Featured Concerts with the CSO Include Appearances by Yo-Yo Ma, Andrew Bird and Lang Lang who Performs all Five Beethoven Piano Concertos CHICAGO, March 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chicago Symphony ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has placed a huge bet on Klaus Mäkelä for its future. It’s still too soon to tell whether that will pay off. By David Allen The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has hired ...

Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891. A Finn who turned 28 in January, ...

It was almost start time, and onstage in the sweltering heat of Grant Park, 52 musicians tuned their instruments and warmed up before the guest of honor arrived. For the Chicago Philharmonic, this ...

Forget Lollapalooza and all the rest. The hottest festival ticket happens just once a generation, if not once a lifetime. That would be the Mahler Festival, a musical G20 summit of sorts celebrating ...

When the Chicago Jazz Orchestra decided to record a tribute to Wes Montgomery, the choice of who would sit in for the legendary guitarist was obvious: Bobby Broom, a stellar guitarist in his own right ...

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In Chicago, musicians have gone on strike. The players in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the country's top orchestras, let their contract expire on Sunday, March 10, and performances scheduled ...

Ed Gardner is an ideal ambassador for British music. And he is building an important profile abroad, with a trip to the United States this month. By Hugh Morris The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has ...

Conductor Erina Yashima takes the stage to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum for String Orchestra” at Symphony Center on June 3, 2021, in Chicago.