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
RESERVE TICKETS
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:

Three Shanties

 

 

CYSO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 12/08/24
Conductor: Kenny Lee

 

GABRIELA ORTIZ:

Kauyumari

 

MASON BATES:

Mothership

 

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:

And God Created Great Whales

 

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: 

Downey Overture


JULIE GIROUX: 

One Life Beautiful


ARTURO MÁRQUEZ: 

Danzon No. 2


JOHN PHILIP SOUSA: 

The Free Lance March



CYSO CONCERT ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 12/03/23
Conductor: Michael Mascari

EFRAIN AMAYA:

Parasol


AVRIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR:

Sussex Landscape


LEO DELIBES:

Prelude and Mazurka and Czardas from Coppélia


VASILY KALINNIKOV:

Symphony No. 1



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:

Danse Nègre, Op. 35, No. 4


ELENA KATS-CHERNIN:

Dance of the Paper Umbrellas


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:

Encanto


DONALD GRANTHAM:

Baron Cimetiere’s Mambo


CHRISTOPHER NELSON:

Wayfaring Stranger


DAVID MASLANKA:

The Seeker


VJA WIND SYMPHONY, WENTZ CONCERT HALL NAPERVILLE 01/26/23
Director: Mark Iwinski


ALFRED REED:

El Camino Real


JOHN PHILIP SOUSA:

Nobles of the Mystic Shrine


CHRISTOPHER NELSON:

Wayfaring Stranger


DAVID MASLANKA:

The Seeker



CYSO DEBUT ORCHESTRA, PICK-STAIGER, NORTHWESTERN 05/15/22
Conductor: Dana Green


ROSSANO GALANTE:

Genesis


GABRIEL MUSELLA:

Huapango Del Oso


FRANZ LISZT:

Les Preludes


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