Francesco Milioto

Conductor and Pianist


Upcoming Concerts 2008-2009

   "Once again, the spark plug was the vigorous conducting of Francesco Milioto, around whose 
   fine instrumental ensemble the nonsensical action cavorted, danced and tumbled.
   He kept everyhting moving at full throttle..."
                                                                                                             John von Rhein of The Chicago Tribune


Highland Park Strings, Principal Conductor
www.hpstrings.org

Sunday October 12 at 3:00 PM in Elm Place School
Featured soloists: Ilya Kaler, violin Amit Peled, cello and Alon Goldstien, piano
Program includes Beethoven's Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano Op. 56

Sunday December 14 at 3:00 PM in Highland Park High School
Featured soloist: Elina Lev, violin
Program includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor and
Haydn's Symphony #101 "The Clock"

Sunday February 8 at 3:00 Pm in Bennett-Gordon Hall
Featured soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, violin Wendy Warner, cello and Welz Kauffman, narrator
Program includes: Copland's Lincoln Portrait and Brahm's Double Concerto
for violin and cello Op. 102

Sunday March 29 at 3:00 PM in Highland Park High School
Featured soloist: Mathieu Dufour
Program includes: Vivaldi Concerto for Flute in G Minor "La Notte" and
Dvorak's Serenade for Strings in E Minor Op. 22

Sunday May 10 at 3:00 PM in Elm Place School
Featured soloists: Inna Faliks, piano
Program includes: Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto #1 in G Minor Op. 25 and his Symphony #3 "Scottish" Op. 56



Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, Music Director
www.svso.org

Sunday November 2 at 3:00 PM in the NSCPAS
Academic Festival Overture, Brahms
Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor", Beethoven (Lucille Chung, piano)
Symphony #9 "New World", Dvorak

Sunday January 18 at 3:00 PM in the NSCPAS
Overture to Fidelio Op. 72, Beethoven
Totentanz, Liszt (An Qi, piano)
Violin Concerto #3, Saint-Saens (Natsuki Kumagai, violin)
Symphony #8 in B Minor "Unfinished", Schubert

Sunday March 15 at 3:00 PM in the NSCPAS
Brandenburg Concerto #2 in G Minor BWV 1048 (soloists from the SVSO)
Symphony #104 in D Major "London", Haydn
Symphony #3 in D Major Op. 33, Glazunov

Sunday May 17 at 3:00 PM in the NSCPAS
Overture to Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart
Symphony #38 in D Major, Mozart
Semi-Staged Scenes from various Mozart Operas featuring members from 
Lyric Opera's Ryan Center



New Millennium Orchestra, Co-Founder and Conductor
www.nmorchestra.org

Sunday October 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Preston Bradley Hall
Symphony Op 12 #4 in D Minor G. 506 "La Casa del Diavolo", L. Boccherini
Cello Concerto #1 in C Major Amit Peled, cello F.J Haydn
Symphony #45 in F-Sharp Minor "Farewell", F.J Haydn

Monday November 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Preston Bradley Hall
Program includes: World Premiere of Kirsten Broberg's "AND OF ORIGIN"
and String Quartet #2 in F Major by Prokofiev

Sunday May 31 at 3:00 PM in Preston Bradley Hall
Program and soloists TBA



Opera on the James, Guest Conductor
www.operaonthejames.org

Sunday November 15 at 7:30 in E.C Glass Auditorium
La Traviata by G. Verdi

Friday April 3 at 7:30 PM and Sunday April 5 at 3:00 PM in the
Academy of Fine Arts Warehouse Theater

Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart



Elgin Opera, Guest Conductor
www.elginopera.org

Saturday January 31 at 8:00 PM in the Hemmens Theater
Opera Gala in collaboration with the New Millennium Orchestra
featuring works by Rossini, Donizetti, Puccini and Verdi



Chicago Opera Theater, Assistant Conductor (debut)
www.chicagooperatheater.org

May 2, 5, 10, 13, and 15 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park
La Tragédie de Carmen by Bizet
(adapted by Marius Constant, Peter Brook, and Jean-Claude Carrière)

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