TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — Grand Teton Music Festival presents a two-night Beethoven Piano Extravaganza, this Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9.
Each night, pianist Garrick Ohlsson will perform different Beethoven concertos, along with the Festival Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.
Runnicles calls the Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle “a veritable mountain range” of instrumental accomplishment. Think of these five masterworks as musical representations of the five main Teton peaks, and then come to Walk Festival Hall to watch the incomparable Garrick Ohlsson climb them all in one weekend.
Friday, July 8 at 8 p.m.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major
Saturday, July 9 at 6 p.m.
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, “Emperor”
GTMF presents an open rehearsal at Walk Festival Hall on Friday, July 8 at 10 a.m. Tickets are $20. Grand Teton Music Festival is also hosting a pre-concert talk by Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich one hour before the concert start time in the Barbara Furrer Goodman Memorial Garden near Walk Festival Hall’s north entrance. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.
Limited tickets are available for Friday and Saturday.
These performances will be recorded for commercial release on compact disc in the spring of 2023.
