Recorded in a tractor barn in Colorado’s Vail Valley in 2006, The Himalaya Sessions takes listeners on a journey through music and words, with Peter performing works by a range of composers that each mean a great deal to him.
We are delighted to announce the full 2026 concert season at Tippet Rise and the opening of the concert ticket drawing registration, starting today through Monday, April 6 at 12:00 PM Mountain Time!
Yulianna Avdeeva receives a ‘Diapason d'or de l’année’ for Chopin: Voyage
We are delighted to share a preview of the 2026 season. From June 19 to October 4, visitors can once again enjoy hiking, biking, and van tours to experience the large-scale artworks installed within the landscape, including two new works this
We’re thrilled to share the first two tracks from cellist Camille Thomas and pianist Julien Brocal’s new album RENDEZ-VOUS.
Mother Nature set the perfect rhythm for our season, with snow falling on the sculptures on opening day in June and again on the final day for hikers and bikers in October.
It’s always bittersweet as the concert season draws to a close—but we’re delighted to have additional programs in store.
Summer updates and the 2025 concert season begins
It has been a busy “mud season” at Tippet Rise as we await the official opening of our 2025 season on June 20.
Registration is now open for hiking, biking, and sculpture van tours of Tippet Rise during the 2025 season!
Tickets for the 2025 concert season, taking place over five weekends from August 15 through September 14, are available through a randomized drawing, for which registration is required.
We are excited to share full program details of the 2025 concert season at Tippet Rise, taking place over five weekends from August 14 through September 15.
There is already so much to look forward to in Tippet Rise’s tenth concert season occuring August 15 – September 14.
As we approach the holiday season, we are delighted to share a preview of the 2025 summer programs at Tippet Rise.
We are delighted to share several recordings and writing projects by Tippet Rise co-founder Peter Halstead, which are now available in the Music Download Library.
Recorded in the Olivier Music Barn at Tippet Rise in February of 2024 and released by PENTATONE, “Chopin: Voyage” features pianist Yulianna Avdeeva fourteen years after her victory at the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition.
This year the art center is reopening the first two weekends of October for hiking and biking, allowing guests to take advantage of the cooler temperatures and changing colors of the season.
On Saturday, August 17, Tippet Rise inaugurated the art center’s newest outdoor performance space – the Geode – with a concert by cellist Arlen Hlusko. Having joined us during the concert seasons of 2019 and 2022, we were thrilled to welcome her back
As we prepare to welcome musicians and guests over the next five weeks, there are several new ways to visit Tippet Rise.
Summer is off to a wonderful start at Tippet Rise! Visitors have joined from as far away as Germany, and as close as just down Nye Road. It is a joy to see so many children taking full advantage of the art center’s acreage while school, and the sun,
Cue the sunshine and songbirds – the 2024 summer season kicks off today! As we welcome our first hiking, biking, and sculpture van tour guests, we invite you to read about several new tours, programs, and events, all of which offer different ways to
Today marks the release of the debut album by chamber music collective Decoda, a self-titled record marking their 10th anniversary as an ensemble.
We are delighted to share six new episodes as part of Relevance of Place, an online film series that invites artists, architects, designers, and creative thinkers to explore the meaning of “place” as a global, local, and personal concept, as well
While it is hard to beat the excitement of this week’s total solar eclipse, we are also thrilled that registration is now open for hiking, biking, and sculpture van tours of Tippet Rise during the 2024 summer season!
We are delighted to announce complete program details of the 2024 concert season at Tippet Rise. Taking place over five weeks from August 16 to September 15, the season features more than 30 musicians performing a range of engaging programs,
During the winter months, much of the 12,500 acres that encompasses Tippet Rise goes into dormancy, but the quietness of the land does not necessarily reflect the energy of the work taking place in and around it.
As we approach the year’s end and reflect upon this season, we are especially grateful for the many ways in which Tippet Rise is closely connected to the surrounding community.
As we enter this season of gratitude, we feel fortunate for the many connections forged at Tippet Rise, including of course those among art, music, nature, and poetry – but also the magical ways that the art center brings people together. We are
In 2017, Tippet Rise invited a group of recent graduates from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), to come to Montana and create a series of poetry films with us.
Boris Giltburg joined us in August 2022 for a week-long residency at Tippet Rise to record the composer’s String Quartet No. 3.
The great iconoclast and performer Russell Sherman, my teacher, died on September 30th.
We were delighted this year to host one very special guest from Cork, Ireland. As part of Poetry Ireland’s International Residency Program, Róisín Kelly spent the past ten days at Tippet Rise exploring the region, participating in community events,
Tippet Rise expresses sympathy for the recent events in Israel and Gaza and extends the deepest wish for peace.
After three months, the 2023 season concluded on Sunday as excitedly as it began – with a deeply moving recital and hikers and bikers enjoying their last moments among the artworks and landscape. Each summer our team is honored to welcome guests who
A highlight of this summer’s concert season is the debut of the new Wander series, which moves musicians and audiences between different works of art installed at the art center.
