March 03--Featured pick: Bella Voce Camerata: The vocal ensemble under Andrew Lewis is joined by the early music group Rook for works by J.S. Bach's great predecessors Heinrich Schutz, Samuel Scheidt and Johann Schein. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, St. Clement Parish, 642 W. Deming Place, Chicago; and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman Ave., Evanston; $35-$40, $15 for students; 877-755-6277, www.bellavoce.org
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat (Opus 47) and Mozart's "Kegelstatt" Trio (K.498) anchor a program that also holds works by Mendelssohn and Paul Schoenfield. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St.; $25-$55; 312-334-7777, www.harristheaterchicago.org
Chicago Choral Artists: The chorus continues its 40th anniversary season with Baroque works for double choir by Bach, Schutz, Domenico Scarlatti and others. Michael D. Costello conducts. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, St. Sylvester Catholic Church, 2157 N. Humboldt Blvd.; and 4 p.m. Sunday, Grace Lutheran Church, 7300 Division St., River Forest; $25, $20 for seniors, $15 for students; 773-658-9799, www.chicagochoralartists.org
Chicago Duo Piano Winter Mini-Fest: The annual event includes two concerts. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Music Institute of Chicago faculty member Xiaomin Liang and pianist Jue He will play works by Barber, Rachmaninov, Lutoslawski and others. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, other MIC faculty will perform music of Ravel, Brahms, Corigliano and others. Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston; $30, $20 for seniors, $10 for students; www.musicinst.org
Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players: Orchestra members begin a three-concert Hinsdale series with sextets by Brahms and Dvorak. 3 p.m. Sunday, Union Church of Hinsdale, 137 S. Garfield St., Hinsdale; www.chicagophilharmonic.org
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Beginning a two-week residency, British conductor Mark Elder leads works by his countrymen Vaughan Williams and Elgar, including the latter's noble Symphony No. 1; 8 p.m. Saturday; $30-$213. Jeremy Denk joins Elder and the orchestra as soloist in Bartok's Piano Concerto No 2, which shares a program with Janacek's "Taras Bulba" and "Cunning Little Vixen" Suite, and Dvorak's "Scherzo Capriccioso" 8 p.m. Thursday (repeated March 12-15); $30-$217. Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; 312-294-3000, www.cso.org
CSO at the Movies: David Newman leads the orchestra in a live performance of Alan Silvestri's score to the hit film "Back to the Future," the screening to include 15 minutes of new music added for the presentation. 8 p.m. Friday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $55-$199; 312-294-3000, www.cso.org
Ensemble Dal Niente: Flutist Emma Hospelhorn and clarinetist Katie Schoepflin perform new works for winds and electronics, including a world premiere by Ben Sutherland. 8:30 pm. Sunday, Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave.; $15, $10 for students; www.dalniente.com
Handel Week Festival: The 2016 edition concludes with a concert version of Handel's masterful opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" ("Julius Caesar in Egypt"), with Dennis Northway conducting and a cast headed by Kimberly McCord, Noah Gartner, Michelle Wrighte and Philip Kraus. 3 p.m. Sunday, Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake St., Oak Park; $45; 708-383-4231, www.handelweek.com
Haymarket Opera Company: The Chicago early music group introduces a new Lenten oratorio series with Alessandro Scarlatti's rarely heard 1675 oratorio "San Giovanni Battista," based on the biblical story of St. John the Baptist and Salome. Music director Craig Trompeter leads the orchestra and vocal soloists. 5:45 p.m. Friday, Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington St.; and 5 p.m. Saturday, Church of the Atonement, 5749 N. Kenmore Ave.; $30; www.haymarketopera.org
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra: Conductor laureate Carmon DeLeone returns to lead a Gershwin pops concert that includes "Rhapsody in Blue" and a suite from "Porgy and Bess." 8 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln-Way North Performing Arts Center, 19900 S. Harlem Ave., Frankfort; and 3 p.m. Sunday, Rialto Square Theatre, 102 N. Chicago St., Joliet; 708-481-7774, www.ipomusic.org
