Illinois Symphony Orchestra

The Illinois Symphony has released the schedule for the upcoming season, beginning with a guest conductor sending the audience to a galaxy far, far away.

Plus, 2022 Van Cliburn Medal Winner Anna Geniushene makes her Illinois Symphony debut this weekend playing Ravel's Piano Concert in G Major.

Ecology Action Center has organized two service days this Earth Month cleaning up plastic waste in McLean County. The first is this Saturday at ISU Farm in Lexington.

Peoria and Washington are among the teams competing for the top prize in high school girls' basketball at CEFCU arena this weekend.

The Illinois Symphony's former maestro left in 2022 for a job he couldn't refuse—he is now director of orchestral studies at Juilliard's first satellite campus in China.

'Eat, Pray, Love' meets Christopher Guest in a new mockumentary film by Coalescence Theatre Project, showing this weekend at the Normal Theater.

Music director Taichi Fukumura gives his first chamber concert with the orchestra, featuring Stacy Garrop's 2020 baroque-inspired mini-suite 'Spectacle of Light.'

The holiday season is in full swing. Here are a few ways to lean all the way in.

Guest conductor Alastair Willis returns to lead the Illinois Symphony, nine years after his departure as music director.

Violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason makes his Illinois Symphony debut with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's concerto, originally written for a Central Illinois violinist.