2024/25 Latino Alliance Concerts & Events
Join the CSO Latino Alliance for a new season of creating connections through the timeless beauty of music. The 2024/25 Latino Alliance season highlights Latino composers, artists and conductors in a series of performances at Symphony Center across a variety of genres including classical, jazz, new music and more. Select concerts will also have associated Nuestras noches receptions, artist meet-and-greets and networking events.
Concert tickets start at $40 with promo code LASEASON. For concerts with a Nuestras noches event, a separate, free reception ticket is also required. Your concert ticket pricing will be adjusted after you have added your seats to the order.
FOR CONCERTS WITH NUESTRAS NOCHES EVENTS:
When ordering your concert ticket, follow the prompts to add your free reception ticket to the order. Both a concert ticket and reception ticket are required for admittance to the reception. If you forgot to order the reception ticket or have questions and need assistance, contact Patron Services online or call 312-294-3000.
Jimmy López: Inner Dialogues MAR 23
MusicNOW Afterparty
Peruvian composer Jimmy López curates a diverse program featuring his works La Caresse du Couteau and Guardian of the Horizon, alongside works by Pierre Boulez, Quinn Mason and Adam Schoenberg. The concert experience includes a casual afterparty hosted by the Latino Alliance, offering a chance to connect with the artists and delve into innovative contemporary music.
The MusicNOW Afterparty will be held directly after the concert in the Rotunda. View the event flyer »
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Boleros de Noche featuring Tres Souls & Trío Remembranza APR 12
Noche de romance
Boleros de Noche aims to preserve, uplift and celebrate bolero music, often considered the most romantic genre of Latin American music. Tres Souls’ vintage sound is inspired by the golden era of Mexican cinema, and Puerto Rico’s Trío Remembranza puts its spin on trío romántico traditions.
Network with Latino Alliance members and connect with the artists of the evening directly after the concert in Grainger Ballroom.
Eliane Elias / Edmar Castañeda: Family MAY 9
Grammy-winning pianist, singer and Brazilian superstar Eliane Elias seamlessly intertwines straight-ahead jazz and Afro-Latin rhythms like samba and bossa nova. Colombian-born jazz harpist Edmar Castañeda performs original compositions and interpretations of traditional Colombian songs from his Latin Grammy-nominated album.
CANCELLED: Maria João Pires MAY 25
The Symphony Center Presents Piano concert featuring Maria João Pires on Sunday, May 25, 2025 has been canceled due to the artist’s scheduling difficulties.
Distinguished Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires, hailed as “an elegant technician and probing interpreter” (The New York Times), returns to Symphony Center.
Riccardo Muti & Esteban Batallán JUNE 12-14
Nuestras noches event JUNE 12
Esteban Batallán, the CSO’s principal trumpet since 2019, makes his much-anticipated debut as a soloist with the Orchestra in a pair of brilliant, high-flying concertos.
More information about this concert’s associated Nuestras noches event will be available soon.
Orozco-Estrada Conducts Romeo and Juliet SEP 19-20
Celebrating Andrés Orozco-Estrada, SEP 19
The CSO Latino Alliance invites you to the inaugural event of the 2024/25 Season! Colombian-born conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the CSO takes listeners from the streets of Bernstein’s New York with the Overture to West Side Story to the Argentine Pampas region, the setting of Ginastera’s vibrant Four Dances from Estancia.
Celebrating Andrés Orozco-Estrada was held directly after the Thursday, September 19 concert in Grainger Ballroom for networking, refreshments and meet-and-greet with Orozco-Estrada.
Jordi Savall — Monteverdi: A Baroque Revolution OCT 8
Musical time traveler, globe-trotting impresario, enterprising scholar and charismatic virtuoso: Jordi Savall is one of the most distinctive talents in the field of early music.
Don Quixote OCT 24-26
This storybook concert program includes Strauss’ fantastical, symphonic interpretation of Don Quixote, which pits the befuddled “Man of La Mancha” against a flurry of windmills, sorcerers and bleating sheep.
Lila Downs: Día de los Muertos OCT 27
Commemorate Día de los Muertos with the Grammy-winning, Mexican-American singer Lila Downs and the Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago in a vibrant performance with songs in Spanish and English, as well as indigenous languages from Downs’ native Oaxaca.
Mariachi Águilas de Benito Juárez Performance
Mariachi Águilas de Benito Juárez directed by Michael Espinosa performed from 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in the Rotunda. The performance was free and open to all ticketholders.
Muti & the CSO NOV 8-9
A Conversation with Osvaldo Golijov, NOV 8
Engaged in an enlightening conversation with Osvaldo Golijov, moderated by WFMT’s Oliver Camacho, delving into Golijov’s music and tenure as former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence. Afterward, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Golijov’s Megalopolis Suite, alongside spirited pieces that evoke the lively rhythms of southern Spain, including Manuel de Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos and Emmanuel Chabrier’s España.
A Conversation with Osvaldo Golijov was held on Friday, November 8 before the concert in Grainger Ballroom.
Merry, Merry Chicago! DEC 18-23
DEC 21: ¡Noche navideña!
Families gathered for the Latino Alliance’s annual Noche navideña event — with an a cappella chamber ensemble, holiday cookies and hot chocolate — before Symphony Center’s joyous musical celebration of the season featuring members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
Noche navideña was held in Grainger Ballroom starting at 11:30 until the 1:00 Saturday, December 21 Merry, Merry Chicago! concert.
Sphinx Virtuosi: American Form/s FEB 25
Meet the Sphinx Virtuosi
The trailblazing, 18-member string orchestra, composed of outstanding Black and Latino musicians from around the country, performed diverse masterworks by Teresa Carreño and former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, who joined the program with her 2024 Grammy-winning Rounds for Piano and String Orchestra.
The reception was co-hosted by African American Network and was held in Grainger ballroom following the concert. View reception flyer »
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Ravel Daphnis and Chloe MAR 6-8
Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno lead a program that included Maurice Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, capturing the sensuous allure of Spain.
The Music of Our Emotions MAR 8
Patrons discovered how music can help us understand and share our feelings. Born of a life filled with joy and sorrow, love and pain, the music of Tchaikovsky pulsed with strong emotions.
Perfect for ages 5-12