We are honored to have recently acquired, The Soil You See…, by the artist Wendy Red Star. Born in Billings, Montana and raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation, Wendy Red Star’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of
While the concert season has yet to begin, we have been enjoying a beautiful symphony created by the sounds of summer at Tippet Rise – laughter among visitors, gravel beneath the feet of hikers and bikers, a warm summer breeze blowing through tall
Tippet Rise co-founder Cathy Halstead and her husband Peter have always shared a fascination with the invisible underpinnings of existence, such as supernovas, microscopic organisms, DNA spirals, the trompe-l’oeil of ocular phenomena; her paintings
Today marks the start of the 2023 summer season at Tippet Rise! The rolling hills and valleys are as green and lush as ever right now, and we are thrilled to welcome guests for hiking and biking, sculpture van tours, and self-guided tours of the
We are thrilled to release the first eight films as part of Relevance of Place, an online series of site-specific dialogues that explore the meaning of place at Tippet Rise Art Center.
Springtime is a wonderful time of year to engage in art and education programs and can be one of the most exciting and busiest for our education team, led by Beth Korth, Art Education and Visitor Center Manager, with Jenny Van Ooyen, Visitor
We are excited to welcome guests back for tours of Tippet Rise beginning June 16! Registration is now open for hiking and biking, sculpture van tours, and our latest offering – Cottonwood Campus self-guided tours.
We are delighted to announce the complete program details of our 2023 concert season. Taking place over five weeks, from August 18 to September 17, the season features an exciting roster of debut and returning artists performing dynamic repertoire,
Poetry Ireland recently announced five recipients of its International Residency, titled “I bhFad i gCéin,” and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of this program as a residency host.
Starting today, January 26, we are delighted to share a new poetry film series – Above Strands of Earth: Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation at Tippet Rise. This project was created in partnership with our sister organization, the Adrian
As we greet the winter solstice, our corner of Montana is hushed with snowfall and bitter cold, nature’s way of telling us our year is coming to an end. And what a year it has been! As our parting gift for 2022, we are delighted to share several new
As we approach the end of the year, we are delighted to be able to share with you a preview of the 2023 summer season at Tippet Rise Art Center, which will run from June 16 – September 17, as well as several exciting ways you can interact with the
We have been privileged to host four brilliant musicians over the past several months for recording and film projects at Tippet Rise Art Center, all of which will be available to download, listen to, or watch in the coming months.
We are excited to partner with some fantastic arts organizations and artists this fall for two upcoming public programs; Tippet Rise on Tour: Imani Winds at Storm King Art Center AND Montana Shakespeare in the Parks’ winter tour.
Over the past 15 weeks, we have been thrilled to welcome guests to our beautiful corner of Montana for an exciting season of art, music, and nature at Tippet Rise, and we are so grateful to everyone who played a role in creating this magical summer.
While the weather in Montana over the past few weeks has oscillated from extreme highs to lows, the 2022 concert season at Tippet Rise has left us living happily on cloud nine. It is hard to believe that the music season is more than halfway through.
Beginning this Friday, guests at Tippet Rise will have the opportunity to purchase lunch or dinner prepared by our second culinary partner of the summer – the Red Lodge-based PREROGATIvE KITCHEN. Co-owned by the husband-and-wife team Gena Burghoff
After more than a year of planning, and the assistance of many individuals (from professional art handlers to community volunteers), we are so thrilled that all four of our new artworks have been fully installed throughout the ranch.
As we celebrate the reimagining of Patrick Dougherty’s Daydreams at Tippet Rise, we thought it would be a good time to focus on those tendrils emerging from the schoolhouse, like the thoughts of schoolchildren playing hookey…
On August 20 and 21, Montana InSite Theatre (MIST) will lead several small audience groups on guided hour-long walking tours to locations throughout Tippet Rise’s main Cottonwood Campus, in a joint program titled “A piece of work: Shakespeare on the
Long summer days have a bad habit of going by far too quickly, especially with so much activity at the ranch. It is a good reminder to take a moment to pause and reflect on the memorable moments we have had so far, and the many exciting ones to come.
From July 1 – August 21, visitors to Tippet Rise will have the opportunity to purchase an assortment of grab n’ go items from our culinary partner, Samurai Sue’s Everyday Foods
This past weekend, rapid snowmelt caused by unusually warm temperatures, combined with periods of heavy rainfall, led to unprecedented flooding throughout south-central Montana. Many of our neighboring communities were affected including Fishtail,
In just one week, we will open the front gates at Tippet Rise Art Center and welcome visitors for a much-anticipated summer season of art, music, exploration, and what we hope will be memorable, impactful, and fun experiences.
