Performances

On July 10, 2026, Festival Napa Valley’s Uytengsu Family Opening Night program, entitled From Beethoven to Getty to Dylan, will feature Stephanie Childress conducting the Festival Orchestra Napa, with guest artists Time for Three and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Gordon Getty’s Young America for chorus and orchestra is programed, along with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, the premiere of a concerto by Michael Thurber, and a symphonic reimagining of songs by Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, and others.  

On Friday, July 7, 2026, Festival Napa Valley presents their annual dance gala, A Night at the Ballet, featuring dancers Melanie Hamrick, Joanna DeFelice, Christine Shevchenko, and Nicholas Palmquist. Gordon Getty’s “Ewig Du,” a movement from his ballet Ancestor Suite, will be choreographed and performed on the program, which also includes highlights from Don Quixote, Diana & Acteon, and Le Corsaire, as well as the West Coast premiere of Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, set to the music of The Rolling Stones. 

Two pieces by Gordon Getty feature in a chamber music program at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. The string quintet versions of “The Fiddler of Ballykeel” and “Ewig Du,” two movements from Getty’s Four Traditional Pieces, along with Schubert’s String Quintet, will be performed by violinists Kin Lam and Sarah Worden, violist Franca Hoffmann, and cellists Jouni Susiluoto and Preston Geeting. The free concert will be presented at The Athenaeum on May 29, 2026, 8:30 PM.  No ticket is necessary.