JACK Quartet: Anthony McGill, the Chicago-born principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, joins with the ensemble to give the Chicago premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's Clarinet Quintet, on the same program as works of John Luther Adams, Earle Brown and John Cage. Presented by American Music Project. 2 p.m. Sunday, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave.; $25, $15 for students; www.eventbrite.com
Ton Koopman: The celebrated Dutch harpsichordist is joined by his wife Tini Mathot in works for two harpsichords by Bach, Mozart, Soler and others. Presented by the International Beethoven Project and Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, with Access Contemporary Music. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Studebaker Theater, Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave.; $7-$75, www.internationalbeethovenproject.com
Lyric Opera of Chicago -- "Romeo et Juliette": Gounod's French Romantic recounting of Shakespeare's tragedy of the star-crossed lovers returns in a new-to-Chicago production staged by Tony Award-winning Broadway director Bartlett Sher and starring Susanna Phillips and Joseph Calleja in the title roles. Emmanuel Villaume conducts. Through March 19, Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive; $34-$239; 312-827-5600, www.lyricopera.org
Lyric Opera -- "Der Rosenkavalier": Richard Strauss' most popular opera is treated to an intelligent, strongly cast production conducted by Edward Gardner and starring Amanda Majeski, Alice Coote, Matthew Rose and Christina Landshamer. Through March 13, Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive; $34-$239; 312-827-5600, www.lyricopera.org
MusicNOW: Two of today's boldest composer-performers, vocalists Kate Soper and Agata Zubel, join Chicago Symphony Orchestra members and other guest artists under Cliff Colnot's direction for a program of works by Soper, Zubel, CSO resident composer Elizabeth Ogonek and others making nontraditional uses of text and voice. 7 p.m. Monday, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 S. Randolph St.; $26; 312-294-3000, www.cso.org
Northbrook Symphony Orchestra: Music director Lawrence Rapchak leads works by Smetana and Dvorak, along with "Slovak Reflections" by the orchestra's composer-fellow and regular preconcert lecturer, Jim Kendros. 4 p.m. Sunday, Sheely Center for the Performing Arts, Glenbrook North High School, 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook; $30-$50, $8 for children and students; 847-272-0755, www.northbrooksymphony.org
OpenICE: Cellists Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Katinka Kleijn and Michael Nicolas perform works for cellos and electronics, including world premieres by Vincent Calianno and Mario Diaz de Leon. 8 p.m. Sunday, The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Avenue West; free; www.iceorg.org
Protege Philharmonic: Joseph Glymph conducts the Chicago youth orchestra in works including Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, with the 2016 Concerto Competition winner, oboist Claire Pontello, as soloist. 3 p.m. Sunday, Salme Harju Fine Arts Center Auditorium, Northeastern Illinois University, 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.; $10; www.classicalsymphonyorchestra.org
Lise de la Salle: The young French pianist makes her Piano Series debut with a recital that includes Ravel's formidable "Gaspard de la Nuit," Liszet's "Dante Soinata" and Liszt transcriptions. 3 p.m. Sunday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $21-$81; 312-294-3000, www.cso.org
Jordi Savall: The great viol player and early music specialist is joined by Frank McGuire, performing on bodhran (Irish frame drum), for a program that interweaves folk traditions of the British Isles with Renaissance and Baroque pieces. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mandel Hall, University of Chicago, 1131 E. 57th St.; $35, $5 for students; 773-702-2787, tickets.uchicago.edu
Giora Schmidt: The violinist is joined by pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion for a recital of Beethoven, Ravel and others. 7 p.m. Saturday, PianoForte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Ave.; $20; 312-291-0291, www.pianofortefoundation.org
John von Rhein is a Tribune critic.
jvonrhein@tribpub.com
