Wednesdays at 6:30 pm
The Grant Park Music Festival is back, and so are WFMT’s live broadcasts!
WFMT is bringing you the very best that the Grant Park Music Festival has to offer this summer, giving you a front-row ticket to the Chicago summertime institution. With live broadcasts featuring scintillating solo performances, rousing choral opuses, and beloved orchestral landmarks, WFMT is your ticket to a whole summer’s worth of great music.
There are no upcoming broadcasts at the moment.
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
June 21, 2023
Xavier Foley joins the Grant Park Orchestra to perform an indispensable work of double bass repertoire by Nino Rota.
Season Premiere: Schumann Symphony No. 4
June 14, 2023
Kicking off the 2023 Grant Park Music Festival season with music by Schumann, Muczynski, and Saint-Saëns.
Season Finale: Haydn Creation
August 19, 2022
For the conclusion of the Grant Park Music Festival's 2022 season, Carlos Kalmar conducts an acclaimed roster of soloists: tenor Duke Kim, bass Douglas Williams, and soprano Maeve Högland.
Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty
August 17, 2022
Tchaikovsky's Suite from Sleeping Beauty headlines an evening of music inspired by fairy tales.
Franck Symphony in D Minor
August 10, 2022
Carlos Kalmar welcomes Marina Piccinini for a world-premiere performance of Christopher Theofanidis' Flute Concerto.
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
August 5, 2022
Carlos Kalmar welcomes accomplished pianist Andreas Haefliger to perform Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, before we hear Berlioz's crowning opus, the Symphony fantastique.
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
July 22, 2022
It's the ultimate 20th-century two-fer as Markus Stenz conducts Rachmaninoff's beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 and Bartók's sassy Concerto for Orchestra.
Dvořák Symphony No. 8
July 20, 2022
Rising star Jonathon Heyward makes his Grant Park Music Festival debut conducting the exhilarating Symphony No. 8 by Antonín Dvořák.
Haydn Drum Roll Symphony
July 13, 2022
Chicago-based percussionist She-e Wu joins guest conductor David Chan for the multihued Percussion Concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon.
Independence Day Salute
July 4, 2022
Festival chorus director Christopher Bell takes to the podium for a rousing concert of patriotic highlights by John Williams, William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Glenn Miller, and John Philip Sousa.
Brahms Symphony No. 1
June 24, 2022
Simone Lamsma takes the Pritzker Pavilion stage to perform Korngold's classic Violin Concerto alongside the Grant Park Orchestra.
Schubert Unfinished Symphony
June 22, 2022
Contemporary compositions by Anna Clyne and Carl Vine bookend Schubert's marquee symphony.
Opening Night: Mozart Symphony No. 35
June 15, 2022
Carlos Kalmar kicks off the festival's 2022 season with music of Mozart, Wagner, and Price featuring guest soloist Michelle Cann.
Handel ‘Te Deum’
August 20, 2021
2021 Season Finale: Carlos Kalmar conducts violinist Vadim Gluzman and the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus in music by Gabriela Lena Frank, Mozart, and Handel.
Family Night: Carnival of the Animals
August 11, 2021
An evening of music for everyone! Kid-friendly selections by Offenbach, Saint-Saëns, and Grieg conducted by Norman Huynh.
Sibelius Violin Concerto
August 6, 2021
Carlos Kalmar conducts the Grant Park Orchestra and violinist Augustin Hadelich in music by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.
From Ireland with Love
August 4, 2021
Christopher Bell conducts the Grant Park Chorus in an evening of music from the Isle of Erin.
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
July 28, 2021
Carlos Kalmar conducts the Grant Park Orchestra and guest artist Anthony Trionfo, flute, in music by Debussy, Mercadante, and Saint-Saëns.
Dvořák’s New World Symphony
July 23, 2021
Guest conductor Eun Sun Kim leads the Grant Park Orchestra and guest artist Natasha Paremski in this performance of music by Shostakovich, Dvořák, and Texu Kim.
Sibelius Symphony No. 5
July 16, 2021
Carlos Kalmar welcomes violist Masumi Per Rostad to perform Margaret Brouwer's Viola Concerto. Also featured in this program is music by Bernstein and Sibelius.
