Effective period / Period of releases: 1916 - 2019

Members: Nathan Cole, Richard Lottridge, Fred Spector, Robert La Marchina, David Greenbaum, Bruce Grainger, Joseph Golan, William Faldner, Leonard Chausow, Edward Druzinsky, Jerry Sabransky, Theodore Silavin, Philip Blum, William Schoen, Florence Schwartz, Fritz Reiner, Joseph Sciacchitano, Samuel Magad, Robert Kassinger, Larry Combs, Franklyn D'Antonio, Dale Clevenger, Karl Fruh, Harold D. Klatz, Herman Clebanoff, Akiko Tarumoto, Theodore Ratzer, Gail Williams, Samuel Thaviu, George Palermo, Tim Cobb, Peter Ellefson, Wayne Barrington, Laura Hamilton, Thomas Howell, Brant Taylor, Ray Still, Janos Starker, Frank Kaderabek, Adolph Herseth, Samuel Feinzimer, Edgar Muenzer, Richard Ferrin, Charles Pikler, Frank Fiatarone, Adrian Da Prato, Robert Swan, Joyce Noh, Richard Oldberg, Sidney Harth, Mary Sauer, Gene Pokorny, Roberta Freier, Victor Aitay, Mitchell Lurie, Craig Morris (3), Eugene Izotov, David Herbert (3), Alfred Wallenstein, Julius Baker, Jerry Grossman, Frederick Stock, Harold Siegel, Sherman Walt, Lawrence Neuman, Fox Fehling, Qing Hou, Ronald Satkiewicz, Baird Dodge, Karen Dirks, Katinka Kleijn, Lee Lane, Lei Hou, Susanna Drake, Frank Miller (3), Jorja Fleezanis, Laurence Thorstenberg, Paul Phillips (4), John Swallow, Oscar Chausow, Jonathan Pegis, Carl Racine, Norman Schweikert, Edwin Barker, Joseph Stepansky, John Weicher, George Schick, Allan Graham (2), Irwin Fischer, Edward Metzenger, Thomas Glenecke, Lionel Sayers, Clark Brody, David Schrader, Jennie Wagner, Charles Vernon, George Vosburgh, Francis Akos, Milan Yancich, Edmund Schuëcker, Tom Hall (6), Irving Ilmer, Leonard Sorkin, George Sopkin, Jacques Israelievitch, Floyd Cooley, Arthur Krehbiel, Frank Brouk, Joseph Guastafeste, Joseph Di Bello, Charles Geyer, Charlie Schuchat, Stephen Lester, Oto Carrillo, John Hagstrom, Mark Ridenour, Alfred Frankenstein, Leonard Sharrow, Sheppard Lehnhoff, Nisanne Howell, David Filerman, Harry Brabec, Yuan Qing Yu, Stuart Knussen, Sam Denov, Tauno Hannikainen, Alex Klein (4), Byron Peebles, David Van Vactor, Li-Kuo Chang, Stephen Balderston, John Sharp (6), Rubén González (2), Samuel Gardner, Donald Peck, Jay Friedman, Glenn Dodson, Frank Crisafulli, Vincent Cichowicz, Arnold Jacobs, Michael Mulcahy, David McGill, Catherine Brubaker, Melanie Kupchynsky, Richard Hirschl, Mihaela Ionescu, Matthew Comerford, Gordon Peters, Susan Synnestvedt, Russell Hershow, David Taylor (20), David Inmon, Donald Moline, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Mischa Mischakoff, Otakar Sroubek, Gary Stucka, James Smelser, Blair Milton, Milton Preves, Lois Schaefer, Edmund Kurtz, Daniel Saidenberg, Rachel Goldstein, Burl Lane, Isadore Zverow, Perry Crafton, Loren Brown, Lawrie Bloom, Chicago Symphony Winds, David Chickering, Harold Newton, Michael Krasnopolsky, Grover Schiltz, John Bartholomew, William Hector, John Bruce Yeh, Mark Kraemer, Gina DiBello, Carol Baum, Mihaly Virizlay, Wendell Hoss, Chicago Symphony Strings, Ernst Friedlander, Carroll Martin, Stephen Williamson, Robert Chen, Daniel Gingrich, Karin Ursin, Erik Harris, Adolph Weiss, Barbara Fraser, Roger Cline, Jocelyn Davis-Beck, Hermine Gagné, Royal Johnson (2), Paul Kahn (2), Kimberly Wright (3), Sidney Weiss, Clarke Kessler, Richard Graef, Alison Dalton, Patricia Dash, Albert Igolnikov, Willard Elliot, Donald Koss, Edward Atkatz, Hui Liu, Alice Lawrence Baker, Sando Shia, Heidi Turner, Cornelius Chiu, Ella Braker, Maxwell Raimi, Diane Mues, Thomas Wright (4), Eric Wicks, Daniel Orbach, Nancy Park, Arnold Brostoff, Michael Hovnanian, Bradley Opland, Richard Kanter, Michael Henoch, David Griffin (2), William Buchman, Louise Dixon (2), Sarah Bullen, Lynne Turner, Walfrid Kujala, James Gilbertsen, James Ross (16), Jerry Sirucek, Gil Breines, Donald Evans (2), Betty Lambert, William Scarlett, Albert Payson, Gregory Smith (4), Raymond Niwa, Timothy Kent, David Sanders (6), Renold Schilke, Hugh A. Cowden, Louis Lowenstein, Christopher Leuba, Wilbur Simpson, Edward Kleinhammer, Karen Basrak, Mathieu Dufour (2), Philip Farkas, Benjamin Wright (3), Cynthia Yeh, Vadim Karpinos, Tage Larsen, Christopher Martin (14), Jennifer Gunn, Yukiko Ogura (2), Dennis Michel, William Welter, Wayne Balmer, Leonore Glazer, David Cooper (30), Daniel Armstrong (4), Weijing Wang, Ni Mei, Jeanette Bittar, Youming Chen, Daniel Katz (3), Kenneth Olsen (5), Scott Hostetler, Lora Schaefer, Kozue Funakoshi, Rong-Yan Tang, Wendy Koons Meir, Stephanie Jeong, Alexander Hanna, Yevgeny Faniuk, Mark Almond (3), De Vere Moore, Sunghee Choi, Matous Michal, Simon Michal, So Young Bae, Sylvia Kim Kilcullen, Aiko Noda (2), Danny Lai (3), Wei-Ting Kuo, Miles Maner, Keith Buncke, Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. For chorus credit use Chicago Symphony Chorus.
It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenure in 2010.

Music Directors
Theodore Thomas (4) 1891–1905
Frederick Stock 1905–42
Désiré Defauw 1943–47
Artur Rodzinski 1947–48
Rafael Kubelik 1950–53
Fritz Reiner 1953–63
Jean Martinon 1963–68
Irwin Hoffman 1968–69
Georg Solti 1969–91
Daniel Barenboim 1991–2006
Bernard Haitink 2006–10
Riccardo Muti – since 2010

Principal Guest Conductors
Carlo Maria Giulini (1969–72)
Claudio Abbado (1982–85)
Georg Solti (1991–97) – Music Director Laureate
Pierre Boulez (1995–2006)

Composers-in-Residence
John Corigliano 1987–90
Shulamit Ran 1990–97
Augusta Read Thomas 1997–2006
Osvaldo Golijov 2006–10
Mark-Anthony Turnage 2006–10
Anna Clyne 2010–15
Mason Bates 2010–15
Samuel Adams – since 2015
Elizabeth Ogonek – since 2015