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Evanston Symphony Orchestra

Lawrence Eckerling, Music Director

Evanston Symphony Holiday Concert

Sunday, December 13, 2026 — 3:00 pm

Make sure your holiday season starts with the best holiday event in Evanston!

Special rates for a family package of 2 adult tickets and 3 children’s tickets.

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A Very Special Concert:
An inclusive holiday celebration

Sunday, December 13, 2026 — 12:30–1:15 p.m.

$5 per adult. Persons under 18 are free. Phone reservations required.

Join the Evanston Symphony Orchestra for an inclusive celebration of Holiday music. Our shortened holiday concert welcomes those who vocalize, move, and have diverse ways of experiencing music.

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Great Romantics

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Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

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May 23, 2027

A Mass for Peace

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Musical Insights

Free Pre-Concert Preview Series!

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Enhance your concert experience with a sneak preview — Composers come alive and their passions take center stage when ESO Maestro Lawrence Eckerling takes you on an insider’s tour of the history and highlights behind the music. Get a chance to see and hear our guest soloist for each concert!

Merion’s Crystal Ballroom

529 Davis St, Evanston.
FREE and open to the public.

Please RSVP to 847-570-7815.

Light refreshments will be served and casual tours of apartments will be available after the program.

Orchestra News

All That Jazz on October 23

The Evanston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Lawrence Eckerling and Principal Trumpet Don Cagen will front a jazz quartet Friday, Oct. 23 during a fundraiser to benefit the ESO’s community outreach programs. The reception and program of jazz favorites begin at 7 p.m.

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Seeking timpanist

The Evanston Symphony Orchestra, now in its 80th season is auditioning for a new timpanist to join this award-winning orchestra.

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2026 Programming of the Year Award recipient

We are honored to announce that we have received the 2026 Programming of the Year Award from the Illinois Council of Orchestras. The award covers programming for the 2024–2025 season.

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Musical Notes

ESO Celebrates Banner 70th Season with Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky & Other Favorites, Plus Evanston’s Own Howard Levy Playing His Harmonica Concerto and ‘Porgy and Bess’

The award-winning Evanston Symphony Orchestra is kicking off its 70th season on October 25 with a concert of much-loved favorites: Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Tchaikovsky’s The Tempest and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade featuring concertmaster Julie Fischer in the prominent violin solos.

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So Long, John Russell—and Thanks!

Retired ESO timpanist John F. Russell was born in ­Gloucester, England. His parents worked in a nursing home there ­until an American relative in Cicero offered his father work and housing.

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Ko-Eun Yi
Meet Ko-Eun Yi!

Ko-Eun Yi was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. While no one in her family is a musician — her father is a consultant for start-up businesses and her mother spends significant time as a ­volunteer — her parents love music and there was always a lot of it in their home.

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