Schedule:

Monday, July 29, 2024

6:30 p.m: Opening Night with Meechot Marrero
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Chamber Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Meechot Marrero, Soprano

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

John Stafford Smith
The Star-Spangled Banner

Timothy Higgins
Fanfare
Commissioned by the Sun Valley Music Festival
World Premiere

Various
Ms. Marrero will perform a selection of favorite songs and arias

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, Classical Symphony

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

6:30 p.m: Piazzolla’s Four Seasons and Mozart’s Linz Symphony
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Chamber Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Stephanie Childress, Conductor
Juliana Athayde, Violin

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Astor Piazzolla
Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, Linz

Thursday, August 1, 2024

6:30 p.m: Meechot Marrero and Festival Musicians play Schubert
Sun Valley Pavilion
Chamber Concert
Meechot Marrero, Soprano
Susan Warner, Clarinet
Peter Henderson, Keyboard
Milana Elise Reiche, Violin
Chris Tantillo, Viola
Emileigh Vandiver, Cello
Stephen Tramontozzi, Bass

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Franz Schubert
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock), D. 965

Franz Schubert
Quintet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, and Piano in A Major, D. 667, Op. 114, Trout

Friday, August 2, 2024

6:30 p.m: Andy Akiho’s Cello Concerto
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Chamber Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Andy Akiho
Concerto for Cello
Co-Commissioned by the Sun Valley Music Festival
World Premiere

George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Sunday, August 4, 2024

6:30 p.m: (Many of) Classical Music’s Greatest Hits
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Stephanie Childress, Conductor

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

John Williams
Olympic Fanfare and Theme

Johann Strauss, Jr.
An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op.314

Richard Wagner
The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Gioachino Rossini
Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell)

Maurice Ravel
Boléro

Monday, August 5, 2024

6:30 p.m: 2024 40th Anniversary Gala: An Evening with Yo-Yo Ma
Gala Concert
Monday, August 5, the Sun Valley Music Festival is thrilled to announce that Yo-Yo Ma will join Music Director Alasdair Neale and the Festival Orchestra for an unforgettable Gala concert in celebration of the Festival’s 40th Summer Season. The performance will be the Sun Valley debut of the celebrated cellist, who is one of the most acclaimed artists of our time.  He will perform Antonín Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B Minor.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

6:30 p.m: Sir Stephen Hough with Festival Musicians
Sun Valley Pavilion
Chamber Concert
Sir Stephen Hough, Piano
Jeremy Constant, Violin
Polina Sedukh, Violin
Adam Smyla, Viola
Amos Yang, Cello

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Cécile Chaminade
Étude de concert, Op.35, No. 2, Automne

Sir Stephen Hough
Sonatina Nostalgica
 
Antonin Dvo?ák
Quintet No. 2 in A Major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 81

Thursday, August 8, 2024

6:30 p.m: Sir Stephen Hough plays Grieg
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Sir Stephen Hough, Piano
Alex Orfaly, Timpani

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Gabriela Ortiz
Antrópolis

Edvard Grieg
Concerto in A Minor for Piano, Op. 16

Sunday, August 11, 2024

6:30 p.m: Mahler’s Symphony No. 6
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.6 in A Minor, Tragic

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

6:30 p.m: Beethoven’s Triple Concerto
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Stephanie Childress, Conductor
Jeremy Constant, Violin
Amos Yang, Cello
Peter Henderson, Keyboard

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Jessie Montgomery
Strum

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Concerto in C Major, Op.  56, Triple

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

6:30 p.m: Leonidas Kavakos plays Brahms
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, Violin

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Quinn Mason
A Joyous Trilogy

Johannes Brahms
Concerto in D Major for Violin, Op. 77

Saturday, August 17, 2024

6:30 p.m: Pops Night –Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark Live In Concert
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, Conductor

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert
John Williams’s score performed live-to-film by the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra

Monday, August 19, 2024

6:30 p.m: Four Sea Interludes and the Organ Symphony
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Stephanie Childress, Conductor
Jonathan Dimmock, Organ

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No.3 in C Minor, Op.78, Organ Symphony

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

6:30 p.m: Garrick Ohlsson in Recital
Sun Valley Pavilion
Chamber Concert
Garrick Ohlsson, Piano

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Frederic Chopin
Nocturne in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1
Nocturne in B Major, Op. 9, No. 3
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
Fantaisie in F Minor, Op. 49
Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29
Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3
Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 31

Thursday, August 22, 2024

6:30 p.m: Season Finale: Rachmaninoff and the Pines of Rome
Sun Valley Pavilion
Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, Conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, Piano

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 p.m
Lawn Paver Bar

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Ottorino Respighi
I pini di Roma (The Pines of Rome)

Date: July 29 - August 22, 2024

Location:

Sun Valley Pavilion
300 Dollar Road
Sun Valley, ID 83353

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