The Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Program is the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer academy for advanced musical study. The TMC offers an intensive schedule of study and performance for emerging professional instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and composers who have completed most of their formal training in music.

The Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood presents a wide variety of music united by one common thread: the highest artistic aspiration. In general, equal thirds of the Festival have been given over to senior, mid-career and young composers; among these, many are little known - but all have much to say.