Ravinia 2024 Issue 2

NATIONAL ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE + FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA and THE CLARICE The University of Maryland’s National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F) brings together aspiring orchestral musicians from across the country for a month of dynamic music-making and professional exploration. Chosen through a rigorous, cross-country audition process, these young artists present passionate and awe-inspiring performances of adventuresome repertoire at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and in College Park, MD and Washington, DC. NOI+F is a program of Clarice Presents, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s artistic platform. Clarice Presents performances and programs entertain, inspire and innovate while creating spaces for the stories and initiatives of impact to the University of Maryland campus, students, artists and the surrounding community. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center aims to create a welcoming and socially conscious, academic and cultural community. The Clarice leverages creativity, innovation, scholarship and engagement to act as a catalyst for the arts and address the grand challenges of our times. VIOLINS Ava Andrews ‡ Aviva Bock Yueci (Grace) Chen ‡ Katherine Chernyak ‡ Jenny Choi ‡ Adam Davis ‡ Leena Duarte Leila Fanien Adriana Fernandez ‡ Karen Ferry ‡ Alexandra Fitzgerald Linnea Geenen Sofia Grimes Morgen Heissenbuettel Yun Kang ‡ Kiran Kaur Suwon Kim Evangelina Maeda Nian Men Zoriana Myliavska ‡ Madeleine Nysetvold ‡ Angelina Phillips ‡ Luke Pisani ‡ Sultan Rakhmatullin Elin Schlichting ‡ Jackie Shim Kalli Sobania Nicholas Whitley Liang-Yu (Charlotte) Yao Kailai Zhang ‡ VIOLAS Ian Aistrup Benjamin Duke Lorenna Garcia ‡ Seth Goodman Daniel Guevara ‡ Nathan Hoffman Mack Jones Ragnhild Margrethe Cover Brandon Morrison ‡ Rachel Smith Iris Yang Damon Zavala ‡ Wei-Ting Kuo * CELLOS Andres Arturo Celis Avila Joseph Cracolici Owen Cummings ‡ Elvira Hoyos Malagon ‡ Henry Lin ‡ Layla Morris Nancy Olivares Simone Pierpaoli Bryan Ping Eleanor Pompa ‡ Manuel Papale Schwarz Somyong Shin Jin Wang BASSES Holdan Arbey ‡ Silva Acosta Devin Ascioti Alexander Carroll ‡ Jasper Chambreau Jason Chen Javier Hernandez Stephen Kilpatrick Enzo Nigro Ian Hallas * FLUTES Helen Freeman Honor Hickman ‡ Saeyeong Kim Maya Stock ‡ John Thorne * OBOES Chris Correa Aaron Haettenschwiller ‡ Jasper Igusa Michelle Moeller ‡ William Welter * CLARINETS Solomon Sigmon ‡ Yoomin Sung Craig Swink ‡ Yvonne Wang BASSOONS Alton French Abigail Heyrich ‡ Jason Huang Taki Salameh ‡ William Buchman * HORNS Aiden Call ‡ Grace Clarke Simon Field Erin Harrigan ‡ Blake Moreland Iona Pay Oto Carrillo * TRUMPETS Dasara Beta Benjamin D’Haiti ‡ Giulia Rath Sophie Urban ‡ TROMBONE Spencer Schaffer ‡ Jihong Son ‡ BASS TROMBONE Aimen Hashish TUBA Aiden Keiser ‡ PERCUSSION Tristan Bouyer Daniel Cline ‡ Kaden Smutz Tristan Toma ‡ Jay Walton James Ross * HARP Zora Dickson Assistant Conductor Juliano Dutra Aniceto * Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ‡ National Orchestral Institute Side-by-Side Participant JESSICA ALTARRIBA Latin American conductor Jessica Altarriba is known for her charismatic stage presence, dy- namic energy, and communicative skills. Re- cently announced as a Taki Alsop Fellowship Award Recipient 2024–26 and Assistant Con- ductor of the Utah Symphony beginning in the 2024–25 season, she was named the New Jersey Symphony’s first-ever Colton Conducting Fel- low for the 2023–24 season and is also a Free- man Conducting Fellow with Chicago Sinfo- nietta. Recent and upcoming engagements this season include performances with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, NOI Festival Orchestra (Maryland), and Colorado Sum- mer Festival. During the 2022–23 season, she worked with the Baltimore Symphony Orches- tra and Germany’s Lüneburg Symphoniker as a guest conductor. Altarriba’s guest engagements have also included Spain’s Málaga Camerata and Virtuós Mediterrani Orchestra, as well as several Cuban ensembles, such as the Holguín and Camagüey Symphony Orchestras, Amadeo Roldán Orchestra, and Lyceum Mozartiano Or- chestra. She also conducted incidental music with Havana-Martin Camerata for the nation- al premiere of Phantom of the Opera . Festival credits include Cuba’s Festival a Tempo con Ca- turla, JazzPlaza, Contemporary Music Festival, Mozart Habana Festival, and the Arts Festival, where she was awarded 1st prize for Young Con- ductors. Born and raised in Cuba, Altarriba is equally vested in both established repertoire and contemporary compositions. She has held several leadership posts with Cuban ensem- bles, including Guest Conductor of the Youth Symphony Esteban Salas and Music Director of the University of Arts Band and the Eastern Symphony Orchestra in Santiago de Cuba. She earned her bachelor’s degree in conducting in 2018 at the University of Arts in Havana, where she gave world premieres of Calabi by Nathalie Hidalgo Reyes and The Creation by Dania Su- arez Piorno. Altarriba holds an Excellence in Music Leadership Fellowship at Peabody Insti- tute of John Hopkins University, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in orches- tral conducting under Marin Alsop. Jessica Al- tarriba is making her Ravinia debut. RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 71