 9, Movement II Largo

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is back for its eighth season, celebrating GTMF's 2024 summer season at Walk Festival Hall in Jackson Hole.

Episode 1 features:

Michelle Cann with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Maurice Ravel

Piano Concerto in G Major
Michelle Cann, piano

Alborada del gracioso

Claude Debussy

Iberia from Images

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

S8, Ep 1: Lands of Riches

Welcome back for Episode 2 of Live from the GTMF with Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts!

This episode features:

Amihai Grosz with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Chamber Music with Festival musicians

Edward Elgar
Cockaigne, Op. 40, “In London Town”

Christopher Lowry
Romanza for Four Violas, Op. 15
Christopher Lowry, viola
Caroline Gilbert, viola
Lucina Horner Cosby, viola
Phillip Stevens, viola

William Walton
Concerto for Viola
Amihai Grosz, viola

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

S8, Ep 2: The Miraculous... Viola

Treats indeed! From the US premiere of Melody Eötvös' Pyramidion to Bartók's Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, the Festival Orchestra shines under the batons of Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and esteemed guest conductors.

This episode features the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra performing:

John Adams
Slonimsky’s Earbox
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Melody Eötvös
Pyramidion (US Premiere)
Juraj Valčuha, conductor

Kaija Saariaho
Ciel d’hiver
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Bela Bartók
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Juraj Valčuha, conductor

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 3: The Miraculous Mandarin and Other Treats

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
David Danzmayr, conductor

William Grant Still
Darker America

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 4: New World

Brahms and a world premiere! Experience a Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra concert performed at Walk Festival Hall in 2024, featuring Brahms' Third Symphony and the premiere of Vexierbild, a companion piece written by German composer Detlev Glanert.

This episode features:

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Detlev Glanert
Vexierbild (World Premiere)

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

S8, Ep 5: Brahms 3 and Detlev Glanert

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring pianist Anna Geniushene, is preceded by two dynamic shorter works evoking themes of infectious energy and the movement of dance, with commentary from co-hosts Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts.

This episode features:

Anna Geniushene with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
and Chamber Music with Festival musicians

Alberto Ginastera
Malambo from Estancia: Four Dances, Op. 8a
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Claude Debussy
Danse sacrée et danse profane
Ling Ling Huang, violin
Connor Chaikowsky, violin
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola
Thomas Carpenter, cello
Joseph McFadden, bass
Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Anna Geniushene, piano
Juraj Valčuha, conductor

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.


S8, Ep 7: Rach 2

Energy, joy, repose – co-hosts Sir Donald Runnicles and General Manager Jeff Counts connect chamber and orchestral works by three great composers, performed by Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra musicians.

This episode features:

Michelle Cann with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
and Chamber Music with Festival musicians

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring: Suite
Benjamin Manis, conductor
GTMF Chamber Orchestra

Adam Schoenberg
Ahava
Tomoki Iguchi, violin
Thomas Carpenter, cello
Alice Kogan Weinreb, flute
José González Granero, clarinet
Yvonne Chen, piano

George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Michelle Cann, piano
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 8: Copland, Gershwin... Schoenberg

Piano interplays with the SOLI Chamber Ensemble (featuring GTMF musicians!) and the Festival Orchestra in this week's transmission from the Grand Teton Music Festival, featuring commentary from co-hosts Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts.

This episode features:

Ingrid Fliter with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor, and Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

Kinan Azmeh
Essays on Solitude and other Ambiguous Emotions
SOLI Chamber Ensemble
Ertan Torgul, violin
David Mollenauer, cello
Stephanie Key, clarinet
Carolyn True, piano

Robert Schumann
Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
Ingrid Fliter, piano
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 9: Schumann and Azmeh

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival takes a trip to the British Isles with this week's program of works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

This episode features:

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
Christian Reif, conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D Major
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 10: From the British Isles

Experience the range of the GTMF Orchestra in this week's episode of musical 'potpourri', featuring commentary by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles, who conducted each performance, and co-host Jeff Counts.

This episode features:

Narrator Erin Roy with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 88 in G Major

Anna Clyne
This Midnight Hour

Benjamin Britten
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Erin Roy, narrator

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.



S8, Ep 11: Potpourri

Two groundbreaking composers, Jean Sibelius and Aaron Jay Kernis, feature in today's episode, with music deeply inspired by our natural environment.

