Featured pick: Collaborative Works Festival: The emphasis will be on French melodies in the fifth annual celebration of the art song presented by the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago. The first concert will be devoted to Debussy settings of Paul Verlaine texts, with singers Sarah Shafer, Kelley O’Connor and Nicholas Phan, accompanied by pianists Matthew Gemmill and Scott Allen Jarrett; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior St.; free. Soprano Ailyn Perez, accompanied by pianist Craig Terry, will present the annual solo recital; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave.; $35, $30 for seniors, $15 for students. Terry will conduct a master class on French song; 2 p.m. Sept. 9 in Ganz Hall. The festival will conclude with song settings of Verlaine and his Symbolist contemporaries by Faure, Chausson, Debussy and other composers, sung by Kelley O’Connor and Phan, with pianist Scott Allen Jarrett and the Spektral Quartet; 1 p.m. Sept. 10, Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse, University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th St.; $35, $30 for seniors, $15 for students; www.caichicago.org
Chiara String Quartet: The exciting American ensemble performs an unusual feat — playing all six of Bela Bartok’s String Quartets from memory, in back-to-back concerts. Azica Records recently issued the Chiara’s complete recording of these seminal 20th century masterpieces. The quartet members are artists-in-residence at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia Festival, Lake Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park; $10, no lawn; 847-266-5100, www.ravinia.org
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Performing on the weekly series are violinist Kate Carter and pianist Louise Chan. 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington; free; www.imfchicago.org
Yolanda Kondonassis: One of the world’s leading solo harpists — and certainly the most recorded — makes her Ravinia debut in tandem with her longtime recital partner, guitarist Jason Vieaux, who’s also gracing the festival roster for the first time. They will perform classical and popular selections, some from their recent album “Together.” 6 p.m. Friday, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, Lake Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park; $10, no lawn; 847-266-5100, www.ravinia.org
Dmitri Levkovich: Winner of multiple competitions, the Ukrainian-Canadian pianist makes his Ravinia debut with a recital program that holds two big Russian knuckle-busters: Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrushka” and Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No. 2, the latter played in a conflation of the 1931 and 1913 versions. 6 p.m. Sunday, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, Lake Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park; $10, no lawn; 847-266-5100, www.ravinia.org
Joseph Moog: The gifted German pianist, Gramophone magazine’s 2015 Young Artist of the Year, performs virtuosic keyboard works by Beethoven, Liszt, Godowsky and others. 6 p.m. Saturday, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, Lake Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park; $10, no lawn; 847-266-5100, www.ravinia.org
Simon Savoy: The young Swiss pianist will make his Ravinia debut in a recital that includes sonatas by Schubert and Prokofiev, along with music of Grieg and Scarlatti and selections from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.” 6 p.m. Tuesday, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, Lake Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park; $10, no lawn; 847-266-5100, www.ravinia.org More Top Picks Moondrop Blessing 3
Ingolf Wunder: Although the rising young German pianist tied for second prize in the 2010 Warsaw International Chopin Competition, he came away with the gold anyway, in the form of a prestigious recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. He returns to Ravinia to present works by Chopin, Haydn and Beethoven. 6 p.m. Monday, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, Lake Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park; $10, no lawn; 847-266-5100, www.ravinia.org
John von Rhein is a Tribune critic.
Twitter @jvonrhein
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