upcoming performances
CLASSICAL KIDS LIVE!
Beethoven Lives Upstairs Featuring CYSO Philharmonic Orchestra
MARCH 16, 2025 3PM
Northshore Performing Arts Center
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CPS EDUCATION CONCERTS / KIDS LIVE!
Beethoven Lives Upstairs Featuring CYSO Philharmonic Orchestra
MARCH 20, 2025 10AM - 2PM
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CHAMBERPALOOZA
Come see Windy City Quintet and other CYSO chamber ensembles!
April 13, 2025 7PM
Fine Arts, 410 S Michigan Avenue, 10th Fl
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CYSO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (PO) SPRING CONCERT
May 10, 2025 7:30 PM
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston
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Gioachino Rossini Overture to Otello
Leanna Primiani 1001
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheharezad I. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
Georges-Hue Fantasie for Flute
Joe Hisaishi My Neighbor Totoro from Melodyphony
CYSO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FEATURING PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
May 18, 2025 7:30 PM
Orchestra Hall, 220 S Michigan
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past performances
MIDWEST MUSICAL FESTIVAL, PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE 02/22/2025
Conductor: Mark Iwinski; Clinicians: Orbert Davis, Ernie Adams
VJA Jazz Clinic
ILMEA ALL-STATE HONORS ORCHESTRA, PEORIA CIVIC CENTER 02/01/2025
Conductor: Jean R. Perrault
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR:
La Bamboula
WILLIAM WALTON
Symphony No. 2 mvmt. 3
SMITH MOORE
Ring Game mvmt. 6 from: "Scenes from the Life of a Martyr"
CYSO WINDY CITY QUINTET, GANTZ HALL 12/15/2024
Coaches: Zach Good & Ben Roidl-Ward; Director: Scott Tegge
MALCOLM ARNOLD:
CYSO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 12/08/24
Conductor: Kenny Lee
GABRIELA ORTIZ:
MASON BATES:
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH:
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH:
Symphony No. 5 in D minor: III. Largo, IV. Allegro non troppo
ILMEA ALL-DISTRICT FESTIVAL, SENIOR ORCHESTRA, ELMHURST UNIVERSITY 11/09/24
Conductor: Mina Zikri
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY:
Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
FLORENCE PRICE:
Symphony No. 3: III. Juba
THOMAS NICKELL:
Arctica
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Danse Macabre
VICTOR J. ANDREW WIND SYMPHONY 10/29/24
Director: Mark Iwinski
ALFRED REED:
The Hounds of Spring
FRANK TICHELI:
Wild Nights!
FLORENCE PRICE:
The Old Boatman
CYSO CONCERT ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 05/05/24
Conductor: Michael Mascari
ELENA ROUSSANOVA:
“The Great Chaplin” Orchestral Suite
ALAN HOVHANESS:
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS:
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor: I. Allegro non troppo
VASILY KALINNIKOV:
Symphony No. 1 in G minor: II. Andante commodamente
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK:
Symphony No. 9 in E minor: IV. Allegro con fuoco
VJA WIND SYMPHONY, d230 FESTIVAL OF BANDS AT ORCHESTRA HALL, CHICAGO 03/20/24
Director: Mark Iwinski
OSCAR NAVARRO:
JULIE GIROUX:
ARTURO MÁRQUEZ:
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA:
CYSO CONCERT ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 12/03/23
Conductor: Michael Mascari
EFRAIN AMAYA:
AVRIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR:
Sussex Landscape
LEO DELIBES:
Prelude and Mazurka and Czardas from Coppélia
VASILY KALINNIKOV:
ILMEA ALL-DISTRICT FESTIVAL, D1 SENIOR ORCHESTRA, ELMHURST UNIVERSITY, 11/18/23
Conductor: Yvonne Davila-Cortes
GIUSEPPE VERDI:
Nabucco Overture
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR:
Overture to The Song of Hiawatha
RUTLEDGE:
Love is Love
VJA WIND SYMPHONY, WENTZ CONCERT HALL NAPERVILLE 10/12/23
Director: Mark Iwinski
ERIC WHITACRE:
October
PINKZEBRA:
Fanfare for a New Era
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA:
The Free Lance March
CYSO CONCERT ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 05/14/23
Conductor: Michael Mascari
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR:
ELENA KATS-CHERNIN:
DMITRI KABALEVSKY:
Piano Concerto No. 3: I. Allegro molto
CÉSAR FRANCK:
Symphony in D minor: III. Finale
VJA WIND SYMPHONY, BUTLER UNIVERSITY, IN 03/31/23
Director: Mark Iwinski
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA:
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
ROBERT W. SMITH:
Encanto
DAVID MASLANKA:
The Seeker
VJA WIND SYMPHONY, WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY 02/25/23
Director: Mark Iwinski
ROBERT W. SMITH:
DONALD GRANTHAM:
CHRISTOPHER NELSON:
DAVID MASLANKA:
VJA WIND SYMPHONY, WENTZ CONCERT HALL NAPERVILLE 01/26/23
Director: Mark Iwinski
ALFRED REED:
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA:
CHRISTOPHER NELSON:
DAVID MASLANKA:
CYSO DEBUT ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 05/15/22
Conductor: Dana Green
ROSSANO GALANTE:
GABRIEL MUSELLA:
Huapango Del Oso
FRANZ LISZT:
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN:
Symphony No. 1: II. Menuetto, Allegro molto e vivace
CYSO DEBUT ORCHESTRA, HARRIS THEATRE, CHICAGO 12/04/21
Conductor: Dana Green
JOHANNES BRAHMS:
Academic Festival Overture
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY:
Cossack Dance from Mazeppa
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK:
New World Symphony: I. Adagio