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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.

Olga Kern
Concert

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

Wed, Jul 1 · 6:30pm & Fri, Jul 3 · 6:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Conductor Laureate Carlos Kalmar returns to the Festival with the technically brilliant pianist Olga Kern for Rachmaninov’s highly virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3. The program also features Stravinsky’s mischievously charming ballet Game of Cards and Elgar’s sunny In the South.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar Conductor

Olga Kern Piano

Program

Sergei Rachmanainov Piano Concerto No. 3

Igor Stravinsky Game of Cards

Edward Elgar In the South

Performances

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Carlos Kalmar
    Carlos Kalmar

    Carlos Kalmar

    Conductor

  • Olga Kern
    Olga Kern headshot

    Olga Kern

    Piano

Composers

  • Sergei Rachmaninov
    Sergei Rachmaninov

    Sergei Rachmaninov

    Composer

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Stravinsky

    Composer

  • Edward_Elgar

    Edward Elgar

    Composer