🎶 We’re thrilled to welcome internationally acclaimed clarinetist David Shifrin for a Distinguished Hess Alumni Concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Dame Myra Hess Concerts! 📅 Wednesday, October 21 🕧 12:15–1:00 p.m. 📍 55 E. Wacker Drive

Classical Music Chicago will take part in Open House Chicago and the inaugural Loop Arts Fest for the first time, bringing live music to one of the Loop’s most distinctive architectural landmarks. 📍 55 E. Wacker Dr. 📅 Oct 17 1-1:20pm

Pianists Fan Favorites with Jonathan Mamora, acclaimed for his “most assured pianism,” and “natural, songful lyricism” (The Dallas Morning News). Wed, Oct 14 Doors open at 11:30 a.m. | Concert at 12:15 p.m. Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist 55 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago

Watch Trio Caspar’s full video— out now!⭐️ Andrea Caputo, clarinet; Jason Moon, violin; Bogang Hwang, piano Program: Darius Milhaud — Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Op. 157b Igor Stravinsky — L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) Suite for Trio Libby Larsen — Slang

A Musical Meal with Stravinsky, Milhaud and Larsen with Trio Caspar⭐️ Andrea Caputo, clarinet; Jason Moon, violin; Bogang Hwang, piano Wed, Oct 7 Doors open at 11:30 a.m. | Concert at 12:15 p.m. 55 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago #DameMyraHess #ChicagoClassicalMusic

Four Wednesdays, four exceptional performances 🎶 Brighten your October with the Dame Myra Hess Concerts and enjoy 45 minutes of live music in the heart of Chicago 🧡 Doors open at 11:30 a.m. | Concerts: 12:15–1:00 p.m. 📍55 E. Wacker Dr. Free admission

Join us for the Dame Myra Hess Concerts as pianist Ariel Lanyi presents Piano Gems of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 🎹 Wednesday, September 30 Doors open at 11:30 a.m. | Concert at 12:15 p.m. Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist 55 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago

Pianist Miki Aoki joins us for this week's Dame Myra Hess Concert! 📅 Wednesday, Sept 23 | Free admission 🚪 Doors: 11:30 AM | Concert: 12:15 PM 📍55 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago #DameMyraHessConcerts #ChicagoMusic #LiveMusicChicago

Applications open now! 🎶 Emerging classical musicians and ensembles are invited to apply for Classical Music Chicago’s @classicalmusicchicago 2027–28 Dame Myra Hess Concert season. Applications are open September 15–30, 2026: classicalmusicchicago.org/he…

We're excited to have ZaRiah Wind Quintet for this week's Dame Myra Hess Concert! 📅 Wednesday, Sept 16 | Free admission 🚪 Doors: 11:30 AM | Concert: 12:15 PM 📍55 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago #DameMyraHessConcerts #ChicagoMusic #Piano #LiveMusicChicago

Pianist Antonio Alessandri performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, and Maurice Ravel at this Wednesday's Dame Myra Hess Concert! 📅 Wednesday, Sept 9 | Free admission🚪 Doors: 11:30 AM | Concert: 12:15 PM📍55 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago

Join us upcoming Wednesday for a Dame Myra Hess Concert featuring clarinetist Katia Sofia Waxman and pianist Ya-Ju Chuang 📅 Wednesday, Sept 2 | Free admission🚪 Doors: 11:30 AM | Concert: 12:15 PM📍55 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago

Cellist Julia-Hyunji Lee and pianist Umi Garrett's program featured: Nadia Boulanger — Trois Pièces for Cello and Piano Gabriel Fauré — Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Claude Debussy — Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 135 Florence Price — Elfentanz Watch the full video!

Five Wednesdays, five exceptional performances 🎶 Brighten your September with the Dame Myra Hess Concerts and enjoy 45 minutes of live music in the heart of Chicago🧡 Doors open at 11:30 a.m. | Concerts: 12:15–1:00 p.m. @ 55 E. Wacker Dr. Always free admission

Cellist Julia-Hyunji Lee and pianist Umi Garrett are back for this week’s Dame Myra Hess Concert! 🎻🎹 Wednesday, Aug 26 Doors 11:30 AM | Concert 12:15 PM Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist 55 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago #DameMyraHess #ClassicalMusic #Cello #Piano #LiveMusic

Han Chen’s Dame Myra Hess concert was "modern yet romantic and full of hope", featuring works by Igor Stravinsky and the Chicago premiere of a new work by Nina C. Young. Watch the full concert now on our YouTube channel!

GRAMMY® Award-nominated pianist Han Chen returns to the Dame Myra Hess Concerts this week! 🎹✨ PROGRAM Igor Stravinsky — Quatre études, Op. 7 Nina C. Young — Fern Flower (Tsvetok Paporotnika) (Chicago premiere) Igor Stravinsky — Trois mouvements de Petrouchka

One final Rush Hour Concert and we’re going to the opera! 🎻✨ Join us for our Season Finale, "A Night at the Opera", featuring the Galvin Cello Quartet: James Baik, Haddon Kay, Sydney Lee, and Luiz Venturelli. 🗓 Tuesday, August 18 🎶 Concert at 5:45 PM 📍735 N. State St.

Relive Joseph Skerik and Victor Santiago Asuncion’s performance of Samuel Barber’s Cello Sonata in C Minor, Op. 6 from our recent Dame Myra Hess Concert🎻🎹 Watch the full concert now on our YouTube channel—link in bio! #DameMyraHess #SamuelBarber #ClassicalMusic #Cello #Piano

Violist Joseph Skerik and pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion take the stage this Wednesday for Dame Myra Hess Concerts! Wed, Aug 12 Doors 11:30 AM | Concert 12:15 PM Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist 55 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago Free admission.