And Don’t Miss the IPO’s Inaugural Season of…

SUMMER MUSIC at Ravisloe

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A roster of prominent artists and diverse repertoire highlight the Woodstock Mozart Festival’s 24th season July 31–August 15, 2010 at the Woodstock Opera House, featuring three concert programs, a Chamber Music Sampler, an all-Chopin piano recital and two master classes.

Each of the three orchestral concert programs takes place Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The opening (July 31–August 1) and closing (August 14–15) weekends feature a pre-concert introduction one hour before each performance.

On the first Monday of every month, join The Chicago Chamber Musicians for their FREE performances at the Chicago Cultural Center.
 
CCM welcomes their Professional Development Program Ensemble-in-Residence, Quintet Attacca, to perform on the August First Monday Concert.
 
Monday, August 2, 2010
12:15pm
Chicago Cultural Center

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A roster of prominent artists and diverse repertoire highlight the Woodstock Mozart Festival’s 24th season July 31–August 15, 2010 at the Woodstock Opera House, featuring three concert programs, a Chamber Music Sampler, an all-Chopin piano recital and two master classes.

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A roster of prominent artists and diverse repertoire highlight the Woodstock Mozart Festival’s 24th season July 31–August 15, 2010 at the Woodstock Opera House, featuring three concert programs, a Chamber Music Sampler, an all-Chopin piano recital and two master classes. Single tickets go on sale Monday, April 5.

Each of the three orchestral concert programs takes place Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The opening (July 31–August 1) and closing (August 14–15) weekends feature a pre-concert introduction one hour before each

Auditions for the 2010-2011 season of Chicago Master Singers will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, August 10, 12, 17 and 19, in Palatine.

Chicago Master Singers, under the direction of Alan Heatherington, is a 130-voice choral ensemble featuring singers from Chicago and suburban communities. CMS has performed great choral masterworks in collaboration with professional soloists and orchestras since 1979.

If you are a dedicated singer interested in singing with CMS, we want to hear from you! Please send an email to cms.information@gmail.com or call our toll-free voice mail at 877-825-5267 (TALKCMS) and leave your name and number. We will contact you to answer your questions and schedule an audition time.

Auditions for the 2010-2011 season of Chicago Master Singers will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, August 10, 12, 17 and 19, in Palatine.

Chicago Master Singers, under the direction of Alan Heatherington, is a 130-voice choral ensemble featuring singers from Chicago and suburban communities. CMS has performed great choral masterworks in collaboration with professional soloists and orchestras since 1979.

If you are a dedicated singer interested in singing with CMS, we want to hear from you! Please send an email to cms.information@gmail.com or call our toll-free voice mail at 877-825-5267 (TALKCMS) and leave your name and number. We will contact you to answer your questions and schedule an audition time.

   And Don’t Miss the IPO’s Inaugural Season of…

SUMMER MUSIC at Ravisloe

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A roster of prominent artists and diverse repertoire highlight the Woodstock Mozart Festival’s 24th season July 31–August 15, 2010 at the Woodstock Opera House, featuring three concert programs, a Chamber Music Sampler, an all-Chopin piano recital and two master classes.

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A roster of prominent artists and diverse repertoire highlight the Woodstock Mozart Festival’s 24th season July 31–August 15, 2010 at the Woodstock Opera House, featuring three concert programs, a Chamber Music Sampler, an all-Chopin piano recital and two master classes. Single tickets go on sale Monday, April 5.

Each of the three orchestral concert programs takes place Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The opening (July 31–August 1) and closing (August 14–15) weekends feature a pre-concert introduction one hour before each

Auditions for the 2010-2011 season of Chicago Master Singers will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, August 10, 12, 17 and 19, in Palatine.

Chicago Master Singers, under the direction of Alan Heatherington, is a 130-voice choral ensemble featuring singers from Chicago and suburban communities. CMS has performed great choral masterworks in collaboration with professional soloists and orchestras since 1979.

