RSMI Schedule and Tour 2018
All events are held in BENNETT GORDON HALL unless otherwise noted.
Concert Pricing
- All afternoon (2 p.m.) and offsite performances are free.
- All evening (6 p.m.) are $10.
CONCERTS
Saturday, June 9, 8:30 p.m.Bridges Winners Concert
Friday, June 15, 6:00 p.m.
Jazz Grandstand
MASTER CLASSES
Wednesday, June 13, 2:00 p.m.Jazz Program Directors
CONCERTS
Thursday, June 28, 7:30 p.m.RSMI Faculty Concert
Saturday, June 30, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert I
Saturday, July 7, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert II
Saturday, July 8, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert III
Monday, July 9, 6:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert IV
$10 BGH Classics
Brahms & More
Tuesday, July 10, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert V
Wednesday, July 11, 12:15 p.m.
Dame Myra Hess, Chicago Cultural Center
Friday, July 13, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert VI
Saturday, July 14, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert VII
Monday, July 16, 6:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert VIII
$10 BGH Classics
Premiere of Timo Andres Commission
Tuesday, July 17, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert IX
Tuesday, July 17, 7:30 p.m.
Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Arlington Heights, IL
Wednesday, July 18, 12:15 p.m.
Dame Myra Hess, Chicago Cultural Center
Thursday, July 19, 6:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert X
$10 BGH Classics
Brahms & More
Friday, July 20, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert XI
Friday, July 21, 2:00 p.m.
Piano & Strings Concert XII
MASTER CLASSES
Friday, June 29, 2:00 p.m.Miriam Fried, violin
Friday, July 6, 2:00 p.m.
Paul Katz, cello
Wednesday, July 11, 2:00 p.m.
Atar Arad, viola
CONCERTS
Wednesday, August 8, 6:00 p.m.Singers Concert I
$10 BGH Classics
Monday, August 13, 6:00 p.m.
Singers Concert II
$10 BGH Classics
Classic Canciones from Spain and Latin America
Wednesday, August 15, 2:00 p.m.
Singers Concert III
Friday, August 17, 2:00 p.m.
Singers Concert IV
Sunday, August 19, 2:00 p.m.
Singers Concert V
Bernstein and Friends
MASTER CLASSES
Monday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.Thomas Hampson, baritone
Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.
James Conlon, piano and vocal coach
CANCELED Friday, August 17, 2:00 p.m.
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano
RSMI on Tour
"The young musicians who played my Second String Quartet so beautifully were extraordinary both in technical accomplishment and sensitive, musical intelligence."
—Bernard Rands, composer
Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute is a touring chamber ensemble series whose members are selected from among the most promising string players, pianists, and singers that have attended Ravinia’s summer conservatory. Tour repertoire for artists from the RSMI Program for Piano and Strings varies, but always includes three or four works for the ensemble. Tours featuring artists from the RSMI Program for Singers have included large ensemble performances with soloists as well as small chamber ensembles and solo performances.
The tours are designed to bring the musical richness of Ravinia to a wider audience, presenting both formal concerts as well as educational outreach and programming for schools and various community organizations. Musicians from both programs have appeared at such prestigious venues as Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum, the Library of Congress, the Tucson Desert Song Festival, Miami’s Friends of Chamber Music series, and New York’s Town Hall.
Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute has also been a pioneer in multiple cultural exchange programs in Havana, Cuba, sending artists from the RSMI Programs for Piano and Strings and Singers to the Festival de Música de Cámara and the Corhabana choral music festival.
Singers
Bernstein |
Psalm 148 Two Love Songs "I Go On" from Mass Selections from Songfest A Julia de Burgos Zizi's Lament To What you Said La Bonne Cuisine Plum Pudding Queues de Boeuf Tavouk Guenksis Civet à Tout Vitesse |
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Mahler |
Selected Rückert and Des Knaben Wunderhorn Songs Liebst du um Schönheit Rheinlegendchen Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald |
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Ives |
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven |
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Copland |
Selections from Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson Heart We Will Forget Him I've Heard and Organ Talk Sometimes |
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Bernstein |
Selections from West Side Story Maria I Feel Pretty Selections from Trouble in Tahiti There's A Law What a Movie Selections from Candide We are Women Oh Happy We Make Our Garden Grow |
Cadie Jordan, soprano (2017)
Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo soprano (2012)
Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor (2018)
Alex Lawrence, baritone (2017)
Kevin Murphy, piano (program director)
Alexander Hersh, cello (2015, 2016)
Saturday, January 27, 2018
8:30 PM, "Bernstein and Friends" Recital in BGH
Monday, January 29, 2018
7 PM, "Bernstein and Friends" Recital in Holsclaw Hall, Fred Fox School of Music, Tucson Arizona
See RSMI alums at the Tucson Desert Song Festival
Sasha Cook (2006) in Trouble in Tahiti
Friday, February 2, 7:30 PM
Saturday February 2, 2 PM and 7:30 PM
Cadie Jordan (2017) and David Margulis (2013) in “A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein”
Friday, February 2, 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 3, 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 4, 1 PM
Piano and Strings
| Mendelssohn (1809-1847) |
String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18 Allegro con moto |
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| -Intermission- | ||
Beethoven (1770-1827) |
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130 Adagio ma non troppo |
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Miriam Fried, violin (program director)
Maria Ioudenitch, violin (RSMI ’16, ’17)
Zhanbo Zheng, viola (RSMI ’16, ’17)
Zoë Martin-Doike, viola (RSMI ’14, ’17)
Zlatomir Fung, cello (RSMI ’16, ’17)
Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 8:30 p.m.
$10 BGH Classics
Ravinia Festival, Bennett Gordon Hall
Highland Park, Illinois
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center
New York, New York
Friday, April 20, 2018, at noon
Tri-I Noon Recitals, Rockefeller University
New York, New York
Sunday, April 22, 2018, at 4:00 p.m.
Treetops Chamber Music Society
Carriage Barn Arts Center
New Canaan Connecticut
Sunday, May 13, 2018, at 1:30 p.m.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, Massachusetts
Download the RSMI 2018 RSMI Piano and Strings Tour Schedule (pdf)
To book Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, please contact:
Molly Sender
Administrative Director
Ravinia's Steans Music Institute
Ravinia Festival
418 Sheridan Road
Highland Park, IL 60035
847 266 5424
msender@ravinia.org
To reach the Ravinia Festival box office, please call 847-266-5100.
