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2023 Season
The Grant Park Music Festival brings a whole summer of fun for the whole family, with free concerts, master classes, and more.
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2022 Season
Bring a picnic and some friends. We'll do the rest.
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2021 Season
A Chicago tradition returns!
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2020 Virtual Season
In response to the 2020 quarantine, the Grant Park Music Festival launched a dynamic virtual season with a 10-part radio series, live-streamed performances, master classes, lectures, children's activities and HD music videos.
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2020 Season
With great sadness, the staff and board of the Grant Park Music Festival have cancelled the 2020 season. The risks surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic are simply too great for everyone involved. The performances below are what we had planned for our 2020 season.
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2019 Season
The Season of Anniversaries—including Carlos Kalmar’s 20th year leading the Festival, Millennium Park’s 15th anniversary, and our own 85th season.
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2018 Season
The 2018 Season saw the return of Festival favorite Natasha Paremski performing Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3, the World Premiere of Êriks Ešenvalds' piece The Pleaiades and a percussion marathon Switch performed by Collin Curie.
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2017 Season
In its 83rd season, the Festival brought back Beethoven's masterpiece, the Ninth Symphony, and featured other well-known works such as Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1.
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2016 Season
In its 82nd season, the Grant Park Music Festival featured an array of musical favorites which included Martinu's rarely performed oratorio The Epic of Gilgamesh and Rachmaninov's tour-de-force Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, performed by virtuoso pianist Stephen Hough.
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2015 Season
The 2015 Season included the world premiere of Kenj Bunch's Symphony No. 3, the Midwest premiere of James MacMillan's Quickening, a tribute to legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, and an evening with jazz vocalist Kurt Elling.
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2014 Season
In 2014, the Grant Park Music Festival celebrated its 80th Anniversary Season, as well as the 10th Anniversary of Millennium Park.
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2013 Season
The 79th Season of the Grant Park Music Festival included some of the most beloved music of all time.
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2012 Season
The 78th Season of the Grant Park Music Festival marked the 50th anniversary of the Grant Park Chorus.
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2011 Season
Highlights of the 2011 Season included a visit by famed Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, a rare stateside performance of Franz Schmidt's The Book With Seven Seals, and the return of violinist Jennifer Koh.
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2010 Season
2010 marked Carlos Kalmar's 10th Anniversary as Principal Conductor and featured a performance of BBC's ground-breaking documentary Planet Earth, an appearance by Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang, and world-premiere recordings of Pulitzer Prize winning works by William Schuman
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2009 Season
The 2009 season featured the world premiere of American composer Michael Torke's Plans; a collaboration with Luna Negra Dance Theater; Gilbert and Sullivan operettas; and Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlan.