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Season Debut: María Dueñas and Marin Alsop

July 19, 2026, 5:00 pm

María Dueñas (Photo: Tam Lan Truong) and Marin Alsop (Photo: Nancy Horowitz).

We begin our 2026 Ravinia Series with a live broadcast from the Hunter Pavilion! On July 19th at 5 pm, Marin Alsop leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program of Beethoven. Rapidly rising violin soloist María Dueñas tackles Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 (“Pastoral”)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61
María Dueñas, violin

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Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He's always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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Season Debut: María Dueñas and Marin Alsop

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