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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.

Leonard Slatkin
Concert

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Fri, Jul 10 · 6:30pm & Sat, Jul 11 · 7:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Former Grant Park Music Festival Principal Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to conduct Tchaikovsky’s fatalistic Symphony No. 5, alongside his own Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy. Violinist Yevgeny Kutik makes his Festival debut in the Chicago premiere of Joseph Schwantner’s Violin Concerto.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin Conductor

Yevgeny Kutik Violin

Program

Leonard Slatkin Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy

Joseph Schanwatner Violin Concerto

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Performances

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Leonard Slatkin
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    Leonard Slatkin

    Conductor

  • Yevgeny Kutik
    Yevgeny Kutik

    Yevgeny Kutik

    Violin

Composers

  • Leonard Slatkin
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    Leonard Slatkin

    Composer

  • Joseph Schwantner
    Joseph Schwantner

    Joseph Schwantner

    Composer

  • Piotr_Iyich_Tchaikovsky

    Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Composer