Tippet Rise, a new music festival located in Fishtail, Montana, will hold its inaugural season of performances from June 17 to August 21. The festival, curated by pianist Christopher O’Riley, will feature 20 chamber-music concerts in and around contemporary art sites at the newly constructed Tippet Rise Art Center, scheduled to open in June 2016. Festival highlights will include John Luther Adams’s Inuksuit, to be performed at Stephen Talasnik’s outdoor sculpture “Satellite,” with an ensemble including Exelsis Percussion Quartet and percussionists from the Billings Symphony, led by Douglas Perkins. Also planned is the world premiere of a commissioned work, Antón García-Abril’s Tippet Rise Songs, based on poetry of Peter Halstead and performed by soprano Emily Helenbrook with Christopher O’Riley. The festival will include a piano series featuring George Li, Nikolai Demidenko, and others; all-Messiaen and all-Scriabin programs; and works by John Adams, Aaron Jay Kernis, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Haydn, Liszt, Prokofiev, Ravel, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninoff.
Posted February 4, 2016
