IPO lowers the curtain on their 46th season with a resounding performance of one of music’s most celebrated and well-known works, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. With its debut performance having taken place in Vienna on May 7, 1824, IPO’s performance will commence nearly 200 years to the day after it first came alive. Also, on the bill for this epic evening will be the third installment by IPO Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh, as well as Caroline Shaw’s Seven Joys. In 2013, at just 30 years old, Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Partita for 8 Voices. Kimberly E. Jones (soprano), Leah Dexter (Mezzo-Soprano), Ryan Townsend Strand (Tenor), Bill McMurray (Baritone) and the Chicago Community Chorus will lend their thunderous talents to the evening’s program.

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Joyful Voices: Shaw & Beethoven

Trinity Christian College

Once again celebrating the very best in American classical music, IPO, together with co-presenter American Music Project in conjunction with their 10th Anniversary, opens its 47th season on September 21st, 2024 at 5:30PM with Three Great American Symphonies. “The Diamond Second is an epic wartime work and, arguably, the great American symphony,” explains Lawrence Johnson of AMP. “I’m delighted that Stilian feels as strongly about this piece as I do and that we will be able to bring this music, as well as the Still and Vincent symphonies, to a local audience.”

Three Great American Symphonies

Winner of six Jeff Awards, including Best Musical Production, Kokandy Productions’ chilling Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is coming to GSU in time for Halloween, with full orchestral IPO accompaniment. This monumental concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s macabre masterpiece will take place at the Center for Performing Arts on the grounds of Governors State University in University Park, IL

SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Governors State University

Returning to the podium for the first time since May of 2011, and after 25 years as IPO Music Director, IPO Conductor Laureate Carmon DeLeone will take the IPO baton again in a special, one night only return. Joining him on the program is internationally acclaimed pianist Fei-Fei, winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a top finalist at the 14thVan Cliburn International Piano Competition. An in-demand performer both in the US and internationally, Fei-Fei has been praised the world over for her “bountiful gifts and passionate immersion into the music she touches,” according to The Plain Dealer, and her “passion, piquancy and tenderness…winning stage presence,” by the Dallas Morning News.

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

May 18, 2024

Joyful Voices: Shaw & Beethoven

Sep 21, 2024

Three Great American Symphonies

Oct 19, 2024

SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Nov 16, 2024

Carmon Deleone Returns For Rachmaninoff

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

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