If you are a dedicated singer interested in singing with CMS, we want to hear from you! Please send an email to cms.information@gmail.com or call our toll-free voice mail at 877-825-5267 (TALKCMS) and leave your name and number. We will contact you to answer your questions and schedule an audition time.

Auditions for the 2010-2011 season of Chicago Master Singers will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, August 10, 12, 17 and 19, in Palatine.

Chicago Master Singers, under the direction of Alan Heatherington, is a 130-voice choral ensemble featuring singers from Chicago and suburban communities. CMS has performed great choral masterworks in collaboration with professional soloists and orchestras since 1979.

If you are a dedicated singer interested in singing with CMS, we want to hear from you! Please send an email to cms.information@gmail.com or call our toll-free voice mail at 877-825-5267 (TALKCMS) and leave your name and number. We will contact you to answer your questions and schedule an audition time.

MUTI@MILLENNIUM PARK * SEPTEMBER 19 * 5:30

A FREE CONCERT FOR CHICAGO

Join us as we welcome Riccardo Muti in his first concert as music director.

Civic Orchestra Principal Conductor Cliff Colnot kicks off the 2010/11 season with

two 20th-century masterpieces. Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony, full of anguish and

tension, is one of the composer’s most magnificent achievements. Ravel’s suite from

Human beings have craved the earthly pleasures of food and drink seemingly forever. Take a whirlwind journey with Chicago a cappella as they sing about beer, wine, spices, coffee and tea, chocolate, and more. Highlights include Paul Carey’s cycle Play With Your Food!, medieval and modern drinking songs, movements from J. S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, and Java Jive.

Join us as we honor the men and women who build the world in this salute to labor with selections from a diverse array of composers spanning three centuries.

Tai Murray, violin

Paul Freeman, conductor
Harvey Felder, Guest conductor

Grand Prize and Gold Medal Winners of the prestigious Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2007, the Prima Trio distinguishes itself with its remarkable playing and wide ranging repertoire including composers from Mozart to Schickele, as well as arrangements of Piazzolla and Lotti by the Trio’s clarinetist Boris Allakhverdyan. 

Award winning Uzbek violinist/violist Gulia Gurevich and Anastasia Dedik, first prize winner of the 2005 Russian International Piano Competition, complete the Trio.

Tickets are available at the door on the day of concerts:  $30 (Students, grades 1-12, $15 )

Human beings have craved the earthly pleasures of food and drink seemingly forever. Take a whirlwind journey with Chicago a cappella as the ensemble sings about beer, wine, spices, coffee and tea, chocolate, and more. Highlights include Paul Carey’s cycle Play With Your Food!, medieval and modern drinking songs, movements from J. S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, and Java Jive.

Electronics and propelling rhythms fly high in a show that features exciting and mysterious music by Mexican composers Enrico Chapela and Ana Lara, genre-bending works by Anna Clyne and Mason Bates, and music by Chicago’s own Marcos Balter.

Join us as we honor the men and women who build the world in this salute to labor with selections from a diverse array of composers spanning three centuries.

Tai Murray, violin

Paul Freeman, conductor
Harvey Felder, Guest conductor

Human beings have craved the earthly pleasures of food and drink seemingly forever. Take a whirlwind journey with Chicago a cappella as the ensemble sings about beer, wine, spices, coffee and tea, chocolate, and more. Highlights include Paul Carey’s cycle Play With Your Food!, medieval and modern drinking songs, movements from J. S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, and Java Jive.

New conducting sensation Robert Trevino leads the CPO in Rachmaninov's Second Symphony. Prize-winning pianist, Julia Siciliano is featured in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. A sonic Russian feast.

Human beings have craved the earthly pleasures of food and drink seemingly forever. Take a whirlwind journey with Chicago a cappella as the ensemble sings about beer, wine, spices, coffee and tea, chocolate, and more. Highlights include Paul Carey’s cycle Play With Your Food!, medieval and modern drinking songs, movements from J. S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, and Java Jive.

The Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly the Kirov Orchestra) and its visionary director

Valery Gergiev present an unforgettable evening of Russian masterpieces. Rising star

Denis Matsuev joins Gergiev for Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, and the program

concludes with Shostakovich’s final symphony, notable for its quotations of Rossini,

Wagner and his own Fourth Symphony.

A concert celebrating Día de los Muertos, the Latin American holiday honoring the departed. A program that contrasts somber European traditions with the more celebratory nature of Latino cultures.

Joaquín Achúcarro, piano

Hector Guzman, Guest conductor

Under the baton of Dallas Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jaap van Zweden, the

string section of the Civic Orchestra will shine in Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony,

an expansion of his Eighth Quartet. This piece encapsulates Shostakovich’s life work,

quoting themes from previous compositions to form a musical autobiography.

The program closes with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, which depicts ultimate victory

over strife.

Acclaimed conductor, Joel Smirnoff, returns in masterworks by Mozart and Schubert. CPO Principal Horn, Neil Kimel, performs the dazzling Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3. 

Three years after the death of Beethoven, a 21-year-old Jewish composer from Berlin

set out for Italy. What he saw when he got there awed and amazed him. Here beyond

the mountains was another world, a landscape filled with sunlight and drama and

dotted with the ruins of the ancient Roman Empire. Here was the glorious source of so

many centuries of artistic inspiration, “the land where the lemon-tree blooms, where

the golden orange glows.” This was where European civilization had begun!

The Prazak Quartet, one of today’s leading chamber music ensembles, has been performing worldwide for 30 years.

Established in 1972 while its members were students at the Prague Conservatory, they won first prize at the 1978 Evian String Quartet Competition.  They have recorded 35 award-winning CDs. 

“… few can match the unspoiled vitality of the Prazak.” – Globe and Mail, Toronto

Tickets are available at the door on the day of concerts:  $30 (Students, grades 1-12, $15 )

Three years after the death of Beethoven, a 21-year-old Jewish composer from Berlin

set out for Italy. What he saw when he got there awed and amazed him. Here beyond

the mountains was another world, a landscape filled with sunlight and drama and

dotted with the ruins of the ancient Roman Empire. Here was the glorious source of so

many centuries of artistic inspiration, “the land where the lemon-tree blooms, where

the golden orange glows.” This was where European civilization had begun!

Pinchas Zukerman and Yefin Bronfman - musicians of extraordinary talent and artistry - join forces in a magnificient program of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

We team up with the Brookfield Zoo in this Sunday afternoon matinee series for the whole family. All concerts include admission to the Zoo before and after the performance

Carols from Mexico to Scandinavia will usher in the season with delight and joy as Chicago a cappella brings folksongs, Chanukah melodies and spirituals to remarkable life in this wide-ranging concert, now a beloved local tradition.

Carols from Mexico to Scandinavia will usher in the season with delight and joy as Chicago a cappella brings folksongs, Chanukah melodies and spirituals to remarkable life in this wide-ranging concert, now a beloved local tradition.

Carols from Mexico to Scandinavia will usher in the season with delight and joy as Chicago a cappella brings folksongs, Chanukah melodies and spirituals to remarkable life in this wide-ranging concert, now a beloved local tradition.

Xian Zhang leads the Civic Orchestra in an electric program featuring works by

Beethoven and Bartók. Beethoven’s humorous and joyful Second Symphony may have

been written to comfort the composer during difficult realizations of his increasing

Carols from Mexico to Scandinavia will usher in the season with delight and joy as Chicago a cappella brings folksongs, Chanukah melodies and spirituals to remarkable life in this wide-ranging concert, now a beloved local tradition.

In 1936, after nearly 20 years in the West, Prokofiev returned to his native Russia,

transformed into the Soviet Union, where he found it more difficult than he had thought

to write music to please the Communist authorities. But when war came in 1941, the

atmosphere changed. The regime needed artists to inspire and lead. Prokofiev played his

part, and, as the tide of war turned in 1944, he created one of his most paradoxical yet

melodious masterpieces.

