About the Wheaton College Artist Series

1950-51

• Robert Shaw Chorale (7 encores)
• Symphony Orchestra of Indiana University
• Jubilee Singers
• Kate Pentzer Stokes, interpretive reader

1951-52

• Halloran Chorus
• Jennie Tourel, voice
• Gold & Fizdale, duo pianists
• Don Cossacks

1952-53

• Vienna Boys Choir
• Robert Shaw Chorale
• Mack Harrell, baritone
• Robert MacDowell, piano
• Griller String Ensemble

1953-54

• The Boys Singers of Mexico
• Luboschutz & Nemenoff
• Nathan Milstein
• Hilde Gueden

1954-55

• Marian Anderson
• Victor Herbert
• Festival Pro Musica Trio

1955-56

• Arthur Rubinstein
• Vienna Boys Choir
• Mischa Mischakoff
• Minneapolis Symphony
• The Northerners

1956-57

• Dame Myra Hess
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• Swedish National Chorus
• Jan Peerce, Tenor

1957-58

• Isaac Stern
• Appleton & Field
• Jerome Hines, Bass
• United States Marine Band
• The Netherlands String Quartet
• Roger Wagner Chorale
• Indiana's Symphony Orchestra

1958-59

• Roberta Peters, soprano
• Clebanoff Strings
• Byron Janis, piano
• Fine Arts Quartet
• Robert Shaw Chorale
• National Symphony Orchestra

1959-60

• Vienna Boys Choir
• Minneapolis Orchestra
• Robert Shaw Chorale
• Jerome Hines, Bass

1960-61

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Reiner)
• Branko Krsmanovich Chorus

 1961-62

• Roger Wagner Chorale William Warfield
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Reiner)
• The Budapest String Quartet
• Arthur Rubinstein, piano
• Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)

1962-63

• Chicago Symphony (Reiner/Kletzki)
• Byron Janis, piano
• Van Cliburn, piano
• Andres Segovia

1963-64

• Jerome Hines, bass James Buswell, violin Eugene Istomin, piano
• Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, soprano with
  John Wustman, piano Vienna Symphony (Sawallisch)
• Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra
• The Westminster Choir
• Chicago Symphony (Martinon)
• Frank Miller, cello

1964-65

• Warsaw Phil. Orchestra(Wislocki)
• Obernkirchen Children's Choir
• Roger Wagner Chorale & Orchestra
• Isaac Stern, violin
• Gina Bachauer, piano
• Marian Anderson (Farewell Tour)
• Richard Tucker, tenor
• Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)

1965-66

• The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
• Van Cliburn, piano
• Roberta Peters, soprano
• Gérard Souzay, baritone with Dalton Baldwin, piano
• Vienna Boys Choir
• Nathan Milstein, violin
• Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)

1966-67

• Roger Wagner Chorale & Orchestra
• Roger Merrill, baritone Rudolph Serkin, piano
• Vienna Johann Strauss
• Orchestra Philharmonica Hungarica
• Virtuosi di Roma Concertgebouw Orchestra (Haitink)

1967-68

• Vienna Philharmonic (Boehm)
• The Norman Luboff Choir
• James Buswell, violin
• Goldovsky Opera Theater
• Vienna Boys Choir
• Jerome Hines, bass
• Gina Bachauer, piano
• (Isaac) Stern-Rose-Istomin Trio

1968-69

• Roger Wagner Chorale & Orchestra
• Roberta Peters, soprano
• Obernkirchen Children's Choir
• Indianapolis Symphony (Janis)
• New York Pro Musica
• The Romeros Michael
• Rabin, violin
• Chicago Symphony (Solti) with Gina Bachauer, piano

1969-70

• New York Philharmonic (Ozawa)
• William Warfield, baritone
• Royal Choral Society Van Cliburn, piano
• Leonard Rose, cello
• Vienna Boys Choir
• Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater
• Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1970-71

• French National Orchestra (Martinon)
• Greg Smith Singers
• New York Pro Musica
• Gina Bachauer, piano
• Atlanta Symphony (Shaw)
• Johann Strauss Ensemble
• Birgit Nilsson, soprano with John Wustman, piano
• Eugene Istomin, piano

1971-72

• Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater
• The Blue Danube Choir of Vienna
• Wienerwald Instrumental Ensemble
• New York Brass Quintet
• Jerome Hines
• André Watts
• The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
• Michael Lorimer, guitar
• The Cleveland Orchestra (Maazel?)

