Pianist Misha Dichter
50th season at Ravinia!
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DateAug 9, 2026
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VenueBennett Gordon Hall
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Event Starts1:30 PM
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Public Gates12:30 PM
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Ticket Prices$20
All tickets show the “all-in” price, fees included. Availability and prices are subject to change.
Reserved Seat Ticket: $20
Know Before You Go
Getting to Ravinia: Parking, Rideshare & Train
Free Parking Onsite • Free Metra UP-N Train
Park in the South Parking Lot at 201 St. Johns Ave. The lot opens at the listed “Public Gates” time.
Park and Ride shuttles are not in service for this event, and no other on-site parking lots are open.
Alert your driver: Uber, Lyft, and other car services must use one of the following parking lots to drop off and pick up guests.
- South Parking Lot (201 St. Johns Ave)
- Braeside Train Station (10 N. St. Johns Ave) — ¼ mile walk from Ravinia
- No drop-offs or pick-ups are allowed on public streets. If Highland Park Police or Ravinia staff redirect traffic, please follow those instructions.
Ride the Metra Union Pacific North Line train to and from our main entrance for free with your Ravinia ticket.
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Views of the Stage
Bennett Gordon Hall is an indoor venue.
The stage is not visible from any location on the Lawn, nor is audio from the performance broadcast to the Lawn.
Prohibited Items
Any item deemed harmful or unsafe by Ravinia staff is prohibited.
While comfort and enjoyment of a night out at Ravinia are our top priorities, guests are prohibited from bringing the following items into the park:
- Firearms or explosives (including those possessed by off-duty officers or concealed carry license holders)
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- Chafing fuel or other canned heating products (e.g., Sterno)
- Beer kegs
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- Umbrellas over six feet in diameter
- Anything that needs to be staked into the ground
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Performance Content
At Ravinia, we believe that music has the power to bring people together. While we do not control what artists share, we ask all participants—artists and audiences alike—to uphold the spirit of respect, community, and connection that Ravinia offers.
Should any circumstance threaten physical safety, we will take appropriate action to ensure the well-being of our guests, artists, and staff.
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About the Performance
Ravinia is grateful for the support of
Lynne & David B. Weinberg
Spotlight Sponsor
Now in the sixth decade of a distinguished global career, Misha Dichter remains one of America’s most popular artists, extending a musical heritage from the Russian Romantic School, as personified by Rosina Lhevinne, his mentor at The Juilliard School, and the German Classical style that was passed on to him by Aube Tzerko, a pupil of Artur Schnabel. Throughout this storied career, Dichter has performed and recorded with some of the most illustrious conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries, among them Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, André Previn, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Dichter’s notable chamber music collaborations have included violinists Itzhak Perlman, Mark Peskanov and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, cellists Lynn Harrell and Yo-Yo Ma and the American, Argus, Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Harlem, St. Petersburg and Tokyo string quartets.
A nearly annual Ravinia guest artist since age 22, the pianist triumphantly marks his 50th season at the festival—and 78th festival performance—with the alternating vigor and sentimentality of Brahms and Prokofiev sonatas. He also pays homage to his Polish-immigrant parents with performances of polonaise and mazurka dances by Chopin and Beethoven. As the pianist himself has said, performing the great repertoire is like “having a conversation every day with the composer” (KRWG).
Performers
Misha Dichter, piano
Program
1:30 PM – Bennett Gordon Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: Polonaise in C major, op. 89
Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, op. 5
–Intermission–
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin: Four Mazurkas in A minor, op. 17, no. 4 in C major, op. 24, no. 2 in C-sharp minor, op. 30, no. 4 in D major, op. 33, no. 2
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp minor, op. 44
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, op. 83