Ravinia 2019, Issue 6, Week 12

6:00 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019 BENNETT GORDON HALL PHILIPPE QUINT, violin MARTA AZNAVOORIAN, piano Charlie Chaplin’s Smile CHAPLIN City Lights Suite DEBUSSY Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque CHAPLIN Tango (“Bitterness”) from Monsieur Verdoux * STRAVINSKY Tango GERSHWIN “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess (arr. Heifetz) CHAPLIN “Weeping Willows” from A King in New York * –Intermission– CHAPLIN The Terry Theme (“Eternally”) from Limelight * BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY Mélodie from Souvenir d’un lieu cher CHAPLIN The Kid Fantasy * CHAPLIN Love Theme (“Smile”) from Modern Times * * First performance at Ravinia PHILIPPE QUINT, violin A native of Russia, Philippe Quint began musical studies at Moscow’s Special Music School for the Gifted with the famed Russian violinist Andrei Korsakov. He relocated to the United States in 1991 and subsequently earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Juilliard, working with such mentors as Dorothy DeLay, Cho-Li- ang Lin, Masao Kawasaki, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt, and Felix Galimir. Today Quint is a leading violinist of his genera- tion, regularly featured on stages from Leipzig’s Gewandhaus to New York’s Carnegie Hall and at such festivals as Verbier, Colmar, and the Hol- lywood Bowl. This season he was Artist-in-As- sociation with the Utah Symphony, giving two weeks of performances with the orchestra and re- cording for the Hyperion label. Other highlights of the season included debuts with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and in Moscow with the National Philharmonic of Russia as well as the release of Chaplin’s Smile on the Warner Classics label, featuring new arrangements of works by Charlie Chaplin, and a tour of the project from coast to coast in the United States and in Lon- don, Utrecht, and Bilbao. In recent years Quint has also been a featured guest with the Bour- nemouth, Chicago Detroit, Indianapolis, and Seattle Symphony Orchestras; London, Los An- geles, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics; New Jersey Symphony; Minnesota Orchestra; Weimar State Orchestra; China National Symphony; Or- pheus Chamber Orchestra; and Berlin Komische Oper Orchestra. He has been heard on the stages of the Mostly Mozart, Lucerne, Caramoor, Ravin- ia, Aspen, Moritzburg, La Jolla, Lincoln Center, and Chautauqua Festivals as a chamber musician, and recitals have also brought Quint to the Kra- vis Center, the National Gallery in Washington, and, most recently, to San Francisco for perfor- mances with composer/pianist Lera Auerbach. His discography spans standard repertoire and rediscovered treasures alike, including a disc of Mendelssohn and Bruch concertos paired with Beethoven’s Romances on AvantiClassics and numerous albums for Naxos, from the premiere recording of John Corigliano’s Red Violin Capric- es to concertos by Korngold, Schuman, Ned Ro- rem, and Bernstein. Philippe Quint was a fellow at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute in 1997 and is making his first return to the festival. AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2019 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE 97