Press Room

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) announced today that the Board of Trustees and Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) musicians have accepted the terms of and ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement, effective retroactively to September 17, 2012.

Talks between the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the Chicago Federation of Musicians and the federal mediator who has been working with the parties will resume this afternoon.

Today, the Chicago Federation of Musicians (CFM), Local 10-208 negotiating committee representing musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), rejected proposals from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) for a three-year contract that would have provided musicians with a minimum base weekly salary of $2,795 in the first year, with increases to $2,835 and $2,910 in years two and three, respectively. The previous weekly base minimum salary is $2,785.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance this evening, September 22 at 8 p.m. at Symphony Center, has been canceled.

The 2012/13 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series begins on Friday, October 12 at 7 p.m. with a special performance of The Great Flood, a film and music collaboration between iconoclastic guitarist Bill Frisell and acclaimed filmmaker (and Chicago native) Bill Morrison.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrates the start of the 2012/13 season with the return of its music director, Riccardo Muti, and a variety of programs and events to kick off the season.

Since the CSOA unveiled its plans for the 2012/13 season, a new concert has been added to the lineup and some programs now have updated artist and repertoire information available.

Acclaimed trumpeter, bandleader and composer Wynton Marsalis returns to Chicago for a special performance with his quintet on Tuesday, August 28 at 8 p.m.

The CSOA's Symphony Center Presents Jazz series boasts one of the most comprehensive, innovative, varied and widely heralded jazz series in the country. The complete lineup for the 2012/13 Jazz season includes living legends and today’s top talent presented on 10 Friday nights at 8 p.m. from October through June.

The CSO and Music Director Riccardo Muti announce 2012/13 season touring plans, including three concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall in October to open the famed venue’s 2012/13 season, followed by two concerts in Guanajuato and Mexico City, Mexico—the Orchestra’s first performances in that country.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti and President Deborah Rutter today announced programming for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s 2012/13 season, the Orchestra’s 122nd and Riccardo Muti’s third as music director.