• 2026 Winter Season: Featuring Benjamin Beilman in Concert With Alasdair Neale and Festival Musicians

    Argyros Performing Arts Center 120 Main St South, Ketchum, ID, United States

    The 2026 Winter Season features guest curator and violinist Benjamin Beilman. Praised for his passionate performances and distinctive tone — which The New York Times described as  “muscular with a glint of violence” — Mr. Beilman last performed with Music Director Alasdair Neale and the Festival Orchestra in 2018, playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. An accomplished chamber musician, he'll join forces with Festival Orchestra musicians.

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  • 2026 Winter Season: Featuring Benjamin Beilman in Concert With Alasdair Neale and Festival Musicians

    Argyros Performing Arts Center 120 Main St South, Ketchum, ID, United States

    The 2026 Winter Season features guest curator and violinist Benjamin Beilman. Praised for his passionate performances and distinctive tone — which The New York Times described as  “muscular with a glint of violence” — Mr. Beilman last performed with Music Director Alasdair Neale and the Festival Orchestra in 2018, playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. An accomplished chamber musician, he'll join forces with Festival Orchestra musicians.

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  • 2026 Winter Season: Featuring Benjamin Beilman in Concert With Alasdair Neale and Festival Musicians

    Argyros Performing Arts Center 120 Main St South, Ketchum, ID, United States

    The 2026 Winter Season features guest curator and violinist Benjamin Beilman. Praised for his passionate performances and distinctive tone — which The New York Times described as  “muscular with a glint of violence” — Mr. Beilman last performed with Music Director Alasdair Neale and the Festival Orchestra in 2018, playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. An accomplished chamber musician, he'll join forces with Festival Orchestra musicians.

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  • Opening Night with Orion Weiss

    Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United States

    Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is actually the second one he composed – scholars speculate that he chose to publish it first in order to knock the socks off his Viennese audience. He almost certainly accomplished that: in 1798, this would have been the biggest concerto ever performed in terms of orchestra size, and the piano cadenza in the first movement alone is incredible. Orion Weiss brings this brilliant, virtuosic, and playful piece to life with the Festival Chamber Orchestra. A miniature masterpiece by Gioacchino Rossini (of Barber of Seville fame) opens the program–the festive overture to his opera The Silken Staircase.

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