2022: year and gone.

A selection of my favorite images from an action-packed year.

Lunar New Year celebration at Navy Pier.

Bald eagle above the Mississippi River.

Anthony McGill performs with Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque.

Victor Yampolsky conducts the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra in his final season.

Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux performs with Third Coast Baroque.

Music of the Baroque releases its recording of Handel’s Messiah with my image on the cover.

Jazz trumpeter and composer Orbert Davis performs at Jazz Showcase.

The Chicago Children’s Choir celebrates Latino music.

Violinist Holly Mulcahy performs George S. Clinton’s “The Rose of Sonora” with the Lakeview Symphony.

Soprano Nicole Cabell performs with Haymarket Opera Company.

Third Coast Baroque throws a party at Epiphany Arts.

The Supermoon rises behind Navy Pier’s ferris wheel.

Opera Festival of Chicago presents Verdi’s “Il Corsaro.”

The Tyrolean Alps, Austria.

Sunset behind Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria.

Grant Park Music Festival’s season finale.

Orbert Davis and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic.

The Chicago Children’s Choir changes its name to Uniting Voices Chicago at Navy Pier.

Abstract self portrait in The Bean.

Eric and Toty get married!

The Milky Way and star trails above a secluded lake in Minnesota.

Pianist Yunchan Lim performs at Northwestern University.

The Chicago Sinfonietta throws its annual masquerade gala.

Fourth Coast Ensemble performs “Laughterreise.”

Music of the Baroque’s annual Christmas celebration at Alice Millar Chapel.

The Civic Orchestra of Chicago perform its final concert of the year at Symphony Center.