THE WINDY CITY SERIES
Apollo’s Fire in Chicago

GRAMMY®-winners Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell launch new 5-Concert Series in Evanston and Lincoln Park

“At long last, Apollo’s Fire has descended on Chicago… This was as exciting as baroque music gets.”
Chicago Classical Review, 2016

After 4 years of successful concerts at Ravinia, University of Chicago, and Northwestern, Apollo’s Fire is thrilled to launch the Windy City Series. Our goal is to help bring new audiences to the early music scene in Chicago, as we have done in Cleveland. (Did you know that Cleveland now has one of the 3 largest audiences for baroque music in the country, nurturing smaller early music ensembles in addition to Apollo’s Fire?)

The 2021-2022 series includes 5 concerts (3 unique programs) in Evanston and Lincoln Park. Attend in Person or at Home!see details below.

Save 20% and guarantee the best seats by subscribing to the 3-concert Series. Or save over 25% by also subscribing to 2 additional video concerts broadcast from Cleveland.

Find more information about our “Side-by-Side” Educational Outreach program in Chicago here.

2021-2022 Windy City Concerts

Attend in Person or at Home!

Your in-person concert ticket also entitles you to watch the concert-video at home via our Worldwide Watch-at-Home Series. AF concert-videos are filmed with close-ups and first-rate audio quality. More info on the 2021-2022 Watch-at-Home Series.

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If a concert is cancelled due to the pandemic, no worries! Choose from 4 options.

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2021-2022 CONCERT SCHEDULE: A Journey of Discovery


Vivaldi’s FOUR SEASONS rediscovered
CONCERT-VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE – Watch anytime for 30 days.

Francisco Fullana, violin – Four Seasons
Alan Choo & Emi Tanabe, violin – La Folia
René Schiffer & Sarah Stone, cello – Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto

Apollo’s Fire launches the 30th Anniversary Season with a splash! Not your mother’s Four Seasons…. Jeannette Sorrell and Francisco Fullana become musical storytellers – celebrating along with the 18th-century Italian peasants, whose joys and sorrows Vivaldi described so vividly. Dueling cellists evoke Vivaldi’s rock-n’-roll personality in the stormy Concerto for Two Cellos. The party ends in exuberant madness when the group whips up Vivaldi’s La Folia (“Madness”).

“Sorrell’s vivid approach makes these familiar works seem freshly minted, full of astonishing incident. Exhilarating… the tension exploded in the final squall.”
– SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL (UK)

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These concerts are made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment from the Arts.


Virtuoso BACH & VIVALDI
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Francisco Fullana, violin

Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell set sparks flying in this program that later heads to Carnegie Hall. Artist-in-Residence Francisco Fullana performs his own reconstruction of Bach’s rarely heard masterpiece, the fiery Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052 (commonly known in its keyboard-concerto version). The program includes Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 and the Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins.

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MOZART and the Chevalier
CONCERT-VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE – Watch anytime for 30 days.

This video is the Cleveland performance from Severance Music Center, with soloists Sonya Headlam (soprano) and Francisco Fullana (violin).

MOZART Don Giovanni Overture
BOLOGNE Aria from L’Amant anonyme
MOZART Selections from Exsultate, Jubilate
BOLOGNE Violin Concerto
MOZART Symphony no. 35, “Haffner”

Two geniuses: one called Mozart, the son of a musician; the other called Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of an African slave and her white master. In the 18th century, both were revered. Bologne became a beloved violin soloist, composer, champion fencing master, and hero of the French Revolution. Hearing both composers side by side in glorious music, we ask why one was forgotten…?

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Supported in part by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The National Endowment for the Arts

Worldwide Watch-at-Home Video Sponsor: William P. Blair III


Check out the 4 additional concerts being performed in Cleveland.

Photos from the March 2020 concert at Northwestern University

Generously sponsored by NORTHERN TRUST, Apollo’s Fire performed Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell’s unique program, “O Jerusalem! – Crossroads of Three Faiths” to an enthusiastic crowd – on the eve of the coronavirus shutdown. Read the rave reviews!

Read the Press

Feature article – Chicago Tribune
“Apollo’s Fire sets sights on Chicago,” by Music Critic Howard Reich

Critic’s Choice – Chicago Classical Review

Concert Review – Chicago Classical Review
As concert venues close, Apollo’s Fire lights a candle in Evanston…
The performance was consistently engaging… the individual musicians brought exuberant dedication to their spotlit moments.”

Preview article – Clef Notes Chicagoland Arts Journal

Feature Interview – WFMT Radio
Three Faiths Connected through Music: “O Jerusalem!” with Apollo’s Fire

Best 10 Albums of the Year – Chicago Tribune
Music Critic John von Rhein Picks Apollo’s Fire’s “Sephardic Journey”

Recommended Concerts – Crain’s Chicago Business

Thank you

Apollo’s Fire is grateful for the support of Chicago’s early music community who have helped us launch this residency, including:

Music of the Baroque
Newberry Consort
Haymarket Opera Orchestra
Third Coast Baroque

Thank you also to these Chicago institutions who have helped Apollo’s Fire in various ways:

Northern Trust
The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
The Chicago Symphony
The Chicago Tribune
WFMT Radio
Ravinia Festival
Northwestern University
Music Institute of Chicago
Spertus Institute Chicago

And we are grateful for assistance from Chicago’s vibrant interfaith community, including several synagogues and churches.

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