Tippet Rise Art Center Announces Its 2025 Concert Series Lineup
Signup for drawing to buy tickets opens Tuesday, March 18 at Noon Mountain Time
News from Tippet Rise Art Center
The crew at Tippet Rise Art Center are excited to announce the 2025 concert season at Tippet Rise, taking place over five weekends from August 15 through September 14. The season features over 50 musicians performing programs that include two world premieres, a Tippet Rise commission, and five co-commissions. Performances take place inside the Olivier Music Barn and outdoors at the Domo, the Geode, and among works of art.
“Summer at Tippet Rise is a time of magic. The magic of music. The magic of nature. The magic of art. And, most importantly, the magic of a community which appreciates the indescribable combination of all three,” shared co-founders Cathy and Peter Halstead. “We cannot wait for June, when visitors will once again come from near and far to join us in a vast space where the enormous Montana sky mirrors the rolling plateaus and canyons of our Cretaceous landscape, complete with music!”
“This season celebrates music in dialogue with nature, from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Copland’s Appalachian Spring to Gabriella Smith’s Aquatic Ecology inspired by ocean ecosystems and Angelica Negron’s Marejada,” shared artistic advisor Pedja Mužijević. “We are also proud to present an incredibly wide range of artists, from rising stars to the most renowned virtuosos, sharing music with some of the most curious audiences anywhere.”
How to Register for the Concert Ticket Drawing
Concert tickets are available through a randomized drawing, for which registration is required. The registration period opens on our website on Tuesday, March 18 at 12:00 PM Mountain Time and closes on Monday, April 7 at 12:00 PM Mountain Time. Drawing winners will be selected at random on Tuesday, April 8 and notified by email that day. Beginning at 10:00 AM Mountain Time on Wednesday, April 9, winners may purchase up to four tickets to one performance or divide their tickets among multiple performances. Concert tickets are $10 each for adults, free to anyone 21 and under. Registration for the drawing is limited to one entry per person.
In addition to scheduled performances, pop-up concerts take place throughout the five weekends of the music season. Pop-up programs are free-of-charge, and open to all guests of the art center.
2025 Concert Season Overview
Week One (August 15-17) of the concert season features a celebration of chamber music ranging from 18th century Venice and 19th century Vienna to 21st century New Zealand and Puerto Rico. Musicians for the weekend include violinist Benjamin Beilman, bassoonist Monica Ellis, flutist Brandon Patrick George, violist Jordan Bak, cellist Jay Campbell, as well as first time Tippet Rise performers, including violinists Lun Li, Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, and Melissa White, violist Emma Wernig, cellist Bryan Cheng, bassist Lizzie Burns, and clarinetist Yoonah Kim. They are joined by Pedja Mužijević on piano and harpsichord, who also curated the programs throughout the weekend. The season’s inaugural concert features Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons interspersed with recorded sounds of nature and works for strings by Angélica Negrón and Kenji Bunch. Other programs include works by contemporary composers Salina Fisher, Andy Akiho, and Guillaume Connesson, as well as waltzes by Lanner and Strauss, Schubert's "Trout" Quintet, and Copland’s quintessential Appalachian Spring.
Week Two (August 22-24) begins with the debut of pianist Asiya Korepanova performing Rachmaninoff’s complete Études-Tableaux, followed by the acclaimed sextet chamber ensemble yMusic, making its Tippet Rise debut in an outdoor program at the Domo. The program includes a performance of Aquatic Ecology, a Tippet Rise co-commission by trailblazing composer Gabriella Smith that is inspired by ocean ecosystems and provides a point of dialogue on climate change. The weekend concludes with pianist Clayton Stephenson performing a varied program of works by Albéniz, Gershwin, Price, Stravinsky, and an arrangement of Over the Rainbow by Keith Jarrett.
Week Three (August 29-31) starts with the Viano Quartet performing alongside Sir Stephen Hough, playing Schumann’s String Quartet in A Major and Hough’s own recent piano quintet (Les Noces Rouges). Other highlights of the weekend include violinists Angela Chan and Aubree Oliverson, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, cellist Zlatomir Fung, and pianist Chaeyoung Park performing works by Beach and Dohnányi, with Oliverson and Park also performing the world premiere of Two Pastorals for Violin and Piano by Valentyn Silvestrov, the ninth of ten works commissioned by the art center from Silvestrov. On Sunday, Stephen Hough gives a solo recital – his fourth at the art center – of a mixed program of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg, Schubert, Schumann, Stockhausen, and his own arrangement of the Sherman Brothers’ Mary Poppins Suite. The weekend concludes at the Geode—Tippet Rise’s open-air acoustical structure and performance venue—with string players Angela Chan, Aubree Oliverson, Hsin-Yun Huang, and Zlatomir Fung playing works by Dohnányi, Dobrinka Tabakova, and Telemann.
Week Four (September 5-7) includes pianist Inon Barnatan making his Tippet Rise debut with his lauded solo transcription of Symphonic Dances, Rachmaninoff’s last major orchestral piece. Pianist Alexander Ullman makes his Tippet Rise debut with works by Grieg and Liszt on Sunday, September 7. The popular Wander concert format also returns this season with Montana-based vocal group Roots in the Sky, led by Andrew Major. Performers and audience members will move to different locations throughout the main Cottonwood Campus during the program, including to the Tiara Acoustic Shell, Daydreams/Cursive Takes a Holiday, Xylem, and the Olivier Music Barn.
Week Five (September 12-14) includes pianists Anna Geniushene and Lukas Geniušas playing works by Ligeti, Schubert, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Pianist George Li offers a recital including works by Price, Schumann, and excerpts from Stravinsky’s Petrushka. The season concludes with string quartet Brooklyn Rider’s debut, performing a program that commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and explores questions of citizenship and democracy in the 21st century. Co-commissions include new works by Don Byron and Ted Hearne, and the world premiere of Our Children Speak English and Spanish – composed by Angélica Negrón – which examines the complexities of Puerto Rican American citizenship, shaped by colonization, imperialism, and racialization. The fourth co-commission is by Brooklyn Rider’s Colin Jacobsen, who puts his unique spin on the Bob Dylan civil rights era classic, The Times They Are A-Changin’.
For more information on the concert season programs, please visit the Events page of our website.
Hiking, Biking, and Sculpture Van Tours of the Art Center
Tippet Rise opens on June 20 for hiking, biking, and sculpture van tours of its monumental outdoor artworks on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Registration opens on Wednesday, April 9 at 10:00 AM Mountain Time.
Among the sculptures installed throughout the landscape is the first bronze work at Tippet Rise – Bronze Bowl with Lace by Ursula von Rydingsvard. Standing at 19.5 feet tall, the sculpture’s patina of rusty red, yellow, gold, and green hues seems to absorb and reflect the changing colors of the seasons surrounding it. We cannot wait for visitors to experience it this summer.
Self-guided hiking and biking tours are free for everyone. Sculpture van tours are priced at $10; free to those 21 and under.
The Tippet Rise Art Center Team hopes to see you this year!
