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PAVILION
CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC
MICHAEL STERN,
conductor
JOSHUA BELL,
violin
THE RE VIOLIN
A FRANÇOIS GIRARD Film
Music by JOHN CORIGLIANO
FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA produced by SCHIRMER THEATRICAL
A RHOMBUS MEDIA / MIKADO Production
CARLO CECCHI – IRENE GRAZIOLI
JEAN-LUC BIDEAU – GRETA SCACCHI – JASON FLEMYNG – SYLVIA CHANG
COLM FEORE – DON McKELLAR and SAMUEL L. JACKSON
Produced by NIV FICHMAN
Written by DON McKELLAR with FRANÇOIS GIRARD
Directed by FRANÇOIS GIRARD
Produced in associaton with New Line International Releasing, Channel Four Films,
Tele lm Canada, Citytv/Bravo, Vienna Film Financing Fund, and Sony Classical.
e Red Violin
lm © Rhombus Media Inc., used by permission of Rhombus Media Inc., under license in
the USA by Lions Gate Ancillary, LLC.
e Red Violin
lm score by John Corigliano © by G. Schirmer, Inc.,
used by permission of G. Schirmer, Inc., and Sony ATV Tunes, LLC.
Schirmer Theatrical Creative
Robert ompson, President & Producer
Alyssa Foster, Producer
Mike Kasper, Technical Director
Je Sugg, Production Designer
David Flachs, Score Preparation
Glen Cortese, Music Advisor
Ronen Shai, Click Track Production
Tom Hooper, Score Editing
Lara St. John, Consultant
Dina Gilbert, Music and Film Synchronization & Score Consultant
Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of
e Red Violin
Consortium
,
which comprises Paul and Jackie Baker; Sarah and Larry Barden; Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Castellini; Michael
A. Leppen, in memory of Miriam U. Hoover; Clyde S. McGregor and LeAnn Pedersen Pope; Sheila and Harvey
Medvin; e Prussian Family; Helen S. Rubinstein, in memory of Michael J. Rubinstein; Judy and David
Schi man; e Schreuder Family; Melissa and Chuck Smith; and Mary and Paul Yovovich.
JONATHAN BISS,
piano
e younger son of Miriam Fried and Paul Biss,
longtime faculty members of Ravinia’s Steans
Music Institute, Jonathan Biss continues the
family tradition of sharing music, this summer
having joined the RSMI faculty for the second
time. Beginning to study piano at age , Biss
grew up playing with his parents, going on to
attend Indiana University under Evelyne Bran-
cart and the Curtis Institute of Music under
Leon Fleisher. In
he was appointed to the
piano faculty of the Curtis Institute, and in fall
, in conjunction with the conservatory and
Coursera, created a free online course,
Exploring
Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
, which has reached
more than
,
music lovers from
coun-
tries. He is continuing to add new lectures to the
series through
, when all sonatas will be
covered. Among Biss’s performing honors are
an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the
Gilmore
Young Artist Award, and the
Leonard Ber-
nstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
He was also the rst American to be selected for
the BBC’s New Generation Artist program and
has been an artist-in-residence for NPR’s
Perfor-
mance Today
. Biss regularly performs on major
recital series around the world, twice opening
the Master Piano Series at the Concertgebouw,
and at such festivals as Salzburg, Lucerne, Ed-
inburgh, and Ravinia. He made his Carnegie
Hall debut in
with a program of works by
Beethoven, Schumann, and Janáček, as well as
a new work written for him by Bernard Rands.
Biss has also commissioned works from Leon
Kirchner, Lewis Spratlan, and Timo Andres.
e seventh installment of his nine-year, nine-
disc cycle of Beethoven’s complete sonatas was
released this February, and his e-book about the
recording project,
Beethoven’s Shadow
, is a best-
selling Kindle single. Biss is also in the midst of
a ve-year project with the Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra that began in
, premiering a new
piano concerto inspired by each of Beethoven’s
every year—from Andres, Sally Beamish, Salva-
tore Sciarrino, Caroline Shaw, and Brett Dean—
paired in performance with the composer’s orig-
inal. Tonight marks Jonathan Biss’s th season
at Ravinia, where he rst performed in
.
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