2023 Season

Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Xavier Foley, double bass

Program

Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Nino Rota: Divertimento Concertante
Robert Fuchs: Symphon​y No. 2

Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
Ping Tom Memorial 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

Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Jun 24, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Harris Theater

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

Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
South Shore Cultural Center

Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
Columbus Park Refectory

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

Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 6:30-8pm
South Shore Cultural Center

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

Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Fri, Jul 7, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Jul 8, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
Jefferson Park

Featuring

Grant Park Music Festival Vocal Fellows

Program

Songs and arias

Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 2-3pm
Indoors - Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 5:45-6:45pm
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

Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 12:15-1pm
Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist, Chicago

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

Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
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

Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Wed, Jul 26, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
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

Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 6:30-7:30pm
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

Fri, Aug 4, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Harris Theater

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

Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Aug 12, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin

Program

Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8

Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 6:30-8pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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

Fri, Aug 18, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm & Sat, Aug 19, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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