The Godfather Live in Concert

Brahms | Piano Quartet No. in A Major, Op. 26

William Grant Still | Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American)
Arturo Márquez | Danzón No. 2
Florence Price | Ethiopia’s Shadow in America
Jonathan Bingham | Monograph (world premiere)

Ghostbusters in Concert

The Festival’s opening program, Chicago's Own, features songs of composers who were born in Chicago as well as those who studied and taught at many of Chicago's universities and institutions, including Ernst Bacon, Reena Esmail, Ned Rorem, Joseph Schwantner, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Their songs will be featured alongside some of those teaching and residing in Chicago today, including Clarice Assad, Stacy Garrop, Lita Grier and Eric Malmquist.

Roussel | Joueurs de Flûte, Op. 27

Nicky Sohn | The Dragon's Bamboo Flute (2022) *world premiere*

Gluck | Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Amanda Harberg | Court Dances (2017)

Kvandal | Da Lontano Fantasy

Foss | Three American Pieces

Stéphane Vande Ginste | Sonata (with Jessie Nucho)

Peter Sunchuk | Jazz Concertino (with Roya Farzaneh)

Martin | Ballade (with Todd Skitch)

Yuko Uebayashi | Au-Delà du Temps (with Robert Cronin, Gina Hughes, Todd Skitch and Christina Smith)

Debussy | Prelude to the AFternoon of a Faun (with Christina Smith)

Bartók | Romanian Folk Dances (with Gina Hughes)

Doppler | Andante and Rondo (with Daniel Carlo and Ethan Lin)

Herman Beeftink | Fireflies (with Tatiana Cassetta, Heather Neuenschwander and Lydia Moenssen)

Rossini arr. Marro | Duetto buffo di due gatti (with Matt Johnston and Cathi Marro)

Christopher Caliendo | Sonata for Two Piccolos and Piano

Christopher Caliendo | Sicilian Sonata No. 14 *world premiere*

Schumann | Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47

Music by the Lake : The Irish Tenors

Lights on Broadway

Program repeated July 9th at 8:00PM.

Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to The Beatles

The Lion King: In Concert Live to Film

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther in Concert

Brahms | Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595

Reading of piano trios by Elmhurst University composition students

Shulamit Ran | Ballade

Shawn Okpebholo | Amazing Grace

Shawn Okpebholo | Balm in Gilead

Libby Larsen | Songs from Letters

Jake Heggie | The Deepest Desire

Poulenc | Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Mozart | Quintet in E-flat Major for piano and winds, K.452

Reinecke | Trio for clarinet, french horn and piano, Op. 274

Beethoven | Quintet in E-flat Major for piano and winds, Op. 16

Reading of chamber works by composition students at North Central College

Poulenc | Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Mozart | Quintet in E-flat Major for piano and winds, K.452

Reinecke | Trio for clarinet, french horn and piano, Op. 274

Beethoven | Quintet in E-flat Major for piano and winds, Op. 16

Poulenc | Fiançailles pour rire

Libby Larsen | Songs from Letters

Jake Heggie | The Deepest Desire

Shawn Okpebholo | Balm in Gilead

Jennifer Higdon | Mandolin Concerto (AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Nicholas Hubbell | Chicago Fanfare (WORLD PREMIERE)
Reinaldo Moya | (WORLD PREMIERE)
Respighi | Gli uccelli (The Birds)
Respighi | Trittico botticelliano

Roaring Twenties explores the exuberance, and irrepressible joy of vocal music from the 1920s.  From the boundary-pushing French art songs of Satie and Poulenc, to the blossoming of American jazz under composers like Gershwin and Ellington, this program will help us usher in our new era of the roaring 2020s.  The venue, Overflow Coffee, operates out of the recently renovated VeeJay Records building Chicago's South Loop.  The concert will will also honor the legacy of the musicians that recorded with VeeJay Records, and played a pivotal role in the blues, pop, and jazz scene of Chicago over the past century.

Bartok | Romanian Dances for cello and piano

Janacek | Pohadka for cello and piano

Dvorak - Kreisler | Slavonic Fantasie

Brahms | Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 100

Dinuk Wijeratne | Love Triangle (2013)

Shulamit Ran | Ballade (2019)

Randy Bauer | Partita (2019, rev. 2021)

Kyong Mee Choi | Unleashed (2018)

Amazing Grace | Shawn Okpebholo (2006)

Bauer | Elegy for Another (2018) *world premiere*

Bauer | Stances 

Bauer | None So Sweete as Melancholy

Bauer | Partita (2019, rev. 2021) *world premiere*

Price | Violin Fantasie No. 1

Respighi | Violin Sonata

Beach | Romance

Ravel | Violin Sonata No. 2