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June 10 - August 15, 2026

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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.

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Fahad Awan

Fahad Awan

Violin

Violinist Fahad Awan is a graduate of Indiana University, where he studied with Alexander Kerr. Musical education was scarce while growing up in rural Texas, but Fahad was fortunate to meet and study with the former concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony, Isidor Saslav. Fahad has performed in festivals across the United States and the Czech Republic. In addition to his education at Indiana University, Fahad is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was a student of David Updegraff and Stephen Rose. Fahad was a Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion Fellow and a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In his free time Fahad enjoys fly fishing, camping, hiking, and canoeing.

Fahad was a Grant Park Music Festival String Fellow in 2018.