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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.

Oliver Herbert horiz
Concert

Haydn Military Symphony

Wed, Jun 17 · 6:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Percussive bombast suggests an advancing army in Haydn’s Military Symphony No. 100 in this thrilling program conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. After Julia Perry’s energetic Short Piece, young cello virtuoso Oliver Herbert joins the Grant Park Orchestra for Shostakovich’s lively Cello Concerto No. 1.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor

Oliver Herbert Cello

Program

Julia Perry Short Piece

Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1

Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 100, Military

Performances

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Giancarlo Guerrero
    Welcome Letter from Giancarlo

    Giancarlo Guerrero

    Conductor

  • Oliver Herbert
    Oliver Herbert

    Oliver Herbert

    Cello

Composers

  • Julia Perry

    Julia Perry

    Composer

  • Dmitri_Shostakovich

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Composer

  • Franz Joseph Haydn
    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Composer