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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.

Garrick Ohlsson
Concert

Ohlsson Plays Chopin

Wed, Aug 5 · 6:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Garrick Ohlsson—one of only two Americans to have won the International Chopin Piano Competition—returns to the Festival to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero, the program also journeys to Mexico and Italy with Juan Pablo Contreras’s lively Mariachitlán and Tchaikovsky’s tuneful Capriccio Italien.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor

Garrick Ohlsson Piano

Program

Juan Pablo Contreras Mariachitlán

Fryderyk Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2

Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien

Performances

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Giancarlo Guerrero
    Welcome Letter from Giancarlo

    Giancarlo Guerrero

    Conductor

  • Garrick Ohlsson
    Garrick Ohlsson

    Garrick Ohlsson

    Piano

Composers

  • Juan Pablo Contreras
    Juan Pablo Contreras

    Juan Pablo Contreras

    Composer

  • Fryderyk Chopin

    Fryderyk Chopin

    Composer

  • Piotr_Iyich_Tchaikovsky

    Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Composer