We were thrilled to host over 30 elementary school students from the neighboring towns of Nye, Fishtail, and Luther at Tippet Rise in a program led by Montana Shakes!, featuring an exciting day of theatrical play.
As we strengthen our commitment over the next few years to the great luxury of hearing music outdoors, we’d like to say that it all started with Marlboro.
While the saying goes “April showers bring May flowers,” in Montana and much of the Mountain West, you are more likely to find that the daffodil or tulip that bloomed yesterday will be covered in snow today.
We are so happy for our friend James Florio, who has been named this year’s recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute’s Excellence in Photography Award. We are fortunate and honored to have him as an artist-in-residence at Tippet Rise Art Center.
Tippet Rise’s 2022 concert season will take place over five weeks from August 26 to September 25, 2022. The season offers a broad range of music including performances of more than 50 works and 15 concerts by some of the most sought-after artists
We are immensely happy for our friend Francis Kéré who has been named the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in the village of Gando in Burkina Faso, he is the first African and the first Black architect to win the prize, which
We are thrilled to announce details of the 2022 concert season at Tippet Rise Art Center! The five-week season, August 26 – September 25, features the performances of more than 50 works and 15 concerts by internationally acclaimed artists. Concert
Now, more than ever, as we witness the tragic suffering of the Ukrainian people under violent attack in their own homes, and as the world unites against this injustice, we think of how art also brings us together.
Enjoy this performance of Alik, the eight-year-old son of our dear friend, pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, performing for the first time with a professional orchestra.
Our most recent project with Luther School students was to highlight the artworks of Tippet Rise artists Patrick Dougherty and Stephen Talasnik, and to encourage the young artists to make their own woven and nature-inspired works of art.
We have so much to look forward to this year. In addition to the return of live music and our seventh concert season, 2022 will also bring four new sculptures to the Tippet Rise collection, including works by Ensamble Studio, Mark di Suvero, Ai
As the shortest day of the year approaches, we delight in the winter light and the landscape cast in snow. We also take pleasure in thoughts of summer, particularly this coming summer because it means the return of live music to the art center!
Of all the wonderful moments this Christmas, this gives us the most special feeling.
This month’s podcast episode explores the inner workings of what some of us would say is the heart of the Olivier Music Barn: the recording studio, where our audio engineers capture the classical music performances that take place in the barn…
Before ever visiting Tippet Rise in person, filmmaker Hamid Shams used cutting edge technology and his vast and cinematic imagination to create Land & SkyThe Inspiration of Tippet Rise…
During her three-week residency at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild, Beth Korth created an installation that will remain a permanent part of the 26-acre park…
On Thursday, October 7, we streamed a beautiful performance by pianist Adam Golka and the Ariel String Quartet. Although the initial stream is over, the concert remains available to watch on-demand for free…
We invite you to explore Site Sounds, a growing collection of “soundscapes” from Tippet Rise…
Established in Toronto in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet quickly earned contest prizes and acclaim and was soon performing hundreds of concerts around the world…
Tippet Rise on Tour: August Festival may be over, but the concerts remain available to stream!
First streamed on August 12, 2021, this online concert features pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, called by The Telegraph “one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century"…
What a thrill it is to collaborate with our sister organization, the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, to offer a new experience at Tippet Rise: a poetry installation within Daydreams…
First streamed on July 15, 2021, the Escher String Quartet’s virtual performance of Franz Schubert’s transcendent String Quartet No. 15 in G Major D. 887 remains available to watch on-demand for free…
We hope you will join us for our four-day classical music extravaganza, Tippet Rise on Tour: August Festival…
First screened online on Thursday, June 10, A Flight of Winds remains available to watch online…
In August 2019, the JACK Quartet gave an extraordinary performance in the Olivier Music Barn. The concert streamed online for the first time on Thursday, May 6, but it remains available to watch anytime, anywhere, for free…
At Tippet Rise, Ensamble Studio is known for creating three of the nine monumental sculptures and architectural structures that are scattered across the land. Published by MAS Context, Radical Logic explores the firm’s first twenty years …
Tippet Rise on Tour: Spring Festival premiered the weekend of April 16, but the festival’s films remain available to stream on-demand for free…
We are so pleased for our friend Francis Kéré who has been named the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist in Architecture…
The great Catalan composer, Antón García Abril, heir to the Calabria of Granados, Albéniz, deFalla, and Soler, died last Wednesday in Madrid. His warmth, kindness, openness, and generosity will be with us forever.
