Today, Grant Park Music Festival announced its 2017 summer season. This year’s festival runs for 10 weeks from June 14 through August 19 at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, and other city venues including the South Shore Cultural Center.
The opening night concert features Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Vadim Gluzman as the soloist. The world premiere of a newly-commissioned horn concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis will be given in August. The Grant Park Chorus joins the orchestra for performances including the festival finale, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
The Festival also announced that it renewed the contract of Carlos Kalmar, the Festival’s artistic director and principal conductor, through 2021.
All Grant Park Music Festival concerts are free. WFMT will have several live broadcasts from the festival, including opening night and the Beethoven Ninth concerts. See a full listing of performances below.
Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grand Park Orchestra
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion Concert
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Vadim Gluzman, Violin
Alfvén: Festival Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
A Sea Symphony
Friday, June 16, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, June 17, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Sara Jakubiak, Soprano; David John Pike, Baritone
Britten: Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Soprano Susanna Phillips
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Susanna Phillips, Soprano
Wagner: Overture: A Faust Overture
Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Stravinsky Firebird
Friday, June 23, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 24, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Conrad Tao, Piano
Schiff: Infernal
Khachaturian: Piano Concerto
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Missa Latina
Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Friday, June 30, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Guest Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Jessica Rivera, Soprano
Sierra: Missa Latina
Canada’s 150th Birthday Celebration With the Canadian Brass
Saturday, July 1, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Lucas Waldin, Guest Conductor; Canadian Brass
A celebration of Canada’s diverse musical landscape
Independence Day Salute*
Tuesday, July 4, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Christopher Bell, Conductor
An evening of patriotic favorites, including Stars and Stripes Forever, the 1812 Overture and more
*An encore performance will be held on Wednesday, July 5 at 6:30 PM at the South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Drive
Conductor Thomas Wilkins
Star Wars and More: The Music of John Williams
Friday, July 7, 2017, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Saturday, July 8, 2017, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Thomas Wilkins, Guest Conductor
Orchestral favorites from Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more
Haydn London Symphony
Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Fawzi Haimor, Guest Conductor
Roustom: Ramal
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, “London”
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
A perfect picnic at the 2016 Grant Park Music Festival
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Friday, July 14, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 15, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Simone Young, Guest Conductor; Andrew Tyson, Piano
Hindson: Headbanger
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Strauss: Symphonia domestica
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto
Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Brett Mitchell, Guest Conductor; Angelo Xiang Yu, Violin
Bunch: Supermaximum
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Copland: The Red Pony
Laura Osnes is featured in Festival’s summer Broadway concert.
A Broadway Romance
Friday, July 21, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 22, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus; Ted Sperling, Guest Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
The ups and downs of romance with music from West Side Story, Carousel, Follies and more
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Stephen Hough, Piano
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, 6
Mozart Linz Symphony
Friday, July 28, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 29, 2017, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Colleen Daly, Soprano; Lauren Segal, Mezzo-Soprano; David Pomeroy, Tenor; James Westman, Baritone; Daniel Okulitch, Bass
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Martin: In terra pax
The Spanish Guitar
Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Pablo Villegas, Guitar
Arriaga: Los esclavos felices: Overture
Bizet: Suite from Carmen
Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre
Turina: Danzas fantàsticas
Debussy La Mer
Friday, August 4, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 5, 2017, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; François Leleux, Oboe
Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass
Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D Major
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Debussy: La Mer
Members of Mariachi Cobre perform at Disney World.
An Evening With Mariachi Cobre
Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Mariachi Cobre joins the Grant Park Orchestra for an evening of traditional Mexican folk music.
Manfred Symphony
Friday, August 11, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, August 12, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Jonathan Boen, Horn
Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture to The Tsar’s Bride
Kernis: Horn Concerto (World Premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
Haydn Cello Concerto
Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Harriet Krijgh, Cello
Respighi: The Birds
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
Janai Brugger (Photo: Dario Acosta)
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Friday, August 18, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, August 19, 2017, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor; Christopher Bell, Chorus Director; Janai Brugger, Soprano; Allyson McHardy, Mezzo-Soprano; Brendan Tuohy, Tenor; Russell Braun, Bass
Brahms: Schicksalslied
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
