The Grant Park Music Festival brings a whole summer of fun for the whole family, with free concerts, master classes, and more.
Schumann Symphony No. 4
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Jeremy Black, violin
Program
Robert Muczynski: Symphonic Dialogues
Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Dvořák Stabat Mater
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Olivia Boen, soprano
Siena Licht Miller, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Myers, tenor
Joseph Beutel, bass-baritone
Program
Antonín Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Xavier Foley, double bass
Program
Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Nino Rota: Divertimento Concertante
Robert Fuchs: Symphony No. 2
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Program
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Oberon
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Felix Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excerpts)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare
Dmitri Shostakovich: Incidental Music to Hamlet
American Songs
Featuring
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor
Program
Aaron Copland: Old American Songs
Ayanna Woods: Archive Alive
Ayanna Woods: To Propagate a Home
Morton Lauridsen: Nocturnes
Elaine Hagenberg: Illuminare
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Jordan de Souza, conductor
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Program
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1, Afro-American
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Valentina Peleggi, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Program
Valerie Coleman: Umoja
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
An American Salute: Rhapsody in Blue
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Christopher Bell, conductor
Michelle Cann, piano
Program
Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Aaron Copland: Variations on a Shaker Theme
Morton Gould: American Salute
Edmond Dédé: Chicago: Grande valse à l'Américaine
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
arr. Carmen Dragon: America the Beautiful
John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
Marsalis Violin Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Lindsey Reynolds, soprano
Tai Murray, violin
Program
Wynton Marsalis: Violin Concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Francis Poulenc: Gloria
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Gemma New, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Program
Vivian Fung: Aqua
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 1
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Program
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Franz Liszt: Totentanz
Sergei Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet
CenterStage with Foley and Yang
Featuring
Xavier Foley, composer and bassist
Joyce Yang, piano
Grant Park Orchestra Musicians
Program
Xavier Foley: world premiere of new work
Pictures at an Exhibition
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Esther Yoo, violin
Program
Carlos Simon: Profiles
Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Modest Mussorgsky/Gorchakov: Pictures at an Exhibition
Brahms Requiem
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Maeve Höglund, soprano
Hugh Russell, baritone
Program
Joel Thompson: Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
Elgar Cello Concerto
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Program
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
Bravo Broadway
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Gerald Steichen, conductor
Scarlett Strallen, vocals
LaKisha Jones, vocals
Hugh Panaro, vocals
Program
Jule Styne: Overture to Gypsy
Charlie Smalls: Everybody Rejoice from The Wiz
Charlie Smalls: Home from The Wiz
Burton Lane: Old Devil Moon from Finian’s Rainbow
Frederick Loewe: I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady
Richard and Robert Sherman: Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins
Elton John: Circle of Life from The Lion King
Meredith Willson: 76 Trombones from The Music Man
Jonathan Larsen: Seasons of Love from Rent
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul: You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hansen
John Fogerty: Proud Mary from Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
John Kander: Willkommen from Cabaret
John Kander: Overture and All That Jazz from Chicago
Claude-Michel Schönberg: Bring Him Home from Les Misérables
Alan Menken: Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors
Henry Krieger: And I Am Telling You from Dreamgirls
Jerry Herman: I Am What I Am from La Cage aux Folles
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Phantom of the Opera from Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera
Leonard Bernstein: Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
David Danzmayr, conductor
Aniello Desiderio, guitar
Program
Unsuk Chin: subito con forza
Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Pines of Rome
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Masumi Per Rostad, viola
Program
Antonín Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Jessie Montgomery: L.E.S. Characters
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome
Cirque Returns
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Stephen Alltop, conductor
Troupe Vertigo
Program
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance from El amor brujo
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Arturo Márquez: Danzón No.2
Georges Bizet: Selections from Carmen
Hadelich Plays Prokofiev
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Program
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
Stephen Hough Plays Mendelssohn
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Program
Moritz Moszkowski: From Foreign Lands
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1
Franz Liszt: Les préludes
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Featuring
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Michael Black, chorus director
Corinne Wallace-Crane, alto
Miles Mykkanen, tenor
Alex Desocio, baritone
David Govertsen, bass
Program
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Felix Mendelssohn: The First Walpurgis Night
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances