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June 10 - August 15, 2026

Welcome

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.

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Your Summer. Your Festival. Your Way.

It's easy! Just pick four concerts that work for you and your schedule.

Become a Choose Your Own member and enjoy great music, convenient exchanges and discounted on-site parking all summer long.

Need a little inspiration? Explore our season lineup, then check out these sample packages below. Or, create your own for as little as $104.

Classical Favorites

Jessica Rivera

Brahms Symphony No. 4

June 12, 6:30 PM and June 13, 7:30 PM

Charles Ives Variations on America

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4

Gabriela Lena Frank Conquest Requiem

Brahms Symphony No. 4
Olga Kern

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

July 1, 6:30 PM and July 3, 6:30 PM

Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

Igor Stravinsky Game of Cards

Edward Elgar In The South

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Leonard Slatkin

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

July 10, 6:30 PM and July 11, 7:30 PM

Leonard Slatkin Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy

Joseph Schanwatner Violin Concerto

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Giancarlos

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

August 14, 6:30 PM and August 15, 7:30 PM

Julia Wolfe Liberty Bell

Michael Daugherty Mount Rushmore

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Choral

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Pop Culture Picks

Giancarlo Guerrero

Bernstein West Side Story

June 10, 6:30 PM

Joan Tower Made in America

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Samuel Barber Symphony No. 1

Bernstein West Side Story
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Independence Day Salute

July 4, 7:30 PM

An evening of patriotic favorites and family fun conducted by Chorus Director Christopher Bell.

Independence Day Salute
Troupe Vertigo

Cirque: A Space Odyssey

July 22, 6:30 PM

The high-flying aerialists of Troupe Vertigo join the Grant Park Orchestra, performing eye-popping feats to classical works and film scores.

Cirque: A Space Odyssey
Anne Akiko Meyers

Dvořák New World Symphony

August 12, 6:30 PM

John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 1

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Dvořák New World Symphony

Piano Showstoppers

Stewart Goodyear

Copland Symphony No. 3

June 19, 6:30 PM and June 20, 7:30 PM

Reena Esmail Black Iris

Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3

Copland Symphony No. 3
Olga Kern

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

July 1, 6:30 PM and July 3, 6:30 PM

Sergei Rachmanainov Piano Concerto No. 3

Igor Stravinsky Game of Cards

Edward Elgar In the South

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Michelle Cann

Ravel Piano Concerto

July 15, 6:30 PM

William Grant Still Festive Overture

Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto

Florence Price Symphony No. 3

Ravel Piano Concerto
Garrick Ohlsson

Ohlsson Plays Chopin

August 5, 6:30 PM

Juan Pablo Contreras Mariachitlán

Fryderyk Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2

Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien

Ohlsson Plays Chopin