Ravinia 2023 Issue 2
PATRICK GIPSON/RAVINIA (ALSOP) MARIN ALSOP, Ravinia Chief Conductor Following six performances at Ravinia with the Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra between 2002 and 2006, Marin Alsop has renewed the pairing every year since 2018. As Ravinia’s Chief Conductor, she leads three weeks of concerts with the CSO each summer and curates Breaking Barriers, an annual festi- val focused on celebrating and advancing diverse artists and leaders in classical music who are ensuring an inclusive future for the arts. She began her professional education at Yale Uni- versity at 16 and within six years earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin at The Juilliard School; both institutions have awarded her honorary doctorates. Alsop’s career surged ahead in 1989 when she became the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize from Tanglewood, where she became a protégée of Leonard Bernstein. Today the director of graduate conducting at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hop- kins University, she is the only conductor to have been award- ed a MacArthur Fellowship, and she has also been honored with the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award. To nurture the careers of female conductors, in 2002 she founded a fel- lowship program that was renamed in her honor, as the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, in 2020. The following year, a documentary about her life, The Conductor , premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Focus on the Arts Award at the Naples International Film Festival. In addition to her role at Ravinia, which grew out of two highly successful seasons highlighting works created or championed by Bernstein, Alsop is Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Or- chestra, performing at the Konzerthaus and Musikverein, and the first Music Director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival at the University of Maryland, where she leads a con- ducting academy. In 2021 she became Music Director Laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, concluding a 14-year tenure that included overseas touring and award-winning re- cordings as well as the founding of the OrchKids youth music initiative, and she is Conductor of Honor of Brazil’s São Paulo Symphony Orchestra following her seven years as its principal conductor and music director. Deeply committed to new mu- sic, she was music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contem- porary Music for 25 years, over the course of which she led 174 premieres. In addition to regular engagements with the Cleve- land and Philadelphia Orchestras, Alsop has long-standing relationships with the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras and frequently guests with the Leipzig Gewand- haus, Royal Concertgebouw, and La Scala Orchestras. Her ex- tensive discography has earned multiple Gramophone Awards and includes acclaimed Brahms, Dvořák, and Prokofiev cycles on Naxos and further recordings on Decca, Harmonia Mundi, and Sony Classical. CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI, Zell Music Director JESSIE MONTGOMERY, Mead Composer-in-Residence HILARY HAHN, Artist-in-Residence The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s leading orchestras. In September 2010, renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti became its 10th music director. During his tenure, the orchestra has deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. Theodore Thomas, the orchestra’s first music director, was invited to establish a symphony orchestra in Chicago in 1889 and con- ducted its first concerts in October 1891. Other former music directors include Frederick Stock, Désiré Defauw, Artur Rodziński, Rafael Kubelík, Fritz Reiner, Jean Martinon, Sir Georg Solti, and Daniel Barenboim. Jessie Montgomery is the CSO’s current Mead Composer-in-Residence, and violinist Hilary Hahn is the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence. The musicians of the CSO command a vast repertoire and annually perform more than 150 concerts, most at Symphony Center in Chicago. Since its first tour to Canada in 1892, the orchestra has performed in 29 countries on five continents in 63 international tours. The orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905, and in August 1936 the orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival. It has been in residence nearly every summer since. Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the orchestra’s activities. Current releases on CSO Resound, the orchestra’s independent recording label, include the Grammy Award–winning release of Verdi’s Requiem led by Riccardo Muti. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have earned 64 Grammy awards from the Recording Academy. Listeners around the world can hear the CSO in weekly airings of the CSO Radio Broadcast Series, which is syndicated on the WFMT Radio Net- work and online at CSO.org/Radio. In addition, the CSO’s YouTube video of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, conducted by Muti, has received over 40 million views. VIOLINS Robert Chen Concertmaster The Louis C. Sudler Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Stephanie Jeong Associate Concertmaster The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair David Taylor Assistant Concertmaster * The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair Yuan-Qing Yu Assistant Concertmaster * So Young Bae Cornelius Chiu # Gina DiBello Kozue Funakoshi Russell Hershow Qing Hou # Matous Michal Simon Michal Blair Milton Sando Shia Susan Synnestvedt Rong-Yan Tang ‡ Baird Dodge Principal Lei Hou # Ni Mei Hermine Gagné Rachel Goldstein Mihaela Ionescu Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Melanie Kupchynsky Wendy Koons Meir Joyce Noh Nancy Park Ronald Satkiewicz Florence Schwartz VIOLAS Catherine Brubaker Beatrice Chen Youming Chen Sunghee Choi Wei-Ting Kuo # Danny Lai Weijing Michal Diane Mues Lawrence Neuman Max Raimi CELLOS John Sharp Principal The Eloise W. Martin Chair Kenneth Olsen # Assistant Principal The Adele Gidwitz Chair Karen Basrak The Joseph A. and Cecile Renaud Gorno Chair Loren Brown Richard Hirschl Daniel Katz Katinka Kleijn § David Sanders Brant Taylor BASSES Alexander Hanna Principal The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair Daniel Carson Robert Kassinger Mark Kraemer Stephen Lester Bradley Opland HARP Lynne Turner FLUTES Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Principal The Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair Yevgeny Faniuk Assistant Principal Emma Gerstein Jennifer Gunn PICCOLO Jennifer Gunn The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair OBOES William Welter Principal The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair Lora Schaefer Assistant Principal Scott Hostetler ENGLISH HORN Scott Hostetler CLARINETS Stephen Williamson Principal John Bruce Yeh Assistant Principal Gregory Smith E-FLAT CLARINET John Bruce Yeh BASSOONS Keith Buncke Principal William Buchman Assistant Principal Miles Maner HORNS David Cooper Principal Daniel Gingrich Associate Principal James Smelser David Griffin Oto Carrillo Susanna Gaunt TRUMPETS Esteban Batallán Principal The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Mark Ridenour Assistant Principal John Hagstrom The Bleck Family Chair Tage Larsen The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair TROMBONES Jay Friedman Principal The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair Michael Mulcahy Charles Vernon BASS TROMBONE Charles Vernon TUBA Gene Pokorny Principal The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld TIMPANI David Herbert Principal The Clinton Family Fund Chair Vadim Karpinos Assistant Principal PERCUSSION Cynthia Yeh Principal Patricia Dash Vadim Karpinos James Ross LIBRARIANS Carole Keller Mark Swanson CSO FELLOW Gabriela Lara, violin ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL John Deverman Director Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel STAGE TECHNICIANS Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Joshua Mondie Todd Snick * Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave # Ravinia Steans Music Institute alum The Zell Music Director position is endowed in perpetuity through a generous gift from Zell Family Foundation. The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically. RAVINIA MAGAZINE • JULY 3 – JULY 16, 2023 42 PATRICK GIPSON/RAVINIA (ALSOP)
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