In 1936, after nearly 20 years in the West, Prokofiev returned to his native Russia,

transformed into the Soviet Union, where he found it more difficult than he had thought

to write music to please the Communist authorities. But when war came in 1941, the

atmosphere changed. The regime needed artists to inspire and lead. Prokofiev played his

part, and, as the tide of war turned in 1944, he created one of his most paradoxical yet

melodious masterpieces.

Our annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Be there as Maestro Freeman leads the audience in We Shall Overcome for the last time.

Reginald Robinson, piano
Lisa Daltrius, soprano
Reggie Whitehead, tenor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Chicago Community Chorus;
Keith Hampton, Artistic Director

Paul Freeman, Conductor
Leslie B. Dunner, Guest conductor

Our annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Be there as Maestro Freeman leads the audience in We Shall Overcome for the last time.

Reginald Robinson, piano
Lisa Daltrius, soprano
Reggie Whitehead, tenor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Chicago Community Chorus;
Keith Hampton, Artistic Director

Paul Freeman, Conductor
Leslie B. Dunner, Guest conductor

Our annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Be there as Maestro Freeman leads the audience in We Shall Overcome for the last time.

Reginald Robinson, piano
Lisa Daltrius, soprano
Reggie Whitehead, tenor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Chicago Community Chorus;
Keith Hampton, Artistic Director

Paul Freeman, Conductor
Leslie B. Dunner, Guest conductor

Yo-Yo Ma invites longtime collaborator and friend Emmanuel Ax and Metroploitan Opera Orchestra co-principal clarinetist Anthony McGill to Chicago for a special performance of Brahm's sublime Clarinet Trio.

Symphony Center welcomes The Cleveland Orchestra, one of the most admired ensembles around the world. Led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, they perform Bartók’s toccata-like Second Piano Concerto with Chicago favorite Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Strauss’ mighty tone poem

This intimate salon of works for vocal ensemble—both a cappella and with piano, with music director Patrick Sinozich at the keyboard—will traverse new worlds of musical texture and harmony.

This intimate salon of works for vocal ensemble—both a cappella and with piano, with music director Patrick Sinozich at the keyboard—will traverse new worlds of musical texture and harmony.

Formed in 1974, when its original members were students at The Juilliard School, The American String Quartet was launched by winning both the Coleman Competition and the Naumburg Award in the same year. 

In over three decades of touring, The Quartet has performed in all 50 states and has appeared in virtually every important concert hall throughout the world. The Quartet has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio's "St. Paul Sunday Morning," National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and in live broadcasts on WFMT. 

“From this combination of individual brilliance and ensemble perfection emerges one of the best quartets of our time.” – Darmstädter Echo

This intimate salon of works for vocal ensemble—both a cappella and with piano, with music director Patrick Sinozich at the keyboard—will traverse new worlds of musical texture and harmony.

This intimate salon of works for vocal ensemble—both a cappella and with piano, with music director Patrick Sinozich at the keyboard—will traverse new worlds of musical texture and harmony.

Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is hailed as one of the great singers of his generation for the beauty of his voice and his magnetic stage presence. He will perform romantic songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Mahler, accompanied by Ivari Ilja.

We team up with the Brookfield Zoo in this Sunday afternoon matinee series for the whole family. All concerts include admission to the Zoo before and after the performance

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Civic Orchestra in a powerful program featuring Scriabin’s

Don’t miss this international music mixer when the eight-member Scharoun Ensemble

Berlin—founded in 1983 by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker—shares the

stage with our own musicians from the CSO to present an extraordinary evening of

Herculean chamber music.

To 19th-century Germans, England was famously “the land without music.” There

had been no British composers of distinction for 200 years. So, when suddenly

and unexpectedly and obscure provincial musician named Edward Elgar brought forth

a strange orchestral piece—a set of variations on an unknown theme in which each

movement was a portrait of one of his friends—it was a matter for astonishment,

an enigma indeed. “Here,” declared on critic, “is a man who knows what he wants to

say and knows how to say it!”

