Grand Canyon Music Festival

Grand Canyon Music Festival
is sponsored by
Grand Canyon National Park and is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts, and with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America with support from the Helen F. Whitaker Fund and the Chamber Music America Residency Endowment Funds, and WESTAF – the Western State Arts Federation, and First Nations Composer Initiative. Expansion of NACAP to Whitehorse High School in Utah is funded in part by the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional Sponsors include:

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Posters and gift items available in our online Gift Shop

All proceeds benefit the Festival.

Festival Calendar

Access to the Arts
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Casual atmosphere... casual attire!

Enjoy world-class music at a world-class venue — but leave your dress clothes at home. Escape to Grand Canyon for adventure-packed days exploring the park and enchanted nights revelling in the world's best music! Concert info

Need trip planning assistance, check out our Canyon Information page. We look forward to seeing you at the Grand Canyon this year!

Winner: Governor's Arts Award
Winner: President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .August 26, 27 and September 1, 2, 3, 9, & 10
Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, 7:30 p.m.

Congratulations Grand Canyon Music Festival!
2011 Winner — President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
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Friday, Aug. 26 & Saturday, Aug. 27

ETHEL
Concert Details & Tickets

“Extraordinarily skilled, passionate musicians”
    — The New York Times

“Vital and brilliant”
    — The New Yorker

“America's premier postclassical string quartet”
    — The New York Times

Thursday, Sept. 1

JAZZ & More... with Joe Deninzon and Stephen Benson
Concert Details & Tickets

With special guest Robert Bonfiglio.

“If the violin has a future in Jazz and Rock, it is with Joe Deninzon"
— RELIX Magazine

“As at home in the world of Grappelli and Oconnor as he is in the world of Jimi Hendrix and Steve Vai, Joe Deninzon may be our next national violin treasure!"
— Jedd Beaudoin www.seaoftranquility.com

Ordering Festival products from our Gift Shop is another way you can show your support! We offer lovely giclee and poster reproductions by artist Ed Mell, along with t-shirts, and notecards.

Support the GCMF & the Native American Composer Apprentice Project

2011 Winner — President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.

2011 Winner — President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.

Photo© Steven Purcell
Above (left to right): Clare Hoffman, Artistic Director, Grand Canyon Music Festival; Jordan Lomahoema, GCMF Native American Composer Apprentice Project student; First Lady Michelle Obama

Friday, Sept. 2 & Saturday, Sept. 3

The Catalyst Quartet
ETHEL will be joining the Catalyst Quartet on stage on Sept. 3rd.
Concert Details & Tickets

“Invariably energetic and finely burnished…The Catalyst Quartet played with an earthy vigor.”
— Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

Friday, Sept. 9 & Saturday, Sept. 10

Duo Binelli Ferman "Beyond Tango" with Clare Hoffman
Music Ambassadors of the Americas, bandoneon virtuoso Daniel Binelli and pianist Polly Ferman. Concert Details & Tickets

With Clare Hoffman, flute.

“Binelli's ability to wring melancholic sobbing and sighing out of this reedy instrument, combined with an exceptional sensitivity towards Piazzolla's melodic inspirations, is both remarkable and evocate.”
— The Australian

Bring your family and friends to the Grand Canyon for a memorable, musical get-away. Make your room reservations and travel arrangements well in advance, as accommodations inside the Park will sell out quickly.
Trip planning info

Friday, Sept. 2
5 p.m. (at the Shrine of the Ages)
School of Rock student concert
Rock along with Grand Canyon high school students in this culminating recital as they display what they learned during the week-long School of Rock with Bonfiglio Group members Stephen Benson and Joe Deninzon. Read More

Sunday, Sept. 4
4 p.m. (at the Grand Canyon Community Building)
NACAP Concert
Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Read More

We're excited about this season's stellar group of artists. Come hear performances by:
by Duo Binelli Ferman, the Catalyst Quartet, Robert Bonfiglio, Joe Deninzon, Stephen Benson, ETHEL (Jennifer Choi and Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello), & Clare Hoffman. Read Artists' Bios