Lake Forest Symphony
Alan Heatherington, conductor
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Faure: Suite from Pelleas and Melisande
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
8 p.m. Lumber Center for the Performing Arts, Grayslake
lakeforestsymphony.org; 847-295-2135

Renovo String Orchestra
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite
Rossini: String Sonata No. 3
Puccini: Crisantemi
Donizetti: String Quartet No. 13
7:30 p.m. Nichols Concert Hall, Music Institute, Evanston

September 11

ICE – International Contemporary Ensemble
Jayce Ogren, conductor
Boulez: Memoriale (…explosante-fixe…originel)
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Dai Fujikura: ICE for chamber ensemble
Dai Fujikura: returning for solo piano
John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony
7:30 p.m. Museum of Contemporary Art

Renovo String Orchestra
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite
Rossini: String Sonata No. 3
Puccini: Crisantemi
Donizetti: String Quartet No. 13
7:30 Curtiss Hall, Fine Arts Building

Lake Forest Symphony
Alan Heatherington, conductor
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Faure: Suite from Pelleas and Melisande
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
8 p.m. Lumber Center for the Performing Arts, Grayslake
lakeforestsymphony.org; 847-295-2135

September 12

Quintet Attacca, Mark George, piano
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds K452
Zupko: Fanfare 80
D’Rivera: Aires Tropicales
Ewazen: Roaring Fork Quintet
3 p.m. Nichols Hall, Music Institute, Evanston

International Chamber Artists
Glinka: Trio Pathétique
Françaix: L’Heure du Berger for Piano and Woodwind Quintet
d’Indy: Sarabande et Minuet Op. 72
Tull: Chamber Concerto for Trombone and Woodwind Quintet
Beethoven: Trio in G Major WoO 37
4 p.m. St. Gregory the Great Church

September 15

CUBE
Music of Gunther Schuller
7:30 p.m. Jazz Showcase

September 16

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Galindo: Sones de Mariachi
Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Moncayo: Huapango
7 p.m. Benito Juarez Community Academy, Pilsen

September 19

Baroque Band
Telemann: Overture in B flat Major
Locke: Incidental music in The Tempest
Biber: Mensa Sonora Pars III
Purcell: Chacony
11 a.m. Mayne Stage, Rogers Park

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
Liszt: Les préludes
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Respighi: Pines of Rome
5:30 p.m. Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion

Orion Ensemble
Beethoven: String Trio Op. 9 No. 3
Schumann: Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 73
Piazzolla/Bragato: 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires
7 p.m. Fox Valley Presbyterian Church, Geneva
orionensemble.org; 630-628-9591

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Dohnányi: Sextet
Bartók: String Quartet No. 2
Schumann: Piano Quartet Op. 47
7:30 p.m. Pick Staiger Hall

September 20

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Dohnányi: Sextet
Bartók: String Quartet No. 2
Schumann: Piano Quartet Op. 47
7:30 p.m Gottlieb Hall, Merit School of Music

Civic Orchestra
Cliff Colnot, conductor
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2

September 21

ArsAntiqua
Music by Holborne, Byrd, Schein and others
6 p.m. LUMA, Loyola University

Anne Akiko Meyers, violin, Reiko Uchida, piano
Works by Beethoven, Debussy, Gershwin, Schnittke, Wagner and Vernon Duke
8 p.m. SPACE Evanston

September 22

Fulcrum Point
Woolf: Franz Schubert
Zupko: Shunt
Brown: Arcana
Woolf: Try to Believe
Law: Yi Zhi Shan
Reich: Nagoya Marimbas
Freund: Metal
6 p.m. Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago
fulcrumpoint.org

Orion Ensemble
Beethoven: String Trio Op. 9 No. 3
Schumann: Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 73
Piazzolla/Bragato: 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires
7:30 p.m. Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University
orionensemble.org; 630-628-9591

Avalon String Quartet
Roger Chase, viola
Britten: 3 Divertimenti
Verdi: String Quartet
Mozart: String Quintet K 515
8 p.m. NIU, DeKalb

September 23

Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Kyle Ketlesen, bass-baritone
Gerard Depardieu, narrator
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz: Lélio
8 p.m. Symphony Center

Avalon String Quartet
Roger Chase, viola
Britten: 3 Divertimenti
Verdi: String Quartet
Mozart: String Quintet K 515
8 p.m. Gottlieb Hall, Merit School of Music

September 24

Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Kyle Ketlesen, bass-baritone
Gerard Depardieu, narrator
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz: Lélio
8 p.m. Symphony Center

September 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Kyle Ketlesen, bass-baritone
Gerard Depardieu, narrator
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz: Lélio
8 p.m. Symphony Center

Music in the Loft
Works by Kalliwoda, Bloch, Glière, Nielsen, and Ludwig
8 p.m. 1017 W. Washington

September 26

Fifth House Ensemble
Piston: Divertimento for 9 Instruments
Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6
Music by Keren,  Simon and Previn
11 a.m. Mayne Stage, Rogers Park

Music in the Loft
Works by Kalliwoda, Bloch, Glière, Nielsen, and Ludwig
3 p.m. 1017 W. Washington

Mostly Music Chicago
Tao Lin, piano
Works of Chopin
4 p.m. Richard H. Driehaus Museum

