Tippet Rise Announces 2022 Season Highlights Featuring 3 World Premieres Commissioned By The Art Center

Tippet Rise Art Center, which celebrates the union of music, art, and nature, today announced the highlights of its 2022 season and the installation of four new sculptures on its 12,000-acre working ranch.

Tippet Rise's seventh concert season will open on August 26 and run through September 25 and will present more than 15 performances, including three world premieres of Tippet Rise commissions. Complete program details will be announced in early 2022. Registration for the art center's randomized drawing for concert tickets will open on the Tippet Rise website in spring 2022.

"It is with immense joy and excitement that we look forward to welcoming back visitors to Tippet Rise for our 2022 concert season," said Peter and Cathy Halstead, co-founders of Tippet Rise Art Center. "We are eager to share the transformative experience of hearing live concerts surrounded by fellow music lovers. We are also looking forward to unveiling our expanded sculpture collection with a new iteration of Patrick Dougherty's site-specific Daydreams, and the installation of works by Ensamble Studio, Ai Weiwei, and Mark di Suvero. The addition of these works will enrich the experience of our visitors as they explore all the ranch has to offer."

Continuing Tippet Rise's commitment to commissioning new works, the seventh concert season will feature four world premieres, three of them Tippet Rise commissions. Composer Reena Esmail's 2022 Tippet Rise Commission for Solo Cello will be performed by Arlen Hlusko. Bojan Louis's 2021 Tippet Rise Commission for Violin, Scordatura: Dólii, will be performed by Johnny Gandelsman. Fred Hersch's Tippet Rise Commission for Piano will be performed by Pedja Mužijević. Mužijević will also perform the world premiere of excerpts from Gregory Spears' Seven Days. This year Tippet Rise is also celebrating a Grammy nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for John Luther Adams's 2019 Tippet Rise commission, Lines Made By Walking (String Quartet No. 5), performed by the JACK Quartet.

The 2022 concert season will showcase a number of musicians making their Tippet Rise debuts. They include: Moscow-born pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, who first made waves in the classical music world as the 2010 Chopin Competition First Prize winner; Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, who won first prize at the 2017 Concours musical international de Montréal; one of today's most revered American recitalists, pianist Richard Goode; Auckland violinist and recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Geneva Lewis; flutist Alex Sopp, who has toured and recorded with songwriters including Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, and St. Vincent, among others; and the Aizuri Quartet, recipients of the Grand Prize and the CAG Management Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition and whose debut album received a Grammy nomination.

Returning to perform at Tippet Rise this year will be Sandbox Percussion, a leading proponent of contemporary percussion chamber music, whose performance of Andy Akiho's work Seven Pillars is nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award. Tippet Rise executive produced and co-presented the digital world premiere of this bold, genre-defying work, which is also nominated in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category. The season will also see the return of Avery Fisher Career Grant winner, violinist Jennifer Frautschi; Grammy-winning cellist Arlen Hlusko; flutist Brandon Patrick George, one of America's leading flute soloists and chamber musicians, and a member of the 2021 Grammy-nominated Imani Winds; renowned pianist Pedja Mužijević, who is also artistic advisor to Tippet Rise and artistic administrator of the Baryshnikov Arts Center; Canada's Gryphon Trio, winner of three Juno Awards for Classical Album of the Year; and the internationally acclaimed Calidore String Quartet, who is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Bowers Program.

When Tippet Rise opens for hiking and biking in June 2022, visitors to the 12,000-acre sculpture park will enjoy four new sculptures, which join Tippet Rise's nine monumental and site-specific works. In July, Patrick Dougherty will return to the art center to reimagine his work, Daydreams. While the interior of the reproduction historic schoolhouse, which features shaped willow branches, will remain the same, Dougherty will remake the outdoor installation of branches into a new tangle of school-day stickworks.

This past October, Ensamble Studio visited Tippet Rise to site a new series of works titled Folds (2022). Ensamble Studio's Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril have created 16 concrete seats, inspired by and cast from draped canvas, which will be installed across the art center's rolling landscape. The organic shapes mimic armchairs, chaise lounges, benches, and even an 18th century tête-à-tête. Visitors will happen upon these hybrid art-seats as they hike and bike the 13.25 miles of trails and 13 miles of gravel roads that wind across the ranch.

Also joining the art center's collection is Ai Weiwei's Iron Tree (2013) and Mark di Suvero's Whale's Cry (1981-1983). Iron Tree, which is a meditation on individualism within a larger society, will stand on a rise, and from a distance will blend seamlessly into the landscape. The installation of Mark di Suvero's Whale's Cry marks his third monumental work to enter the Tippet Rise collection. This dynamic steel sculpture, like his other works at the art center, is also notable for its kinetic element and the way it responds to its natural environment.

Concerts will begin August 26 and run through September 25 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and are priced at $10; free to those 21 and under. Pre-purchased tickets, which are required for concert admission, will be available through a randomized drawing; the drawing will open on the Tippet Rise website in spring 2022. For the latest information on ticketing, please sign up for the Tippet Rise e-newsletter.

Tippet Rise will reopen to the public on June 10, for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday self-guided tours of its monumental outdoor sculptures on foot or by bicycle. Hiking and biking at the art center are free for everyone. Prior registration, which will be available on the art center's website in spring 2022, is required for all visitors. For the latest information on reservations, please sign up for the Tippet Rise e-newsletter.

The Tippet Rise website is a rich and growing multimedia resource, featuring: a Music Download Library of free DXD files, films created by Tippet Rise's in-house videographers, photography of scenes from the art center, online events, and conversation through the Tippet Rise Podcast.

Concert footage from several past seasons is now available online. New videos include Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, Debussy's String Quartet Op. 10 in G minor, and Bach's Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor. In addition, Tippet Rise periodically releases new podcast episodes that explore different facets of the art center. Episodes have included an exploration of the art center's legendary Steinway pianos and a conversation about the music of landscape with composer John Luther Adams and the JACK Quartet.

Land & Sky, a feature-length film about Tippet Rise, is once again available to stream. Created remotely by filmmaker Hamid Shams, and produced in collaboration with the Colburn School in Los Angeles, Land & Sky features striking new footage of the Tippet Rise landscape, interviews with artists and musicians, and music by the Calidore String Quartet, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, and others.