Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival has valuable conductor Carlos Kalmar for simply another another two years, in keeping with an announcement Tuesday from the summer classical music company.
Kalmar’s contract because the Festival’s creative director and valuable conductor has been extended by plan of 2024, after which he’s going to end his tenure. The 2024 summer season shall be his 25th season leading the Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain, in keeping with the announcement, as properly because the Festival’s 90th anniversary season.
Following the season, Kalmar shall be conductor laureate and will return periodically to habits the Grant Park Orchestra and Refrain foundation in 2026.
Grant Park Orchestra conductor Carlos Kalmar. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune / Chicago Tribune)
“Making music with the Grant Park Music Festival has been a extraordinary joy for me and I will’t wait to return to the Pritzker stage this summer,” Kalmar talked about within the assertion. “I am so grateful for the unheard of creative partnership I in actuality glean had with the Festival, and will continuously admire this orchestra and chorus, alongside with the audiences of Chicago.”
Kalmar became once first named valuable conductor in 2000, adding the aim of creative director in 2011.
The Grant Park Music Festival announced in early Also can that it might possibly well be returning to its efficiency home on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, as properly as announced its season foundation July 2 with a “Independence Day Salute.” Earlier this month, the competition announced that concerts might well be at fat skill. More knowledge at GPMF.org
