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WHEN:
June 12 – August 17, 2024
WHERE:
Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion and other venues throughout Chicago
TICKETS:
For tickets and more information, visit the Grant Park Music Festival website.
Event Description:
“…MORE COMPOSERS – The Grant Park Music Festival continues to enrich the City of Chicago with an ever-expanding field of musical offerings, placing the familiar and unfamiliar side by side. In 2024, the Festival presents the works of a variety of composers including Michael Abels, Lili Boulanger, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Gabriela Lena Frank, Elena Katz-Chernin, Arturo Márquez, Angélica Negrón, Arvo Pärt, Caroline Shaw, and Joan Tower. There are many composers on the series with Chicago ties, including Ahmed Al Abaca (world premiere), Clarice Assad (world premiere), Margaret Bonds, Anna Clyne, Nathalie Joachim (world premiere), Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, James M. Stephenson (world premiere), and Augusta Read Thomas.
PREMIERES – The 2024 season features four world premiere works commissioned by the Grant Park Music Festival by Chicago-based composers: Ahmed Al Abaca: String Quartet (date TBD), Clarice Assad (June 26), James M. Stephenson (July 12-13), and Nathalie Joachim (July 24). In addition, the season offers seven Illinois premieres: Gustav Holst’s The Cloud Messenger (June 15), Jessie Montgomery’s Five Freedom Songs (June 19), Gabriela Lena Frank’s Apu (June 21-22), Angélica Negrón’s Color Shape Transmission (July 3-5), Arturo Márquez’s Fandango (July 3 and 5), Joan Tower’s 1920/2019 (July 10), Elena Kats-Chernin’s Mythic (August 9-10).
GUEST CONDUCTORS – The Festival continues to expand the City’s famed arts scene with world-renowned guest artists. In 2024, this includes the return of popular conductors presenting various works, including world-premiere compositions and choral works featuring the Grant Park Chorus. Guest conductors include the French maestro Ludovic Morlot (June 26-July 5), conductor emeritus of the Seattle Symphony and music director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; the six-time GRAMMY-winning conductor Giancarlo Guerrero (July 10-13), who is a native of Costa Rica and serves as music director of the Nashville Symphony, and Eric Jacobsen (July 17-27), an acclaimed cellist and co-founder of The Knights and member the Silkroad Ensemble; he is also music director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Other guest conductors include Kyle Dickson, Anthony Parnther, Byron Stripling, and Lucas Waldin.
GUEST ARTIST DEBUTS – In 2024, many celebrated artists make their Festival debuts, including soprano Karen Slack, conductor Kyle Dickson, a former Festival fellowship recipient, tenor Martin Bakari, pianist Clayton Stephenson, conductor Anthony Parnther, singer Chloe Lowery, singer Dan Domenech, soprano Jane Archibald, baritone Rod Gilfry, singer Sydney McSweeney, and children’s chorus Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen.
RETURN APPEARANCES – Many Festival veterans return during the 2024 season, including cellist Alban Gerhardt, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, contralto Lauren Decker, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, conductor Ludovic Morlot, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, singer Katelyn Lee, trumpeter David Gordon, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, pianist Stewart Goodyear, violinist Jeremy Black, conductor Eric Jacobsen, soprano Lindsey Reynolds, singer LaKisha Jones, violinist Vadim Gluzman, cellist Johannes Moser, conductor/trumpeter Byron Stripling, soprano Maeve Höglund, mezzo-soprano Siena Licht Miller, mezzo-soprano Susan Platts, tenor John Matthew Myers, and bass-baritone Kevin Short…”
Full Program:
- DVOŘÁK CELLO CONCERTO – Wednesday, June 12, 6:30 PM
- TETZLAFF PLAYS ELGAR – Friday, June 14, 6:30 PM / Saturday, June 15, 7:30 PM
- CHORAL MASTERWORKS – Monday, June 17, 6:30 PM (South Shore Cultural Center) / Thursday, June 20, 6:30 PM (Columbus Park Refectory)
- SONGS OF FREEDOM – Wednesday, June 19, 6:30 PM
- SCHUMANN PIANO CONCERTO – Friday, June 21, 6:30 PM / Saturday, June 22, 7:30 PM
- DVOŘÁK SERENADE FOR STRINGS – Tuesday, June 25, 6:30 PM (South Shore Cultural Center) / Thursday, June 27, 6:30 PM (Jay Pritzker Pavilion)
- HAYDN LONDON SYMPHONY – Wednesday, June 26, 6:30 PM
- STRAVINSKY PETRUSHKA – Friday, June 28, 6:30 PM / Saturday, June 29, 7:30 PM
- TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 6 – Wednesday, July 3, 6:30 PM / Friday, July 5, 6:30 PM
- INDEPENDENCE DAY SALUTE – Thursday, July 4, 6:30 PM
- SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO. 5 – Wednesday, July 10, 6:30 PM
- BEETHOVEN EMPEROR CONCERTO – Friday, July 12, 6:30 PM / Saturday, July 13, 7:30 PM
- RACHMANINOV RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI – Wednesday, July 17, 6:30 PM
- STAR WARS AND MORE: THE MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS – Friday, July 19, 6:30 PM
- BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 5 – Wednesday, July 24, 6:30 PM
- SCHEHERAZADE – Friday, July 26, 6:30 PM / Saturday, July 27, 7:30 PM
- BROADWAY ROCKS! – Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 PM
- BRUCKNER SYMPHONY NO. 4 – Friday, August 2, 6:30 PM / Saturday, August 3, 7:30 PM
- MOZART JUPITER SYMPHONY – Wednesday, August 7, 6:30 PM
- BRAHMS DOUBLE CONCERTO – Friday, August 9, 6:30 PM / Saturday, August 10, 7:30 PM
- FASCINATING RHYTHM: GERSHWIN AND FRIENDS – Wednesday, August 14, 6:30 PM
- MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 8 – Friday, August 16, 6:30 PM / Saturday, August 17, 7:30 PM
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