Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2019

20 RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE Hall and the premiere of “Lost Souls” with the Kansas City Symphony and Michael Stern written for him by Avner Dorman. He performed at the Hollywood Bowl and Millennium Park in Chicago. He taught at the Gilmore Festival and ACJW in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Goldstein serves as the Artistic Director for The Distinguished Artists Series in Santa Cruz, CA and was recently named the Artistic Director for the Mt. Angel Abbey Bach Festival in Oregon. He also recently created the Emerald Coast Music Alliance, whose annual festival in Florida is devoted to sharing the beauty of classical music with under-served communities, free of charge. Mr. Goldstein graduated from the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Leon Fleisher and served as his assistan. He is currently holds the Jack Strandberg/Missouri Endowed Chair and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Piano at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Midori Goto , violin Helen L. Adler and Robert S. Adler Fund Midori is a visionary artist, activist and educator whose unique career has transcended traditional boundaries. A prominent concert violinist for over 30 years, she is also a noted global cultural ambassador and dedicated music educator. Midori has performed with most of the world’s great orchestras and collaborated with renowned artists from Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich and Claudio Abbado to Yo-Yo Ma, Mariss Jansons, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi, Menahem Pressler, Susanna Mälkki, Zubin Mehta, Antonello Manacorda and Leonard Slatkin. An advocate for music and composers of her time, Midori inspired Peter Eötvös to compose the violin concerto DoReMi , which she then recorded with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by the composer. Other commissions and world premieres have included works by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Brett Dean and Johannes Staud. An upcoming New Music project will present compositions by some current female composers and she has commissioned a concerto from Detlev Glanert for the 2020 Beethoven anniversary. For more than 25 years, Midori has led two non-profit organizations: Midori & Friends, which provides high-quality music education to New York City youth; and Japan-based MUSIC SHARING, which brings western classical and traditional Japanese music into schools, institutions and hospitals through innovative events, activities, instruction and presentations in Japan and other Asian nations. Midori is a member of the violin faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. Previously she held the Jascha Heifetz Chair at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She is also a distinguished visiting artist at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, an honorary professor at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music and a guest professor at both Soai University in Osaka and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, During the summers, she teaches regularly at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and the Weimar Meisterkurse. Midori plays the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesù ‘ex-Huberman’. Frans Helmerson , cello The MacLean Family Chair Swedish cellist Frans Helmerson enjoys an international career as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, conductor, teacher, and competition adjudicator. A former pupil of William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich, he now teaches at the Kronberg Academy and the Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin, having held similar positions in Cologne, Oslo, Stockholm, and Madrid. He frequently gives master classes at other major schools and festivals and has served as artistic director of Finland’s Korsholm Music Festival. He is the cellist of the Michelangelo String Quartet. Gary Hoffman , cello The MacLean Family Chair Gary Hoffman is one of the outstanding cellists of our time, combining instrumental mastery, great beauty of sound, and a poetic sensibility in his distinctive and memorable performances. Mr. Hoffman gained international renown upon his victory as the first North American to win the Rostropovich International Competition in Paris in 1986. A frequent soloist with the world’s most noted orchestras, he has appeared with the Chicago, London, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Baltimore and National symphony orchestras as well as the English, Moscow and Los Angeles chamber orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Netherlands and Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra for the Blossom Festival and Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. Mr. Hoffman collaborates regularly with such celebrated conductors as André Prévin, Charles Dutoit, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pinchas Zuckerman, Andrew Davis, Herbert Blomstedt, Kent Nagano, Jésus Lopez-Cobos and James Levine… Gary Hoffman performs on major recital and chamber music series throughout the world, as well as in such prestigious festivals as Ravinia, Marlboro, Aspen, Bath, Evian, Helsinki, Verbier, Mostly Mozart, Schleswig-Holstein, Stresa... He is a frequent guest of string quartets including Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Brentano, and Ysaye. Mr. Hoffman is an regular guest of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. Sharing his time and engagements mainly between Europe and America, he also regularly travels for concerts in Asia. He is the guest of main halls such as the Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Kennedy Center, and numerous festivals. Gary Hoffman devotes time to teaching, as well, having been the youngest faculty appointee in the history of the Indiana University School of Music, where he remained for eight years. Mr. Hoffman regularly holds master classes world-wide. He studied the cello with Janos Starker. In September 2011 he has been appointed as Professor at the Musical Chapel in Brussels, opening the cello class. Gary Hoffman performs on a 1662 Nicolo Amati, the “ex- Leonard Rose.” Joseph Kalichstein , piano The Corinne Frada Pick Chair for Advanced Piano Studies Acclaimed for the heartfelt intensity of his playing, pianist Joseph Kalichstein enthralls audiences throughout the United States and Europe, winning equal praise as orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Kalichstein is a founding member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson piano trio, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2017. Mr. Kalichstein is also a frequent guest pianist with the world’s most beloved string quartets, including the Guarneri and the Emerson. He serves as the Chamber Music Advisor to the Kennedy Center and is the Artistic Director of the Center’s Fortas Chamber Music Concerts. He continues to hold the inaugural Chamber Music Chair at the Juilliard School, where he also has a limited class for advanced piano students. Born in Tel Aviv, he came to the United States in 1962. His principal teachers included Joshua Shor in Israel and Edward Steuermann and Ilona Kabos at Juilliard. Prior to winning the 1969 Leventritt Award, he won the Young Concert Artists Auditions, and as a result he gave a heralded New York recital debut, followed by an invitation from Leonard Bernstein to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the New York Philharmonic in a nationally televised concert on CBS. Gilbert Kalish , piano The Corinne Frada Pick Chair for Advanced Piano Studies Pianist Gilbert Kalish has a distinguished career as performing artist and teacher. Recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2002 National Service Award and the University of Chicago’s Paul Fromm Award as a proponent of the music of our time, he is head of the performance faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A frequent guest with many distinguished chamber ensembles, he is also known for his partnerships with cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the late mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani. His extensive discography of over 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th-century masterworks, and new compositions. He is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as artistic director of the International Program at Music@Menlo. Kim Kashkashian , viola Arie and Ida Crown Memorial Endowment, in honor of Renee Schine Crown, Hildegarde F. Schine, Doris Schine Maxwell, and C. Richard Schine Winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo Album for her recording “Kurtág/Ligeti Music for Viola,” Kim Kashkashian is recognized internationally as a unique voice on the viola. Kim was awarded the George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America, as well as the prestigious Golden Bow award of Switzerland. She was inducted into the American Academy or Arts and Sciences in 2016. As an advocate of contemporary music, she has developed creative relationships with György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Giya Kancheli and Arvo Pärt and premiered commissioned works by Peter Eötvös, Betty Olivero,Ken Ueno, Thomas Larcher, Lera Auerbach and Tigran Mansurian. As soloist Kashkashian has appeared PIANO AND STRINGS FACULTY RSMI