The Grant Park Music Festival

August 5, 2020

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Grant Park Music Festival presents a program of music composed by women, featuring Clara Schumann, Jennifer Higdon, Chicago composer Stacy Garrop, and more.

July 22, 2020

The rising pianist takes the Pritzker Pavilion stage to perform Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

July 8, 2020

Carlos Kalmar conducts this program, which also features Nielsen’s Flute Concerto.

June 24, 2020

Brother-sister duo Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff share the stage for this performance of Brahms’s Double Concerto. Also featured in this program are works by Weber and Carpenter.

June 10, 2020

Renowned pianist Stephen Hough performs Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Plus, festival principal conductor Carlos Kalmar conducts contemporary composer Sean Shepherd‘s Magiya and Walton’s oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast with bass-baritone Dashon Burton.

August 14, 2019

Maestro Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra in a mixed program featuring works by Amy Beach, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Morton Gould.

July 26, 2019

Brothers Anthony, clarinet, and Demarre McGill, flute, who hail from Chicago, join guest conductor David Danzmayr and the Grant Park Orchestra to perform Saint-Saëns’ Tarantelle and Joel Puckett Concerto Duo, which was written for them by Joel Puckett. Also featured in this performance are works by Jimmy López and Dvořák.

July 17, 2019

Works by Ravel, Ginastera, and Bizet are featured as Emmanuel Villaume leads the Grant Park Orchestra and guest harpist Yolanda Kondonassis in this week’s program.

June 21, 2019

Violinist Augustin Hadelich makes his Grant Park Music Festival debut with this performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto. The program also features a Shostakovich symphony and the world premiere commission of a work by GPMF composer-in-residence Stacy Garrop.