Tanglewood, a music and learning campus, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a historic venue in Western Massachusetts, has announced its 2026 summer season featuring an array of unique performances and events.
The 2026 season will begin June 21 and end on September 2, featuring artists such as James Taylor, Cynthia Erivo, Carrie Underwood, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and more performing at Tanglewood.
The season celebrates America’s 250th birthday by celebrating iconic American artists as a part of the E Pluribus Unum: From Many One, a theme that has been consistent throughout many of BSO’s seasons.
The 2026 season will additionally include a collaboration with Tanglewood and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Yo-Yo Ma will be performing a week of concerts and events. We the People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future, the program curated by Yo-Yo Ma, invites the audience to consider their relationship to each other and the world.
The popular artist series will additionally highlight multiple celebrated artists in rock, country, reggae, and jazz, special guests include Lukas Nelson, Ziggy Marley with Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue.
The BSO President and Chief Executive Officer, Chad Smith, stated, “Each summer Tanglewood renews its promise as one of the world’s great gathering places for music, ideas, and community at the highest level. As we mark America 250, we are especially excited to continue exploring the American experience through our E Pluribus Unum: From Many One programming. In addition to a compelling set of programs led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, we are thrilled to have artist-led curations by three visionary leaders in the arts: Yo-Yo Ma, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Laurie Anderson. This summer, more than ever, Tanglewood is a destination for people of all ages to experience the life-changing power of creative expression amidst our campus’ idyllic natural setting embedded in the vibrant cultural landscape of the Berkshires.”
In 1936, Serge Koussevitzky led the orchestra’s first concerts in the Berkshires, with artists taking up summer residence at Tanglewood a year later, and in 1940 he founded the Berkshire Music Center (now called the Tanglewood Music Center). In the summer of 2019, educational offerings at Tanglewood were expanded in the inaugural season of the Tanglewood Learning Institute at the new Linde Center for Music and Learning – a four-building, multi-use complex that also provides additional concert and rehearsal space for the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA.
Tickets can be purchased at Tanglewood.org on March 5 at 10 am or by calling 888-266-1200. More information can also be found on Tanglewood’s website. A full list of Tanglewood’s events can be found below.
Tanglewood 2026 Events
June 21- 2:30pm – Yacht Rock Revenue
June 26 – 7:00pm – Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
June 27 – 7:30pm- Paul Simon
June 28 – 6:00pm – Paul Simon
July 2 – 8:00pm –Boston Pop Orchestra
July 3 – 8:00pm – James Taylor and All-Star Band
July 4 – 8:00pm – James Taylor and All-Star Band
July 5 – 2:30pm-Boston Pops- Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, and Williams
July 10 – 8:00pm –Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
July 11 – 10:30am – Open Rehearsal: Brahms Symphony No.2 and Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with Eric Lu
July 11 – 8:00 pm – Mahler Symphony No 4 and Mozart Piano Concerto
July 12- 2:30 pm – Boston Symphony Orchestra- Brahms Symphony No 2 and Chopin Piano Concerto
July 14 – 7:00pm – Ziggy Marley and Trombone Shorty
July 17 – 8:00pm – Simon, Barber, and Excerpts from Nixon in China with Renée Fleming
July 18 – 8:00pm – Open Rehearsal: Beethoven and Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 with Daniil Trifonov
July 18- 8:00pm – Hisaishi conducts Hisaishi and Ravel with Jean-Yves Thibaudet
July 19 – 10:30 am- Tanglewood Family Concert
July 19 – 2:30 pm – Haydn, Beethoven, and Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 with Daniil Trifonov
July 21 – 7:00pm – Weird Al Yankovic
July 24 – 8:00pm – Tchaikovsky Symphony No.3, Polish and Mozart Violin Concerto No.5 with Augustin Hadelich
July 25 – 10:30am- Open Rehearsal: Tchaikovsky symphony No.5 and Mozart Violin Concerto No.1 with Himari
July 25 – 8:00pm – Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 and Paul Lewis Plays Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27
July 26 – 2:30pm – Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 and Mozart Violin Concerto No.1 with Himari
July 28 – 7:00pm- Jason Isbell
July 31 – 8:00pm – Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven with Yefim Bronfam
August 1 – 10:30 am – Open Rehearsal: Joshua Bell performs Bruch Scottish Fantasy
August 1- 8:00pm- The Marriage of Figaro
August 2 – 2:30pm – Joshua Bell performs Bruch Scottish Fantasy
August 4 – 8:00pm – Tanglewood on Parade Evening Concert
August 7 – 8:00pm – Yo-Yo Ma and Renaud Capucon perform Brahms and Faurè
August 8 – 10:30am – Open Rehearsal: Yo-Yo Ma, Karen Ouzounian, and Christine Lee perform Tavener, Kalhor, and Golijov
August 8 – 8:00pm – Boston Symphony Orchestra- The Many Voices of American Music with Yo-Yo Ma
August 9 – 2:30pm- Yo-Yo Ma, Karen Ouzounian, and Christine LEe perform Tavener, Kalhor, and Golijovd
August 14 – 8:00pm – Copland Appalachian Spring, Beethoven Symphony No.7, and Rountree for Martha (Variations on a Theme of Leonard Bernstein)
August 15- 10:30am – Open Rehearsal: TMC Orchestra with Marin Alsop and Ray Chen
August 15 – 8:00pm – Maestro of the movies: a tribute to John Williams
August 16 – 2:30pm – Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Marin Alsop, conductor, and Ray Chen, violin
August 21 – 8:00pm –Cynthia Erivo
August 22 – 10:30am – Open Rehearsal: Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy
August 22 – 8:00pm- Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Bernstein Chichester Psalms
August 23- 2:30pm- Beethoven Symphony No 9
August 29 – 7:00pm – Carrie Underwood
September 2 – 7:00pm – Tedeschi Trucks Band
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