Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Master Class with Chief Conductor Marin Alsop
Ravinia Steans Music Institute
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Tickets:
Please reserve tickets to this event before arriving at the venue. Free admission will still be offered at the door, pending availability.
No Lawn tickets are offered for this event.
Views of the Stage
Bennett Gordon Hall is an indoor venue. The stage is not visible from any location on the Lawn, nor is audio from the performance broadcast to the Lawn.
Cashless
Ravinia is becoming a cashless venue and encourages all guests to bring credit/debit cards or other cashless forms of payment. Cash will not be accepted at The Festival Shop, Wintrust Chair & Table Rental, Dining Pavilion restaurants, and concessions and bars.
Dining/Concessions at Ravinia Festival®
All Ravinia Festival restaurants and concessions are closed.
Livestreamed on YouTube
This presentation by RSMI is free to experience in person at Bennett Gordon Hall or on Ravinia’s YouTube channel wherever you are. View this season’s and past livestreams.
About the Artist
The Program for Singers offers a unique setting for 15 classical singers to delve deeply into the vast repertoire of art song for three weeks. Fellows are paired with staff collaborative pianists to work with a faculty of distinguished musicians, pedagogues, and scholars on varied aspects of vocal performance, including style, technique, language, diction, dramaturgy, performance, and career preparation.
In addition to several afternoon and evening concerts presented during the summer, the musicians participate in a series of public master classes, where the faculty or a Ravinia guest artist provide in-the-moment insights on the fellows’ performances of excerpts from their repertoire, guiding both the growth of their interpretations and sharing the experience with all in attendance.
This master class is led by Ravinia Chief Conductor Marin Alsop, a powerful and inspiring exemplar and voice of music’s power to change lives. She is internationally recognized for her innovative approach to programming and audience development, as well as a deep commitment to education. The first and only conductor to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Alsop made history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. To promote and nurture the careers of her fellow female conductors, in 2002 she founded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, which was renamed in her honor as the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship in 2020. Deeply committed to music’s power to speak to the moment, she was Music Director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music for 25 years, over the course of which she led 174 premieres.
Performers
RSMI Program for Singers
Marin Alsop, conductor
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