Ravinia 2019, Issue 7, Week 13

8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2019 PAVILION LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S CANDIDE A Comic Operetta in Two Acts THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor Cast MILES MYKKANEN, Candide † SHARLEEN JOYNT, Cunegonde † MARGARET GAWRYSIAK, Old Lady EVAN JONES, Pangloss/Voltaire/Cacambo † ALEXANDER ELLIOTT, Maximilian/Grand Inquisitor/Sea Captain ALEX MANSOORI, Baron/Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski SARAH LARSEN, Paquette † ZOE JOHNSON, ensemble † EMMA SORENSON, ensemble † MARTIN LUTHER CLARK, ensemble † LUKE MACMILLAN, ensemble † JOHN EIRICH, dancer † COURTNEY LOPES, dancer † Creative Team ALISON MORITZ, stage director † JOHN HEGINBOTHAM, choreographer † AARON COPP, stage and lighting designer † AMANDA SEYMOUR, costume designer † TOMMY KURZMAN, wig and make-up designer † Scottish Opera Edition of the Opera-House Version (1989) Book by Hugh Wheeler Based on the satire by Voltaire Lyrics by Richard Wilbur with additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, and Leonard Bernstein Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay Musical continuity and additional orchestrations by John Mauceri Davison Scandrett, production manager Samantha Shoffner, props designer John Arida, assistant conductor & rehearsal pianist Alec Rigdon, production stage manager Barbara Erin Delo, wardrobe supervisor Jessie Mhire, assistant stage manager Ashley Wise, assistant wigs and make-up Presented by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., sole agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner. GIL SHAHAM, violin Born in Illinois in 1971, Gil Shaham and his fam- ily moved to Israel, where he began violin stud- ies at age 7 at the Rubin Academy of Music with annual scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1981 he made orchestral debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Is- rael Philharmonic, and that same year he began summer studies at Aspen with Dorothy DeLay. The following year, Shaham won Israel’s Clare- mont Competition and became a scholarship student at Juilliard, studying under Hyo Kang and DeLay. Following further studies at Colum- bia University, he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990 and has since received the Avery Fisher Prize (2008) and was named Musi- cal America’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 2012. Shaham is regularly a guest of such ensembles as the Berlin, Israel, Los Angeles, and New York Philharmonics; Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras; Paris Orchestra; and San Francisco Symphony, and he has held multiyear residenc- es with the orchestras of Montreal, Singapore, and Stuttgart. In 2010 he inaugurated a con- tinuing exploration of violin concertos written in the 1930s, including works by Barber, Bartók, Berg, Britten, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky, and he has recorded several of these concertos on his own Canary Classics label, which he founded in 2004, releasing a second volume of these works in collaboration with The Knights and the Stutt- gart Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2016. Many of Shaham’s albums have made international record charts and won major honors, including several Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Di- apason d’Or, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Additionally a proponent of even more con- temporary music, he recently gave the world premiere of a concerto by David Bruce with the San Diego Symphony and recorded a concerto by John Williams, under the composer’s baton, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Shaham also regularly performs as a recitalist and cham- ber musician, recently touring a multimedia account of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin with photographer and video artist Da- vid Michalek, as well as in a duo with longtime partner pianist Akira Eguchi. First appearing at Ravinia in 1991, Gil Shaham returns tonight for his 15th season. RAVINIA MAGAZINE | AUGUST 26 – SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 94