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November 21, 2024

As we approach the holiday season, we are delighted to share a preview of the 2025 summer programs at Tippet Rise.

From June 20 to October 5, 2025, visitors can enjoy hiking, biking, and van tours of the art center to experience site-specific and monumental works of art, including the newly installed sculpture Bronze Bowl with Lace by Ursula von Rydingsvard. The concert season will run from August 15 through September 14 in Tippet Rise’s indoor and outdoor venues. For five weeks, Tippet Rise will present wide-ranging programs, including Tippet Rise co-commissions of works by composers Gabriella Smith for yMusic and by Don Byron, Ted Hearne, and a world premiere by Angélica Negrón for Brooklyn Rider.

Cathy and Peter Halstead, co-founders of Tippet Rise, shared: “Music, painting, land art, sculpture are forms of each other, the poetry of the high winds, of the borders of the eye and ear, the shapes just out of sight, shadows of our Cretaceous roots, which bring the structures hiding in our immense night skies down to our ancient inland sea. We are humbled to be in their presence, and to be visited by so many wonderful people over what has now been ten years, through whose kindness and good cheer we stumble on.”

Bronze Bowl with Lace
Installed this fall, Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Bronze Bowl with Lace (2013/14) is the first bronze work at Tippet Rise. The location of the work was selected in collaboration with the artist –a natural bowl that opens to an expansive northern view across the plateaus and canyons of the art center, and far beyond into the Stillwater and Yellowstone River valleys. Standing at 19.5 feet tall, Bronze Bowl with Lace was first constructed from cedar wood before being cast in bronze. With shades of rusty red, yellow, gold, and green, the sculpture’s patina absorbs and reflects the surrounding grasses, sage, soil, and rocks. The delicate upper-filagree section, based on real lace, filters light as the sun moves across the sky each day.

We cannot wait for guests to experience this work in person next summer!

2025 Concert Season Highlights
The 2025 concert season begins with a mini festival featuring the debuts of violinists Lun Li and Melissa White, and bassist Lizzie Burns, alongside returning performers, violinist Benjamin Beilman, violist Jordan Bak, bassoonist Monica Ellis, and flutist Brandon Patrick George. They will be joined by pianist and Tippet Rise Artistic Advisor, Pedja Mužijević, and eight other artists for performances presenting mixed programs throughout the weekend (August 15, 16, 17), including a kick-off concert featuring Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons interspersed with recorded sounds of nature from Tippet Rise, and works by Angélica Negrón and Kenji Bunch (August 15).

During this tenth season, we are excited to welcome back two pianists who helped inaugurate the art center’s very first season—Sir Stephen Hough and George Li. Hough will present a performance ranging from Beethoven to Schoenberg, Schubert, Stockhausen, and his own arrangements of the Sherman brothers’ soundtrack from Mary Poppins (August 31). Pianist George Li, winner of a Silver Medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition and recipient of the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, will offer a recital including works Schumann, Florence Price, and Stravinsky (August 29).

The concert season also features notable Tippet Rise debuts including pianist Inon Barnatan, who will perform his lauded solo transcription of Rachmaninoff’s last major work – “Symphonic Dances” (September 5). Pianist Asiya Korepanova, who performed all the solo piano works by Rachmaninov during the composer’s sesquicentennial anniversary in 2023, will perform a program showcasing the complete Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux (August 22), and pianist Alexander Ullman, who won first prizes in the world’s foremost Liszt competitions in Budapest and in Utrecht, will make his debut with works by Grieg and Liszt (September 7).

Acclaimed sextet chamber ensemble yMusic, who eschews boundaries by performing the vanguard of American Contemporary Music and imbuing their own unique sound to popular music, will make its debut in an outdoor program at the Domo. The program includes a Tippet Rise co-commission by rising young composer Gabriella Smith. Inspired by ocean ecosystems, the work will provide a point of dialogue for audiences on the broad issue of climate change (August 23).

The musically adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider, celebrating its 20th anniversary, will perform during the final concert weekend. That program will feature three works co-commissioned by Tippet Rise for Brooklyn Rider, including a world premiere from the trailblazing Puerto Rican-born composer Angélica Negrón, who writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics as well as for chamber ensembles, orchestras, and film. Additional co-commissions will be by Don Byron, the New York City born and multi-instrumentalist composer who performs and writes in an array of musical styles; and the LA-based composer, singer, bandleader, and recording artist Ted Hearne, whose recent commissions include works for the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Ballet of London, Alarm Will Sound, and The Crossing. 

Complete program details will be announced in early 2025. Registration for the randomized drawing for concert tickets will open on our website in early spring.

Recordings at Tippet Rise
Tippet Rise recently completed a new state-of-the-art post-production facility, including video and audio editing suites and a new mastering studio, to further enhance the recording program taking place in the Olivier Music Barn.

Over the course of ten years, our team of sound engineers has already recorded more than 135 performances and produced over ten albums, many in partnership with the leading classical music labels, including two Grammy nominations—a recent 2025 nomination for Decoda’s recording of Valerie Coleman’s Revelry, and a 2022 nomination for Lines Made by Walking by John Luther Adams, performed by the JACK Quartet. The recording initiatives are at the center of Tippet Rise’s mission to support artists in furthering their careers and more widely sharing their interpretations of works by the world’s great composers. We invite you to listen to many of these recordings and to watch dozens of films created by Tippet Rise’s in-house and guest filmmakers within our Music Download Library  and YouTube Channel.

The Letter x Tippet Rise
Caroline Joan Peixoto will be sharing five more editions of ‘The Letter x Tippet Rise.’ Register here to receive a monthly email featuring a writings, stories, photography, sounds, and video – all inspired by the winter landscape of the art center and its natural inhabitants.

More information about the 2025 season will be announced in the new year!