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June 11 - August 16, 2025

Welcome

The Grant Park Music Festival is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois’ Millennium Park.

It features the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, along with guest performers and conductors, and is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in the US.

Audrey Lee

Audrey Lee

Violin

Audrey is a violinist in the Austin Opera, first violinist of the Kahlo String Quartet and an adjunct faculty member at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Prior to these positions, she performed frequently with the Austin Symphony and New World Symphony.

Audrey has performed at many international music festivals including Aspen Music Festival and School, National Repertory Orchestra, Castleton Festival, and Brevard Music Center. She has performed as a soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra, the Clear Lake Symphony, and the ECHO Chamber Orchestra.

A passionate music educator, Audrey has directed orchestra programs, coached chamber music ensembles, and designed beginning string curricula for K-12 students. She has taught masterclasses at Texas Lutheran University, Suzuki Strings of Austin, and Orpheus Academy, as well as a seminar on “Performance Anxiety and Practice Strategies” for PMAY artists in Philadelphia. Audrey has taught and mentored students through El Sistema USA programs both in Austin, TX and Philadelphia, PA. Prior to joining Southeastern Oklahoma State as an adjunct instructor, Audrey taught and performed as an adjunct faculty member at Chestnut Hill College.

Audrey studied with Kenneth Goldsmith in the Michael P. Hammond preparatory program at the Shepherd School of Music. She studied with Cornelia Heard at Vanderbilt University, receiving a BM in violin performance and psychology, and completed her MM with Miro Quartet member (and fiddle champion) William Fedkenheuer at the University of Texas at Austin.