1972-73

• Israel Philharmonic (Mehta)
• Beaux Arts Trio
• Roger Wagner Chorale & Orchestra
• New York Pro Musica
• Mozartuem Orchestra of Salzburg
• Van Cliburn, piano
• Alicia de Larrocha, piano
• Simon Estes, baritone

1973-74

• Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• Cristina Ortiz, piano
• Claudio Arrau, piano
• Vienna Boys Choir
• The Romeros, guitars
• Shirley Verrett, mezzo-sop.
• Jorge Bolet, piano

1974-75

• André Watts, piano
• Roger Wagner
• Chorale Maurice
• Andre, trumpet
• Württemberg Chamber Orchestra
• Byron Janis, piano
• Theodor Uppman, baritone
• Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
• Jean-Bernard Pommier, piano
• Boston Symphony Orchestra (Ozawa)
• Beaux Arts Trio

1975-76

• The Hague Philharmonic
• Swedish Radio Choir
• Vienna Boys Choir
• Vermeer Quartet
• Yehudi & Hephzibah Menuhin (piano/violin)
• Ensemble for Early Music
• Alicia de Larrocha, piano
• Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

1976-77

• Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
• Van Cliburn, piano
• Pepe Romero, guitar
• St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir & Domkapelle Orchestra of Berlin
• Carmen Balthrop, soprano
• Winds of Chicago Chamber Orchestra
• Cleveland Orchestra (Maazel)
• Yarbrough & Cowan, Duo-Piano

1977-78

• James Buswell, violin Rudolph Serkin, piano
• Camerata Chamber Orchestra of Salzburg
• Roger Wagner Chorale
• Sherrill Milnes, baritone
• Bach Aria Group
• Emanuel Ax, piano
• Bavarian Radio Symp. (Kubelik)

1978-79

• Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
• Carmen Balthrop, soprano
• The Beaux Arts Trio
• Garrick Ohlsson, piano
• Vienna Boys Choir
• Waverly Consort Nathan Milstein, violin

1979-80

• Garrick Ohlsson, piano
• Polish Chamber Orchestra
• Igor Kipnis, harpsichord
• Janos Starker, cello
• Westminster Choir
• Jerome Hines, bass
• Pinchas & Eugenia Zukerman (violin/ flute)
• Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
• Emanuel Ax, piano

1980-81

• Michel Debost, flute with Paris Chamber Players
• Beaux Arts Trio
• Byron Janis, piano
• Roger Wagner Chorale
• Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater
• Murray Perahia, piano
• L’Orchestra du Capitole Toulouse
• Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin

1981-82

• The Elmer Iseler Singers
• Jorge Bolet, piano
• Michael Rudy, piano?
• Swiss Chamber Orchestra
• Vienna Boys Choir
• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
• Aulos Ensemble

1982-83

• Elmer Iseler Singers
• Phillipe Entremont, piano
• Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestra
• Janos Starker, cello
• Erie Mills, soprano

1983-84

• The King's Singers
• Murray Perahia, piano
• Berlin Chamber Orchestra
• Jan de Gaetani, soprano with Gilbert Kalish, piano
• Guarneri String Quartet

1984-85

• Atlanta Symphony (Shaw)
• Elly Ameling, soprano
• New York Brass Quintet
• Gillian Weir, organ
• Misha Dichter, piano

1985-86

• Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers
• Houston Symphony (Comissiona)
• Polish Chamber Orchestra
• David Buechner, piano
• New York Trumpet Ensemble

1986-87

• Canadian Brass (for Yo-Yo Ma)
• The King's Singers
• Juilliard String Quartet
• Sylvia McNair, soprano
• Gillian Weir, organ
• Chicago Symphony (Barenboim)

1987-88

• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
• Oslo Philharmonic (Jansons)
• Timothy Jenkins, tenor
• Best of Gilbert & Sullivan
• Peter Serkin, piano
• Yo-Yo Ma, cello
• Bob McGrath, (Young People's Artist Series)

1988-89

• Christopher Parkening, guitar
• Wendy White, mezzo-sop.
• Prague Chamber Orchestra
• Jeremy Menuhin, piano
• Empire Brass
• Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig (Masur)

1989-90

• The Canadian Brass
• André-Michel Schub, piano
• Sherrill Milnes (for F. von Stade)
• Orchestra der Beethovenhalle Bonn (Davies)
• Beaux Arts Trio
• Leontyne Price, soprano

1990-91

• The Chicago Symphony
• Elmar Oliveira, violin Camerata
• Musica Mozart Celebration
  Concert Royal, New York Baroque Dance Company
• Kenneth Cox, Bass (D. Horn)
• Orchestre National De Lyon
• (Krivine) J.-P. Collard, piano

1991-92

• Jerry Hadley, ten. (for Frederica von Stade)
• Christopher Parkening, guitar
• Oslo Philharmonic (Jansons)
• The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (Rick Benjamin)
• Academy of St. Martin in the Fields(Brown)
• Alicia de Laroccha, piano

