• Our Next Concert

    The American-French Connection

    Sun., June 8, 2025, 2:30 p.m.

    Holland

    Still

    Ravel
    with Ko-Eun Yi, piano

    Debussy

    Copland

    Ko-Eun Yi, piano

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  • Featuring Lawrence Eckerling & Don Cagen

    ESO & All That Jazz

    Sunday, May 4 at 3:00 pm
    Performance & Reception

    Tickets on sale now ($50)

    A fundraising concert and reception to support ESO featuring the jazz and pop talents of Music Director Lawrence Eckerling on piano, and Principal Trumpet Don Cagen on trumpet.

    allthatjazz

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    AKAR AUDITORIUM @The Church
    2715 Hurd Ave. Evanston, IL
  • Save the date:
    LAKESIDE POPS CONCERT

    Free Admission

    Tuesday, August 19, 2025
    7:00 PM

    FREE!

2024-2025 SERIES: Soul & Inspiration

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Musical Insights

Free Pre-Concert Preview Series!

June 6, Friday, at 1:30 pm

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.

Meet our soloist, Ko-Eun Yi, at Musical Insights. She and our Maestro Lawrence Eckerling will explore the June concert program in depth.

 

The Merion
Friday, June 6 at 1:30 pm,
Merion's Emerald Lounge at
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.

Give the gift of music

Treat a friend or relative to the ESO

Give the gift of music by ordering directly from our website and purchasing a custom gift certificate in any denomination of your choice! Certificates may be redeemed for single ticket or season subscriptions for any of our concerts.

You will receive an electronic gift certificate or we can mail the certificate to you or directly to the recipient.

Traveling Composer

Considered to be one of the major composers of the 20th century, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was also an accomplished pianist and conductor. His musical education began at an early age when his mother­–who was a talented pianist herself–taught him piano and took him to opera performances in Moscow. He continued his music education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory completing composition study in 1909, graduating with performance degrees in piano and conducting in 1914. 

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Evanston Roundtable Reviews Holiday Concert

Symphony offers medley of gospel, dance, dreidels, classical tunes and candy

Annual ESO program brings together five arts organizations to kick off the holidays

by Susy Schultz

December 12th, 2022

The Evanston Township High School auditorium was filled Sunday afternoon when conductor Lawrence Eckerling, who is music director of the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, lifted his baton to lead his colleagues in the classic piece Sleigh Ride, which Leroy Anderson actually composed on a hot day in July 1950.

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