Fall Concerts and Programs
September 22, 2025
The 2025 concert season concluded on Sunday, September 14 with an outstanding performance by Brooklyn Rider, featuring three world premieres co-commissioned by Tippet Rise by composers Angélica Negrón, Don Byron, and Ted Hearne. It was a fitting coda to five weeks of incredible music.
It’s always bittersweet as the concert season draws to a close—but we’re delighted to have additional programs in store. Hiking and biking at the art center continues Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through October 5, allowing guests to take advantage of these early fall days. Advance registration is required, and reservations are free of charge.
Additionally, on Saturday, October 4, members of the Montana Youth Symphony will present a free chamber music concert in the Olivier Music Barn at 2:00 PM. The program includes works by Paul Schoenfield, Johannes Brahms, Eric Ewazen, Michael Kamen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré, and Arno Babajanian, and features violinists Caroline Jorden and Rosalyn Weis, violist Bryce Allen, clarinetist Kathryn Pannell, cellist Charlie Snellman, trumpeters Elijah Sneigoski and Jackson Bautista, tubist Kaleb Trippe, trombonist Kade Gordon, and Kendall Boehm on horn, as well as pianist Tanner Jorden. Now in its third year, the Montana Youth Symphony comprises young musicians from all over Montana, who return each summer for a week of rehearsals and chamber music.
On Sunday, October 5, flutist and interdisciplinary artist Claire Chase will give a special pop-up performance at 2:00 PM. She is sharing a work-in-progress, composed by Annea Lockwood, for the 12th installment of Density 2036, a 24-year initiative launched in 2013 to create a bold new repertory for the flute. Chase, Lockwood, and audio engineer Caley Monahan-Ward, will be in residence at Tippet Rise for several days working on Elwha!, a new piece for seven flutes and 7.1 sound, created in collaboration with the Elwha River in the Olympic Peninsula—the ancestral and spiritual home of the Lower Elwha Klallam people. Tickets to this concert are $10 for adults, and free to those 21 and under.
On Saturday, October 18, Montana Shakespeare in the Schools, an educational program of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, returns with a free live performance of Richard III, presented at 3:00 PM in the Olivier Music Barn. Directed by Riley O’Toole, the production is especially geared toward middle and high school students, aiming to inspire conversations around the implications of Richard’s manipulative tactics, his use of violence in his rise to power, and the historical context in which Shakespeare’s play was written.
Any tickets returned to the box office will be made available on our website on a first come, first served basis.
A group of cyclists makes a stop at the Inverted Portal during their ride at Tippet Rise.
Photo by Kevin Kinzley.