1992-93

• James Galway, flute
• Kirov Orchestra of St. Petersburg (Gergiev)
• American Boychoir & Atlantic Brass (James Litton)
• Leipzig Chamber Orchestra
• Joseph Kalichstein, pianist
• Ying String Quartet

1993-94

• Empire Brass, Douglas Major, organ
• Kathleen Battle, soprano
• Hanover Band, John Aler, tenor
• Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
• The Western Wind Vocal
• Sextet Dresden Staatskapelle (Sinopoli)

1994-95

• Pinchas Zukerman, violin, M. Neikrug, piano
• Uptown String Quartet
• The King's Singers
• The Russian National Orchestra
• Stephen Hough, piano
• Warsaw Sinfonia (Penderecki)
• Allison Eldredge, cellist

1995-96

• Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (Marsalis)
• Paula Robison, flute
• Frederica v. Stade, mezzo-soprano
• New York Big Brass Christmas
• St. Louis Symphony (Slatkin)
• Moscow Virtuosi (Spivakov, violin/conductor)
• Igor Tchetouev, pianist
• NEXUS Percussion Ensemble

1996-97

• Pittsburg Symphony (Previn)
• Truls Mørk, cello
• Symphony of the Shores Christmas
  with Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
• André Watts, piano
• Quink Vocal Ensemble
• Kevin McMillan, baritone (for Thomas Hampson, baritone)
• Academy of Ancient Music (Hogwood) Emma Kirkby, sop.
• Andrew Manze, violin

1997-98

• Dale Warland Singers
• Christopher Parkening, guitar
• Mendelssohn's Elijah (Nelson)
• Jubilant Sykes, baritone
• Prague Chamber Orchestra
• Lisitsa, piano
• Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet
• St. Paul Cham. Orchestra (Wolff)
• Emanuel Ax, piano
• London Brass

1998-99

• Canadian Brass
• St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra (Tate)
• Dawn Upshaw, soprano
• Billy Taylor, jazz piano
• Turtle Island String Quartet
• The King's Singers
• Midori, violin

1999-2000

• Moscow State Radio Symphony & Chorus
• Verdi's Requiem (Alexeyev)
• San Francisco Western Opera Theatre- Don Giovanni
• Abbey Simon, piano
• Vienna Choir Boys (501st Anniversary)
• James Galway, flute, Safri Duo, percussion
• Moscow Virtuosi (Spivakov)
• Chicago Jazz Ensemble (William Russo)

2000-2001

• Christopher Parkening, guitar
• Jubilant Sykes, baritone
• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Zucherman)
• Waverly Consort
• Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra
• Britten War Requiem (Nelson)
• Chicago Jazz Ensenble (Russo)

2001-2002

• Kathleen Battle, soprano
• Moscow State Symphony (Kogan)
• Vladimir Feltsman, piano
• The Chenaults, duo organ
• BBC Concert Orchestra, 50th Anniversary (Wordsworth)
• N. Loud, violin
• Emerson Str. Quartet & Kalichstein- Laredo-Robinson - 25th Anniversary 
• Chicago Jazz Ensemble (Russo)

2002-2003

• Ben Heppner, tenor
• Venice Baroque Orchestra (Marcon)
• Carmignola, violinist
• Turtle Island & Ying Quartets
• Hungarian National Philharmonic (Kocsis, conductor/pianist)
• Canadian Brass
• London City Opera: Madame Butterfly
• Chicago Jazz Ensemble (Russo)

2003-2004

• Krasnoyarsk National Dance Company Siberia
• Opera Verdi Europa: Lucia di Lammermoor
• Stewart Goodyear, pianist
• Deanna Witkowski Quartet
• Ring of Fire
• Handbells with Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
• Moscow State Orchestra & Chorus
• Y. Rozum, piano
• M. Hamlisch, Sylvia McNair,
  Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra & Choruses

2004-2005

• National Dance Theatre of the Ukraine
• Warsaw Phil., Olga Kern, piano
• Moscow Virtuosi (Spivakov)
• Anna Schein, piano
• St. Olaf Choir
• Handel's Messiah (Nelson)
• Opera Verdi Europa: Great Moments

2005-06

• Chicago Jazz Ensemble
  S. McNair, sop., K. Cole, piano (Faddis)
• Burning River Brass
• Imani Winds
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Black Watch & Welsh Guards
• Stars of the Russian Natlonal Ballet

2006-07

• Canadian Brass
• Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Nelson)
• Ivo Pogorelich, piano
• Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
• Arturo Toscanini Phil. (Maazel)
• Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
• National Philharmonic of Russia (Spivakov)
• Hector Olivera, organ

2007-08

• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• Festival of Russian Dance
• Chicago Symphony (Kraemer)
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Zukerman, cond./violin)
• Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Band of the Coldstream Guards
• State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico (Bátiz)
• Berlioz Requiem (Nelson)

