July 27, 2025 - August 21, 2025
Sun Valley Music Festival
Thank you for a memorable 2024 Summer Season!
Save the dates for 2025: July 27 – August 21
Attending the Concerts
- All concerts begin at 6:30 PM, last about 1 hour, and are located at the Sun Valley Pavilion (300 Dollar Rd., Sun Valley).
- 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.
- Free Pavilion seats are available to the public, beginning one hour before the concert. Line up for these (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 seats are released by 6:15 PM.
- If seating in the lawn low-back chairs are a great idea.
Concerts Details can be found at www.svmusicfestival.org/summer-season/
Pre-Concert Chats
Located on the lawn next to the Paver Bar, these 30-minute chats offer insightful, entertaining introductions to the concerts 45 minutes before most performances at the Pavilion.
About Sun Valley Music Festival
The Sun Valley Music Festival’s mission is to enrich, inspire, and instill in our community a lifelong love of classical music through extraordinary, free concerts and education programs. Festival programs provide opportunities for people from all walks of life to listen, learn, and play. Now in its 37th year, it is the largest privately supported, free-admission orchestra in the United States.
Over 100 world-class musicians from North America’s most distinguished orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Houston Symphony, comprise the Festival Orchestra. Summer Season concerts are held in July and August at the spectacular R.E. Holding Sun Valley Pavilion, in the mountain-resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho. Internationally renowned guest artists such as Gautier Capuçon, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, Kristin Chenoweth, Seraphic Fire, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet have performed with the Festival.
The Festival strives to introduce every Wood River Valley student to the joys of classical music, to inspire the next generation of music lovers. Its year-round and summer Music Institute programs provide tuition-free instruction for string, piano, and voice students of all skill levels — from elementary through high school — that goes beyond the fundamentals and embraces the entire musician.