We are pleased to announce highlights of the 2021 season at Tippet Rise, which will include opening the art center for hiking and biking while continuing to offer virtual concerts, films, and conversations…
In September, a celebration of the works of the Irish playwright, author, and folklorist Lady Augusta Gregory opened on the grounds of Galway’s Coole Park…
In April 2011, at nearly 13,000 feet above sea level, Peter Halstead, Co-Founder of Tippet Rise, donned a Yeti costume on the snow and ice-encrusted edge of Marcus Baker Peak in Alaska…
This past weekend, the wonderful pianist Pedja Muzijevic, who is also Tippet Rise’s Artistic Advisor, played Mozart’s 9th Piano Concerto live with the Billings Symphony…
Our online events remain available to enjoy at your convenience, including Ingrid Fliter’s beautiful performance of Chopin’s Nocturnes, which first streamed on Thursday, February 4, 2021…
Of pianist and composer Michael Brown, The New York Times said he is “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers”…
In September of 2019, the Anderson & Roe piano duo gave a spectacular performance at Tippet Rise…
The Co-Founder of Tippet Rise, Peter Halstead, shares stories about his fifty-year journey playing and recording music, on this month’s episode of the Tippet Rise Podcast…
Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva sent three films for our audiences to enjoy in these final days of 2020…
Pianist Boris Giltburg offers two films for postcards numbers 5 and 6 of 21 to ‘21…
From an empty auditorium near Lisbon, Portugal, the Ukranian pianist and YouTube star, Valentina Lisitsa, plays Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor for our third postcard of 21 to ‘21…
In the spring of 2020, we reached out to each of the musicians who would have performed at Tippet Rise this summer, our fifth season of classical music and sculpture tours, with a request…
December’s episode of the Tippet Rise Podcast features interviews of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams and the members of the acclaimed JACK Quartet…
Organized in collaboration with our sister organization, the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, and In-Na-Po, Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place remains available to stream on our website…
It’s our goal to share our performances with everyone, even if you missed them at the time. The sound and the camera work will make you feel like you were there. So even during this difficult time, we can still be together…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Adam Golka, an extraordinary pianist and our friend, on the recent release of his solo recording, Volume 1 of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas…
Julien Brocal created Jardin Musical last spring, when concert halls began shuttering and musicians around the world were faced with the prospect of…
The design of the Olivier Music Barn at Tippet Rise was inspired by extraordinary concert halls around the world, particularly small halls with enveloping acoustics…
Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa Molina, of Ensamble Studio, have created the Domo, Beartooth Portal, and Inverted Beartooth Portal for Tippet Rise, extraordinary structures shaped by prehistory and by the geologic nature of the land.
October’s episode of the Tippet Rise Podcast features interviews of geologists Dr. Sarah Friedman and Dr. John Weber illuminating the ancient history of this beautiful land…
For several years now, the noted architectural photographer James Florio has trained his lens on the landscape, sculptures and structures of Tippet Rise…
Here at Tippet Rise, nature and art interweave, inspiring us, teaching us. When we attend a Family Concert or wander through Patrick Dougherty’s Daydreams, we are reminded that learning takes place not only within the classroom, but…
August’s Tippet Rise Podcast episode explores the grasslands that comprise and surround Tippet Rise and includes conversations with some of its stewards…
With so many of us working from and spending more time at home, what better way to enjoy music than as if you were right in a concert hall? We are excited to launch a new project today—the Music Downloads Library…
We invite you to enjoy world-class music in the comfort of your living room through our new online concert series, Tippet Rise & Friends at Home…
This month’s podcast episode, based on an essay by the art center’s co-founder, Peter Halstead, takes listeners on a deep-dive exploration of the “inextricable links” of art, music, architecture, and nature at Tippet Rise…
The artist Christo died at his home in New York City on May 31st. He was 84.
A treasure trove for poetry lovers, the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s new website features a growing archive of works by celebrated poets of history alongside great contemporary writers…
The Tippet Rise team collaborated to create this episode, reading poetry and excerpts of essays by a wide range of writers…
Our hope this spring has been to offer beauty, hope, and comfort to listeners of the Tippet Rise Podcast. May’s podcast episode, produced by our Music Programs and Podcast Coordinator, Zachary Patten, features recordings of six extraordinarily moving concerts from past seasons at the art…
Julien had planned to return to Tippet Rise for another residency this spring, but like so many of us, he is sheltered at home…
“Va, pensiero” from Verdi’s Nabucco was played simultaneously in a hundred living rooms around the country, conducted live from his own living room by the Met’s conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin…
We had other plans for this month’s episode of the Tippet Rise Podcast, but as the world shifted, we decided to change course…
Mark di Suvero, the creator of two large-scale works at Tippet Rise, is often inspired by poetry, with specific poems informing the works he creates.
During challenging times, the resonant notes of beloved music can soothe our anxious minds and provide sustenance for our souls…
Since launching its new website, Tippet Rise’s twin foundation, the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, has continued to add to its collection of films of actors reading poetry in Montana, Ireland, England and New York
Here is Alik Sudbin in the Jurassic Era, attracting a diverse audience.