Music of the Baroque
Jane Glover, conductor
Krisztina Szabó, soprano, Rufuf Müller, baritone
Purcell: Ode to St Cecilia
Purcell: Welcome all the pleasures
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, Evanston
baroque.org; 312-551-1414

September 27

Music of the Baroque
Jane Glover, conductor
Krisztina Szabó, soprano, Rufuf Müller, baritone
Purcell: Ode to St Cecilia
Purcell: Welcome all the pleasures
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
7:30 Harris Theater
baroque.org; 312-551-1414

September 28

Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Kyle Ketlesen, bass-baritone
Gerard Depardieu, narrator
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz: Lélio
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Sept 30

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Haydn:  Symphony No. 39
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Mozart: Symphony No. 34
Haydn:  Symphony No. 89
8 p.m. Symphony Center

Andreas Klein, piano
Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K.310
Ravel: Sonatine
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28
6 p.m. Ravinia/Bennett Gordon Hall

August 31

Rush Hour Concert
Euclid Quartet
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden
5:15 p.m. St James Cathedral

Grant Park Orchestra
Enrique Barrios, conducter,
Moncayo: Huapango
Galindo: Sones de Mariachi
Chavez: Sinfonia India
Hernández- Medrano: Homenaje a Copland
Revueltas: Homenaje a Lorca
Zymann: Encuentros
Márquez: Danzón No. 2
7:30 p.m. Pritzker Pavillion

Woodstock Mozart Festival
Arthur Arnold, conductor
Kyle Armbrust, Doyle Armbrust, violas
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Mozart: Symphony No. 41
8 p.m. Woodstock Opera House

Grant Park Music Festival
Grant Park Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbański, conductor
Krzysztof Jabłoński, piano
Kilar: Krzesany
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Paderewski: Overture
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
8 p.m. Millennium Park

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christine Brewer, soprano, John Treleaven, Tenor
James Conlon, conductor
Wagner: Final Scene from Siegfried
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Suite from Götterdämmerung
8 p.m. Ravinia

John Corigliano Festival
Northwestern University Symphony
Victor Yampolsky, conductor
Maria Bachmann, violin
Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra
Liszt: A Faust Symphony
6:30 p.m. Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
www.pick-staiger.com; 847-467-4000

Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Robert Hanson, conductor
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Music of Rosza, Korngold, Waxman, Strauss
1:30 Hemmens Theater, Elgin

Chicago Opera Theater
Christian Curnyn, conductor
Cavalli: Giasone
7:30 p.m. Harris Theater

Bach Week Festival
Richard Webster, Musical Director
Anita Rieder, flute, Matthias Tacke, violin, Judith Kulb, oboe, Amy Conn, soprano,
Nina Heebink, mezzo-soprano, William Watson, tenor, Douglas Anderson, bass
Bach: Overture No. 2 BWV 1067
Bach: Violin and Oboe Concerto BWV 1060
Bach: Magnificat BWV 243
7:30 p.m. Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston

Belcea Quartet
Beethoven: Quartet Op. 18 no. 6
Szymanowski: Quartet No. 2
Bartok: Quartet No. 1
7:30 p.m. Mandel Hall
http://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/; 773-702-8068

Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Keyboard Conversations: Chopin and the Future
Music of Chopin, Debussy, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky and Szymanowski
7:30 p.m. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

Nicole Mitchell: Intergalactic Beings
7:30 p.m. Museum of Contemporary Art

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Pavel Gomziakov, cello
Fauré: Masques et bergamasques
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
8 p.m. Symphony Center

Lincoln Trio
Beethoven: Piano Trio Op. 11
Chopin: Piano Op. 8
Jalbert: Piano Trio
Martin: Piano Trio
8 p.m. Bennett-Gordon Hall, Ravinia

Orion Ensemble
Baermann: Clarinet Quartet
Kritz: Connections
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
7:30 p.m. Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

Music of the Baroque
Jane Glover, conductor
Bach: Violin and Oboe Concerto
Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No. 6
Haydn: Symphony No. 87
7:30 p.m. Harris Theater, Chicago

Turtle Island Quartet
25th Anniversary Concert
7:30 p.m. Pick-Staiger Hall, Evanston

Members of the Vermeer Quartet
Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Wendy Warner, cello
Haydn: Seven Last Words of Christ
Narration by Martin E. Marty and Jean Bethke Elshtain
8 p.m. St. James Cathedral, Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Kyle Ketelsen, Danielle de Niese, Anne Schwanewilms,
Marius Kwiecien, Joyce DiDonato/Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
2 p.m. Civic Opera House

Chicago Early Music Consort
A Medieval Tapestry
2:30 p.m.  Fermilab, Batavia

International Chamber Artists
Crespo: Suite Americana No. 1 for Brass Quintet
Previn: Four Songs
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
3 p.m. Prairie Center for the Performing Arts, Schaumberg

Stephen Kovacevich, piano
Bach: Partita No. 4
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
3 p.m. Symphony Center

Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra
Alan Heatherington, conductor
Yang Liu, violin
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C
4:30 North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie
http://arsviva.org; 847-673-6300

Music of the Baroque
Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Handel: Anthem for the Wedding of Prince Frederick and Princess Augusta
7:30 First United Methodist Church, Evanston

Radu Lupu, piano
Janácek: In the Mists
Beethoven: Sonata in F Minor (Appassionata)
Schubert: Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
3 pm Symphony Center

Chicago Symphony Orchestra members
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, conductor
Welcome Yule
1 p.m. and 4:30 Symphony Center