RSMI on Tour
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 from Steans
| Celebrating the American Voice |
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| Mohammed Fairouz: | Refugee Blues | |
| Weill: | Four Walt Whitman Songs | |
| Schoenberg: | Selections from Brettl-Lieder Mahnung Gigerlette Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arcadia |
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| Zemlinsky: | Afrikanischer Tanz from 12 Songs, op. 27 | |
| Hindemith: | Selections from Nine English Songs On Hearing ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ Sing On there in the Swamp |
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| Berger: | Lonely People from Four Songs (of Langston Hughes) | |
| Weill: | Selections from Street Scene Lonely House What Good Would the Moon Be? Youkali (Tango habanera) September Song from Knickerbocker Holiday |
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| Ricky Ian Gordon: | Stars from Only Heaven Joy from Genius Child |
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| Still: | Plain Chant for America | |
Christine Lyons, soprano
Siena Licht Miller, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Myers, tenor
Nicholas Newton, bass-baritone
Kevin Murphy, piano
Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 8:00 p.m.
BGH Classics Series
Ravinia Festival, Bennett Gordon Hall
Highland Park, Illinois
Monday, January 27, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.
Tucson Desert Song Festival
Tuscon, Arizona
Strings from Steans
Program in Celebration of Beethoven’s 250th Birthday
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1
Miriam Fried, violin
Timotheos Petrin, cello
Sahun Hong, piano
Bartok: String Quartet No. 2
Maria Ioudenitch, violin
Geneva Lewis, violin
Tanner Menees, viola
Timotheos Petrin, cello
INTERMISSION
Beethoven: String Quartet, No. 12
Geneva Lewis, violin
Miriam Fried, violin
Tanner Menees, viola
Timotheos Petrin, cello
Miriam Fried, violin (program director)
Maria Ioudenitch, violin (’16, ’17)
Geneva Lewis, violin (’17, ’18)
Tanner Menees, viola (’16, ’17)
Timotheos Petrin, cello (’17)
Sahun Hong, piano (’16, ’17)
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Ravinia Reach Teach Play
Chicago, Illinois
Saturday, April 11, 2020, at 8:30 p.m.
BGH Classics Series
Ravinia Festival, Bennett Gordon Hall
Highland Park, Illinois
Friday, April 17, 2020, at 12:00 p.m.
Tri-Noon Recitals, Rockefeller University
New York, New York
Sunday, April 18, 2020, at 7:30 p.m.
Downtown Concert Series
Freehold, New York
Sunday, April 19, 2020, at 7:30 p.m.
Treetops Chamber Music Society
Stamford, Connecticut
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at 1:00 p.m.
Merkin Concert Series, Kaufman Music Center
New York, NY
Sunday, April 26, 2020, at 4:00 p.m.
The Phillips Collection
Washington D.C.
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.