Inspiration and music from friends around the world…
During the latest episode of the Tippet Rise podcast, we explore nature through the lens of wildfire and forest ecology—and we explore the connections between these natural phenomena and the community of people that inhabit this region…
We are thrilled to announce our fifth summer of classical music performances at Tippet Rise! The seven-week season, from July 10 through August 29, will feature almost thirty new and returning artists…
We are excited to announce our partnership with Red Lodge’s celebrated eatery, PREROGATIvE Kitchen…
Francis Kéré’s new structure for Tippet Rise officially opened to the public in early-July of last year…
For last month’s episode of the Tippet Rise podcast, Production Coordinator Zack Patten interviewed the French pianist and composer Julien Brocal. This month’s episode is a continuation of the conversation…
From July 10 through August 29, Season Five at Tippet Rise will bring accomplished artists and up-and-coming stars to Fishtail to perform more than four centuries of repertoire…
With the holiday season upon us, we wish to express our gratitude…
Recently, Julien was invited back to Tippet Rise for a three-week residency. The plan was this…
If you know the tiny town of Fishtail (population 474, according to the 2010 census), you know that its general store is not just a place to pick up a half gallon of milk or a copy of the weekly newspaper…
The pianist Jenny Chen has performed at Tippet Rise each year since the 2016 inaugural season. In the process, she has built an adoring and devoted audience in this region…
The creator of the large-scale yellow cedar and steel sculpture for Tippet Rise, Satellite #5: Pioneer, will present at the Emerson Cultural Center in Bozeman this Tuesday…
For the third consecutive year, students and faculty from Montana State University’s Honors College presented music and poetry in the Olivier Music Barn at Tippet Rise…
We were so honored to host the crew from one of the most-watched news programs on American television…
On the first Thursday of every month, we release a new episode of the Tippet Rise Podcast, and each episode explores a facet, or facets, of the art center’s mission…
Today, a short film produced at the art center premiers online after appearing in film festivals internationally. Written and directed by Matthew McKee, “The Hive” features Stephen Talasnik’s stunning architectural structure, Hive…
Thanks to partnerships with the National Theatre and Glyndebourne opera, both in the UK, as well as Montana’s own Shakespeare in the Schools, Tippet Rise is extending its calendar of cultural events into October…
An excited audience gathered in the Absarokee Elementary School gymnasium on Thursday, September 5, but it wasn’t for a basketball game…
When the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams met the members of the JACK Quartet, he was inspired, at age 58, to write his first string quartet, The Wind In High Places…
Jenny Chen is modest, sincere, and exuberantly playful…and she was all of these things while performing a recent concert for children and their families at Tippet Rise…
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a group of about twenty people gathered in the dappled light of Xylem to participate in a reading of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar…
On a beautiful Saturday evening in early August at Tippet Rise, the JACK Quartet performed the world premiere of Lines Made By Walking (String Quartet No. 5) by the American composer, John Luther Adams…
The latest episode of the Tippet Rise podcast explores the creation of a new pavilion at the art center designed by Francis Kéré…
The Yellowstone Art Museum has named the Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation “Foundation Philanthropist of the Year” for 2019…
After two years in the imagining and the making, Diébédo Francis Kéré’s new structure for Tippet Rise officially opened to the public on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in mid-July…
In the summer of 2018, three musicians traveled to Tippet Rise to perform together, playing works by Mozart, Gubaidulina, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Tchaikovsky and others. Our latest podcast, From Far-Reaching Places, shares a wide-ranging
On Friday, July 5, the art center opened for its fourth summer of hiking, biking, and sculpture tours, classical music concerts, art workshops, and other events…
“Two Pianos in One" invites listeners into the Olivier Music Barn to a conversation that took place between three extraordinarily talented (and, as it turns out, extraordinarily funny) musicians…
On a recent Saturday, twenty-one young music students arrived at Tippet Rise to perform before a full house in the Olivier Music Barn…
The May edition of the Tippet Rise podcast shares a conversation between the art center’s cofounder, Peter Halstead, and the celebrated French pianist and composer, Julien Brocal…
Since last September, Tippet Rise Art Education Coordinator Beth Huhtala has spent many days on the road, visiting the region’s elementary and middle schools…
Produced and narrated by the art center’s Production Coordinator, Zachary Patten, and mixed by our Audio and Technology Systems Manager, Monte Nickles, our latest podcast showcases wintertime at Tippet Rise through the lens of poetry…
In a story published in the February/March 2019 issue of National Geographic Traveler, journalist Eve Conant calls Tippet Rise the “wildest, windiest, and most wonderful combination of nature and art…
Scattered across Tippet Rise’s 12,000 acres are eight monumental works of art created by some of the world’s most celebrated artists and architects…
