June 4 - 25th Season Opener - 

Deborah Sobol Memorial Concert

Heather Wittels, violin

Paula Kosower, cello

Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

Camille Pépin - The Road Not Taken

Johannes Brahms - Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87

June 11 - Chicago Harp Quartet

Emily Granger, harp

Eleanor Kirk, harp

Catherine Litaker, harp

Julie Spring, harp

Alexander Borodin; arr. Maerz - Introduction and Dance of the Maidens

Harriet Adie - Sun, Moon and Stars 

Margaret Bonds; arr. Mallory McHenry - Benediction from Montgomery Variations

Nicholas Davies - selections from Five Portraits

Aram Khachaturian; arr. Harriet Adie - Waltz & Mazurka from Masquerade Suite

Gavin Greenaway - Suite for Harp Quartet

June 18 - Grant Park Music Festival's Vocal Fellows

GPMF Vocal Fellows

Veronica Mak, soprano

Emily Amesquita, mezzo-soprano

Alexi Ortega Chavez, tenor

Lifan Deng, bass

Program to include works by Eric Whitacre, Veronika Krausas, Astor Piazzolla and more

June 25 - CSO Brass Quintet

Esteban Batallán, trumpet

John Hagstrom, trumpet

David Griffin, horn

Michael Mulcahy, trombone

Gene Pokorny, tuba

G.F. Telemann; trans. by Gunter Carlier - Trio Sonata in g minor 

 James Mattern - Sonata Breve

Derek Bourgeois - Sonata

Dmitri Shostakovich; trans. by Donald Sipe - String Quartet No.3, op. 73             

Enrique Crespo - Suite Americana No. 1

July 2 - Kontras Quartet - Reverence

Eleanor Bartsch and Francois Henkins, violins

Ben Weber, viola

Jean Hatmaker, cello

Quincy Porter - In Monasterio

Frederick C. Tillis - selections from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12

Stacy Garrop - String Quartet No. 1

Danish trad.; arr. Danish String Quartet - Selections from Last Leaf

July 9 - The 20th Century String Quartet

Avalon String Quartet

Blaise Magnière and Marie Wang, violin 

Anthony Devroye, viola

Cheng-Hou Lee, cello

Germaine Tailleferre - String Quartet

Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 9, Op. 117

July 16 - New Music for a New Age

Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon

Isidora Nojkovic, cello

Daniel Pesca, piano

Augusta Read Thomas - Bebop Riddle IIB

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson - Pilgrimage

Daniel Pesca - In Solitude

Ruth Crawford-Seeger - Diaphonic Suite No. 2

Amy Williams - Give Way and Stop/Yield

July 23 - The Art of the Clarinet Quintet

Susan Warner, clarinet

Cornelius Chiu and Kozue Funakoshi, violin 

YouMing Chen, viola

Dan Katz, cello

Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Finale from Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10

July 30 - French Romantic Piano Quartets

Matous Michal, violin

Lawrence Neuman, viola

David Cunliffe, cello

Victor Asuncion, piano

Gabriel Fuaré - Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, AOp. 15 

Louise Héritte-Viardot - Spanisches Quartett, Op. 11d

August 6 - Schubert’s Trout Quintet

Desirée Ruhstrat, violin

Aurélien Fort Pederzoli, viola 

David Cunliffe, cello

Sam Shuhan, bass

Marta Aznavoorian, piano

Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, ‘Trout’

August 13 - Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen children’s chorus

Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen children’s chorus

Program to include works by Copland, Reiter, J. Strauss, Elizabeth Alexander, Richard Rodgers, Gershwin, Beethoven and more