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Join us throughout the summer as we share some of the city’s most exciting and inspiring music making!
Season Premiere: Rhapsody in Blue
June 11, 2025, 6:30 pm
The Festival’s 2025 season opens with George Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue, featuring renowned conductor and pianist Andrew Litton leading the Grant Park Orchestra. The program also features the vibrant Three Latin American Dances by Gabriela Lena Frank, and Manuel de Falla’s suite from the Three-Cornered Hat.
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
June 18, 2025, 6:30 pm
In his debut performance as the Festival’s newly appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads a program featuring Grant Park Orchestra concertmaster Jeremy Black in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. The program also includes Adolphus Hailstork’s An American Port of Call and Leonard Bernstein’s searing suite from the film On the Waterfront.
Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Grant Park Music Festival in July 2024 (Photo: Charles Osgood courtesy Grant Park Music Festival)
Mozart Paris Symphony
June 25, 2025, 6:30 pm
The Festival offers a diverse and captivating program featuring Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Valerie Coleman’s Phenomenal Women performed by the dazzling Imani Winds, and Mozart’s charming “Paris” Symphony.
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
July 2, 2025, 6:30 pm
Osmo Vänskä, former Minnesota Orchestra music director, leads the Festival premiere of Henry Dorn’s Transitions, and violinist Paul Huang performs Bruch’s delightful Scottish Fantasy. The program concludes with Beethoven’s beloved Pastoral Symphony.
Debussy La Mer
July 9, 2025, 6:30 pm
Nicole Paiement conducts Debussy’s La Mer and Smetana’s beloved The Moldau, along with a new work by Mark Adamo titled Last Year, a cello concerto inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, featuring the Festival’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence, Inbal Segev as soloist.
Elgar Enigma Variations
July 16, 2025, 6:30 pm
Courtney Lewis conducts Johann Strauss’ sparkling overture to Die Fledermaus and Anna Clyne’s captivating Dance, featuring cellist Inbal Segev. The program concludes with Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a beloved series of musical portraits.
Inbal Segev (Photo: Grant Legan)
Ravel Boléro
July 23, 2025, 6:30 pm
Pianist Maxim Lando joins the Grant Park Orchestra for Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Liszt’s Rhapsody Espagnole. The evening also includes Rossini’s charming overture to The Barber of Seville and Ravel’s exhilarating Boléro. Lee Mills conducts.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
July 30, 2025, 6:30 pm
Scottish virtuoso Steven Osborne joins the Grant Park Orchestra for Beethoven’s deeply expressive Piano Concerto No. 4, led by acclaimed American conductor Joseph Young. The program also features Howard Hanson’s passionate Symphony No. 2, The Romantic.
Joshua Bell and Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet
August 6, 2025, 6:30 pm
One Night Only! Joshua Bell and the Grant Park Orchestra play Édouard Lalo’s fiery Symphonie Espagnole in a program with Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, and Franz von Suppe’s Poet and Peasant Overture. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts.
Joshua Bell (Photo: Phillip Knott)
Season Finale: Carmina Burana
August 15, 2025, 6:30 pm
Experience the grandeur of Carmina Burana, featuring the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, three world-class soloists, and Uniting Voices children’s chorus. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts this season finale which also includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture, and Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain.
