This September, Chicago Philharmonic celebrates the start of its ninth season as a Harris Theater Resident Company at the Harris Theater’s 20th Anniversary concert!

In a FREE concert at Millennium Park, experience an exclusive sneak peek of Chicago Philharmonic’s highly anticipated 2024–2025 Season and 35th anniversary year with performances featuring dazzling guest artists. Inaugural Artist in Residence and 2023 Sphinx Competition winner Njioma Grevious performs the first movement of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “irresistibly tuneful and big-hearted” (Gramophone) Violin Concerto in G Minor. Chicago Philharmonic then collaborates with local, established singer, songwriter, and producer Ryan O’Neal (stage name: Sleeping at Last) for exciting new orchestral arrangements of the star’s heartfelt hit singles, including Saturn, Sun, and Turning Page.

Kalena Bovell, Conductor

Njioma Chinyere Grevious, Violin

Sleeping At Last (Ryan O’Neal), Vocals and Piano

Programme:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G Minor, op. 80 I. Allegro maestoso

Sleeping At Last, arr. Michael Moricz Turning Page

Sleeping At Last, arr. Michael Moricz Venus

Sleeping At Last, arr. Mateo Messina Sun

Sleeping At Last, arr. Mateo Messina Saturn