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The CSO is pleased to announce its participation in @carnegiehall's 2025-2026 Season. The ensemble and Music Director Designate @klausmakela will make their first appearance together in the hall on Feb. 25, 2026. For subscription information, please visit

Wondering what to watch for in a traditional Japanese taiko drumming performance? The members of @KodoHeartbeat share nine elements audiences can prepare for ahead of their Symphony Center Presents performance.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been named @Chicago_Reader's Best Classical Ensemble, Best Venue for Classical Music and first runner-up for Best Classical Music Event this year! 🎉 Thank you to all who voted for us! #BOC2024

“It’s kind of addictive and intoxicating. People get into a groove with the material as it comes back,” says pianist @awadagin Pratt of @jmontgomerymusc’s Rounds, a piece he will perform with the Sphinx Virtuosi at Symphony Center Feb. 25. @sphinxorg

RT @csoarchives: Wishing a very happy birthday to legendary American soprano Leontyne Price! @ChicagoSymphony @RaviniaFestival @CarnegieHal…

“I think what I try to do is more akin to revealing secrets than telling stories,” said @cecilesalvant on her newest album, “Mélusine.” Learn more before her Feb. 21 performance at Symphony Center.

This week on #CSOradio, @esapekkasalonen leads the CSO in Ravel’s Mother Goose, @bryce_dessner’s Violin Concerto with @pekka_kuusisto and Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements. Tune in tonight on @WFMTclassical! Listen on Experience CSO tomorrow.

It’s National Opera Day! Celebrate with a playlist of instrumental and vocal highlights recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and guests — including legendary vocalists Kiri Te Kanawa and Luciano Pavarotti.

Preceding the rarely performed drama, @esapekkasalonen led a dynamic interpretation of Beethoven’s jubilant Second Symphony. 📷: @amyphotochicago

“It’s one of the most satisfying experiences that I have had as a musician ... every musical decision that we make comes from us,” said cellist & former Civic Orchestra of Chicago member Lindsey Sharpe about performing with the Sphinx Virtuosi. @SphinxOrg

RT @csoarchives: The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of American bass Paul Plishka. @RaviniaFe…

Playing the villain is “more fun, absolutely,” says bass-baritone Christian Van Horn, who will perform the role of the sadistic Duke Bluebeard in this week’s CSO performances of Bartók’s one-act opera. “If there are boos, I did my job.” @VanHornCVH

“Leading the CSO this past Thursday night in Richard Strauss’ Don Juan, Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, and his own new Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra, Salonen drove the orchestra like an F1 champion,” wrote Graham Meyer for @bachtrack.

The recital program included works by Brahms, Liszt, Bartók, Rachmaninov and Bach.

Congratulations to all of the honorees at the #GRAMMYs yesterday — including this week’s CSO guest conductor @esapekkasalonen, whose recording of Saariaho’s Adriana Mater with the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus won for best opera! @RecordingAcad

Celebrate the 216th birthday of composer Felix Mendelssohn with a playlist of some of his best-known works recorded by the CSO— including multiple releases of the Violin Concerto featuring Misha Elman, Shlomo Mintz and Itzhak Perlman.

This week on #CSOradio: @paavo_jarvi leads the CSO in Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor with @ShekuKM and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5. Tune in tonight on #WFMTclassical! Listen on Experience CSO starting tomorrow.

Learn more about the many artists featured in this season’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Center Presents lineups who are among the nominees for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards! Don’t miss the ceremony this evening at 7 pm CST.