Fauré Requiem
Christopher Bell celebrates his 25th anniversary as Director of the Grant Park Chorus with Fauré’s beloved Requiem. James MacMillan’s powerful Cantos Sagrados opens the program alongside Vaughan Williams’s Toward…
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Cirque: A Space Odyssey
The high-flying aerialists of Troupe Vertigo join the Grant Park Orchestra led by Enrico Lopez-Yañez, performing eye-popping feats to classical works and film scores, including Star…
An Evening with Ben Folds
Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter who has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo…
Ohlsson Plays Chopin
Garrick Ohlsson—one of only two Americans to have won the International Chopin Piano Competition—returns to the Festival to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Conducted…
Mozart Requiem
Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s soul-stirring Requiem, left incomplete at the time of the composer’s premature death at 35.…
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Conductor Edwin Outwater takes the podium for Tchaikovsky’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring award-winning pianist Sara Davis Buechner. Jimmy López’s Loud, Lou Harrison’s Elegiac Symphony No. 2,…
American Writers Festival: America at 250: Untold Stories
American Writers Museum (AWM), the first and only U.S. museum dedicated to the history and impact of American writers, is pleased to announce the return…
Navy Pier’s Independence Day Fireworks
Independence Day Fireworks Celebrate the Fourth of July with Navy Pier’s award-winning fireworks show the largest and longest display in our history. This year, we’re…
Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert
Embark on an epic adventure to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: A New Hope! Experience the iconic film like never before as the…
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Timeless jazz, acclaimed ensemble The legendary Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and its trailblazing leader Wynton Marsalis return to Symphony Center, their home in Chicago.…
Alsop Conducts Adams, Copland & Marsalis
Jazz, blues and orchestral sounds converge in a rousing celebration of the American story. The CSO joins forces with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra…
Conrad Tao
In his 2023 CSO subscription debut, Conrad Tao gave a “dazzling, staggering” performance of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, wrote the Chicago Tribune, in which Tao…
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