Making his Festival debut, Kedrick Armstrong conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in Gershwin’s jaunty An American In Paris. Experience the propulsive energy of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1 and Duke Ellington’s The Three Black Kings alongside Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lyrical Violin Concerto with soloist Gabriela Lara, an alumna of the Festival’s String Fellowship program.

Grant Park Orchestra

Kedrick Armstrong Conductor

Gabriele Lara Violin

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Sinfonietta No. 1

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto

Duke Ellington/arr. Luther Henderson The Three Black Kings

George Gershwin/rev. Frank Campbell-Watson An American in Paris