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
Concert at Ping Tom Park
Featuring
Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows
Program
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Concertante Quartet No. 5, mvt 1
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama, mvts 1 and 4
Xavier Foley: Underground Railroad (Grant Park Music Festival commission)
Astor Piazzolla: Tango Ballet
Maureen Nelson: Fantasy on a Peruvian Melody
Szymon Laks: String Quartet No. 3, mvt 2
Caroline Shaw: Valencia
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)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Incidental Music to Hamlet
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare
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
Concert at Jefferson Park
Featuring
Grant Park Music Festival Vocal Fellows
Program
Songs and arias
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
Program
Xavier Foley: Midnight Sonata (World Premiere)
Antonio Vivaldi: Cello Sonata No. 1
Xavier Foley: Latin Paradise
Giovanni Bottesini: La Sonnambula
Rush Hour Concert at St. James Cathedral
Featuring
Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows
Grant Park Orchestra Musicians
Program
Clarice Assad: Impressions
Xavier Foley: Underground Railroad (world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
Featuring
Taylor Mackenize Adams, soprano
Miya Hagishiyama, mezzo-soprano
Eric Botto, tenor
Anthony Pilcher, baritone
Dana Brown, piano
Paul Dykstra, piano
Program
Wayland Rogers: Encounters from I-Thou
Henri Duparc: Chanson triste
Claude Debussy: Nuit d'étoiles
Chris DeBlasio: Walt Whitman in 1989
Gerald Finzi: “Transformations” from A Young Man’s Exhortation
Daniel Catán: “Del Destino” from Florencia en el Amazonas
Florence Price: Sympathy
Undine Smith Moore: "Love Let the Wind Cry…How I Adore Thee"
Johannes Brahms: selections from Liebeslieder Waltzes
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
Concert at Unity Park
Featuring
Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows
Program
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Concertante Quartet No. 5, mvt 1
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama, mvts 1 and 4
Xavier Foley: Underground Railroad (Grant Park Music Festival commission)
Astor Piazzolla: Tango Ballet
Maureen Nelson: Fantasy on a Peruvian Melody
Szymon Laks: String Quartet No. 3, mvt 2
Caroline Shaw: Valencia
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
Concert at Marquette Park
Featuring
Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows
Program
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Concertante Quartet No. 5, mvt 1
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama, mvts 1 and 4
Xavier Foley: Underground Railroad (Grant Park Music Festival commission)
Astor Piazzolla: Tango Ballet
Maureen Nelson: Fantasy on a Peruvian Melody
Szymon Laks: String Quartet No. 3, mvt 2
Caroline Shaw: Valencia
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
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 Larson: 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 The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Music of the Night from The 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
Concert at Lake Shore Park
Featuring
Grant Park Music Festival String Fellows
Program
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Concertante Quartet No. 5, mvt 1
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama, mvts 1 and 4
Xavier Foley: Underground Railroad (Grant Park Music Festival commission)
Astor Piazzolla: Tango Ballet
Maureen Nelson: Fantasy on a Peruvian Melody
Szymon Laks: String Quartet No. 3, mvt 2
Caroline Shaw: Valencia
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