The Grant Park Orchestra was formed in 1944 when the Chicago Park District assembled a single resident orchestra under the direction of Principal Conductor Nikolai Malko to perform at the Grant …

Six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Giancarlo Guerrero named artistic leader of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival.

The internationally renowned conductor and longtime music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and music director …

Jeremy Black became concertmaster of the Grant Park Orchestra in 2005 and has been principal second violin of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2017. Black has been invited to perform as …

(3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847) Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, conductor, pianist and of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music and chamber music. …

(August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, music educator, pianist and writer. A Renaissance man, he was one of the most celebrated Americans of …

Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan School of Music, under …