Ravinia 2019, Issue 4, Week 7

JOSEPHINE LEE, president and artistic director, CCC and Vocality As president and artistic director of Chicago Children’s Choir, Josephine Lee has revolutionized the field of youth choral music through cutting-edge per- formances of diverse repertoire and innovative collaborations with world-class artists. In recognition of her leadership of CCC, she received the Kennedy Cen- ter’s National Committee for the Performing Arts Award for Arts Advocacy in 2018, the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal from the University of Chicago in 2014, and the Roman Nomitch Fellowship in 2012 to attend a nonprofit management program at Harvard. Also an acclaimed pianist, singer, and producer, Lee recently sang in the premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne’s Place at the Next Wave Festival. Other recent engagements in- clude Long Way Home (2018), a theatrical work with the Q Brothers Collective; Ascension (2017), an original suite for piano and cello commissioned by Ballet Chicago; The Good Goodbyes (2012), a piano commission from Frank Chavez and River North Dance Chicago; and Sita Ram , a world musical with David Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre. JUDY HANSON, senior associate artistic director, CCC As associate artistic director of Chicago Children’s Choir, Judy Hanson col- laborates on the artistic vision for the organization and guides the conducting staff in serving its 4,800 children singers. She is co-director and main cho- reographer for the Voice of Chicago ensemble, with which she earned a Jeff Award nomination in for choreographing Sita Ram . Hanson also applies her 30 years’ experience working with middle-school singers as the conductor of DiMension, a choir for young men with changing voices. A nationally known clinician, adjudicator, and conductor, Hanson has presented sessions and workshops and conducted Honors Choirs for ACDA chapters, universities, and many other organizations throughout the US. She also judges national show choir competitions and has been on staff at Show Choir Camps of America for 24 years. HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND The Highland Park High School band program is committed to fostering the growth of its students as musicians and as people, achieving the highest standard of performance excellence, and supporting the spirit and tradition of the school and community. The program offers three curricular band classes, two curricular jazz classes, and a percussion ensemble class each year, along with numerous co-cur- ricular ensembles. The capstone ensemble, the HPHS Wind Symphony, has performed at Symphony Center and the Illinois Music Education All-State Conference, as well as at festivals in Spain, Italy, Chi- na, Japan, and the Czech Republic. The HPHS Marching Band is an all-volunteer ensemble comprising dedicated members across grades 9 through 12; tonight’s performers represent a portion of the entire band. The band rehearses entirely outside of the school day throughout the late summer and fall, and it performs at all home football games and various school and community events throughout the year. John Arnell Kevin Beck Dana Bell Asher Berghoff Margaret Brennan Teaghan Brennan Catherine Chen David Condroski Matthew Doherty Eli Elder Jason Fitzsimons Mason Goldbaum Cassie Goldstein Joshua Gross Kevin Haller Mark Heymann Joseph Kelley Genevieve Levinson Matt Lezotte Andrew Littmann James Lovell Nicholas Maldonado Georgia Martinez Graham McGregor Brendan McMahon Sara Mouscher Kathryn Nelson Samuel Perlman Claire Poukey Cristina Rosheger Lucy Rubin Peter Rubin Chloe Schneider David Simon Doug Smith Sam Sollinger Rodrigo Soto Caydan Veltman Per Wagenius Noah Weisbard Steven Wren JOSHUA CHODOROFF, director, HPHS Marching Band Joshua Chodoroff is currently in his 19th year of teaching. He was appointed Director of Bands at Highland Park High School in 2014, the same year he was named a semi-finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award, honoring him as one of the top 25 music educators in the country. He has also received the Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator Award and the Citation of Ex- cellence from the National Band Association. Chodoroff serves on the Illinois Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance committee and is a mem- ber of Phi Beta Mu. He has presented clinics on the subjects of music advocacy, music literacy, and mu- sic analysis. Prior to joining the HPHS faculty, Chodoroff taught at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, IL. Under his direction, the WVHS Wind Ensemble performed multiple times at the Universi- ty of Illinois Superstate Band Festival and at the 2008 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has also led successful band tours to Spain, France, Italy, Hawaii, Florida, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR Chicago Children’s Choir is the nation’s pre- eminent youth choral organization, serving over 5,000 students across the city of Chica- go. Founded in Hyde Park at the height of the civil rights movement in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of in- and after-school programs driven by the mission of inspiring and changing lives through music. CCC has impacted the lives of more than 50,000 diverse youth throughout its 62-year history and has forged creative partnerships and new artistic endeavors that have revolutionized the youth choral arts. Recent projects have includ- ed the 2018 premieres of the hip-hop musical Long Way Home , written and directed by the re- nowned Q Brothers Collective, and a new stag- ing of Bernstein’s Mass under the baton of Marin Alsop with two frequent creative partners, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Ravinia Fes- tival (reprised tonight), as well as collaborating on Chance the Rapper’s Grammy-winning 2016 mixtape Coloring Book . CCC has undertaken many highly successful national and interna- tional tours and has made numerous recordings on various labels, including six under its own banner, most recently Harmony Anew (2018). Lexie Antoine Rosa Boraz Amber Cloud Martha Dunfee Zachariah Elliott Hana Freidheim-Javed Mercedes Gong Daniela Gramajo Pearl Griffin Vienne Hensel Susana Hernandez Lucy Herr Shirell Margaret Jirgal Ella Koss Eleanor Lee Miles Lee Raiva Lessing Landyn McClain Eleanor McGuire Bennet McConkey Emerson McConkey Charlotte Miller Zola Mininger-Clark Vibha Muppidi Carin Murphy Zoey Obregon Lucille Paranjape Alexia Peponis Caroline Polsky Olivia Roman Lucia Ross Kavvya Shriram Esme Siegelin Elaine Tang Ellen Tang Sarah Troccoli Kaliyah Venson Eliot Warren Asssistant Conductors Stephanie Gregoire Roland Hatcher RAVINIA MAGAZINE | JULY 15 – JULY 21, 2019 100