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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.

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Concert

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

Wed, Jun 18 · 6:30 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
1h 30m

In his debut performance as the Festival’s newly appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads a program featuring Grant Park Orchestra concertmaster Jeremy Black in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. The program also includes Adolphus Hailstork's An American Port of Call and Leonard Bernstein's searing suite from the film On the Waterfront.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor

Jeremy Black Violin

Program

Adolphus Hailstork An American Port of Call

Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront

Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra
    Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Giancarlo Guerrero
    Welcome Letter from Giancarlo

    Giancarlo Guerrero

    Conductor

  • Jeremy Black
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    Jeremy Black

    Concertmaster

Composers

  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Composer

  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein

    Composer

  • Adolphus Hailstork
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    Adolphus Hailstork

    Composer

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Jay Pritzker Pavilion

201 E Randolph St, Chicago

The centerpiece for Millennium Park and home of the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus.

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