Ondas Ensemble (formerly known as Facetada): This trio’s core members first joined forces for the 2007 Chicago Latino Composers series at the Chicago Cultural Center launching them into the new path of exploring and promoting Latino composers and Latino inspired music. Julie Koidin (flute), Donald Jacobs (clarinet), and Roderick Ferguson (piano) perform music by Piazzolla, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Elbio Barilari, among others.
ADMISSION FREE
G.A.R. Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St
Chicago, IL 60647
Chicago Chamber Musicians - Chicago’s premier chamber music organization presents its First Mondays series, broadcast live on WFMT 98.7.
ADMISSION FREE
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington
Chicago, IL 60602
Daedalus Duo - "Music of Southern Spain......Folk songs, Dances, and Recent Compositions" Bonnie Campbell and Diana Schmück (described in the Chicago Sun-Times as "one of the finest chamber pianists on the scene”) explore music from Spain for clarinet and piano.
ADMISSION FREE
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Susanna Phillips, soprano - Celebrate Bastille Day with the sparkling voice of soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Craig Terry in a program of French classics by Faure, Messiaen, and Debussy, and an homage to Edith Piaf. This alumna of Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Center has attracted special recognition for a voice of striking beauty and sophistication and was the winner of four of the world's leading vocal competitions in a single year - Operalia (both First Place and the Audience Prize), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards and the George London Foundation. She has performed on the country’s leading operatic and concert stages including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe, Minnesota, Utah, Dallas and Kentucky operas, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and will sing the role of Musetta in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of La Boheme this winter.
ADMISSION FREE
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
BEETHOVEN'S 7th
Grant Park Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, Conductor; Leila Josefowicz, Violin