Ravinia 2024 Issue 1

JASON MOUNTARIO 8UY1N9 8UY1N9 (or “BUYING”) intends to depict the paranoid, over-the-edge, and constantly chang- ing feelings in human lust and thirsty consum- erist behavior, from the most minimal to cha- otic and to a post-guilty-pleasure moment. It explores 12-tone and serial concepts while still incorporating elements of improvisation and groove-based music. I experimented with num- bers and letters to generate melodies, rhythm structures, and harmonies. Jason Gabriel Mountar- io is a composer, electric bass player, and mixing engineer from Jakarta, Indonesia, who holds a degree in bass perfor- mance and jazz compo- sition from Berklee College of Music. In 2019, he was the recipient of Downbeat ’s 42nd annual Student Music Awards in Original Composi- tion, Large Ensemble, for his piece Princess of Sahara and in Jazz Arrangement for his arrange- ment of Nardis . His big band composition Fake People won the 2019 SCI Jazz Composition Con- test as well as Downbeat ’s Student Music Award in the category of Original Composition, Large Ensemble. He was commissioned by Salihara to write original music for medium–large ensem- ble to be premiered at Salihara Jazz Buzz 2021, titled Nomenasia . Last March he released his debut album, Love Is , featuring his jazz trio. The collection received two nominations at the 2023 AMI Awards, for Best Jazz Album and Best Jazz Artist. The group played at the 2023 Java Jazz Festival and Festival Alur Bunyi Goethe Institut Indonesien. He was the recipient of Young Tal- ent of the Year Award at the Jazz Goes to Cam- pus 2023 and is currently a lecturer teaching jazz theory, band arrangement, and music produc- tion at Pelita Harapan University. ZHENGTAO PAN Mirror, Floating on the Water This piece is about an imagination of what makes a “mirror.” A mirror is just like the sur- face of water, it can reflect things, it can show things. It’s impossible to see a mirror floating on the water, but somehow, when I’m looking at the mirror, this title comes to my mind. Zhengtao Pan was born in 2003 and grew up in Shanghai, China, and he currently studys Jazz Composition and Composition at Berklee College of Music. He has composed music for seveal video games, incluiding Mist Sequence , Lost Soul Aside , One Piece: The Bloodline , and Arknights . Recently, his music has been honored by the Jazz Education Network with a Best Large Instrumental Com- position award and Downbeat with a Student Music Award for Small Ensemble Composition, and he was the winner of the Young Musician International Competition “Citta’ di Barletta” and the ASMAC Pat Williams Composing and Arranging Competitions, as well as the sec- ond-place winner at the 2023 ScoreLive Gala Concert Competition. Besides media scoring, he arranges music for jazz ensembles and writes concert works as well. Several of his pieces have been premiered by the HyperCube ensemble and Cascadia Composers, and his music has also been performed by Grammy- and previous Bridges-winning artist Steven Feifke with his big band in New York. Among his own big band col- laborators are Benny Benack III, Walter Smith III, Itai Kriss, and Andrew Gould. He has also collaborated with Budapest Scoring Orchestra, Budapest Jazz Orchestra, US Jazz Ambassadors, European Recording Orchestra, New York Phil- harmonic, and Belarusian State Philharmonic, among others. Violinist Claire Bourg has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in many leading venues across the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Kimmel Center, Bremen’s Kleiner Saal, and Fryderyk Chopin University Hall in Warsaw. A laureate of many competi- tions, she earned the Luminarts Fellowship in 2021 and recently appeared with the Camerata Bern as part of the Joachim Violin Competition. Bourg is currently concertmaster of Symphony in C in Philadelphia, and she regularly performs with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Chameleon Arts Ensemble. Her chamber music collabora- tors have included Mitsuko Uchida, Kim Kash- kashian, Jorg Widmann, Ida Kavafian, and Frans Helmerson, and she recently returned to Marl- boro Music and Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars as a resident artist, following her fellowships at RSMI in 2016 and 2017, among other festival appearances. A Chicago native, Bourg holds an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute and a bachelor’s degree from the New England Con- servatory, and she is continuing studies at The Juilliard School. Icelandic-Slovenian vi- olinist Rannveig Marta Sarc is a versatile art- ist who has performed throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. She has been a featured soloist with the Iceland Symphony and Slovene Philharmonic, and as a chamber musician, she has performed with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and at such festivals as Taos, Prussia Cove, and Aspen in addition to her 2019 and 2020 fellowships at RSMI. Sarc is an avid performer of contemporary music and recently commissioned and premiered six Icelandic duos for violin and viola as a member of Duo Freyja, recording them on an album by the same name. A recipient of numerous honors, including the Rotary Scholarship and the American Scandina- vian Society Cultural Grant, she holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she was awarded a Kovner Fel- lowship. Her mentors included Catherine Cho, Laurie Smukler, and Donald Weilerstein, as well as Robert Mealy on Baroque violin. Sarc is on the violin faculty at Chicago’s Merit School of Music and frequently performs with the Chica- go and Milwaukee Symphonies. RAVINIAMAGAZINE • JUNE 7 – JUNE 30, 2024 62