Grand Canyon Music Festival

The 41st Season

August 30 – September 14, 2024

Thank you to everyone for another great season!

We’ll see you in 2025!

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August 30 and 31, 2024
Nicholas Johnson and Friends
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September 1, 2024
Native American Composer Apprentice Project
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Brendan Speltz
September 6 and 7, 2024
Manhattan Chamber Players
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September 13, 2024
The Bonfiglio Group
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September 13, 2024
School of Rock
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Karlos
September 14, 2024
Cellist Karlos Rodriguez of the Catalyst Quartet and friends.
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All concerts at The Shrine of the Ages, unless otherwise noted.
20 South Entrance Road, South Rim, Grand Canyon.

This season we celebrate the life and art of GCMF’s dear friend Ed Mell, whose extraordinary Grand Canyon paintings are the image of the Grand Canyon Music Festival.

While at the Grand Canyon, join Grand Canyon Conservancy for the 16th Annual Celebration of Art (CoA), September 7-15th! CoA invites participating artists to paint "en plein air" (outside on location) for a week at the South Rim. Paintings produced during this special event are sold onsite and sales benefit a dedicated art venue at the park. For more information visit grandcanyon.org/coa.
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Our Ed Mell posters and note cards, including our 40th season and centennial posters, are available for sale on our web site.

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  • Raven Chacon

    Teaching composer and mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project Raven Chacon was recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2023 and was recently named a MacArthur Fellow.

    Congratulations, Raven, and well deserved!

    Join us on August 30th, as Nicholas Johnson, Grant Houston, Bengisu Gokce, and Jay Julio perform Chacon’s “Journey of the Horizontal People.”
    Raven Chacon

  • NACAP

    Celebrate with us the achievements of this year’s cohort of Native American Composer Apprentice Project apprentice composers.

    On September 1st at 5:00 at the Shrine of the Ages, Nicholas Johnson, Grant Houston, Bengisu Gokce, and Jay Julio will premiere 2024’s NACAP works.
    NACAP

  • Robert Bonfiglio

    Grand Canyon Music Festival co-founder Robert Bonfiglio continues to expand the possibilities of the harmonic, with friends Steve Bensen, guitar, and Mark Berman, Iano, on September 13th.
    Robert Bonfiglio

  • Bengisu Gokce

    Turkish born and raised Bengisu Gokce, violinist, is known for combining her Turkish roots with Eastern-European and Middle-Eastern traditions. In addition to working with our 2024 Native American Composer Apprentice Project apprentice composers and performing with colleagues on our opening weekend, we will be premiering her own composition “Inspiration” on August 30th.
    Bengisu Gokce
    Join us in Thanking our Corporate and Foundation Friends.
    The Grand Canyon Music Festival is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment
    for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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