World renowned conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is slated to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in concert February 24-27 and March 1. The February 25, 26, 27 and March 1 concerts feature internationally acclaimed cellist and CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma as soloist in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1, written by the composer for his friend, the virtuoso cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
All of the programs (February 24-March 1) include Beethoven's Overture to King Stephen, as well as Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's Third Symphony, a work commissioned by the CSO in 1972 which received its world premiere under the baton of then-Music Director Sir Georg Solti in 1983.
A commission of the Finnish Radio Corporation which was premiered at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2001, Salonen's own three-movement symphonic work, Foreign Bodies will be performed by the CSO in recognition of his receipt of the 2014 Nemmers Composition Prize.
The performance of Symphony No. 3 by Witold Lutosławski is generously supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music program.
Discounted student tickets for select concerts can be purchased, subject to availability, online in advance or at the box office on the day of the concert.
Regularly priced tickets for Esa-Pekka Salonen concerts with the CSO cost between $27 and $270 and can be purchased by phone at (800) 223-7114 or (312) 294-3000; online through the CSO's official website or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604.
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