The largest of the four planned new buildings will be the new Tanglewood Learning Institute, which will support the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center. The new center will provide state-of-the-art space for rehearsal and concert activities accommodating an audience of up to 200 and multi-media education and lecture programs with a seating capacity of up to 300. The building will also provide space for a variety of social and dining events.

“Tanglewood's new building complex represents a major milestone for the BSO as it furthers its commitment to the Tanglewood Music Center by providing a new state-of-the-art facility to match the extraordinary level of talent exhibited by the Fellows each summer,” says Mark Volpe, Boston Symphony Orchestra managing director. “In addition, the Tanglewood Learning Institute will introduce an exciting new venture by offering patrons an entirely new paradigm of education and enrichment programs, sure to expand the reach of the festival and bring welcome newcomers to the BSO's famed summer home.”

Additional buildings at Tanglewood will include a 150-seat dining cafe, designed in part as a hub for visitors, TMC Fellows and faculty, and TLI participants, and two smaller studios providing additional space for rehearsal, performance, educational, and social activities. The new sustainable building complex will be climate-controlled to accommodate use by the Berkshire community in the off-season.

Other planned improvements at Tanglewood will also include renovations to the Ozawa Hall Bernstein campus, including a reconfiguration of the entranceway gate to effectively integrate the campus with the new building complex and improved restroom and food service amenities. The BSO will also implement a new horticultural plan for Tanglewood's 524-acre grounds.

“Tanglewood's new building project will provide the best possible atmosphere for the talented Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center to learn and grow on their path to becoming the next generation of musicians, earning their spots in the world's great orchestras, concert halls, and opera houses,” says Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director. “The new Tanglewood Learning Institute starts a new chapter in the orchestra's remarkable history by connecting our audience to our music-making in new ways and expanding Tanglewood's reach by welcoming new visitors experiencing the festival's profound and extraordinary musical gifts.”

William Rawn Associates, Architects, led by William Rawn and Cliff Gayley, will design the new building complex. The project will be the largest building initiative at Tanglewood since the construction of Ozawa Hall in 1994, which was also designed by William Rawn Associates. Reed Hilderbrand will serve as the project's landscape architect.

LENOX, MA—Tanglewood, the longtime summer home in the Berkshires to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will be the beneficiary of $30 million in new investment geared to enhancing the venue's rich 80-year history.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra reports that it plans to build a new multi-use, multi-season four-building complex designed to support the performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and also house a new initiative—the Tanglewood Learning Institute—that will offer “wide-ranging education and enrichment programs designed to enhance the patron experience.”

Tanglewood has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937, and the summer music academy—the Tanglewood Music Center—since its founding in 1940. A groundbreaking on the project, which is expected to be completed in 2019, will be scheduled sometime during this summer.

The $30-million capital improvement project is part of a multi-year fundraising effort to support ongoing Tanglewood building upgrades and horticultural renewal programs. The fundraising campaign will also include a special endowment for the BSO's concert activities and other Tanglewood programming. Further details regarding fundraising will be announced at the end of the 2017 Tanglewood season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra states.

The largest of the four planned new buildings will be the new Tanglewood Learning Institute, which will support the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center. The new center will provide state-of-the-art space for rehearsal and concert activities accommodating an audience of up to 200 and multi-media education and lecture programs with a seating capacity of up to 300. The building will also provide space for a variety of social and dining events.

“Tanglewood's new building complex represents a major milestone for the BSO as it furthers its commitment to the Tanglewood Music Center by providing a new state-of-the-art facility to match the extraordinary level of talent exhibited by the Fellows each summer,” says Mark Volpe, Boston Symphony Orchestra managing director. “In addition, the Tanglewood Learning Institute will introduce an exciting new venture by offering patrons an entirely new paradigm of education and enrichment programs, sure to expand the reach of the festival and bring welcome newcomers to the BSO's famed summer home.”

Additional buildings at Tanglewood will include a 150-seat dining cafe, designed in part as a hub for visitors, TMC Fellows and faculty, and TLI participants, and two smaller studios providing additional space for rehearsal, performance, educational, and social activities. The new sustainable building complex will be climate-controlled to accommodate use by the Berkshire community in the off-season.

Other planned improvements at Tanglewood will also include renovations to the Ozawa Hall Bernstein campus, including a reconfiguration of the entranceway gate to effectively integrate the campus with the new building complex and improved restroom and food service amenities. The BSO will also implement a new horticultural plan for Tanglewood's 524-acre grounds.

“Tanglewood's new building project will provide the best possible atmosphere for the talented Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center to learn and grow on their path to becoming the next generation of musicians, earning their spots in the world's great orchestras, concert halls, and opera houses,” says Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director. “The new Tanglewood Learning Institute starts a new chapter in the orchestra's remarkable history by connecting our audience to our music-making in new ways and expanding Tanglewood's reach by welcoming new visitors experiencing the festival's profound and extraordinary musical gifts.”

William Rawn Associates, Architects, led by William Rawn and Cliff Gayley, will design the new building complex. The project will be the largest building initiative at Tanglewood since the construction of Ozawa Hall in 1994, which was also designed by William Rawn Associates. Reed Hilderbrand will serve as the project's landscape architect.