James Ehnes returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

James Ehnes returns to Chicago this month for three concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 26 October 2017. Ehnes joins the orchestra and conductor James Gaffigan at Symphony Hall to perform the Barber Violin Concerto, with a second performance the following day and a third on 28 October at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois.

The concerts are the culmination of another busy month for Ehnes and follow concerts with the BBC Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony and an acclaimed visit to Scotland with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performing Beethoven Violin Concerto in Edinburgh and Glasgow:

"Ehnes is my favourite violinist working today – I love the understated certainty of his playing and the totally unostentatious way he makes the violin fly – and his take on Beethoven’s concerto was typically lyrical and poetic. This finest of fiddlers can make the violin sing like few others, and you could tell from his softly-softly entry how sensitively he understood the music."
Bachtrack

"...utterly spell-binding and world class. Canadian James Ehnes is the most composed of performers and he made the technical demands of this virtuoso work look effortless... Saturday’s audience surely heard it played as brilliantly as it has ever been."
Herald Scotland