July 28 - August 21
Sun Valley Music Festival
The Sun Valley Music Festival proudly announces its landmark 41st season, from July 28 to August 21, at the Sun Valley Pavilion. Curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale, the 2025 summer season will feature the all-star Festival Orchestra—the finest musicians from orchestras throughout North America—performing with world-renowned guest artists including pianist Gabriela Martinez, Time for Three, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and pianist Olga Kern.
In its 41st season, the Music Festival welcomes back the Grammy-winning and genre-defying group Time for Three. The trio will perform a new concerto written for them by composer Mason Bates and co-commissioned by the Music Festival. Bates describes the work, titled Silicon Hymnal, as “an electro-acoustic book of songs.”
Stephanie Childress returns for a third season as Associate Conductor, leading several performances including Haydn’s Symphony No. 80, Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2. Major orchestral repertoire also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, and a season finale featuring Richard Strauss’s suite from Der Rosenkavalier. All concerts are offered free of charge, with ample seating inside the Sun Valley Pavilion and on the lawn, featuring a state-of-the-art big screen and sound system.
This year the Festival welcomes acclaimed pianist Gabriela Martinez to open the season with Mozart’s popular Piano Concerto No. 20. Cellist Gautier Capuçon returns to Sun Valley for a pair of concerts, one featuring Elgar’s haunting Cello Concerto and the other offering Schubert’s Cello Quintet with Festival musicians. Olga Kern, the only woman to have won the Gold Medal in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in more than thirty years, makes her Sun Valley debut performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
This summer, the Music Festival celebrates Ravel’s 150th birthday with a program offering two of his Miroirs, his Valses nobles et sentimentales, and his Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé. For the annual Pops Night, conductor Jacomo Bairos, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble, brings a program of Latin-inspired dance music to the Sun Valley Pavilion
Summer Season Schedule
July 28th: Opening Night with Gabriela Martinez
July 29th: Haydn and Stamitz
July 31st: Gabriela Martinez and Festival Musicians Play Brahms
August 1st: Beethoven 4 and Anna Clyne
August 4th: Time for Three Play Mason Bates
August 6th: 2025 Gala Concert: SIMPLY EXTRAORDINARY…Yuja Wang
August 7th: Schumann, Beethoven, and Márquez
August 10th: An Evening of Ravel followed by Lawn Party
August 12th: Gautier Capuçon Plays Elgar
August 13th: Brahms Symphony No. 4
August 14th: Gautier Capuçon and Festival Musicians Play Schubert
August 16th: Festival Orchestra Pops Night: Latin-Inspired Dance Music with Jacomo Bairos
August 17th: Olga Kern Plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
August 18th: Olga Kern and Festival Musicians Play Beethoven
August 21st: Season Finale: An Evening of Richard Strauss
See the 2025 Concerts schedule at www.svmusicfestival.org/events
2025 Gala: Simply Extraordinary…Yuja Wang on August 6 – Click here to purchase tickets
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.
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.
Additional concerts Details can be found at www.svmusicfestival.org/summer-season/
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.
