The Grand Teton Music Festival Announces The 2020 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition

By Dejan Vukosavljevic
(Image Source: Donald Runnicles Official Website)

The Grand Teton Music Festival has announced the 2020 Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition.

The scholarship competition is open to high school seniors from Wyoming, Idaho and Montana who intend to pursue degrees in music (classical, jazz, or other) at an accredited four-year college with a music program recognized by the National Association of Schools of Music, or a conservatory with a widely recognized national profile such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, or the New England Conservatory.

Donald C. Runnicles is the General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, as well as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Runnicles is also Conductor Emeritus of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, having served as its Chief Conductor from 2009 to 2016.

In 2018 Donald Runnicles was announced as the first ever Principal Guest Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Donald Runnicles recently conducted Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin,” Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” and Janáček’s “Jenůfa” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others.

The 2020 competition will take place on Saturday, June 6, 2020.

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