Ravinia 2019, Issue 6, Week 12

6:00 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019 BENNETT GORDON HALL RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE PROGRAM FOR SINGERS with JOHN MUSTO, composer and piano AMY BURTON, soprano This evening’s program will feature American classic songs, including the premiere of a work by resident composer John Musto . Join John Musto and Amy Burton for a pre-concert talk at 5:30 p.m. The participants’ biographies can be found in the RSMI program book distributed at this concert, and the evening’s complete repertoire in the included program insert. 8:00 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019 PAVILION LUCERNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JAMES GAFFIGAN, conductor GEORGE LI, piano ALL-RUSSIAN PROGRAM PROKOFIEV Scherzo and March from The Love for Three Oranges RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini George Li –Intermission– PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet Suite (assembled by the conductor) The Montagues and Capulets Juliet as a Young Girl Masks Romeo and Juliet Death of Tybalt Romeo and Juliet Before Parting Romeo at Juliet’s Grave Death of Juliet Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of Program Sponsor The Fremont Foundation . ANNE AKIKO MEYERS, violin Born in San Diego, Anne Akiko Meyers grew up in Southern California and began professional music studies with Alice and Eleonre Schoenfeld at the Colburn School and subsequently worked with Josef Gingold at Indiana University and Fe- lix Galimir, Masao Kawasaki, and Dorothy De- Lay at Juilliard. An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient in 1993, she has been honored by the Colburn School and the Pasadena Symphony and is on the advisory council of the American Youth Symphony Orchestra. During the 2018–19 season, Meyers was a featured soloist in per- formances celebrating the opening of the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia and on a PBS Great Per- formances special honoring John Williams, both at the invitation of the composers. Additionally, with the Helsinki Philharmonic, she performed Einojuhani Rautavaara’s final work, Fantasia , and Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto, both works that were composed for her, and she released her 37th album, Mirror in Mirror , on Avie Records. This fall she will premiere Adam Schoenberg’s concerto Orchard in Fog at the Enescu Festival in Romania. A champion of contemporary mu- sic, Meyers has expanded the violin repertoire through commissions and premieres of works by Julia Adolphe, Jakub Ciupiński, John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Jennifer Higdon, Samuel Jones, Arturo Marquez, Wynton Marsalis, Akira Miyoshi, Arvo Pärt, Gene Pritsker, Somei Satoh, and Joseph Schwantner, among other compos- ers. Her recording of Rautavaara’s Fantasia was the only classical instrumental work featured among NPR’s top 100 tracks of 2017, and she was Billboard ’s top-selling classical instrumental soloist of 2014, with much of her discography having debuted at number one on its charts. Meyers’s collaborations extend beyond classical music and have included jazz icons Chris Bot- ti and Wynton Marsalis, avant-garde musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita, pop-era act Il Divo, and singer Mi- chael Bolton. She has also consulted for novelist J. Courtney Sullivan on The Engagements and children’s writer and illustrator Kristine Papillon on Crumpet the Trumpet , both of which feature characters loosely based on Meyers. Anne Akiko Meyers made her Ravinia debut in 1991 and is re- turning for her third season at the festival. RAVINIA MAGAZINE | AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2019 94