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.

Founded in 1963, Seattle Opera is a leading American opera company. The company presents the classics of the European repertoire as well as new works of American opera. Frequent productions of Wagner's RING, beginning in 1975, established the company's worldwide reputation. Seattle Opera usually presents five opera productions each year.

The stage is dark, but the conversation is just beginning. Welcome to Utah Symphony | Utah Opera's Ghost Light podcast, a behind the curtain look into the world of classical music and opera and the artists who make it. Hosted by Jeff Counts and Carol Anderson. Produced and edited by Robert Bedont.

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Composer, professor, London-based New Yorker

Robert Debbaut has led orchestras throughout the United States as well as in Central and North America, Asia and Europe, including the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Filharmonia Sudecka (Poland), Hartford Symphony, International Symphony Orchestra (Canada),  Kharkiv Philharmonic (Ukraine), Milwaukee Symphony, North Bohemian Philharmonic, Russia’s Great Novgorod Philharmonie, Saint Petersburg Classic Orchestra, and Yaroslavl Symphony, the San Juan Symphony, Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra, Utah Opera, Utah Symphony, and the National Symphony of Guatemala where he has been a frequent guest during the past two decades.  He studied with Maurice Abravanel, Neeme Järvi, Gustav Meier and Helmuth Rilling and was in the last conducting class of Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Center.  Robert Debbaut holds the degree Doctor of Musical Arts from the prestigious University of Michigan
 A composer and arranger as well, Dr. Debbaut’s recent works for orchestra include “Great New City, Flight, Running, and Suicide Requiem for chorus and orchestra, as well as “A Trilogy of Joy” on poems by Sara Teasdale for SSAA Chorus and piano, and Concertino for Flute, String Quintet, and Piano. He has also arranged the music of Mozart as well as Ukrainian Viktor Kosenko, Afro-Cuban virtuoso Joseph White, and Afro-Caribbean virtuoso Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. His first book, “Mrs. Beach’s Symphony, an American Original” was published in October of 2016.

Every culture has a sound. Each week, the San Francisco Symphony’s CURRENTS podcast explores the Bay Area’s rich mosaic of musical communities through the lens and voices of its creators and citizens. Hosted and curated by conductor Michael Morgan, and in conversation with San Francisco Symphony musicians, local artists, and personalities, CURRENTS takes a look at the changing perspectives for symphony orchestras today. Taking cues from the community, what does moving forward sound like for us? 

 

This is also the home of the Symphony’s free Program Note Podcast Series, hosted by KDFC’s Rik Malone, which highlights great works performed by the Orchestra in recent seasons. 

For more information visit www.sfsymphony.org and sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS

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