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Alumni and Faculty on Ravinia’s Stages
In addition to the full lineup of performances by RSMI fellows in Bennett Gordon Hall, you can see more than 30 of
our alumni and 15 of our current and past faculty in performances around Ravinia in 2018.
June 9:
Saxophonist
Zachary Bornheimer
(’17) and trombonist
Sam Blakeslee
(’10) were two of the three winners of the
Bridges
composition competition, and both composers are alumni of the RSMI
Jazz Program. The concert will feature RSMI alumni:
Avalon Quartet
(’98), pianist
Billy Test
(’15), bassist
Ilya Dacosta
(’16), drummer
Clif Wallace
(’09), saxophonist
Shai Golan
(’17), and guitarist
Miles
Okazaki
(’01). The concert will also feature compositions from RSMI
jazz faculty members
Billy Childs
and
Rufus Reid
, and late jazz
faculty member
Nathan Davis
.
June 20:
The
Juilliard String Quartet with first violinist
Joseph Lin
(’97, ’05) take the stage in the Martin Theatre.
June 26:
Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, including
cellist
Paul Dwyer
(’08), performs in the Martin Theatre.
June 28:
Violinists
Miriam Fried
and
Pamela Frank
, violists
Paul Biss
and
Kim Kashkashian
, cellist
Timothy Eddy
, and
pianist
Robert Levin
, all members of the RSMI faculty, join forces
with RSMI alumnus cellist
Kenneth Olsen
(’00, ’04) for an all-star
chamber music concert in the Martin Theatre.
July 2:
Saxophonist
Bob Reynolds
(’00) joins the Grammy Award–
winning fusion band Snarky Puppy for a party on the Pavilion stage
July 11:
Former RSMI Faculty member
Pinchas Zukerman
(’89)
performs with his trio in the Martin Theatre.
July 14:
Mezzo-soprano
Michelle DeYoung
(’95) and tenor
Paul
Appleby
(’08) join Tamara Wilson and Ryan Speedo Green under the
baton of Marin Alsop to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the
Pavilion stage.
July 18:
Piano phenomenon
Yuja Wang
(’04) returns to Ravinia
for the second summer in a row, joining dynamic conductor Gustavo
Dudamel for their first performance together in Chicago.
July 21:
Inon Barnatan
(’02, ’03) joins the CSO for a night of
Tchaikovsky, performing the First Piano Concerto.
July 22:
Celebrating her 25th year as director of the Program for
Piano and Strings, violinist
Miriam Fried
will perform Tchaikovsky’s
Violin Concerto on the second night of the Ravinia
Tchaikovsky
Spectacular.
July 23:
Leon Fleisher
takes to the stage for a concert of Bach and
Brahms on his 90th birthday in the Martin Theatre.
July 24:
Former quartet-in-residence the
Argus Quartet
(’17) returns
to the BGH stage alongside Misha Dichter.
July 28:
Soprano
Michelle Areyzaga
(’01) helps Ravinia celebrate
Leonard Bernstein’s centennial year with a performance of “Leonard
Bernstein: 100 Years Young—A New Young People’s Concert” with
the prolific conductor’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein, and the Peoria
Symphony Orchestra.
August 7:
The day after leading an RSMI master class,
Thomas
Hampson
will perform with Luca Pisaroni on the “No Tenors
Allowed”
program, with pianist and RSMI Program Director
Kevin
Murphy
.
August 10:
Soprano
Nadine Sierra
(’12) and Michael Fabiano
honor Leonard Bernstein with a recital in the Martin, accompanied by
Kevin Murphy
, program director for RSMI’s Program for Singers.
August 11:
Soprano
Nadine Sierra
(’12) joins Matthew Polenzani
for a concert of Italian opera favorites, conducted by RSMI master
class leader
James Conlon
.
August 21:
Faculty member
Jonathan Biss
(’15, ’17) returns to
BGH to complete his cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
August 24:
David Kaplan
(’08, ’09) joins Timo Andres for a two-
piano concert on the BGH stage.
August 25:
Guy Ben-Ziony
(’00) performs with the Pacifica
Quartet as part of the $10 BGH Classics Series.
August 27:
Gil Kalish
(’91, ’92, ’98-’06, ’09-’13, ’18) returns to
RSMI after his time spent as a faculty member to give the Midwest
premiere of Caroline Shaw’s
Narrow Sea
with So Percussion and
soprano Dawn Upshaw
September 11:
Fresh off his 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant win,
Pianist
Drew Petersen
(’17) returns to the BGH stage for a concert of
Beethoven, Chopin, and more.
Throughout the Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency
: RSMI
alumni violinists
Cornelius Chiu
(’92),
Lei Hou
(’88), and
Qing
Hou
(’89, ’90), violist
Wei-Ting Kuo
(’09), and cellist
Kenneth
Olsen
(’00, ’04)
RSMI
ALUMNI AND FACULTY
Kevin
Murphy
Paul
Appleby