By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, January 30, 2025 –
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the schedule of concerts and performances at its summer home in the Berkshires, Tanglewood, located on the edge of Stockbridge in the village of Lenox, MA. Tanglewood 2025 season tickets on sale March 6 -> B.S.O. box office
June and July 2025 at Tanglewood
- The returns of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (June 21)
- James Taylor and his All-Star Band perform in the Shed on July 3 and 4, the latter to be followed by fireworks (tickets on sale now)
- A Boston Symphony Chamber Players recital featuring the music of BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon along with selections by other composers (July 10)
- Acclaimed conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leading performances of the BSO and the TMC Orchestra (TMCO) in his first appearance at Tanglewood since 1985, Tanglewood debut of violinist Pekka Kuusisto (July 13) (July 13 & 14)
- An Ozawa Hall recital by Seong-Jin Cho, performing Ravel’s complete solo piano works (July 16), one of several festival events to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth year, including a TMC performance of the opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges
- The annual Sunday morning matinee Family Concert led by Thomas Wilkins (July 20)
- The Tanglewood Music Center’s 61st annual Festival of Contemporary Music, directed this year by groundbreaking composer Gabriela Ortiz, with five days of programs featuring her music and works by other contemporary composers performed by TMC Fellows (July 24–28)
August2025 at Tanglewood
- The Tanglewood conducting debut of Elim Chan, with violinist Leonidas Kavakos(Aug. 2)
- 1st of three concerts featuring Yo-Yo Ma: a special Shed event with pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and violist Antoine Tamestit joining Ma for an all-Beethoven program (Aug. 3);
- The annual Tanglewood on Parade offering a full day of music and activities for all ages, culminating with a Shed concert with the BSO, Boston Pops, and TMCO led by Keith Lockhart and Elim Chan, followed by fireworks (Aug. 5)
- Music for New Bodies, a provocative and moving new theatrical concert-opera composed and conducted by Matthew Aucoin, staged by Peter Sellars, and performed by members of the American Modern Opera Company (Aug. 7)
- The Tanglewood conducting debut Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with violinist Joshua Bell (Aug. 8),
- John Williams’ Film Night curated by Pops Conductor Laureate John Williams and conducted by Keith Lockhart (Aug. 9)
- Yo-Yo Ma performing the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the BSO led by Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid (Aug. 10);
- Yo-Yo Ma with the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider in their Ozawa Hall recital debut (Aug. 13)
- Tanglewood debut of the world-renowned choral ensemble The Sixteen led by Harry Christophers (Aug. 14)
- BSO program featuring debut of Assistant Conductor Anna Handler and violinist Augustin Hadelich (Aug. 16),
- BSO program featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Aug. 17),
- Keith Lockhart 30th Anniversary Celebration, with guest artists Ben Folds, Lynn Ahrens, Bernadette Peters, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Time for Three, and Jason Danieley;(Aug. 22)
- The world premiere of a BSO-commissioned choral work for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus by Composer Chair Carlos Simon led by James Burton in a BSO program with Zubin Mehta’s Tanglewood debut conducting Beethoven’s Ninth(Aug. 24)
- Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! with Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis (Aug. 28)
- Bonnie Raitt, in the Shed (Aug. 31)
Tanglewood Learning Institute
The above concert listings will be augmented throughout the summer of 2025 with a robust calendar of interdisciplinary humanities-focused programs through the Tanglewood Learning Institute complementing performances on stage including the TLI Presents, Talks and Walks, Meet the Makers, and Art of Conducting series with Andris Nelsons and other guests, as well as popular TLI for Families events like Circle Round.