"The young musicians who played my Second String Quartet so beautifully were extraordinary
both in technical accomplishment and sensitive, musical intelligence."
—Bernard Rands, composer
Steans On Tour
Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute is a chamber ensemble whose
members are selected each year from the most promising musicians to attend the Institute’s
summer session at Ravinia. They perform on tour with program director Miriam Fried.
The repertoire for each tour varies but always includes three or four works for
piano and strings. The tour, designed to bring the musical richness of Ravinia to
a wider audience, presents formal concerts as well as educational outreach programs
for schools and community organizations. Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music
Institute have appeared at such prestigious venues as Boston’s Gardner Museum,
the Library of Congress, Miami’s Friends of Chamber Music series and New York’s
Town Hall, in addition to performances each year on the Ravinia Festival’s
Rising Stars series.
Ravinia's Steans Music Institute is Ravinia's summer conservatory, bringing together
each summer talented young musicians from around the world to make music together
under the supervision of an internationally renowned faculty. Through its three
programs—jazz, piano and strings, and singers—young artists at Ravinia's Steans
Music Institute attend master classes given by musical luminaries, have daily coaching
with the institute's faculty, and present recitals offered as part of Ravinia Festival's
summer programming. Many of the institute's alumni have gone on to achieve notable
successes in solo performance, opera, jazz, and chamber music.
2013 Tour
Program:
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Beethoven
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String Trio in G Major, Op. 9 No. 1
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Earl Kim
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Three Poems in French
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Puccini
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Crisantemi for String Quartet
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-Intermission-
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Fauré
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Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15
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Artists:
Miriam Fried, Violin (Program Director)
Angelo Xiang Yu, Violin (Steans ’09, ’10)
Ayane Kozasa, Viola (Steans ’10, ’11)
Karen Ouzounian, Cello (Steans ’10, ’11)
Rafael Skorka, Piano (Steans ’09, ’11)
Deborah Selig, Soprano (Steans ’10)
Dates and Locations:
Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 1:30 p.m.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, Massachusetts
Friday, April 5, 2013 at noon
Tri-I Noon Recitals, Rockefeller University
New York, New York
Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
Schneider Concerts, Mannes College
New York, New York
2014 Tour
Program:
David Ludwig
(b. 1974)
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Piano Trio or Piano Quartet
Commissioned by Ravinia Festival for the
25th anniversary of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute
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Second Piece
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To be announced
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-Intermission-
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Schubert
(1797 – 1828)
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String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887 (52’)
Allegro molto moderato
Andante un poco moto
Scherzo: Allegro vivace—Trio: Allegretto
Allegro assai
Alexi Kenney, Miriam Fried, Matthew Lipman,
Matthew Allen
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Artists:
Miriam Fried, Violin (Program Director)
Alexi Kenney, Violin (Steans ’11, ’12)
Matthew Lipman, Viola (Steans ’12)
Matthew Allen, Cello (Steans ’11, ’12)
Henry Kramer, Piano (Steans ’11, ’12)
Dates and Locations:
Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 8:00 p.m.
Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia Festival
Highland Park, Illinois
Sunday, March 30, 2014 at 1:30 p.m.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, Massachusetts
Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.
Treetops Chamber Music Society
Stamford, Connecticut
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to learn more or to book musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute,
please contact:
Anthony Roberts
Director
Ravinia's Steans Music Institute
Ravinia Festival
418 Sheridan Road
Highland Park, IL 60035
847 266 5423
anthony@ravinia.org
To reach the Ravinia Festival box office, please call 847-266-5100.