Chicago Philharmonic 2021-2022

THE CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY | 2021-2022 SEASON 27 2021-2022 SEASON Chicago Philharmonic Families to the Phil Live music experiences play a crucial role inspiring children to develop a love of music. Families to the Phil provides young people from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to share the powerful experience of a live, fully professional symphonic concert with their family. Each season we underwrite hundreds of tickets for Chicago Philharmonic symphonic concerts for students and family members from a list of Chicago-area public schools, community music schools, and youth orchestras. Almost all of the schools included in this program reach low-income students who might not otherwise have the opportunity to hear a live symphonic performance. NEXT! NEXT! was established as an initiative to give emerging musicians and performers the opportunity to be heard by Chicago Philharmonic patrons. ese talented artists are showcased in the foyer before Chicago Philharmonic subscription concerts and during intermission. In recent seasons we have welcomed students from the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Music Institute of Chicago, Wheaton College, DePaul University, Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, Youth Choral eater of Chicago, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Chicago High School for the Arts, the Actors Gymnasium, and the Shi Englewood Youth Orchestra. Spotlight Spotlight is a mentoring program designed to give professional symphonic performance opportunities to exceptional young musicians. e program provides these students an opportunity to perform with orchestra mentors in rehearsal sessions, followed by a professional performance of one major classical work in a subscription concert. Past participants have been drawn from throughout the Chicago metropolitan area and have included students from Protégé Philharmonic, Music Institute of Chicago, Midwest Young Artists, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Birch Creek Symphony Program. Summer Internship anks to the Illinois Arts Council Agency’s Summer Youth Employment in the Arts program, Chicago Philharmonic has completed a fourth year of its summer intern program. e project gives high school students hands-on paid training in all departments of arts management, as well as career training, and performance opportunities. is summer, we were pleased to welcome three impressive young students with connections to classical music: Isabella Sargan, Marketing Intern, violinist, and rising senior at Northside College Prep; Sonya Jones, Development Intern, violinist, and rising senior at Lincoln Park High School; and Sasha Casares, Production Intern, pianist, and rising senior at Lincoln Park High School. Each intern spent the summer working one-on-one with their department manager in a mix of in-o ce and virtual work. Photo by Elliot Mandel Photo by Elliot Mandel Photo by Elliot Mandel COMMUNITY ENGAG MENT