Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
@TippettMF
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The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation is the Charitable Trust established by the composer to encourage the music of the future.
Joined September 2022
Applications for our 2025 grants are open until Sep 30. We support recordings and performances of Tippett's music anywhere in the world. Read more on our website:
tippettfoundation.org.uk
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❗️Applications for our 2025 Grants close this Tuesday, Sep 30. If you're planning a performance or recording of Tippett's music, we want to hear about it. Application details on our website:
tippettfoundation.org.uk
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In 2025 our grants programme will continue to support recording and performance projects involving the music of Michael Tippett. Head over to our website for full guidelines on how to apply.
tippettfoundation.org.uk
We're delighted to see two of the recent Tippett recordings we've supported on this year's @GramophoneMag Awards shortlist: @BBCSSO's New Year on @nmcrecordings in the Opera Category and @LPOrchestra's recording of the Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 2 in the Concerto category.
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We're delighted to see two of the recent Tippett recordings we've supported on this year's @GramophoneMag Awards shortlist: @BBCSSO's New Year on @nmcrecordings in the Opera Category and @LPOrchestra's recording of the Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 2 in the Concerto category.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from @guardianculture for Sunday's @bbcproms @LPOrchestra concert, featuring a rare performance of Tippett's "glorious" The Rose Lake. Available to listen again on @BBCSounds till Oct 12. https://t.co/aXtyyyoNko
theguardian.com
Star mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina shone in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, part of a vivid London Philharmonic programme of music evoking fairytales and far horizons
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Bravo to @ryedalefestival, a 2024 grant recipient, for this excellent programme of Tippett rarities 👑
.@ryedalefestival review — extraordinary music in England’s grandest homes, including rare Tippett.
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.@ryedalefestival review — extraordinary music in England’s grandest homes, including rare Tippett.
thetimes.com
The North Yorkshire event presents a healthy variety of music in some of the country’s most beautiful buildings. Stars include Stephen Hough, Claire Booth and Jess Gillam
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Here they are in action: 1 & 2 - @LonYouthChoirs Cambiata Choir’s performance of their composition “Grateful” at St John’s Waterloo, Mar 2025 3 & 4 - LYC’s Chamber Choir performance of Tippett’s Five Spirituals at St Bartholomew The Great, Jun 2025
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We were proud to help fund @LonYouthChoirs' Michael Tippett: Group Composition & the Gospel Tradition project, which included a performance of Tippett's Five Spirituals, and composition workshops which saw over 130 young people devise their own choral work based on Tippett's.
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Planning your next Tippett fix? We've updated our website with concerts throughout the rest of 2025 - including a very special @ryedalefestival performance next month of Crown of the Year & other rarities, featuring our chair Oliver Soden as reader.
tippettfoundation.org.uk
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Apr. 29 in the Classics: Composer Sir Michael Tippett, on the BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs in 1968, gives Homer's Odyssey as the third book he would choose to have if marooned on a desert island (two others are assumed by the show).
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Amid much exceptional music making, wonderful to see Tippett's final orchestral work, The Rose Lake, on the 2025 #BBCProms programme courtesy of @LPOrchestra and Ed Gardner.
bbc.co.uk
Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle...
BBC Proms 2025 is ready for lift off 🎉 It's here! Your first look at the world-class musicians, conductors and artists featured in this year's #BBCProms festival. Head to https://t.co/OAPQeJl7zs to check out all 86 of our concerts.
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"If I had stars to award, I would give all five in glowing gold!" Geraint Lewis in @GramophoneMag on Tippett's New Year from @BBCSSO @nmcrecordings.
gramophone.co.uk
Towards the end of 1984, when Michael...
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Auld acquaintance: Andrew Ford on Tippett's New Year for @insidestorymag:
insidestory.org.au
Visit the post for more.
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The 2025 @ryedalefestival will include a rare chance to hear Tippett's chamber cantata Crown of the Year, along with other works by both Tippett and Purcell. Priority booking opens today; general booking on April 14. See you in Pickering!
ryedalefestival.com
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Michael Tippett: New Year (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins)
limelight-arts.com.au
Read the Limelight review.
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Stealing away to friendship and joy: Tippett and Beethoven embrace at the Barbican @londonsymphony ✍️ Christopher Woodley https://t.co/RNMS8VGeuJ
bachtrack.com
An evocative reading of Tippett's early masterpiece sits proudly alongside a blistering performance of Beethoven's lasting gift to the world.
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In celebration of the release of New Year by @nmcrecordings, don't miss this Tippett playlist put together by our chair, @OSoden
https://t.co/NQJo0M8ALQ
nmcrec.co.uk
To cel
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★★★★☆ LSO/Pappano — a monster programme of Tippett and Beethoven’s Ninth | ✍️ @nfmusic
https://t.co/HM4bg7aUoR
thetimes.com
Antonio Pappano hurtled through Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with full-beam energy and brought his seasoned theatrical flair to Beethoven
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Premiered #OTD in 1944, the oratorio A Child of Our Time by English composer & conductor, Michael Tippett. London’s Adelphi Theatre staged the event, with the composer conducting the @LPOrchestra & Morley College Choir plus extras. https://t.co/7K4D0AcRku
#britsymphyear
open.spotify.com
Michael Tippett · album · 1991 · 30 songs
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