2008-09

• Ying Quartet & Billy Childs
• Compania Flamenco, J. Porcel
• Marsalis Brasilianos (Marsalis)
• Marc-André Hamelin, pianist
• Bobby McFerrin, solo
• National Acrobats of China
• Dublin Philharmonic, F. Collins, piano
• Estonian National Symphony (Järvi)
• Marvin Hamlisch & Joel Grey
  Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra

2009-10

• Alison Balsom, trumpet, David
• Schrader, organ
• Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company
• The King’s Singers
• Russian National Ballet Theatre
• Band of the Irish Guards & Royal Regiment of Scotland
• Moscow State Radio Symphony
• Festival of Voices

2010-11

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
• Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company
• Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (Nelson)
• Charlie Siem, violin
• Cuarteto Latinoamericano
• M. Barrueco, guitar
• Opole, Philharmonic of Poland (Dawidow)
• Empire Brass

2011-12

• Millar Brass, Ignace Michiels, organ
• J. Roman, cello, Z. Bognar, piano
• Cantus Vocal Ensemble
• Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Tate)
• Gabriela Montero, piano
• Quartetto Gelato
• Turtle Island Quartet

2012-13

• Cashore Marionettes
• Anderson & Roe, Duo- Piano
• Camerata Chicago, C. Goulding, violin (D. Hall)
• Hubbard Street Dance 2 with
  Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra (D. Sommerville)
• China National Symphony Orchestra (Xincao Li)
• Harlem Quartet
• Corky Siegel & Chamber Blues

2013-14

• Fischoff: Project Fusion
• Ballet Quad Cities
• Harlem Gospel Choir
• Spanish Brass
• Red Priest Baroque Quintet
• VocalEssence with Wheaton College Concert
• Choir (P. Brunelle) 
• Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
• Charlie Albright, piano

2014-15

• Fischoff: Akropolis Reed Quintet
• Elly Ameling Masterclass
• Camerata Chicago, J. Roman, cello (D. Hall)
• Haydn The Creation (Nelson)
• Spektral Quartet, Julien Labro, bandoneon
• Brandon Ridenour, trumpet
• FledgeFest Artists
• Tyler Sjöström, Abbi Rajasekhar & Kevin Marble
• Ken Medema Stories & Songs
• Emanuel Ax, piano

2015-16 

• Sylvia McNair, Camerata Chicago
• Drostan Hall
• Soweto Gospel Choir
• Guitarist Xuefei Yang
• Naughton Sisters Duo-Pianists
• Les Violons du Roy, Pianist
• Alexandre Tharaud

2016-17

• Andrew Nemr, tap dancer
• 5 Browns, piano quintet
• Eroica Trio
• Camerata Chicago, Joffrey Academy (Drostan Hall)
• Songs of Praise/Mendelssohn (Nelson)
• Axiom Brass

2017-18

• Canadian Brass
• Ray Chen, violin
• U.S. Army Field Band
• American Spiritual Ensemble
• Yamato Drummers of Japan
• A Night at the Opera
  L. Brownlee, tenor, E. Birsan, soprano, J. Donner, tenor,
  W. Liverman, baritone, L. Metzger, mezzosoprano
  Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra (Daniel Sommerville)

2018-19

• The 5 Browns
• Vadym Kholodenko, pianist
• Mariachi Herencia de Mexico
• Camerata Chicago/Joffrey Academy Dancers
• The King’s Singers Gold
• Russian Renaissance

2019-20

• Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
• Ballet 5:8 The Space In Between
• Irish Chamber Orchestra (J. Widmann)
• Ian Bostridge, tenor, Xuefei Yang, guitar
• Lauridsen Lux Aeterna
• Langston Hughes Project

2020-21 

• Black Oak Ensemble 
• John Patitucci, bassist/Turtle Island String Quartet 
• Improviser Ken Medema 

2021-22 

• Voces8 (vocal ensemble) 
• Camerata Chicago Orchestra 
• Lauridsen Celebration/James Arthur Bond, Lauridsen Scholar, Jeremy Huw Williams, tenor, Monica Griffin Hunter, soprano, Paula Fan, pianist 
• Ken Medema, Improviser/pianist/songwriter 

2022-23 

• Boston Brass 
• Chelsea Chen, organist (substituting for David Schrader)
• Danish Quartet
• The Queen’s Cartoonists
• New York Classical Players (substituting for English Chamber Orchestra)
• Awadagin Pratt, pianist 

2023-24 

• Ballet 5:8 with pianists Daniel Paul Horn and Kyle Orth 
• National Chorus of Korea 
• Midori/Festival Strings of Lucerne
• Picosa Chamber Ensemble
• Shawn Okpebholo’s Songs in Flight
• John William Trotter conducts Songs in Flight