Live from the

Grand Teton Music Festival

Hosts Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts

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Programs are 59 minutes and include a 30 second music bed at the end. Stations have the option to fade out at 58:30 and insert local announcements or underwriting at the station break or end of show.

Every summer, the nation’s top musicians come together at the base of the majestic Teton Range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to create and all-star Festival Orchestra for the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra under the leadership of Maestro Donald Runnicles. The Wall Street Journal has called the Grand Teton Music Festival, “One of the best places to hear classical music in the summer.”

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is now in its seventh year. The 2024 edition of the radio series is co-hosted by Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts and comes to you free of carriage fees. This year’s edition includes appearances by:

Madeline Adkins - Jader Bignamini - Yefim Bronfman - Gregory Clinton - Stéphane Denève - James Ehnes - Caroline Gilbert - José González Granero - Laura Ha - Marc-André Hamelin - Sue Heineman - Jerry Hou - Ling Ling Huang - Jennifer Humphreys - Conrad Jones - Kimi Kawashima - Stephanie Key - Marta Krechkovsky - Anna Kruger - Thomas Lehman - Allegra Lilly - Megan Marino - Ana Maria Martinez - Jessica Mathaes - Thalia Moore - Holly Mulcahy - Kelley O’Connor - Christopher Oglesby - Garrick Ohlsson - Christian Reif - Rodell Rosel - Adelle Eslinger Runnicles - Maria Semes - William Buanbo Su - Alisa Weilerstein

This year’s series provides a sampling of the first-ever commercial recording project for the festival, the Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Garrick Ohlsson and conductor Donald Runnicles. These incredible performances were recorded in stereo and surround sound in the wonderful acoustics of Walk Festival Hall for Reference Recordings. The radio series presents Concerto No. 1 from this set.

In another first, the series has excerpts from the first staged opera presentation at the festival, La Bohème, with Nicole Cabell and Jose Simerilla Romero in the title roles. We also premiere Idyllium by Detlev Glanert, and showcase Keija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver and Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps. Augustin Hadelich plays unforgettable performances of both the Ravel Sonata and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto.

Also, the series presents Act 1 from its production of Madama Butterfly, with Ana Maria Martinez and Christopher Oglesby in the title roles. In addition, Kelley O’Connor sings the world premiere of The Clustered Vine: Songs of Love, Loss and Remembrance by Kareem Roustom.

There are performances that are not to be missed. Marc-André Hamelin gives us a remarkable performance of Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. James Ehnes joins Donald Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra for a sublime Bruch Violin Concerto No.1. Yefim Bronfman joins the Festival for an epic Brahms Piano Concerto No.1. And Sue Heineman brings her beautiful bassoon sound to the rarely heard Concerto for Bassoon by Mozart.

Finally, Donald Runnicles conducts sublime performances of the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, the Mendelssohn “Scottish” Symphony and Richard Strauss’ masterpiece, Ein Heldenleben.

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is packed with performances that you will not want to miss!

The Grand Teton Music Festival is one of the world’s finest summer music festivals. Our radio series gives you the opportunity to offer these outstanding performances to your radio audience free of charge. The series includes insightful commentary by Festival Music Director Donald Runnicles and his friend and co-host, Jeff Counts. Jeff is an accomplished writer who has also hosted a film review show seen and heard throughout the West, and he serves as General Manager of the Grand Teton Music Festival.

Maestro Runnicles’ career spans many continents, both in the opera house and on the symphonic stage. He serves as General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Principal Guest Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in addition to being Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival. He regularly guest conducts orchestras all over the world. Prior to his post in Berlin, he served as Music Director of the San Francisco Opera for 16 years.

The series consists of 13 one-hour programs, which are available free of charge to your station. This series is available for broadcast Jan 1, 2024 and has a broadcast window of two years. Each show is 59 minutes with one floating break. There is a 30 sec music bed at the end for local promotion.