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Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra

  • Yuja Wang plays piano in a glittering silver dress. Her hands are perched on the keys of the piano, and she tosses her short red hair back.
    Yuja Wang Performs Prokofiev at Tanglewood!
    Enjoy a medley of performances from the first half of the 2025 Tanglewood Music Center season, including a breathtaking performance by star pianist Yuja Wang.
  • People crowd the lawn at the Koussevitzky Music Shed to enjoy the music and watch Andris Nelsons conduct the BSO on a large screen.
    Nelsons Conducts Brahms and Berlioz at Tanglewood
    Boston Symphony Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the Symphony No. 2 by Brahms and Berlioz’s "Symphonie fantastique," in concert from Tanglewood.
  • An exterior perspective on Seiji Ozawa Hall at dusk, with luminous light glowing from inside and with an audience on the lawn outside.
    Blog
    The Tanglewood Music Center in 2025, with Director Ed Gazouleas
    The former Boston Symphony violist and current Director of the TMC describes the growing strengths of the legendary summer academy in the Berkshires and its most significant challenges and opportunities.
  • Under the shade of a large tree, the velvety green lawn of Tanglewood stretches outwards towards the horizon.
    The Sounds of Summer, with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
    On WCRB In Concert with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra" and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Emanuel Ax, among other highlights from the 2024 Tanglewood season.
  • Clockwise from top left: María Dueñas, Kristine Opolais, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, Elim Chan, Carlos Simon
    Blog
    The 2025 Tanglewood Season
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its next summer season in the Berkshires, highlighted by Puccini's "Tosca," a new concerto by John Williams, and a celebration of Keith Lockhart's 30th anniversary as Boston Pops Conductor.
  • People crowd the lawn at the Koussevitzky Music Shed to enjoy the music and watch Andris Nelsons conduct the BSO on a large screen.
    Debussy, Sibelius, and More, from Tanglewood
    On WCRB In Concert with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Debussy's "La Mer" and Dima Slobodeniouk leads the TMCO in Sibelius's Second Symphony, part of a program of highlights from the summer of 2023 in the Berkshires.
  • clockwise, from upper left: Amanda Majeski; J'Nai Bridges; Jongmin Park; Stephen Costello
    Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” at Tanglewood
    Susanna Mälkki leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with soloists Amanda Majeski, J’Nai Bridges, Stephen Costello, and Jongmin Park, and BSO Choral Director James Burton leads the TFC in Tippett's Spirituals from "A Child of Our Time."
  • Andris Nelsons
    Nelsons Leads Mahler’s Fifth at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast, in a concert by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons leads Gustav Mahler’s meditation on grief and triumph, and soprano Christine Goerke sings a rarely heard work by Berlioz.
  • a collage of six musicians featured during the 2023 Tanglewood season, including conductors Xian Zhang, Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, Susanna Mälkki, and Thomas Wilkins, and violinist Hilary Hahn
    Blog
    Tanglewood 2023, with the BSO, the Boston Pops, and More
    World-class conductors and guest artists bring dynamic performances to the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the green hills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.
  • Lucas and Arthur Jussen
    Concerts
    Poulenc, Beethoven, and Nathan at the BSO
    May 9, 2020In an encore broadcast from 2019, pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen are the soloists in a concerto by Poulenc, and Andris Nelsons leads the…