BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sunvalley Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sunvalley Events X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Boise BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:136468@sunvalley DTSTAMP:20260901T204743Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260727 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260821 SUMMARY:Sun Valley Music Festival DESCRIPTION:The Sun Valley Music Festival proudly announces its 42nd season \, from July 27 to August 20\, at the Sun Valley Pavilion\, in the beautifu l\, natural surroundings of Sun Valley—the country’s original destinati on ski resort. Curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale\, the 2026 summer s eason will feature the all-star Festival Orchestra—the finest musicians f rom orchestras throughout North America—performing with world-renowned gu est artists including pianists Alexander Malofeev and Orion Weiss\, violini st Gil Shaham\, baritone Benjamin Appl\, soprano Christina Pier\, and the A merican Festival Chorus directed by Craig Jessup.\\n\\nIn its 42nd season\, the Music Festival welcomes back acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss for a pair of concerts. Widely regarded as a “brilliant pianist” (The New York Tim es) with a “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post)\, Weiss will open the Music Festival’s Summer Season with Beethove n’s Piano Concerto No. 1.\\n\\nGrammy-award winning violinist Gil Shaham also returns for two programs—in the first he’ll offer Barber’s Violi n Concerto\; in the second\, he'll collaborate with Festival Orchestra musi cians to perform Beethoven’s String Quintet in A Major\, “Kreutzer.” Acclaimed pianist Alexander Malofeev—who “manifests the piano mastery o f the new millennium in itself” (Il Giornale)—makes his Sun Valley debu t playing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.\\n\\nConductor Stephanie Chil dress returns for a fourth season to lead two programs\, including Elgar’ s Enigma Variations and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1\, and Euan Shields joi ns the Festival as Associate Conductor\, conducting Ravel’s Rapsodie espa gnole and Thomas Adès’s “Inferno” from Dante. \\n\\nMajor orchestra repertoire includes Brahms’s A German Requiem featuring soprano Christina Pier\, baritone Benjamin Appl\, and the American Festival Chorus\, as well as Mahler’s titanic Symphony No. 1 in the season finale. All concerts ar e offered free of charge\, with ample seating inside the Sun Valley Pavilio n and on the lawn\, featuring a state-of-the-art big screen and sound syste m.\\nSummer Season Schedule\\nAll concerts begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted below.\\nJuly 27: Opening Night with Orion Weiss\\n\\nJuly 28: Chi ldress Conducts Beethoven\\n\\nJuly 30: Orion Weiss and Festival Musicians Play Tchaikovsky and Dohnányi\\n\\nJuly 31: Strauss and Mozart\\n\\nAugu st 1: \\n11am – 12pm | Upbeat with Alasdair\\n4pm | Advanced Chamber Music Interim Recital\\n\\nAugust 3: Stravinsky’s Firebird and Anna Cly ne’s Woman of the Mountain\\n\\nAugust 4: Childress Conducts Elgar\\n\\n August 5: Soloist Recital | 4pm\\n\\nAugust 6: \\n4pm – 5pm | Small En semble Recital\\n6:30pm – 8pm | 2026 Gala Concert: An Evening With Sutto n Foster\\n\\nAugust 7: \\n11am – 12pm | Upbeat with Alasdair– Brahms s A German Requiem\\n3pm – 5pm | Afternoon Pavilion Concert\\n6:30pm | Evening Pavilion Concert\\n\\nAugust 8: Opera Workshop Performance | 2pm\ \n\\nAugust 9: Brahms’s A German Requiem\\n\\nAugust 10: Christina Pier and Benjamin Appl Sing Lieder\\n\\nAugust 13: Alexander Malofeev Plays Pr okofiev\\n\\nAugust 14: Tan Dun’s Water Concerto\\n\\nAugust 16: Festiv al Orchestra Pops Night: The American Songbook\\n\\nAugust 17: Gil Shaham plays Barber\\n\\nAugust 18: Gil Shaham and Festival Musicians Play Beetho ven\\n\\nAugust 20: Season Finale: Mahler’s Symphony No. 1\\nClick here for a printable PDF version of the Summer Season Calendar.\\nAdditional con cert details available at www.svmusicfestival.org/summer-season\\nAttending the Concerts\\n\\n All concerts begin at 6:30 PM\, last about 1 hour\, an d are located at the Sun Valley Pavilion (300 Dollar Rd.\, Sun Valley).\\n Admission is Free. Tickets are not required. Donors of $3\,000 or more may reserve seats\, but Pavilion and lawn seating are always available to the public on a first-come\, first serve basis.\\n Free Pavilion seats are ava ilable to the public\, beginning one hour before the concert. Line up for t hese (in the shade\, by the bar\, with chairs to ease the wait) on the East Terrace. If the line looks long\, don’t give up! Unclaimed\, reserved se ats are released by 6:15 PM.\\n If seating in the lawn low-back chairs ar e a great idea.\\n\\nPre-Concert Chats\\nLocated on the lawn next to the Pa ver Bar\, these 30-minute chats offer insightful\, entertaining introductio ns to the concerts 45 minutes before most performances at the Pavilion.\\n\ \nAbout Sun Valley Music Festival\\nThe Sun Valley Music Festival’s missi on is to enrich\, inspire\, and instill in our community a lifelong love of classical music through extraordinary\, free concerts and education progra ms. Festival programs provide opportunities for people from all walks of li fe to listen\, learn\, and play. Now in its 37th year\, it is the largest p rivately supported\, free-admission orchestra in the United States.\\n\\nOv er 100 world-class musicians from North America’s most distinguished orch estras\, including the San Francisco Symphony\, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchest ra\, New York Philharmonic\, and Houston Symphony\, comprise the Festival O rchestra. Summer Season concerts are held in July and August at the spectac ular R.E. Holding Sun Valley Pavilion\, in the mountain-resort town of Sun Valley\, Idaho. Internationally renowned guest artists such as Gautier Capu çon\, Emanuel Ax\, Joshua Bell\, Yefim Bronfman\, Kristin Chenoweth\, Sera phic Fire\, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet have performed with the Festival.\\n\\n The Festival strives to introduce every Wood River Valley student to the jo ys of classical music\, to inspire the next generation of music lovers. Its year-round and summer Music Institute programs provide tuition-free instru ction for string\, piano\, and voice students of all skill levels — from elementary through high school — that goes beyond the fundamentals and em braces the entire musician. URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/sun-valley-music-festival/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR