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June 11 - August 16, 2025

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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.

Cole Randolph

Cole Randolph

Cello

Cole Randolph is a Posse Foundation Leadership scholar, and May 2020 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in music performance and economics. Cole was born and raised in Washington DC, and began playing the cello at the age of five. He has performed in many venues including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The White House. Cole's undergraduate cello study was under the tutelage of Uri Vardi. Cole is currently serving as an African-American Fellow with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.