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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.

Third Coast Percussion
Concert

Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Wed, Jul 8 · 8:00pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
1h 8m

Conductor Laureate Carlos Kalmar returns for Sibelius’s majestic Symphony No. 2, an emblem of Finnish nationalism written at a time of cultural and linguistic suppression. Christopher Theofanidis’s Drum Circle makes its Chicago premiere, featuring the virtuosic musicians of Third Coast Percussion.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar Conductor

Third Coast Percussion Percussion

Program

Christopher Theofanidis Drum Circles

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Performances

Pre Concert Talk

Open Rehearsals

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra
    Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Carlos Kalmar
    Carlos Kalmar

    Carlos Kalmar

    Conductor

  • Third Coast Percussion
    Third Coast Percussion

    Third Coast Percussion

    Percussion

Composers

  • Christopher Theofanidis
    Chris Theofanidis

    Christopher Theofanidis

    Composer

  • Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius

    Jean Sibelius

    Composer

Event Sponsors

This concert is generously supported by Lori Julian for the Julian Family Foundation.

This performance will be broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT and wfmt.com.

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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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