Wednesday, June 16      6:30pm

Vivaldi: Four Seasons

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 15                    11:00am – 1:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 15                    3:00pm – 5:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, June 16               11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Elina Vähälä, Violin

Berlioz: Roman Carnival
Vivaldi:  Four Seasons
Respighi: Feste Romane

The Festival’s 76th season opens with the Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi’s beloved masterpiece, performed by Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä, making her Chicago debut. The program also includes Berlioz’s Roman Carnival and Respighi’s musical depiction of celebrations in the city of Rome, Feste Romane.

Friday, June 18    6:30pm

Saturday, June 19  7:30pm

Beethoven: Mass in C Major

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Thursday, June 17      10:00am – 12:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Friday, June 18            11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

Amber Wagner, Soprano

Kathryn Leemhuis, Mezzo Soprano

Bryan Griffin, Tenor

Paul Whelan, Bass

Haydn: Te Deum
Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione
Beethoven: Mass, Op. 86, C major

This evening of transcendent works includes Beethoven’s Mass in C major, Haydn’s Te Deum, and Hindemith’s Nobilissima Visione, inspired by Giotto’s early-14th-century frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis.

Wednesday, June 23      6:30pm

Pink Martini

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Pink Martini

The Grant Park Orchestra is joined by the renowned band Pink Martini, which the New York Times dubbed, “a suave salon orchestra with a singer in a formal dress, ready to take up a torch song, tinkle through a light-classical staple or pick up some south-of-the-border rhythms.”

Friday, June 25  6:30pm        Saturday, June 26 7:30pm

The Pulitzer Project

Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

Schuman: A Free Song, Secular Cantata No.2
Sowerby: The Canticle of the Sun
Copland: Appalachian Spring: Suite

A fascinating look at three early winners of this important classical music prize: including the rarely heard A Free Song by William Schuman (1943) and Aaron Copland’s quintessentially American ballet Appalachian Spring Suite (1945). The program also features Chicago composer Leo Sowerby’s The Canticle of the Sun (1946).

Wednesday, June 30   8:00pm

Muzyka Polska

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 29     11:00am – 1:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 29     3:00pm – 5:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, June 30    11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra

Krzysztof Urbański, Conductor

Krzysztof Jabłoński, Piano

Kilar: Krzesany

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra

In celebration of Chopin’s 200th birthday his beloved first Piano Concerto shares the program with Krzesany by Kilar (known for his Oscar-winning score for The Pianist) and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, a work inspired by rich Polish folklore.

Sunday, July 4   1:30pm

Independence Day in Millennium Park

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Christopher Bell, Conductor

Lane Alexander And Ensemble

Key: Star Spangled Banner
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Dvořàk: Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World
Gould: American Salute
Wendel: Sea to Shining Sea
Porter: Can Can
Strauss: Champagne Polka
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Sousa: Stars and Stripes forever

Celebrate our country’s birthday and musical heritage in a program featuring selections by American composers as well as three Europeans — Dvořák, Johann Strauss, Jr. and Tchaikovsky — whose visits left indelible marks on their music.

Tuesday, July 6   6:30pm     Thursday, July 8   6:30pm

Chorus A Cappella: French Sensuality

Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Grant Park Chorus

Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

The Grant Park Chorus has developed a fine reputation for its committed performance of a cappella repertoire. This year the chorus turns its attention to the sensuous world of French music with works by Poulenc, Debussy, and Messiaen.

Wednesday, July 7   6:30pm

Memoria del Fuego

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Miguel Harth Bedoya, Conductor

Henry Godinez, Director

Luis Valdez And Artists Of The Goodman Theater

Adapted from Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano. Produced in association with Goodman Theatre. Uruguayan author Galeano’s masterpiece is adapted for stage by Goodman Theatre Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez and set to a variety of Latin music. Readings in English and Spanish. This concert launches Goodman Theatre’s 2010 Latino Theatre Festival.

Friday, July 9  6:30pm      Saturday, July 10   7:30pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 8   10:00am – 12:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 9   11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra

Xian Zhang, Conductor

Chen: Ge Xu (Antiphony)

Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges: Symphonic Suite
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang makes her Chicago debut in a program featuring the great Finnish composer’s heroic symphony, the Orchestral Suite from Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges, and Antiphony, a recent work by Chinese composer Chen-Yi.

