Young Composers Initiative Finale Concert

May 23, 2025
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Young Composers Initiative

Overview

With leadership from former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, the Young Composers Initiative engages youth from across the Chicago region and empowers them to create new pieces of chamber music. In this season’s culminating event, musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago perform world premieres of works by the six composers selected to participate in the program.

Note location: Buntrock Hall at Symphony Center.

Ticket Information: Pay what you wish, starting at $5. Seating is general admission.

Schedule
Program
Gans

Fantasy for Piano and Strings

Muhammad

Prayer

Pine

War for Wind Quintet

Kravchenko

Theme and Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Melody

Mertz

Asylum

Frantzen

American Theme

Performers
Musicians from the Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Conductor
Composer
Oak Park & River Forest High School
Composer
Homeschool
Composer
Chicago Academy for the Arts
Composer
Adlai E. Stevenson II High School
Composer
Muhammad University of Islam
Composer
Home School
Sponsors & Partners

The Young Composers Initiative is generously supported by Margo and Mike Oberman.