Opening Night

Haydn and Walton

Wednesday, June 13 at 6:30pm

Saturday, June 16 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Dashon Burton, Baritone

Sean Shepherd: Magiya

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 99

William Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

Mozart Violin Concerto

Friday, June 15 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; William Hagen, Violin

Christoph Willibald Gluck: Overture: Orfeo ed Euridice

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major

Carl Maria Von Weber: Euryanthe Overture

Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations

Bernstein, Brahms and a World Premiere

Wednesday, June 20 at 6:30pm

Friday, June 22 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

Johannes Brahms: Gesang der Parzen

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Olivier Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium

Êriks Ešenvalds: World Premiere - Festival Commission

Rachmanivov Piano Concerto No. 3

Saturday, June 23 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Natasha Paremski, Piano

Schiff: Infernal

Walter Piston: Symphony No. 6

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Schubert Symphony No. 3

Wednesday, June 27 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Adam Walker, Flute

Albert Roussel: Le festin de l'araignée

Carl Nielsen: Concerto for Flute

Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poem

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3

Dvoràk Cello Concerto

Friday, June 29 at 6:30pm

Saturday, June 30 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Johannes Moser, Cello

Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto

Zoltán Kodály: Summer Evening

Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta

Independence Day Salute

Wednesday, July 4 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Christopher Bell, Conductor; Emily Bear, Piano

John Williams: Liberty Fanfare

Aaron Copland: Variations on a Shaker Melody

Adolphus Hailstork: Three Spirituals

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

John Philip Sousa: The Belle of Chicago

Robert Wendell: From Sea to Shining Sea

(Arr. Robert Lowden): Armed Forces Salute

(Arr. Carmen Dragon): America the Beautiful

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Friday, July 6 at 6:30pm

Saturday, July 7 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, Guest Conductor; Kelley O'Connor, Mezzo Soprano

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

William Bolcom: Symphony No. 4, The Rose

William Bolcom: Machine from Symphony No. 5

Vivaldi Four Seasons: Grant Park Orchestra in the Parks

Monday, July 9 at 7pm

Location: South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Dr.

Thursday, July 12 at 7pm

Location: Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd.

Members of the Grant Park Orchestra; Jeremy Black, Conductor and Violin

Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Music of the Silver Screen: An American in Paris and Mora

Wednesday, July 11 at 8pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Vinay Parameswaran, Guest Conductor

Miklós Rózsa: Parade of the Charioteers from Ben Hur

Serge Prokofiev: Suite from Lieutenant Kije

Bernard Herrmann: Overture to Citizen Kane

Erich Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood

George Gershwin: An American in Paris

John Williams: "Raiders March” from Raiders of the Lost Ark

I Could Have Danced All Night: Broadway's Lerner and Loewe

Friday, July 13 at 8pm

Saturday, July 14 at 8pm

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Kevin Stites, Guest Conductor; Sierra Boggess, Soprano; Ryan Silverman, Tenor; Ben Crawford, Baritone

Lerner and Loewe: Classic Broadway

Beethoven Symphony No. 2

Wedneday, July 18 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Roderick Cox, Guest Conductor; Jeremy Black, Violin; Eric Hall, Bassoon; Walter Haman, Cello; Nathan Mills, Oboe

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

Franz Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante

Richard Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

Grant Park Chorus in the Parks

Thursday, July 19 at 7pm

Location: South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Dr.

Sunday, July 22 at 7pm

Location: Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd

Grant Park Chorus; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

Samuel Barber: God’s Grandeur

William Henry Harris: Faire is the Heaven

Anton Bruckner: Virga Jesse

Anton Bruckner: Christus Factus Est

Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria

Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia

Michael Tippet: Spirituals from Child of Our Time

Kenneth Leighton: God’s Grandeur

Barber Violin Concerto

Friday, July 20 at 6:30pm

Saturday, July 21 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Markus Stenz, Guest Conductor; Paul Huang, Violin

Detlev Glanert: Frenesia

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Spring

Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2

Wednesday, July 25 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Gemma New, Guest Conductor; Kirill Gerstein, Piano

Douglas Lilburn: Aotearoa Overture

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony

Friday, July 27 at 6:30pm

Saturday, July 28 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; David Danzmayr, Guest Conductor; Colin Currie, Percussion

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2

Andrew Norman: Switch

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Scottish

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday, August 1 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor

Antonin Dvorák: Othello Overture

Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

Richard Strauss: Macbeth

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy

Haydn and Debussy

Friday, August 3 at 6:30pm

Saturday, August 4 at 7:30pm

Location: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 201 E. Randolph St.

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Janai Brugger, Soprano; Lauren Segal, Mezzo Soprano; Brendan Touhy, Tenor Michael Sumuel, Bass

Franz Joseph Haydn: Overture: "The Representation of Chaos" from The Creation

Claude Debussy: Nocturnes

Franz Joseph Haydn: Mass in B-flat Major: Theresa Mass

Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1

Wednesday, August 8 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; George Li, Piano

John Vincent: Symphony in D Major

Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1

Frédéric Chopin (arr. Igor Stravinsky): Nocturne in A-flat Major

Frédéric Chopin (arr. Igor Stravinsky): Grande Valse Brillante

Prokofiev and Vaughan Williams

Friday, August 10 at 6:30pm

Saturday, August 11 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Pablo Ferrández, Cello

Serge Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4

Ryan Opera Center: The Old Maid and the Theif

Wednesday, August 15 at 6:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Artists Of The Patrick E. And Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Gian Carlo Menotti: The Old Maid and the Thief

Carmina Burana

Friday, August 17 at 6:30pm

Saturday, August 18 at 7:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor; Benjamin Rivera, Guest Chorus Director; Claire De Sevigne, Soprano; Michael Maniaci, Counter Tenor; James Westman, Baritone; Members Of The Anima - Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus

Antonin Dvořák: Water Goblin

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana