Soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny, with Susanna Mälkki conducting.

Sunday, February 2, 2025, is the year’s biggest night for music. Peruse the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees, and see the winners as they’re announced!

Dive in to the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees!

Klaus Mäkelä, CSO music director designate, is just 28 and is one of the world’s most respected conductors. Here’s his career in a timeline.

Segerstam served as artistic director of Stockholm’s Royal Opera and chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, among other ensembles.

With pianist Daniil Trifonov, “without question the most astounding pianist of our age.”

Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.

An all-Finnish program.

Saariaho’s compositions melded live performance and electronics, winning recognition and securing commissions from numerous leading organizations.

The season will be the first following the departure of Riccardo Muti as music director. But the maestro will be close at hand as he continues his association with the CSO.

It will mark Muti’s tenth-anniversary season as music director as well as the 250th birthday of Beethoven. Muti conducts all of Beethoven’s symphonies over the course of the season, culminating in the triumphant Symphony No. 9 in June 2020.

This summer’s festival is anchored by the eighty-second annual residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.