We are so pleased to announce the 2019 summer concert season at Tippet Rise. Under the direction of newly appointed Artistic Advisor Pedja Muzijevic, Season Four features seven weeks of classical chamber music and recitals…
In January, three good friends traveled to Tippet Rise. They didn’t come to tour the sculptures or to watch—or perform—a recital. They came to record within the larch-lined walls of the Olivier Music Barn…
This morning at Tippet Rise, local excavators broke ground for the construction of a new pavilion designed by the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré…
We are so proud to announce that the Olivier Music Barn at Tippet Rise has just received LEED® Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for the Barn’s environmentally-sustainable design and systems…
As the new year arrives, we at Tippet Rise are taking time to reflect on the many events and people who helped to imbue this place with meaning in 2018…
We are thrilled to announce that the extraordinary pianist Pedja Muzijevic has been selected as the new Artistic Advisor to Tippet Rise, succeeding our dear friend, the late Charles Hamlen…
There is so much good news to share about our fourth concert season at Tippet Rise Art Center, including insight on the many wonderful artists who will join us…
Tippet Rise celebrates the synergy of art, architecture, music, and nature, and the art center’s new podcast explores these many fascinating and complex connections…
Tippet Rise is more than an extraordinary arts destination. It is also a working ranch. Located on 12,000 acres of rolling hills, canyons and grasslands, the art center is home to abundant wildlife, as well as cattle, sheep, sheep dogs, shepherds and a cowboy or two, including one eminently…
During the weekend of October 20th and 21st, a remarkable convergence between art and music took place in the Olivier Music Barn within Stephen Talasnik’s exhibition, Unearthed…
Friday, October 19, marked the opening day of Unearthed, the first indoor exhibition at Tippet Rise, featuring works by artist Stephen Talasnik…
This coming Friday, October 12, we’ll present our last RSC play of the year: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Performed this fall in Stratford-upon-Avon and then at London’s Barbican Centre, the production is a modern-day take on Shakespeare’s …
We are thrilled to announce a very special event coming up at Tippet Rise: an afternoon concert by students and faculty from Montana State University’s Honors College. Titled the Honors Musicale…
We are excited to announce our first indoor exhibition in the Olivier Music Barn at Tippet Rise Art Center: a sculpture installation by artist Stephen Talasnik, who, in 2016, created Satellite #5: Pioneer…
As the music season ends here at Tippet Rise, we begin an autumn of Shakespeare with screenings of performances from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and a live performance by Montana’s own Shakespeare in the Schools…
On August 24, TIME magazine published its first annual list of “100 places to visit right now.” From museums to parks to restaurants, even bars, the destinations span six continents and 48 countries…
On Saturday, a trio of wonderful musicians, pianist Orion Weiss, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, performed works by Bach, Beethoven and other great composers. What’s more, the concert was streamed live to viewers around the world….
It is our pleasure to announce the publication of a new book by the cofounder of Tippet Rise, Peter Halstead. Many who know of Tippet Rise think of Peter as a visionary, a partner with his wife, Cathy, in bringing to life a bold and beautiful idea…
On a perfect summer day in mid-July, internationally-renowned pianist Pedja Mužijevic and members of the acclaimed St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble performed works by Scarlatti, Bach and Brahms. The sold-out concert included bows, moments of beauty and…
Almost by divine intervention, we had Charlie Hamlen as our friend and artistic advisor for the two years, which turned out to be the two last years of his life…
We’re just a few weeks into the summer season at Tippet Rise, yet we’ve already experienced many moments of laughter, beauty and joy. In late June…
Through interviews and conversations, and by sharing extraordinary musical moments from the art center…
Thanks to a partnership with the incredible Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association (YBRA) south of Red Lodge, Montana, we are once again offering Geo-Paleo Tours at Tippet Rise…
This Friday, July 6, celebrated French pianist Julien Brocal will give the first concert of the 2018 season at Tippet Rise. Of Julien, Gramophone said, he is “a musician of distinction whose imaginative, intelligent and cultivated…”
Pentatone, the classical music label specializing in high-end, surround-sound recordings, has just released its second compilation CD of performances recorded at Tippet Rise. Named for Daydreams…
On June 29, the gates to Tippet Rise open for a glorious summer of art, music and nature at the edge of the Beartooth Mountains! Friday, Saturday and Sunday sculpture tours begin on the 29th and continue through the summer. The incredible 2018…
We are delighted to announce the release today of Tippet Rise Art Center, a gorgeous 224-page monograph from Princeton Architectural Press. Through essays, poems, and more than 200 color plates, the book documents the many facets of Tippet Rise…
Known around the globe for his beautiful, innovative, and sustainable structures, the West African architect Francis Kéré will create Tippet Rise’s newest structure…
Beginning in early May with Macbeth, a stunning production from the Royal Shakespeare Company, and continuing this Friday with Peter Pan and Saturday with Salome, the Spring Film Series is under way at Tippet Rise!
