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RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE

RSMI

PIANO AND STRINGS FACULTY

Timo Andres

, composer

Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist

who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. A

Nonesuch Records artist, he has received wide acclaim for an

album of orchestral works,

Home Stretch

, and for his debut album,

Shy and Mighty

. Notable works include

Everything Happens So

Much

for the Boston Symphony with Andris Nelsons;

Strong

Language

, a string quartet for the Takács Quartet, commissioned

by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; S

teady

Hand

, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and premiered at

the Barbican with Andres and pianist David Kaplan; and

The Blind Banister

, a piano

concerto for Jonathan Biss. Co-commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

with Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s,

The Blind

Banister

was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. As a pianist, Timo Andres performed the

world premiere of a piano concerto by Ingram Marshall – written specifically for him –

with John Adams and the LA Phil, and appeared at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa,

where he received the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize; Philip Glass selected

Andres as the recipient of this award. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center,

Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Phillips Collection, (le) Poisson

Rouge, National Sawdust; and collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, the Los Angeles

Dance Project, yMusic, ACME, Sufjan Stevens, and many others. Recent and upcoming

commissions include the Music Academy of the West; a concerto for cellist Inbal Segev

and Metropolis Ensemble, performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York;

for the Calder Quartet through the LA Phil, a major work for the Orchester Cottbus

Staatstheater, and more. Andres earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from

the Yale School of Music.

Atar Arad

, viola

Residency supported by the Irvin E. Houck Chair for Strings

Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is a faculty member at

the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He has served

on Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute faculty since 1991; his other

summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon in Israel, Banff

and Domaine Forget in Canada, and the Heifetz Institute in Virginia.

cum laude

first-prize winner at the Geneva International Music

Competition in 1972, he has performed worldwide in recitals, as

a soloist with major orchestras, and as a member of the celebrated Cleveland Quartet.

His recordings with the quartet and as a soloist for such labels as Teldec, Telarc, RCA,

and RIAX are widely acclaimed. Atar’s compositions include a solo sonata for viola, a

string quartet, and a viola concerto. Recent performances include the Primrose Memorial

Concert at BYU and as a part of his services as the Lorand Fenyves Distinguished

Visitor at the University of Toronto. He recently toured Europe giving master classes and

performing in London; Paris; Sion, Switzerland; and Madrid. He has had essays published

in such magazines as

Strad

and

Strings

Paul Biss

, violin and viola

The Edward Gordon chair, endowed by the Ravinia Women’s

Board

Paul Biss is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory,

previously serving for many years as a professor of music at

Indiana University, teaching violin and chamber music and

conducting a full season of orchestral concerts and opera. His

own studies were with Josef Gingold and Ivan Galamian. A

former member of the Berkshire Quartet, he has appeared as a

soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and leader of master classes internationally. He

has participated in such summer festivals as Marlboro, Lockenhaus, La Jolla, Finland’s

Naantali Festival, and the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades.

Sara Bitlloch

, violin

Residency made possible by the William H. and Marjorie L. Green

Endowment

Born of French and Catalan parents Sara Bitlloch studied with

Rafael Druian at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, with Alberto

Lysy at the Menuhin Academy, Switzerland, with Peter Norris,

WhenZhou Li, Margaret Norris and Mauricio Fuks at the

Yehudi Menuhin School, London, with Christian Rouquié at the

Perpignan Conservatory, and with Clothilde Munch at the Vivaldi

Association, Grenoble. Sara is the leader of the Elias String Quartet. They are based

in London and tour around Europe, the US and Australia. They teach regularly at the

Purcell School in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

They have recently recorded a Complete Beethoven Cycle Live at the Wigmore Hall,

for the label Wigmore Live. She was also a founding member of the Mediterraneo

piano trio and played in the Castagneri quartet for 2 years. She has been a participant

at the chamber music festivals of Prussia Cove (Cornwall), Kuhmo (Finland), Ravinia

(Chicago), Caramoor (New York), Ernen (Switzerland), Wye Valley (Wales), Moulin

d’Andé (Paris), Music from Salem (New York), Horten (Norway). Sara teaches violin

at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, and gives classes at the European Chamber

Music Association (ECMA). She plays regularly as a guest with the Chamber Orchestra

of Europe and the Cadaques Orchestra. Winner of the Szigeti competition, Budapest,

and the Renata Molinari Competition, Switzerland, Sara has performed throughout

France, England, Spain, Switzerland and the US, as a soloist with orchestras such as the

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata

Lysy, and has played alongside Yehudi Menuhin, Leon Fleisher, Miriam Fried, Steven

Isserlis, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Martin Lovett, Alberto Lysy, Andrew Marriner,

Michael Collins, Jonathan Biss, Ivry Gitlis, François Frédéric Guy, Christoph Richter,

Peter Cropper, David Waterman, Alice Neary, Matthew Hunt, Jean Jacques Kantorow,

Kungsbaka Trio, and Vertavo Quartet.

Jonathan Crow

, violin

Residency made possible in part by the Helen L. Adler and Robert

S. Adler Fund

The 2018-2019 season marks Canadian violinist Jonathan Crow’s

eighth season as Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony

Orchestra. A native of Prince George (British-Columbia),

Jonathan earned his Bachelor of Music in Honours Performance

from McGill University in 1998, at which time he joined the

Montreal Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Second

Violin. Between 2002 and 2006, Jonathan was the Concertmaster of the Montreal

Symphony Orchestra, becoming the youngest concertmaster of a major North American

orchestra. Jonathan continues to perform as guest concertmaster with orchestras

around the world, including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony

Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Filarmonia de Lanaudière and Pernambuco

Festival Orchestra (Brazil). Jonathan has performed as a soloist with most major

Canadian orchestras including the Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony

Orchestras, the National Arts Centre and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestras, the Victoria

and Kingston Symphonies and Orchestra London, under the baton of such conductors

as Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Andrew Davis, Peter Oundjian, Kent

Nagano, Mario Bernardi and João Carlos Martins. An avid chamber musician, Jonathan

has performed at many chamber music festivals in Europe and North America, and is

the Artistic Director of Toronto Summer Music. He is a founding member of the Juno

Award-winning New Orford String Quartet, a new project-based ensemble dedicated to

the promotion of standard and Canadian string quartet repertoire. Jonathan is currently

Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Toronto.

Timothy Eddy

, Cello

The MacLean Family Chair

Timothy Eddy is known internationally as a recitalist, orchestral

soloist, and chamber musician. As cellist of the Orion String

Quartet, he is an artist-in-residence with the Chamber Music

Society of Lincoln Center and at the Mannes College of Music. A

graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a pupil

of Bernard Greenhouse, he is currently a faculty member at the

Juilliard School after teaching for 31 years at the State University

of New York–Stony Brook, which has named him a professor emeritus.

Leon Fleisher

, piano

The Corinne Frada Pick Chair for Advanced Piano Studies

Equally renowned as a pianist and conductor, Leon Fleisher has

also influenced countless young musicians as a teacher. Himself

a pupil of Artur Schnabel, in 1952 he was the first American

to win the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition,

subsequently appearing internationally as a recitalist and soloist

with the world’s leading orchestras. He has held the Andrew

W. Mellon Chair at the Peabody Conservatory since 1959 and

has served on the faculties of numerous distinguished institutions, including the

Tanglewood Music Center. His many awards include the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors.