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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.

Sankara Harouna
Concert

Fauré Requiem

Fri, Jul 17 · 6:30pm & Sat, Jul 18 · 7:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Christopher Bell celebrates his 25th anniversary as Director of the Grant Park Chorus with Fauré’s beloved Requiem. James MacMillan’s powerful Cantos Sagrados opens the program alongside Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region, a poignant setting of a poem by Walt Whitman.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus

Christopher Bell Conductor

Janai Brugger Soprano

Sankara Harouna Baritone

Program

James MacMillan Cantos Sagrados

Ralph Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region

Gabriel Fauré Requiem

Performances

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Chorus

    Grant Park Chorus

    Chorus

  • Christopher_Bell

    Christopher Bell

    Conductor

  • Janai_Bruggar

    Janai Brugger

    Soprano

  • Sankara_Harouna

    Sankara Harouna

    Baritone

Composers

  • James MacMillan
    James MacMillan

    James MacMillan

    Composer

  • Ralph_Vaughan_Willams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Composer

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Fauré

    Composer