New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The classical pianist and naturalist Hunter Noack, announced his second album, IN A LANDSCAPE: Live out June 6 via
Heinz Records. The album will feature 12 live recordings from a year of performances, captured in stunning natural settings. The announcement comes just as Noack is set to begin the 10th anniversary tour of IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical
Music in the Wild™, which kicks off tomorrow, May 10 in Goldendale, WA.
Produced by Hunter Noack, the album highlights his signature fusion of classical music, traditional folk, and the natural world. It features a range of distinguished artists, including GRAMMY Award-winning contemporary composer Caroline Shaw, genre-defying vocalist Ganavya, Smithsonian singer-songwriter No-No Boy, America's Got Talent vocalist Jimmie Herrod, and GRAMMY award winning indigenous artist
James Edmund Greeley. The album also features a variety of classical and contemporary composers including acclaimed Turkish pianist Fazıl Say, Haitian virtuoso Ludovic Lamothe, impressionist
Claude Debussy, and the legendary romantic Frédéric Chopin. "I invited the artists I fell in love with last year to join me on stage and the result is the most wildly diverse track list I've heard on a 'classical' album," Hunter Noack shares.
The album is comprised of 12 live recordings captured in stunning outdoor settings — Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada; the Rose Garden Amphitheater in Portland, Oregon; Surprise Valley in California; and
Silver Falls
State Park in Silverton, Oregon, among others.
Tomorrow, Noack kicks off the 10th season of IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical
Music in the Wild™, the groundbreaking concert series that transforms how audiences experience classical music by removing it from the confines of traditional concert halls and placing it in the great outdoors. Noack is set to travel across the American West with a 1912 Steinway grand piano for 50 concerts this year. Mountain tops, old growth forests, and sunny meadows will again replace the traditional concert hall as audiences listen through wireless headphones, wandering afield with the music as a soundtrack to their experience.
The tour will include performances in a variety of locations, including Sea Ranch, CA, San Francisco Botanical Garden, Orcas Island, WA,
Black Butte Ranch in Sisters, OR, Woodbury Preserve in Jackson, WY, Warm Springs Preserve in Ketchum, Idaho, Bellosguardo in
Santa Barbara, CA, and
Silver Falls
State Parkin Oregon's Willamette Valley. The new season will also feature nighttime concerts in dark-sky preserves. The 2025 tour will officially begin tomorrow on May 10 at Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, WA and conclude on
September 21 in Portland, OR at Lewis & Clark College. Please find full tour routing below. For more information and tickets, please visit: https://www.inalandscape.org/
Founded by Noack in 2016 with a mission to remove barriers to live classical music and foster a deeper connection to the natural world, IN A LANDSCAPE has presented over 300 concerts featuring 110 guest artists to 75,000 attendees, many of whom had never attended a classical music event before. By partnering with national and state parks, land trusts, conservancies, historical societies, Native American reservations, and schools, the series brings music to rural communities where such opportunities are often scarce. In alignment with its nonprofit mission to make concerts accessible to all, IN A LANDSCAPE subsidizes ticket pricing at 95% of its concerts and distributes over $100,000 in free tickets annually through its Good Neighbor Program.
Beyond its innovative approach to classical music, IN A LANDSCAPE creates space for immersive storytelling by frequently featuring poets, Native American musicians, dancers, singers, and visual artists as guest performers. The concerts are designed to inspire a sense of quiet contemplation and free-spirited play, encouraging audience members to fully engage with the music and the landscape around them.
IN A LANDSCAPE cultivates a profound feeling of togetherness across ranchers and hikers to city dwellers, families, and classical music aficionados, proving that music and nature have the power to unite people across all walks of life. The series has won multiple awards and has been featured on CBS Mornings, in the Los Angeles Times, C Magazine, Success Magazine, and FLAUNT and as part of TEDxPortland.
Named after John Cage's composition In a Landscape, Noack's series embraces the avant-garde composer's ethos of redefining how we listen to and experience music. "What surprises me every concert," says Noack, "are the moments of serendipity—when the leaves blow or the birds dance perfectly in time with the music, as if choreographed by a divine hand. In those moments of magic, I feel such gratitude for classical music and the parks and wild lands in which we play."
