Spring programs at Tippet Rise
May 2, 2025
It has been a busy “mud season” at Tippet Rise as we await the official opening of our 2025 season on June 20. The Tippet Rise education team leads more than 100 education programs throughout the year, serving preschoolers to adults in their schools and community centers, as well as special visits to the art center that have taken place this spring.
On March 11, Tippet Rise hosted students from the Nye and Luther schools for the Opera Montana program “Wheels of Harmony,” which shares Indigenous culture and music along with traditional opera with mostly rural and tribal schools. For the third year, students had the opportunity to watch an hour-long performance featuring variety of cultural operatic songs and dance performances sung in multiple languages, followed by lunch in Will’s Shed and time to explore some of the artworks located within Cottonwood Campus.
On April 5, the fifth annual Songs of Spring Youth Recital took place in the Olivier Music Barn, featuring approximately 25 local students of music instructor Virginia Stene Raines, performing selections from their lessons on piano and vocals. These concerts are a wonderful way for students to get a feel for life as a professional musician – performing on the same piano and within the same space as artists who join from around the world for the concert season – as well as an excellent opportunity for Tippet Rise to connect with families from Billings, Fishtail, Nye, and Absarokee and to celebrate their accomplishments and hard work.
New to Tippet Rise this year is a week-long residency for six award-winning young musicians, where they examine the concert experience from multiple perspectives – that of performers, presenters, production and marketing managers, funders, and audience members. Led by Pedja Mužijević, pianist and artistic advisor for Tippet Rise, participants include violinists Nathan Amaral and Hannah Goldstick, violists Laura Liu and Dillon Scott, cellist Jonathan Swensen, and pianist Anna Han. The residency program also includes two Pop-Up Concerts – one on May 15 downstairs at the much-loved One Legged Magpie’s in Red Lodge, and a second on May 17 in the Olivier Music Barn. We are honored to have these artists join us and look forward to learning as much from them as we hope they take in from their time in Montana!
Season opening on June 20
Tippet Rise is open for the season on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from June 20 through October 5. As reservations for hiking, biking and sculpture van tours may fill up this spring, please note that beginning at the time of our opening in June, new hiking and biking reservations are added to the website on a weekly basis. Special tours and programs are also announced and added throughout the summer, and our e-newsletter is the best way to receive the very latest information.
While the concert season ticket drawing has now closed, should any tickets become available through cancellations, they will be added for sale on the Events page during the week of the concert on a first come, first served basis.