Boston University College of Fine Arts announces BU Tanglewood Institute’s 2015 Season
BUTI celebrates 49th season with notable guest artists and concerts at Tanglewood Music Center’s Seiji Ozawa Hall and Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston, MA – The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) launches its 49th season with a summer full of talented students, exciting concerts, and renowned guest artists. A program of the Boston University College of Fine Arts, BUTI accepts a select group of gifted high school musicians each summer, inviting them to BU’s campus in Lenox, MA, for training programs in orchestra, voice, wind ensemble, piano, composition, and harp, as well as workshops for individual instruments and string chamber music.
Led by Executive Director Hilary Field Respass, BUTI is recognized internationally as one of the premiere summer training programs for aspiring high school-age musicians. It is the only program of its kind associated with one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. This year’s student body will be selected through a rigorous application and audition process. Auditions are open to any high school-aged musician and participants will be drawn from a field of applicants from the United States and abroad. Since its founding, BUTI has grown as a program and training destination for those interested in exploring rigorous, pre-professional level music instruction. Scores of its alumni have gone on to illustrious careers in classical music, including dozens who perform in the top orchestras in the country.
Over the course of the eight-week season, June 21 through August 15, BU Tanglewood Institute students and faculty will perform more than 60 concerts in the Berkshire community, including solo, chamber music, and large ensemble concerts. BUTI’s Young Artists Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Chorus will perform a series in Seiji Ozawa Hall and the Koussevitzky Music Shed on the Tanglewood estate from July 18 – August 15. A notable roster of guest conductors will work with these three large ensembles, including Ankush Kumar Bahl, Paul Haas, David J. Martins, H. Robert Reynolds, and Ann Howard Jones.
The Institute’s collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra continues to be a highlight of the program. On August 4 at 2:30pm, BUTI will again be featured at the Tanglewood Music Festival as part of Tanglewood on Parade. The Young Artists Vocal Program will also join the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for two performances this season: on July 27 in a performance of Charles Ives’ New England Holidays conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; and on August 8, in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 conducted by Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons.
Back again this year is BUTI’s Honors Concert, which features some of the most advanced instrumentalists, singers, and composers in the program performing solo and chamber music works in Ozawa Hall.
2015 Boston University Tanglewood Institute Performances at Seiji Ozawa Hall and Koussevitzky Music Shed
Saturday, July 18, 2:30pm
Young Artists Orchestra | Ankush Kumar Bahl, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Sunday, July 19, 2:30pm
Young Artists Wind Ensemble | David J. Martins, conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Carter Pann: Hold this Boy and Listen
Ryan George: Firefly
John Mackey: Aurora Awakes
Paul Hindemith/Keith Wilson: March from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Anthony Iannaccone: After a Gentle Rain
Karel Husa: Music for Prague
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Monday, July 27, 8pm
Festival of Contemporary Music | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
The BUTI Young Artists Chorus, directed by Ann Howard Jones, joins the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for a performance of Charles Ives’ New England Holidays.
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Saturday, August 1, 2:30pm
Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus | Paul Haas, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: Candide Overture
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Palms
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Sunday, August 2, 2:30pm
Young Artists Wind Ensemble | H. Robert Reynolds, conductor
Richard Strauss: Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare
Morten Lauridsen/H. Robert Reynolds: O Magnum Mysterium
Kathryn Selfelder: Crossing Parallels
Donald Grantham: Baron Cimetiere’s Mambo
John Williams/Paul Lavender: Sound the Bells
Frank Ticheli: Saxophone Concerto
Michael Daugherty: Bells for Stokowski
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tuesday, August 4, 4pm
Tanglewood on Parade | Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus
Paul Haas and Ann Howard Jones, conductors
Leonard Bernstein: Candide Overture
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Palms
Additional repertoire to be announced
Koussevitzky Music Shed
Saturday, August 8, 2:30pm
Honors Concert
A special performance featuring select BUTI student musicians
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Saturday, August 8, 8:30pm
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert | Andris Nelsons, conductor
Members of the BUTI Young Artists Chorus, directed by Ann Howard Jones, join the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.
Koussevitzky Music Shed
Saturday, August 15, 2:30pm
Young Artists Orchestra | Paul Haas, conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Seiji Ozawa Hall
BUTI is a program of the School of Music of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. For more information, visit bu.edu/cfa/tanglewood.
Venue and Ticket Information
Seiji Ozawa Hall and Koussevitzky Music Shed
Tanglewood Music Center
297 West Street
Lenox, MA 01240
Tickets: $11 Young Artists Orchestra, available at the door.
Free admission for Young Artists Wind Ensemble and Honors Concert.
Festival of Contemporary Music and Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert tickets available at bso.org.
Contact Information
617.353.3386 (through June 15, 2015)
413.637.1430 (after June 15, 2015)
All artists and programs are subject to change. Please visit bu.edu/cfa/tanglewood for updated schedules.