This episode features:

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra

Aaron Jay Kernis
Musica Celestis
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 12: Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2

On the Season 8 finale of Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival, we're excited to share a preview of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 ahead of its future release on Reference Recordings.

This episode features:

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, Movements 1 and 2

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, Movement 3
Gail Williams, horn

Thank you for listening to Season 8 of Live from the GTMF! All episodes are now available to stream wherever you get your podcasts.

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer.

S8, Ep 13: Mahler's Symphony No. 5

Korngold - Violin Concerto - II Romanze Andante

Beethoven - Symphony No 7 - IV. Allegro Con Brio

Every summer, the Nation’s top musicians come together at the base of the majestic Teton Range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to create the incomparable Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra under the leadership of Maestro Donald Runnicles. Now in its 57th year, the Wall Street Journal has called the Grand Teton Music Festival, “One of the best places to hear classical music in the summer.” 
 
The Festival has been a hidden musical gem known only by the world’s best soloists, conductors and orchestral musicians, the residents of Jackson Hole and its visitors——until now. Building on a successful multi-year partnership with Performance Today, the Festival is embarking on its first national radio series to further share its breathtaking music making with audiences around the country. 
 
Maestro Runnicles, hailing from Scotland, has a career spanning many continents, both in the opera house and on the symphonic stage. He currently serves as General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony in addition to being Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival. He formerly served as Music Director of the San Francisco Opera for 16 years.   
 
With delightful tales and musical anecdotes from his storied career, Runnicles serves as host the of the program. He shares the mic with Andrew Palmer Todd—former public radio host, classical pianist, and CEO of the Festival. Together they bring your audience music making at its best, from the Grand Teton Music Festival.
 
The inaugural season of Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival, a new production of Classic Digital Syndications, is available now on PRX and from the CD Syndications website. The series consists of 13 one-hour programs, which are available free of charge to your station

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S1 Episode 13: Brass Spotlight

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S1 Episode 1: The Grand Teton Music Festival

Every summer, the nation’s top musicians come together at the base of the majestic Teton mountain range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to create the incomparable Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra under the leadership of Maestro Donald Runnicles.

Now in its 58th year, the Grand Teton Music Festival launches the second season of its national radio series to further share its breathtaking music making with audiences around the country.

Maestro Runnicles, hailing from Scotland, has a career spanning many continents, both in the opera house and on the symphonic stage. In addition to being Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, Maestro Runnicles currently serves as General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony. He formerly served as Music Director of the San Francisco Opera for 16 years.

With delightful tales and musical anecdotes from his storied career, Maestro Runnicles serves as host the of the program. He shares the mic with Andrew Palmer Todd—former public radio host, classical pianist, and CEO of the Festival. Together they bring your audience music making at its best, live from the Grand Teton Music Festival.

The second season of Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival, a production of Classic Digital Syndications, is available now on PRX and from the CD Syndications website. The series consists of 13 one-hour programs, which are available free of charge to your station

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S2 Episode 8: A Fantastic Symphony

S2 Episode 5: Titan

S2 Episode 4: Two Great Artists

S2 Episode 3: Composer Spotlight - Kareem Roustom

The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra performs this wonderful piece by John Williams from the movie Saving Private Ryan.

John Williams Hymn To The Fallen From Saving Private Ryan

The mission of the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is to engage, entertain, educate, and inspire our resident and seasonal communities through exhilarating musical experiences. GTMF fulfills its mission through 150 concerts, education activities and community events each year.

The main driver of GTMF’s impact is its annual summer festival held in Jackson Hole each July and August. The Festival Orchestra led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles is its heart and soul. This “super group” of more than 220 classical musicians from 75 major orchestras and 55 education institutions around the world performs eight weeks of symphonic and chamber music concerts in GTMF’s acclaimed Walk Festival Hall. 

Festival musicians also support GTMF’s community impact, widening access to music by participating in GTMF’s free education and community engagement programs. The Festival also welcomes some of the most sought-after soloists and visiting artists in classical music today.

During the summer, GTMF augments the Festival Orchestra’s concert and community programming with:

*Chamber Music Series featuring Festival musicians
*Performances by non-classical artists and ensembles
*Free community engagement programs presented by resident Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich

GTMF stays connected with people year-round through concerts in Jackson’s Center for the Arts, presentations of the Met Opera in HD, select digital programming, and free events for Jackson students.

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