The 2026 Concert Season Ticket Drawing is now open!
March 17, 2026
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!
How to Register for the Concert Ticket Drawing
Tickets for the concert season are available through a randomized drawing, for which registration via the Tippet Rise website is required. Registration is now open, and closes on Monday, April 6 at 12:00 PM Mountain Time.
Drawing winners will be selected at random on Tuesday, April 7 and notified by email that day. Beginning at 10:00 AM Mountain Time on Wednesday, April 8, winners may purchase up to four tickets to one performance or divide their tickets among multiple performances.
Concert tickets are $10 each for adults, and free to anyone 21 and under. Tickets are required for all guests, including those 21 and under. Please note: Registration for the drawing is limited to one entry per person. For additional details about how to enter the drawing for the 2026 concert season, please visit the Ticket Drawing page.
Pop-up concerts also take place throughout the concert season and are free-of-charge to all registered guests of the art center.
2026 Concert Season Overview
Taking place from August 14 to September 13, the five-week season features more than 30 internationally acclaimed musicians performing more than 15 concerts at venues indoors and out, including the Olivier Music Barn, the Domo, the Geode, and among works of art.
“At Tippet Rise, musicians and audiences share large-scale art with the vast acres of land and sky that instill an almost primeval sense of how everything is connected to everything else,” as Tippet Rise Co-Founders Cathy and Peter Halstead have written. “We look forward to another increasingly transformative season where we try to match with music and land art the Stonehenge-like wonder we all feel where the barren grasslands of the Beartooth Mountains fit like puzzle pieces into the upside-down curves of the stormclouds.”
“Tippet Rise invites musicians and audiences alike to experience music indoors and out, in synergy with nature,” said Tippet Rise Artistic Advisor Pedja Mužijević. “Our 2026 concert programs celebrate music without borders—bringing Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart into conversation with Sigur Rós, Cole Porter, Caroline Shaw, and Irving Berlin—without the need for genre labels. It’s all just great music.”
Week One (August 14-16)
The season opens with a mini festival featuring Schubert’s Octet and Piano Sonata in A Major, with works by Bulgarian-British composer Dobrinka Tabakova and American composer Marc Mellits. An outdoor performance at the Domo features Beethoven’s Septet, interspersed with pieces by Caroline Shaw and Swedish composer Svante Henryson, and the world premiere of a Tippet Rise commission by Jessica Meyer for violin, horn, bassoon, and bass. Featured musicians include violinists Alexi Kenney and Yura Lee, violist Natalie Loughran, cellist Oliver Herbert, bassist Nina Bernat, clarinetist Yasmina Spiegelberg, bassoonist Eleni Katz, hornist David Byrd-Marrow, and pianist Pedja Mužijević.
Week Two (August 21-23)
The program on Friday, August 21 celebrates the legacy of the American Songbook with music by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, among others, performed in a cabaret setting in the communal Will’s Shed by soprano Mireille Asselin, baritone Jesse Blumberg, and pianist Richard Pearson Thomas. Pianist Yekwon Sunwoo makes his Tippet Rise debut in the Olivier Music Barn with works by Respighi, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt. The quickly emerging Trio Azura performs two programs: Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque No. 1 coupled with Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio outdoors at the Geode, and trios from John Harbison, Schubert, and Ravel in the Olivier Music Barn.
Week Three (August 28-30)
Tippet Rise welcomes back the internationally renowned pianist Yulianna Avdeeva for an all-Chopin recital in the Olivier Music Barn, including the Mazurkas, Op. 30; 12 Études, Op. 25; and his Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante. The brass quartet The Westerlies performs an outdoor program at the Domo, featuring selections from The Westerlies’ “Songbook” recording project, celebrating a century of American music and including interpretations of works by Fleet Foxes, Joanna Newsom, Aoife O’Donovan, Anaïs Mitchell, and Samora Pinderhughes. Accordionist Radu Ratoi will lead a concert as part of Tippet Rise’s Wander series, in which musicians and audiences move among different works of art within the art center’s Cottonwood Campus. The program includes arrangements of works ranging from Rameau, Couperin, and Bach, to Saint-Saëns and Liszt, and to Vladimir Vlasov, Paul Desmond, and Piazzolla.
Week Four (September 4-6)
Anderson & Roe, the Emmy-nominated piano duo, returns to Tippet Rise for two distinct programs, the first including their Blue Danube Fantasy and other arrangements of works from Brahms and Schubert, and the second offering arrangements of Radiohead, Sigur Rós, and The Beatles, coupled with classical works by Bach/Gounod, Ravel, Holst, and Brahms. The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet makes its Tippet Rise debut and performs Haydn’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2, and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” The week concludes with renowned British pianist Danny Driver’s performance, juxtaposing works by Debussy and Ligeti in the Olivier Music Barn.
Week Five (September 11-13)
The final concert weekend begins with a performance by cellist Camille Thomas and pianist Julien Brocal at the Olivier Music Barn, featuring excerpts from their recently released album RENDEZ-VOUS, Chopin’s Introduction et Polonaise brillante, and Grieg’s Cello Sonata. The following program presents flutist Jessica Sindell, violinists Gabrielle Després and Nathan Meltzer, violists Laura Liu and Samuel Rosenthal, and cellists Arlen Hlusko and Sydney Lee in works by Mozart, Allison Loggins-Hull, Jesse Montgomery, and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence at Will’s Shed. The last performance of the season is a recital by the internationally acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss, offering works by Schumann, Kurtág, and Amy Beth Kirsten in the Olivier Music Barn.
Please visit the Events page of our website to learn more.
Hiking, Biking, and Sculpture Van Tours of the Art Center
Tippet Rise opens on June 19 for hiking, biking, and sculpture van tours of its monumental outdoor artworks on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Registration opens on Wednesday, April 8 at 10:00 AM Mountain Time.
Among the sculptures throughout the landscape are two new significant installations – Causa Formalis (2025) by Alicja Kwade and Scythian (1979-1995) by Mark di Suvero.
Self-guided hiking and biking tours are free for everyone. Sculpture van tours are priced at $10; free to those 21 and under.
We encourage you to register for the concert season ticket drawing and hope to see you this summer!
Best wishes,
The Tippet Rise Art Center Team