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 …

Carlos Kalmar has been Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival since 2000, and was named Artistic Director in 2011. Under Kalmar’s leadership, the Grant Park Music Festival has become …

With a vivid onstage presence, dazzling technique, and keen musicianship, pianist Olga Kern is widely recognized as one of the great artists of her generation, captivating audiences and critics alike. She …

Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov (April 1, 1873 – March 28, 1943) is widely considered to have been one of the greatest pianists of all time. Before emigrating from Russia, he was …

Igor Stravinsky is widely regarded as one of the two most influential composers of the modern era since the First World War; the other is Arnold Schoenberg. While Schoenberg pursued relentlessly …

The picture often painted of Elgar is one of the social outsider, a devout Catholic, snubbed by the English musical establishment but eventually, through the force of his music, reaching the …