Recently, Tippet Rise’s Melissa Moore, pictured above to the right, gave an interview at Yellowstone Public Radio about our Spring Film Series…
If you ponder the notion, it’s extraordinary, really, that you can sit in a music hall in rural Montana and watch a theater production beamed all the way from England—the same production that audiences in London or Stratford-upon-Avon…
Tippet Rise is seeking seasonal and year-round staff as well as volunteers. Openings include an Audio Engineer Assistant for the 2018 season, an exciting position absolutely essential to the art center…
Congratulations to 2018’s recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, including double bassist and composer, Xavier Foley, and the Calidore String Quartet…
Like much of this beautiful state we are so lucky to inhabit, the Tippet Rise ranch is home to an abundance of native plants and wildflowers, extraordinary wildlife, and bucolic herds of cattle and sheep. One difference between the art center’s…
We are thrilled to announce our third season of classical music at Tippet Rise! Starring internationally celebrated performers and outstanding emerging artists from around the world…
Our website offers an incredible collection of interviews, art films, and recordings of concerts in the Olivier Music Barn and beneath (even atop!) the Domo at Tippet Rise. Recent additions to the collection feature…
On Friday, January 26th, Tippet Rise will be the guest “artist” at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana for the museum’s FAM at the YAM open-studio night…
As we welcome the new year, we’d like to look back at 2017 and say “thank you” to the many people who helped make Season Two at Tippet Rise absolutely, utterly incredible…
“A riddle is a puzzle, but also a large coarse sieve, used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel, or form from chaos.” Click on the link below to read Riddle, a poem in honor of the New Year, by our co-founder Peter Halstead.
As snow sifts upon the ranch through the low light of deep winter, we think with warmth of our friends near and far—and we send our deepest thanks to all of you for the incredible support you’ve shown since we opened Tippet Rise in 2016…
The snow may be falling and the frost biting, but the summer concert season at Tippet Rise is just around the corner! We’ll release complete details here, on our website, after the new year. Until then, we’re thrilled to share a few highlights. Running from July 6 through September 8,…
The Films section of our website is expanding! We recently added a number of new videos from our talented team of audio engineers and filmmakers, including art films, interviews, and recordings of performances from the 2016 and 2017 concert seasons. This recording features the Ariel String…
On December 15, Tippet Rise Art Center lost a dear friend and a talented collaborator when Dominick Maita passed away. Dom, who worked with many of the world’s greatest musicians, also mastered most of the music recordings we made here at Tippet
We were honored this week to be featured on Through the Night, a program from the British Broadcasting Corporation. Hosted by classical music writer and radio presenter, Jonathan Swain, the program is broadcast on BBC’s Radio 3 in the United Kingdom weeknights from 12:30am until…
From pre-concert talks to workshops, we strive to offer opportunities for inspiration and learning at Tippet Rise. During our first two seasons, children came to the art center from throughout the region to attend day camps and classes. Adults attended courses, too, from plein air painting to…
Many photographers make their way to Tippet Rise from around the globe to document our sculptures and events and the landscape that surrounds us. We are grateful for their interpretations of this magical place. One of these has become a constant force in our lives, and a friend. A longtime…
While Montana is a place of big skies, vast, open spaces and wildness, it is also a cultural treasure trove. Inspired by the landscape, nurtured by the quiet, artists thrive here, producing gorgeous, nationally-acclaimed work, from literature to sculpture to music. Among these treasures is…
Our website and our Vimeo and YouTube channels feature a growing collection of gorgeous videos from our audio engineers and filmmakers, including art films, interviews, and recordings of performances from the 2016 and 2017 seasons at Tippet Rise. This film, featuring violinist Caroline…
In early October, noted composer Luna Pearl Woolf traveled to Tippet Rise, bringing with her a cadre of opera luminaries from various points across the continent to workshop and film three scenes of Woolf’s newest opera, created with Librettist Royce Vavrek. Entitled Jacqueline, the…
Shakespearean comedy, tragicomedy, and the most popular of all fairy-tale operas: all are scheduled to appear on the big screen this fall at Tippet Rise. Featuring performances from two of the UK’s most renowned arts destinations, the National Theatre and Glyndebourne opera house, the Fall…
When Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee became Dean of the Honors College at Montana State University in 2009, she began what has since become a beloved MSU tradition: the Honors Musicale. Short for soirée musicale, French for “musical evening,” the word “musicale” stems from the late 19th century…
In October, two recordings from Tippet Rise were featured on Performance Today, the award-winning classical music show from American Public Media. On Friday, October 6, Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley, who performed together in the Olivier Music Barn in July of 2016, were heard…
We are honored that Tippet Rise has won a 2017 Leading Cultural Destination Award for the art center’s “cultural vitality and contributions to the international cultural sphere.” The LCD Awards honor institutions, organizations, and cities around the world that provide exemplary contributions…
The collection of videos from our 2017 summer concert season is growing! This beautiful recording of pianist Jenny Chen playing Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor is among the latest from our audio engineers and filmmakers. Recordings from Season Two will be uploaded to…
