Join Us!
Our season opens with the highly-anticipated return of the Balourdet Quartet, followed by a performance by the acclaimed Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet. Later in the season Duluth native mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson performs alongside her husband, baritone Ryan Wolfe. In the spring, we welcome back the astounding Ukrainian guitarist Marko Topchii, and the season culminates with Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen.
Every performance will be a standout event!
Season tickets are on sale now, and we are offering three- and five-concert packages. Individual concert tickets will be available in early fall.
All Concerts General Admission • Doors open 30 minutes prior to each concert
Student tickets free courtesy of Christian Eggert Violins
BALOURDET QUARTET
strings
Single tickets go
on sale in early fall
The Balourdet Quartet is acclaimed for their vibrant energy and masterful blend of technical precision and emotional depth that brings a fresh perspective to both beloved classics and modern compositions. Its unique closeness and willingness to take creative risks earned it the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as Chamber Music America’s 2024 Cleveland Quartet Award. With more than 70 concerts per season, recent highlights include the Balourdet’s debuts at Carnegie and Wigmore Halls, and new string quartets by composers Karim Al-Zand, Paul Novak, and Nicky Sohn. They have recently been named the first ever Quartet-in-Residence at the Seattle Chamber Music Society and have recently completed residencies at Indiana University and the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program.
SINGLE TICKET OPTIONS:
Adult $35 advance / $40 day of performance
Senior (62+) $30 advance / $35 day of performance
All Students FREE
Arrive early and stay late! Doors open at 2:30 p.m. and after the concert, you’re invited to a FREE reception where you can meet the Balourdet Quartet.
CHICAGO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
brass quintet
Sunday, November 15, 2026 – 3:00 p.m.
Single tickets go
on sale in early fall
Continuing a legacy which began in 1951, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet defines the distinctive and world-renowned “Chicago brass sound.” Whether playing to full capacity audiences at their home in Chicago’s Symphony Center or performing internationally, the CSO Brass Quintet is celebrated for programs that both enlighten and entertain concertgoers. Recent tours have included sold-out concerts in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Mexico. In the summer of 2024, the quintet made its European festival debut in Ravenna (Italy) followed by master classes and concerts at the Galicia (Spain) Brass Festival. In January 2024, the CSO Brass Quintet provided fanfare for an event hosted by France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs bestowing the “Commander of the Legion of Honor” on Maestro Riccardo Muti. All five members of the quintet are highly sought after brass pedagogues who hold positions at prestigious universities such as Northwestern, DePaul, and Roosevelt.
SINGLE TICKET OPTIONS:
Adult $35 advance / $40 day of performance
Senior (62+) $30 advance / $35 day of performance
All Students FREE
Arrive early and stay late! Doors open at 2:30 p.m. and after the concert, you’re invited to a FREE reception where you can meet the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet.
Single tickets go
on sale in early fall
A native of Duluth, Minnesota, French-born mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson’s recent engagements included debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kentucky Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, as well as returns to Lyric Opera of the North, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra. Her recent engagements include Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Carmen (Sioux City Symphony Orchestra), Siddhartha, She (Aspen Music Festival), and A Little Night Music (Lyric Opera of the North). Additionally, Ms. Jacobson won 1st Place in the National Opera Association’s 2020 Carolyn Bailey and Dominick Argento Vocal Competition.
Arlington Heights, Illinois native Ryan Wolfe has been commended for his “commanding presence”, “spot-on delivery”, and his “well-tutored, polished baritone”. In 2025, Ryan was National Semifinalist in the Dominique and Eric Laffont Competition and a recipient of a Career Development Grant from The Sullivan Foundation. He is a two-time semifinalist of the Lotte Lenya Competition. During his two years as a Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist at Los Angeles Opera, Ryan amassed over forty performances with the company from leading roles to comprimario roles including a morning-of jump in for the final dress rehearsal as the title role in El último sueño de Frida y Diego. Ryan has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Santa Fe Opera, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Richmond Symphony.
SINGLE TICKET OPTIONS:
Adult $35 advance / $40 day of performance
Senior (62+) $30 advance / $35 day of performance
All Students FREE
Arrive early and stay late! Doors open at 2:30 p.m. and after the concert, you’re invited to a FREE reception where you can meet Georgia Jacobson and Ryan Wolfe.
MARKO TOPCHII guitar
Single tickets go
on sale in early fall
Multi-award-winning classical guitarist Marko Topchii was born to a musical family in Ukraine, in 1991. His prodigious achievements are best exemplified by his numerous competition victories: More than 100 awards worldwide in international classical guitar competitions, 55 of them being First Prizes in prestigious competitions including the 54th International Guitar Competition Francisco Tarrega, the 35th International Guitar Competition Andres Segovia in Spain, the 50th International Guitar Competition Michele Pittaluga in Italy, the 6th JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition in New York, the 16th Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Guitar Competition in Poland, the Maurizio Biasini competition in San Francisco, the 56th Tokyo International Guitar Competition and most recently, the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition in New York.
SINGLE TICKET OPTIONS:
Adult $35 advance / $40 day of performance
Senior (62+) $30 advance / $35 day of performance
All Students FREE
Arrive early and stay late! Doors open at 2:30 p.m. and after the concert, you’re invited to a FREE reception where you can meet Marko Topchii.
JUHO POHJONEN
piano
Single tickets go
on sale in early fall
Lauded for his “impeccable technique” (The Washington Post) and “elegant musicianship” (The New York Times), pianist Juho Pohjonen is in demand internationally as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber performer. An ardent exponent of Scandinavian music, Pohjonen’s growing discography offers a showcase of music by Finnish compatriots such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kaija Saariaho, and Jean Sibelius.
SINGLE TICKET OPTIONS:
Adult $35 advance / $40 day of performance
Senior (62+) $30 advance / $35 day of performance
All Students FREE
Arrive early and stay late! Doors open at 2:30 p.m. and after the concert, you’re invited to a FREE reception where you can meet Juho Pohjonen.