Exclusive Presale Access to the 2024/25 Season
Thank you for your interest in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! You’re invited to enjoy exclusive presale access to purchase individual concert tickets for the 2024/25 Season at Symphony Center. Claim the best available seats before they’re gone and experience groundbreaking jazz performances, thrilling movies accompanied live by the CSO, programs featuring celebrated guest artists and conductors from around the world and more.
To unlock your early access to single tickets, browse the calendar, select a performance, click “Access presale” and enter your provided promo code. To purchase tickets to an available event, a valid promo code must be entered first.
Presale ends on Tuesday, August 6 at 11:59 p.m. Some restrictions may apply.
Season Highlights
Forbidden love is in the air with Tchaikovsky, Ginastera’s Argentine romance and Bernstein’s rival street gangs. Benjamin Beilman replaces Hilary Hahn in Barber’s masterpiece.
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Celebrate the 134th season of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with megastar pianist Lang Lang in a marvelous, one-night-only performance, complete with a red-carpet experience.
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Strauss’ fantastical interpretation of Don Quixote anchors a storybook program featuring Beethoven’s incisive take on the Prometheus myth and musical highlights from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel.
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Celebrate Día de los Muertos with Mexican-American singer Lila Downs, whose powerful voice is showcased with folklórico dancing and stunning visual projections.
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Riccardo Muti returns with Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, with its themes of heroism, struggle and triumph. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida presents his Emperor Concerto.
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Daniil Trifonov launches his tenure as the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence with a recital that demonstrates his virtuosity, with spellbinding works by Tchaikovsky alongside Barber and Chopin.
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Experience Daniel Bernard Roumain’s inventive music. Allison Loggins-Hull explores identity in a crisis, and Brittany J. Green unravels conventional music tropes.
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Revel in Herbert Stothart’s beautiful score performed live by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as Dorothy embarks on her fantastical quest on the big screen.
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Ring in the holiday season as the Vienna Boys Choir presents a program of Austrian folk tunes, classical masterpieces and Yuletide favorites.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant blends vaudeville, blues, jazz, baroque and folk music into imaginative interpretations of standards and original works.
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The cool of the Arctic meets the warmth of Italy. Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien frame Prokofiev’s incendiary Second Piano Concerto featuring Seong-Jin Cho.
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Celebrating 30 years, Pink Martini has taken audiences around the world, sashaying between French café music, Brazilian sambas, Cuban rumbas and a dash of jazz.
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Klaus Mäkelä leads Mahler’s monumental Third Symphony in which the composer sets out to portray the whole of earthly existence, spanning fanfares and marches, folk dances and choirs of angels.
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Joined by the winner of the 2024 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition, Thomas Wilkins conducts a program celebrating the joy, power and beauty of community.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, the “queen of violin-playing” (The Times of London), teams up with her protégé, cellist Pablo Ferrández, and the formidable Yefim Bronfman in works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
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In a rare live performance, hear Oscar Peterson’s Africa Suite, inspired in part by Nelson Mandela and the intense struggle for human rights in 1980s apartheid South Africa.
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