Beginning Friday, September 29, Tippet Rise will present a series of films showcasing performances from two of the UK’s most renowned arts destinations: Glyndebourne opera house and the National Theatre. Films from Glyndebourne include Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Verdi’s…
We are pleased to share with you the first of many concert videos from our 2017 summer season at Tippet Rise. Jeffrey Kahane performs a breathtaking improvisation on Samuel A. Ward’s America the Beautiful, inspired by the majestic purple mountains and amber waves of grain visible…
We were delighted to welcome recent alumni from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to Tippet Rise last week for a short-term intensive poetry residency, sponsored by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation. Actors worked closely with the…
The Architecture & Design Film Festival comes to Tippet Rise this weekend, September 22, 23, and 24. In addition to its screenings, the festival brings together design luminaries from across the country for scheduled and impromptu conversations. We’ve highlighted some of those people here…
Periodically, we highlight some of the extraordinary people traveling to Tippet Rise to participate in the Architecture & Design Film Festival, which will take place at the art center September 22, 23, and 24, after stops in Los Angeles, Seoul, and New Orleans. This week’s highlight…
Aja Goare, anchor and reporter for Billings, Montana’s CBS affiliate KTVQ, visited Tippet Rise last week to produce a story about the art center’s extensive cycling and hiking trail system. During her visit, Aja interviewed Director of Operations Pete Hinmon, an avid mountain biker who was…
Surface Magazine has named Tippet Rise a finalist in the Cultural Institution category of the publication’s inaugural Surface Travel Awards, a tribute to the most thoughtfully conceived travel spaces, destinations and products around the world, as well as the architects,…
After stops in Los Angeles, Seoul, and New Orleans, the Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) comes to Tippet Rise September 22, 23, and 24. Featuring screenings that celebrate the creative spirit that drives architecture and design, the festival also brings together design luminaries…
Anyone who’s dined at the art center knows that the pre-concert barbecue is a lovely—some might say integral—part of the Tippet Rise experience. During these afternoon meals, guests, musicians, and art center staff mingle in an airy post-and-beam structure called Will’s Shed, barn doors open…
Released this summer by the classical music label Pentatone, Domo: Tippet Rise OPUS 2016 features live recordings from the art center’s inaugural concert season. Just yesterday, Audiophile Audition published a glowing review of the CD, describing its recordings as “mystical and…
Via a delightful new program that airs every other Monday on Yellowstone Public Radio, two veterans of the Montana arts and culture scene interview artists and others who are creating and influencing art throughout the region. Recently, the show’s hosts, Corby Skinner and Anna Paige, spoke…
On Sunday, July 16, Tippet Rise presented a free concert for families featuring the Bozeman ensemble, 406 Woodwind Quintet. The event opened with a musical “petting zoo,” allowing children from the audience to explore and play a variety of woodwind instruments, and included short, lively…
A new program offered in partnership with the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association will allow guests to explore the geologic wonders of Tippet Rise…
Season Two is underway and our opening weekend was a wonderful success! Sculpture tours were well attended and included guests from near and far. On Saturday, we held a barbecue for more than 250 of our neighbors from up and down Grove Creek Road and the community of Fishtail—a celebration…
We’re thrilled to announce that the art center is officially open to the public for Season Two. Sculpture tours—by carbon-neutral electric van, bicycle and foot—are available every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through September 17. We’ve added five miles of new hiking and biking trails,…
Tippet Rise recently acquired two additional works by artist Stephen Talasnik, the creator of Satellite #5: Pioneer, the yellow cedar and steel sculpture that is among the center’s collection of land art. Galaxy (2014) and Archaeology (2012) are small-scale…
Since its debut on Performance Today in 2016, Tippet Rise has been featured on the award-winning public radio show multiple times. In December, PT host Fred Child gave a warm introduction to the art center and played a recording of the Ariel String Quartet performing at Tippet Rise last…
The nation’s largest film festival devoted to the subjects of architecture and design comes to Tippet Rise this September 22 - 24. The Architecture & Design Film Festival will present feature-length documentaries and shorts that explore the connections between nature and architecture….
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our second music season at the Art Center, featuring nine weeks of classical chamber music and recitals by renowned musicians who will travel to Fishtail from across the globe. Season Two begins on July 7 and runs through September 16. A limited number of…
We are so pleased to share the link to our official YouTube channel featuring gorgeous HD recordings of classical music performances, sculpture and landscape at the art center…
Happy New Year! The 2017 concert season at Tippet Rise will take place from July 7th through September 17th. Season details will be announced by email in early 2017. A limited number of concert tickets will go on sale online beginning March 1st, with additional tickets being released for…
Tippet Rise is closed for the season with the exception of special off-season events. For information about visiting during the quiet season, please visit our Events Page. Season Two tickets will be available to purchase early in the New Year. Please sign up for our mailing list below to…
This year marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death…
The magicians behind three of the Art Center’s magnificent and otherworldly sculptures were recently invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to speak at the Museum’s “In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day” symposium. The event was held Saturday, November 12th,…