Winner of the 2010 National Chopin Competition in Miami, Ms. Huangci has given solo and concerto performances in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. 

The American 20 year old has performed in Carnegie Hall and with many American orchestras. 

During her Asian tour in 2010, Ms. Huangci performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the opening of the Shanghai World Expo with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart conducted by Sir Roger Norrington.

Tickets are available at the door on the day of concerts:  $30 (Students, grades 1-12, $15 )

To 19th-century Germans, England was famously “the land without music.” There

had been no British composers of distinction for 200 years. So, when suddenly

and unexpectedly and obscure provincial musician named Edward Elgar brought forth

a strange orchestral piece—a set of variations on an unknown theme in which each

movement was a portrait of one of his friends—it was a matter for astonishment,

an enigma indeed. “Here,” declared on critic, “is a man who knows what he wants to

say and knows how to say it!”

 

Kaija Saariaho’s lush and rich

Take a peek at the exciting future of classical music. Joining us will be some of the finest young musicians who call Chicago home.

Clayton Penrose-Whitmore, violin
Sonia Mantell, cello
Jeremy Jordan, piano

Paul Freeman, Conductor
Terrance Gray, Guest conductor

Founded more than 200 years ago, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic is Russia’s oldest orchestra. Young virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein appears with the orchestra, fresh from her Orchestra Hall debut in the 2009 Dvořák Festival.

Join the singers of Chicago a cappella for a musical trip through our city’s past, from pioneer days to the Great Fire, the World’s Fair, skyscrapers, Carl Sandburg, sports, politics, and more!

Join the singers of Chicago a cappella for a musical trip through our city’s past, from pioneer days to the Great Fire, the World’s Fair, skyscrapers, Carl Sandburg, sports, politics, and more!

We team up with the Brookfield Zoo in this Sunday afternoon matinee series for the whole family. All concerts include admission to the Zoo before and after the performance

Join the singers of Chicago a cappella for a musical trip through our city’s past, from pioneer days to the Great Fire, the World’s Fair, skyscrapers, Carl Sandburg, sports, politics, and more!

Join the singers of Chicago a cappella for a musical trip through our city’s past, from pioneer days to the Great Fire, the World’s Fair, skyscrapers, Carl Sandburg, sports, politics, and more!

An up-and-coming talent on both the operatic and orchestral podium, conductor

Erik Nielsen brings a dramatic flair to this Civic Orchestra concert. Works by Wagner,

Weber and Berlioz tell cautionary tales of bargains with the devil. Illinois-born

soprano Amanda Majeski has spent the last two years at the Ryan Opera Center at

Lyric Opera where notably she stepped in at short notice to sing the role of the Countess

The Orchestre National de France has long served as France’s musical ambassador around the world. The

Symphony Center Presents is thrilled to welcome back Yuri Bashmet, undoubtedly

the greatest violist of our time. Witness the electric energy between Bashmet

and Evgeny Kissin when they perform these formidable works by Shostakovich and

Schubert as part of Kissin’s 2010/11 Chicago residency.

World-renowned bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff has assembled a group of incredible

singers and two revered collaborative pianists for a delightful afternoon featuring the

Maestro Paul Freeman takes the podium in his final concert as Music Director. Guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen joins him to lead the orchestra in a tribute to women in classical music.

Elena Urioste, violin

Paul Freeman, conductor
Mei-Ann Chen, Guest Conductor

Maestro Paul Freeman takes the podium in his final concert as Music Director. Guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen joins him to lead the orchestra in a tribute to women in classical music.

Elena Urioste, violin

Paul Freeman, conductor
Mei-Ann Chen, Guest Conductor

The final concert of the Civic Orchestra’s 2010/11 season, led by Cliff Colnot, begins

with a selection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France, sung in Occitan

(a language still spoken by several million people in southern France). The season ends

with an unforgettable performance of one of the most famous works of the 20th century,