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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.

Stewart Goodyear
Concert

Copland Symphony No. 3

Fri, Jun 19 · 6:30pm & Sat, Jun 20 · 7:30pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
1h 45m

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3, a masterful synthesis of the composer’s expansive American musical style. Piano virtuoso Stewart Goodyear returns to the Festival for Prokofiev’s charming Piano Concerto No. 3, presented alongside Reena Esmail’s emotionally impactful Black Iris.

Featuring

Grant Park Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor

Stewart Goodyear Piano

Program

Reena Esmail Black Iris

Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3

Performances

Pre Concert Talk

Open Rehearsals

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Featuring

  • Grant Park Orchestra
    Grant Park Orchestra

    Grant Park Orchestra

    Orchestra

  • Giancarlo Guerrero
    Welcome Letter from Giancarlo

    Giancarlo Guerrero

    Conductor

  • Stewart Goodyear
    Stewart Goodyear

    Stewart Goodyear

    Piano

Composers

  • Reena Esmail
    Reena Esmail

    Reena Esmail

    Composer

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergie_Prokoviev

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Composer

  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland

    Composer

Event Sponsors

This concert is generously sponsored by Colleen and Lloyd Fry and the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation. The appearance of Stewart Goodyear is graciously underwritten by David H. Whitney and Juliana Y. Chyu.

This performance will be broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT and wfmt.com.

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Jay Pritzker Pavilion

201 E Randolph St, Chicago

The centerpiece for Millennium Park and home of the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus.

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