Composers Conducted by Carlos Kalmar
During his tenure as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival, Carlos Kalmar has presented a breathtaking variety of music to Chicagoans, from Latin Jazz to Beatles to Beethoven to Brahms.
Composers
John Adams
Eden Ahbez
Isaac Albéniz
Alcover
Rigoberto Alfaro
Kenneth Alford
Hugo Alfvén
George Antheil
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
Johann Sebastian Bach
Samuel Barber
Elbio Rodriguez Barilari
Béla Bartók
Amy Beach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Luciano Berio
Hector Berlioz
Elmer Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Georges Bizet
Ernest Bloch
William Bolcom
Maria del mar Bonet
Lili Boulanger
Johannes Brahms
Jacques Brel
Benjamin Britten
Leo Brouwer
Margaret Brouwer
Dave Brubeck
Anton Bruckner
Kenji Bunch (world premiere)
Ferruccio Busoni
Michel Camilo
Gustavo Campa
Joseph Canteloube
John Alden Carpenter
Inocente Carreno
Cuates Castilla
Emanuel Chabrier
George Whitefield Chadwick
Carlos Chávez
Ernest Chausson
Qigang Chen
Billy Childs
Frédéric Chopin
Anna Clyne
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Michael Colgrass
Aaron Copland
John Corigliano (world premiere)
Paul Creston
Sebastian Currier (world premiere)
Richard Danielpour
William Dawson
Claude Debussy
Richard Delaney
Frederick Delius
Toumani Diabate
David Diamond
Hugo Distler
Gaetano Donizetti
Jonathan Dove
Tan Dun
Antonín Dvořák
Edward Elgar
Duke Ellington
Eriks Ešenvalds (world premiere)
Antonio Estevez
Manuel de Falla
John Farrar
Gabriel Fauré
John Field
César Franck
Gabriela Lena Frank
Robert Fuchs
Ruben Fuentes
Blas Galindo
Michael Gandolfi (world premiere)
Albert Garcia
Stacy Garrop (world premiere)
George Gershwin
Remo Giazotto
Alberto Ginastera
Alexander Glazunov
Mikhail Glinka
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alberto Ginastera
Morton Gould
Enrique Granados
Maria Grever
Edvard Grieg
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Camargo Guarnieri
Pepe Guizar
Victor Jara
Joseph Joachim
Aldophus Hailstork
Cristobal Halffter
George Frideric Handel
Howard Hanson
John Harbison
Ross Harris
Manos Hatzidakis
Bernard Hermann
Rafael Hernandez
Michael Hersch
Franz Joseph Haydn
Jennifer Higdon
Paul Hindemith
Augusta Holmès
Lightnin' Hopkins
Jacques Ibert
Charles Ives
Leos Janácek
Joseph Joachim
Elton John
Scott Joplin
Gabriel Kahane
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aram Khachaturian
Zoltán Kodály
Barbara Kolb
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Fritz Kreisler
Robert Kurka
Edouard Lalo
Joseph Lanner
Agustín Lara
Storm Large
Libby Larsen
Ernesto Lecuona
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Adam Mackintosh
Frank Martin
Lennon/McCartney
Freddie Mercury
Magnus Lindberg
Franz Liszt
Witold Lutosławski
Edward MacDowell
Adam Mackintosh
James MacMillan
Gustav Mahler
Armando Manzanero
Frank Martin
Bohuslav Martinů
Patricio Manns
Jules Massenet
Colin McPhee
Frank White Meacham
Felix Mendelssohn
Gian Carlo Menotti
Saverio Mercadante
Freddie Mercury
Olivier Messiaen
Pat Metheny
José Pablo Moncayo
Ovidi Montillor
Moritz Moszkowski
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Robert Muczynski
Modest Mussorgsky
Ron Nelson
Otto Nicolai
Carl Nielsen
Andrew Norman
Carl Orff
Arvo Pärt
Julia Perry
Hans Pfitzner
Astor Piazzolla
Walter Piston
Manuel Ponce
Cole Porter
Francis Poulenc
John Powell
Narong Prangcharoen
Andre Previn
Florence Price
Serge Prokofiev
Giacomo Puccini
Tito Puente
Sergei Rachmaninov
Ariel Ramirez
Maurice Ravel
Ottorino Respighi
Silvestre Revueltas
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Joaquin Rodrigo
Juventino Rosa
Gioachino Rossini
Nino Rota
Alejandro F. Roth
Christopher Rouse
Kareem Roustom (world premiere)
Albert Roussel
Camille Saint-Saëns
Horacio Salinas
David Schiff
Franz Schmidt
Ole Schmidt
Arnold Schoenberg
Paul Schoenfield
Franz Schubert
William Schuman
Robert Schumann
Corazon Serrano
Rodion Shchedrin
Artie Shaw
Caroline Shaw
Sean Shepherd
Dmitri Shostakovich
Roberto Sierra
Jean Sibelius
Roberto Simone
Stephen Sondheim
John Philip Sousa
Leo Sowerby
William Grant Still
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Johann Strauss, Sr.
Josef Strauss
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Josef Suk
Franz von Suppé
Tomas Svoboda
Karol Szymanowski
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mikis Theodorakis
Christopher Theofanidis (world premiere)
Ambroise Thomas
Joel Thompson
Randall Thompson
Michael Torke (world premiere)
Veljo Tormis
Joaquin Turina
Steven Tyler
Jimmy Van Heusen
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Richard Wagner
Tom Waits
George Walker
William Walton
Carl Maria von Weber
Kurt Weill
Judith Weir
Eric Whitacre
Jorg Widmann
John Williams
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Giuseppe Verdi
John Vincent
Carl Vine*
Antonio Vivaldi
Mischa Zupko (world premiere)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Samuel Zyman