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RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE
RSMI
Soprano
Cadie Jordan
(’17), mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Ringle Kamarei
(’12), and baritone
Alex Lawrence
(’17) represented RSMI at the
Tucson Desert Song Festival in January 2018. They began their “Bernstein and Friends” tribute in Bennett Gordon Hall with Program Director
Kevin Murphy
at the piano, before heading to Tucson, AZ, to present the same program. In between the song recitals at Ravinia and in
Tucson, Cadie Jordan and RSMI alum
David Margulis
(’14) sang lead roles in Ballet Tucson’s Bernstein dance performance as part of TDSF’s
Tribute to Bernstein Festival.
Four Piano and Strings alumni joined Program
Director and violinist Miriam Fried on tour
this spring. Violinist
Maria Ioudenitch
(’16,
’17), violists
Zhanbo Zheng
(’15, ’16) and
Zoe Martin-Doike
(’14, ’17), and cellist
Zlatomir Fung
(’16, ’17) performed a concert
of Mendelssohn and Beethoven in Bennett
Gordon Hall before departing for concerts at
Merkin Concert Hall in the Kaufman Music
Center and the Tri-I Noon Recital Series at
Rockefeller University in New York City; as
well as the Treetops Chamber Music Society
in Stamford, CT, and the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum in Boston, MA.
ALUMNI ON TOUR
Cadie Jordan performs
with Kevin Murphy
From left: Miriam Fried, Maria Ioudenitch, Zlatomir Fung, Zoë Martin-Doike, and Zhanbo Zheng