The Grant Park Orchestra was formed in 1944 when the Chicago Park District assembled a single resident orchestra under the direction of Principal Conductor Nikolai Malko to perform at the Grant …

Grant Park Music Festival Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

Giancarlo Guerrero is a six-time GRAMMY® Award–winning conductor whose imaginative programming and “curatorial and interpretive creativity” (Chicago Tribune) draw from his orchestras …

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded …

Three-time Latin GRAMMY®-nominated composer and conductor Juan Pablo Contreras (b. 1987, Guadalajara, Mexico) masterfully weaves Western classical and Mexican folk music into an exhilarating soundscape, crafting works with “orchestrations that bring …

Born and raised in early 19th-century Poland, Fryderyk Chopin, more than almost any other composer, set the direction for the development of late 19th- and early 20th-century piano music, establishing genres …

Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s operas, ballets, and symphonies are firmly entrenched in the classical canon. His three Pushkin-based operas—Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, and Mazeppa—are staples of major opera houses. …