Wednesday, July 14   6:30pm

Petrushka

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 13   11:00am – 1:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 13    3:00pm – 5:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 14   11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra

Hans Graf, Conductor

Alban Gerhardt, Cello

Tchaikovsky: The Tempest: Fantasy—Overture, op.18
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33
Stravinsky: Petrushka

This program of infectious melodies and vivid harmonies of two Russian masters includes Tchaikovsky’s work inspired by Shakespeare’s magical last play, The Tempest, and his Variations on a Rococo Theme, plus Stravinsky’s ballet about a puppet come to life at a country fair, Petrushka

Friday, July 16 6:30pm     Saturday, July 17 7:30pm

The Magic Toy Shop

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 15  10:00am – 12:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 16  11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra

Julian Kuerti, Conductor

Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque

Brahms: Haydn Variations

Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, op. 34

This family oriented concert include Respighi’s La Boutique Fantasque, with its depiction of the joyful dances of dolls in a toy shop come to life, as well as Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, a perfect introduction to the orchestral instruments.

Wednesday, July 21   8:30pm

Planet Earth Live

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 20  11:00am – 1:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 20   3:00pm – 5:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 21   11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra

George Fenton, Conductor

BBC Earth presents its ground-breaking nature documentary as it makes its world-premiere tour, featuring a score by five-time Academy Award-winning composer George Fenton, who also conducts. This astonishing film will, in the words of David Attenborough, “take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before.”

Friday, July 23   6:30pm     Saturday, July 24   7:30pm

A Child of Our Time

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 22   10:00am – 12:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 23   11:00am – 1:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus

Christopher Bell, Conductor

Jonita Lattimore, Soprano

Anita Krause, Mezzo Soprano

Garrett Sorenson, Tenor

John Relyea, Bass

Tippett: A Child of Our Time

The English composer and pacifist Sir Michael Tippett’s bold and massive choral work, written during the Second World War, explores an act of Jewish resistance.  Among the piece’s influences are African American spirituals and the music of Bach.

Wednesday, July 28   6:30pm     Friday, July 30     6:30pm

The Fairy’s Kiss

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Hannu Lintu, Conductor

Markus Groh, Piano

Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss

Liszt: Piano Concert No. 2, A major

Tchaikovsky: Cappriccio Italien

Franz Liszt’s Piano Concert No. 2, which embodies both his creative genius and flamboyant showmanship, shares the program with Stravinsky’s luminous ballet The Fairy’s Kiss ( based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen), and Tchaikovsky’s joyful Capriccio Italien

Wednesday, August 4   6:30pm

Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Returns

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Christian Tetzlaff, Violin

This delightfully varied program begins with the rousing Lollapalooza by This delightfully varied program begins with the rousing Lollapalooza by John Adams and continues with Dvorák’s folk-inspired Violin Concerto, and ends with Shostakovich’s enigmatic Symphony No. 9, composed at the end of the Second World War.

Friday, August 6  6:30pm     Saturday, August 7   7:30pm

Mozart and Rossini Finales with Ryan Opera Center

Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Artists Of The Ryan Opera Center

Rossini: La Cenerentola, Finale Act 1

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Finale

Rossini: L’Italiana in Algieri, Finale Act 1

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Finale Act 2

The Festival collaborates with the Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Concert and its collection of rising vocal stars for an evening of opera scenes including Rossini’s La Cenerentola and L’Italiana in Algieri plus Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro.

Wednesday, August 11   6:30pm

Toumani Diabaté: Kora Music from West Africa

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Toumani Diabaté, Kora

The world-renowned kora (a West African harp) player from Mali and his ensemble join the Grant Park Orchestra to perform an adaption of his recent album, The Mande Variations and other works.

Friday, August 13  6:30pm     Saturday, August 14  7:30pm

Dvorák: Requiem

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Layla Claire, Soprano

Alexandra Petersamer, Mezzo Soprano

Brendan Tuohy, Tenor

Kyle Ketelsen, Bass

The Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus provide a rare opportunity to hear Dvořák’s richly expressive, passionate choral masterpiece, which was among his most popular choral works during his lifetime.

Wednesday, August 18    6:30pm

Brahms and Bizet

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Horacio Gutiérrez, Piano

Saint-Saëns: Marche Militaire Francaise

Bizet: Symphony No. 1 in C major

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

An evening exploring the legacy of national traditions includes Saint-Saëns’ Marche Militaire Francaise, Bizet’s vivacious Symphony No.1 and Brahm’s Piano Concerto No. 1 interpreted by renowned Cuban-born pianist Horacio Gutierrez.

Friday, August 20  6:30pm     Saturday, August 21  7:30pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 2

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Karina Gauvin, Soprano

Allyson McHardy, Mezzo Soprano

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection

This masterpiece is among music’s most monumental experiences.  This season-ending program is also a special celebration of Principal Conductor Carlos Kalmar’s 10th Anniversary with the Grant Park Music Festival.