IN A LANDSCAPE: LIVE Tracklisting
1. Ludovic Lamothe - Ballade in a minor
Music by Ludovic Lamothe
**Live from Woodbury Preserve in Jackson, Wyoming
2. Piáp Túuxn (Father Sky) (with
James Edmund Greeley)
Music by Hunter Noack and
James Edmund Greeley
**Live from Prineville Reservoir
State Park in Prineville, Oregon
3. Fazıl Say - Kara Toprak
Music by Fazıl Say
**Live from John Day Fossil Beds
National Monument in Kimberly, Oregon
4. Reckoning (with Ringdown)
Music by Danni Lee and Caroline Shaw
**Live from
Silver Falls
State Park in Silverton, Oregon
5. Alessandro Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D - ii. Adagio
Music by Alessandro Marcello
**Live from Surprise Valley, California
6. 1603 (performed by No-No Boy)
Music by Julian Saporiti
**Live from
Drake Park in Bend, Oregon
7. Maybe
Honey (performed by Ganavya and Rajna Swaminathan)
Music by Ganavya and Rajna Swaminathan
**Live from Rose Garden Amphitheater in Portland, Oregon
8. Ho wina (performed by Don Gentry)
**Live from Moore Park in Klamath Falls, Oregon
9.
Claude Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Music by
Claude Debussy
**Live from Soter Vineyards in Carlton, Oregon
10. The Summer Knows (performed by Jimmie Herrod)
Music and lyrics by Michel Legrand
**Live from Meadowbrook Farm in North Bend, Washington
11. Frédéric Chopin - Berceuse
Music by Frédéric Chopin
**Live from Banff Centre for Art and Creativity in Banff, Alberta, Canada
12. Fare Thee Well (with May Arden)
Traditional folk song, in the public domain
**Live from Wallowa Lake Lodge in Joseph, Oregon
IN A LANDSCAPE 2025 TOUR DATES:
5/10/2025 - Maryhill Museum of Art - Goldendale, WA
5/17/2025 - Bellosguardo -
Santa Barbara, CA
5/19/2025 - Filoli Historic House & Garden - Woodside, CA
5/20/2025 - Filoli Historic House & Garden - Woodside, CA
5/21/2025 - San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, CA
5/23/2025 - Jack London
State Historic Park - Glen Ellen, CA
5/24/2025 - Jack London
State Historic Park - Glen Ellen, CA
5/25/2025 - Campovida - Hopland, CA
5/27/2025 - The Sea Ranch- Sea Ranch, CA
5/28/2025 - The Sea Ranch - Sea Ranch, CA
5/30/2025 - Applegate Lake - Jackson OR
6/1/2025 - Kah-Nee-Ta - Warm Springs, OR
6/16/2025 -
Black Butte Ranch - Sisters, OR
6/17/2025 -
Black Butte Ranch - Sisters, OR
6/18/2025 -
Black Butte Ranch - Sisters, OR
6/19/2025 - Wine Down Ranch - Prineville, OR
6/21/2025 - Alvord Desert - Princeton, OR
6/23/2025 - Warm Springs Preserve - Ketchum, ID
6/25/2025 - Woodbury Preserve - Jackson, WY
6/27/2025 - Story Mill Park - Bozeman, MT
6/29/2025 - Sweathouse Creek - Bitterroot Valley, MT
7/1/2025 - Schweitzer Mountain - Sandpoint, ID
7/12/2025 - Rose Garden Amphitheater - Portland, OR
7/13/2025 - Rose Garden Amphitheater - Portland, OR
7/16/2025 - Orcas Island - Olga, WA
7/17/2025 - Orcas Island - Olga, WA
7/19/2025 - Gas Works Park - Seattle, WA
7/20/2025 - Golden Gardens Park - Seattle, WA
7/22/2025 - Suncadia - Cle Elum, WA
7/23/2025 - Suncadia - Cle Elum, WA
8/27/2025 - Soter Vineyards - Willamette Valley, OR
8/29/2025 - Dunes Meadow Park - Gearhart, OR
8/30/2025 - Dunes Meadow Park - Gearhart, OR
8/31/2025 - Stoller Family Estate- Willamette Valley, OR
9/1/2025 - Stoller Family Estate - Willamette Valley, OR
9/3/2025 -
Silver Falls
State Park - Willamette Valley, OR
9/4/2025 -
Silver Falls
State Park - Willamette Valley, OR
9/6/2025 - Shore Acres
State Park - Coos Bay, OR
9/7/2025 - Shore Acres
State Park - Coos Bay, OR
9/9/2025 - Rock Creek Recreation Site - Roseburg, OR
9/10/2025 - Mount Pisgah Arboretum - Eugene, OR
9/13/2025 - Fort Rock
State Natural Area - Fort Rock, OR
9/14/2025 - Summer Lake Hot Springs (Dark Sky) - Summer Lake, OR
9/15/2025 - Sunriver (Dark Sky) - Sunriver, OR
9/17/2025 -
Drake Park - Bend, OR
9/19/2025 - Riverfront Park - Salem, OR
9/21/2025 - Lewis & Clark College - Portland, OR
