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Invest The Festival Orchestra is the heart of our identity. This

was a key—but not a surprising—finding of GTMF’s
recent strategic planning process. Through interviews,
in Festival focus groups, and surveys of musicians, Board members,
staff, donors, and patrons, the organization’s primary
assets are clear. Over and over, people identified

Orchestra the excellence of the Festival Orchestra and the
leadership of Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles
as GTMF’s greatest strengths.

Musicians Scores of musicians have been performing with the
Festival for decades. Many use time off from high-profile
positions at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York
Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and others
to make music with us.

Players become recharged and inspired during their time
in the Tetons. That makes GTMF special. The Festival is
a place where musicians rediscover the joy of playing
and find new meaning in the music. When they leave,
they take that renewed spirit with them to 75 orchestras
and 55 institutions of higher learning in cities around the
world, from Austin to Auckland, Boston to Berlin.

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