JACKSON, Wyo. — For the 10th season, In a Landscape: Classical Music in the Wild is touring the American West. Mountain tops, old-growth forests, and sunny meadows replace the traditional concert hall in the series featuring pianist Hunter Noack on a 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano. Listen through wireless headphones and wander afield with the music as a soundtrack to your experience in the wild.
On what was once an old homestead nestled in the hills of Jackson, Wyoming, Woodbury Preserve is a magical meadow of lush willows and mature aspen trees with a view beyond to the grand Teton Range. Jackson’s Ewing and Woodbury Families have graciously hosted In a Landscape for four seasons now, celebrating the harmony of music and nature.
Noack will perform in the Woodbury Preserve on Wednesday, June 25. Tickets for that concert are available here.
Founded in 2016 by Noack, the outdoor concert series where America’s most stunning landscapes replace the traditional concert hall. A 1912 Steinway Model D concert grand piano travels on a flatbed trailer to awe-inspiring natural landscapes across the West, from national parks to urban oases.
Photos: Arthur Hitchcock for IN A LANDSCAPE
Guests are encouraged to wander and explore the surrounding environment while listening to the music through wireless headphones, creating an immersive experience that fosters a connection with the music, nature and with one another.
Noack has presented 305 concerts featuring 100 guest artists for 75,000 people, many of whom experienced live classical music for the first time. Inspired by his passions, the organization’s mission is to create experiences that connect audiences to classical music and to the great outdoors, and has inspired several artists and organizations to bring their own music experiences into nature.
Concert partner Trust for Public Land (TPL) is also dedicated to protecting treasured places like these. TPL’s work in the Gros Ventre and Wind River ranges, and in parks like Astoria Hot Springs, preserves recreation access and creates trails that link towns to nature as part of their commitment to connecting Wyoming communities to the outdoors.
The presence of ancestral tribes such as the Nimi’ (Bannock), Niitsitapi (Blackfeet), Apsáalooke (Crow), Newe (Eastern Shoshone), Aaniiih (Gros Ventre), Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) and Hinono’eino (Northern Arapaho) peoples, continues today.
