January 20, 2022
BOSTON SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES 2022 TANGLEWOOD SEASON, JUNE 17-SEPTEMBER 4—A FULL SEASON OF CONCERTS AND EVENTS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2019

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The 2022 Tanglewood season brings audiences a wide spectrum of programs and works by living composers, alongside a diverse lineup of performers offering their extraordinary artistry to an expansive summer season

HIGHLIGHTS

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH ANDRIS NELSONS LEADING NINE PROGRAMS

Andris Nelsons, Will Liverman, Ying Fang, Paul Lewis

• Andris Nelsons leads the BSO’s opening week of performances, July 8-10, beginning with an Opening Night program of Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 with piano soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring 
• The weekend’s Saturday-evening performance includes Nicole Cabell singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer 1915 and Aaron Diehl playing Ellington’s New World A-Coming for piano and orchestra on a program with music by Carlos Simon and Gershwin
• The weekend’s Sunday-afternoon program features Håkan Hardenberger in the American premiere of Helen Grime’s Trumpet Concerto on a program with music of Rachmaninoff
• A concert performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with Ryan McKinny in the title role and Will Liverman as Leporello
• Brahms’ A German Requiem, with soloists Ying Fang and Shenyang; both the Mozart and Brahms programs feature the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in its first Tanglewood concerts since summer 2019 
• Paul Lewis performs all five Beethoven Piano Concertos over three programs
• Six world and American premieres, including works by Julia Adolphe, Caroline Shaw, Elizabeth Ogonek, Helen Grime, and Fazil Say

Julia Adolphe, Helen Grime, Fazil Say, Caroline Shaw

BOSTON POPS, POPULAR ARTISTS, AND A JOHN WILLIAMS 90TH BIRTHDAY CELBRATION

Keith Lockhart, James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams

• A John Williams 90th Birthday Celebration with conductor Ken-David Masur leading the orchestra and guest artists Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, and James Taylor, among others, honoring one of Tanglewood’s most beloved figures
• A Keith Lockhart-led Boston Pops Stephen Sondheim Tribute, with a stellar Broadway cast, in honor of the iconic composer/lyricist who transformed American musical theater
• A film showing of The Empire Strikes Back with live Boston Pops accompaniment led by Mr. Lockhart 
• A Popular Artist lineup featuring James Taylor, who makes a highly anticipated return to Tanglewood for his traditional July 4 appearance (concert is sold out), and the welcome addition of a second performance confirmed for July 3 
• Additional Popular Artists include Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band, Brandi Carlile, The Mavericks and Nick Lowe with Los Straitjackets, Judy Collins and Richard Thompson, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Bonnie Raitt with special guest Lucinda Williams 

Click here for listing of Boston Pops concerts, Popular Artists performances, and a John Williams 90th Birthday Celebration 

BSO FAMILY ARTISTS AND GUEST PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS

Karina Canellakis, JoAnn Falletta, Anna Rakitina, Thomas Adès 

BSO Titled Conductors**
• BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès leads a program of Adès, Mozart, and Holst 
• Earl Lee makes his BSO assistant conductor debut in music by Brian Raphael Nabors, Poulenc, and Mendelssohn
• BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina leads the orchestra in Shostakovich, Dvořák, and Borodin, following her popular festival debut last summer
• BSO Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads a Family Concert and is a featured conductor in Tanglewood on Parade 

Guest conductors
• Karina Canellakis, JoAnn Falletta, Cristian Măcelaru, Dima Slobodeniouk, and Michael Tilson Thomas, who leads two concerts during the BSO’s final weekend: Copland’s Symphony No. 3 and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Vocalists and Instrumentalists
• Joshua Bell, Julia Bullock, Seong-Jin Cho, Pamela Frank, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Leonidas Kavakos, Branford Marsalis, Christina and Michelle Naughton, and the legendary Itzhak Perlman, who returns to Tanglewood for the first time since 2011

Composers
• Thomas Adès, Unsuk Chin, Anna Clyne, Jessie Montgomery, and Roberto Sierra

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Joshua Bell, Thomas Wilkins, Jessie Montgomery, Itzhak Perlman

** Please click here to view official titles for all BSO conductors

OZAWA HALL

Emanuel Ax, Susan Graham, Rhiannon Giddens, Garrick Ohlsson

• Emanuel Ax curates and performs in three programs (one in the Shed) of Czech music, Pathways from Prague, with guests Paul Appleby, Pamela Frank, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Orion Weiss, the Dover Quartet, and vocal groups Cantus and Lorelei Ensemble
• Garrick Ohlsson performs Brahms’ complete works for solo piano over four programs
• Susan Graham presents A Standing Witness by Rita Dove and Richard Danielpour with the ensemble Music from Copland House
• Silkroad Ensemble led by Rhiannon Giddens performs four major new commissions 
• Takács and Danish string quartets bring their inimitable approaches to chamber music to the summer season

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