Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2019

22 RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE Mark Steinberg , violin Helen L. Adler and Robert S. Adler Fund Mark Steinberg is first violinist and founding member of the Brentano Quartet, in existence since 1992. With the quartet he has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Japan, Israel and Colombia. The quartet is ensemble in residence at Yale University having previously had that position at Princeton University for 15 years. With pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Steinberg presented the complete Mozart sonata cycle in London’s Wigmore Hall and has also recorded for Philips. Mr. Steinberg has been soloist with the London Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Auckland Philharmonia. Mark Steinberg holds degrees from Indiana University and The Juilliard School and has studied with Louise Behrend, Josef Gingold, and Robert Mann. Currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and The Graduate Center at CUNY, he has taught often at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Aspen Festival and the Taos School of Music and has given master classes at the Eastman School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Britten- Pears Institute in Aldeburgh, and numerous other schools. He has been a jury member at several quartet and violin competitions. Hagit Vardi , Feldenkrais practitioner Since 2005 Hagit Vardi has served as Feldenkrais practitioner at the Integrative Health Program of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She also conducts regular Feldenkrais for Musicians workshops with her husband, Uri Vardi. Hagit received a bachelor’s degree in flute performance from Indiana University and a master’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University. Vardi has published four poetry books with Pardes Publishing House in Israel. Uri Vardi , Feldenkrais practitioner Cellist Uri Vardi has performed as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber player across the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and his native Israel. Born in Szeged, Hungary, Vardi grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh, Israel. He studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, was an Artist Diploma student at Indiana University, and earned his master’s degree from Yale University. His cello teachers have included János Starker, Aldo Parisot, Eva Janzer, and Uzi Wiesel. Other influential musicians in his life have been György Sebők, Rami Shevelov, Rachel Adonaylo, and Lorand Fenyves. Vardi served as assistant principal cellist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, principal cellist of the Israel Sinfonietta, and was a founding member of the Sol-La-Re String Quartet. In 1990, following an extensive teaching and performing career, Vardi was appointed cello professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the recipient of the UW- Madison Art Institute Creative Arts Award, and the Emily Mead Baldwin Award. Vardi is the founder and artistic director of the National Summer Cello Institute (NSCI). He is regularly invited to perform and present workshops, seminars, and master classes at major music schools, summer music festivals, and professional orchestras. Trained as a Feldenkrais practitioner, Vardi focuses on the correlation between musical expression, sound, body awareness, and movement in his teaching and performance. Vardi has initiated a few projects involving collaboration between Oud and Cello, culminating in the 2008 premier of Joel Hoffman’s The Forty Steps, a double concerto for Cello, Oud and Orchestra with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. PIANO AND STRINGS FACULTY RSMI Lindsay Garritson Residency supported by the Dr. Scholl Foundation Pianist Lindsay Garritson has performed throughout the United States and abroad since the age of four. She has appeared as soloist with the Phoenix Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Las Colinas Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain, and the Yale Philharmonia, among others. Lindsay has received top prizes at the Montreal International Piano Competition, the USASU Bosendorfer International Piano Competition, and the Mozarteum International Chopin Competition. She was nominated as one of six pianists for the German International Piano Award (Frankfurt), and was one of thirty participants selected to compete in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with Carter Brey, Ani Kavafian, Andres Cardenes, and Ettore Causa, among others. A participant of many festivals, Lindsay has performed at the Prussia Cove International Musicians Seminar and Music at Menlo Chamber Music Festival. This November, she will be making her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut featuring the world premiere of Carl Vine’s Fourth Piano Sonata. Lindsay is a graduate of Principia College (B.A. in music) and the Yale School of Music (M.M. and Artist Diploma). Her piano teachers include Boris Berman and Santiago Rodriguez, and she is currently a doctoral student at the University of Miami. Joseph Liccardo Joseph Liccardo is active as a chamber musician, soloist, and music educator. Recent and upcoming performances include recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, Rockefeller University, the Krannert Center, Union College, Jordan Hall, as well as several tours of China. During the summers of 2013-2016, he participated in the Yellow Barn chamber music festival in Putney, Vermont, where he performed a wide variety of repertoire ranging from standard classics to new 21st century works. In addition, for the past two seasons, he has collaborated with the Tom Gold Dance Company for their bi-annual productions in New York. In 2006, Joseph won first prize in the Young Artist Division of the MTNA National Piano Competition. Since graduating from the Eastman School in 2006, Joseph has dedicated himself to teaching, sharing his passion for music and nurturing the next generation of artists. He is on the faculty of the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College, where he teaches private piano, chamber music, and group performance classes. In addition, he maintains a large private piano studio. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. His primary teachers include Donald Pirone, Douglas Humpherys, and Robert McDonald. Xiaohui Yang Residency supported by the Harry Bernbaum Fund for Collaborative Piano Hailed by Israeli newspaper Haaretz as a “tastefully polished musician,” Chinese pianist Xiaohui Yang has been featured in performances over four continents, including venues such as Ozawa Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Seoul Arts Center. As the winner of the 2017 edition of the prestigious Naumburg Piano Competition, she will be granted a New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall besides a newly commissioned work by Shulamit Ran, which she will premiere at the occasion. Highlights of recent and future seasons include concerts with the Louisiana Philharmonic and the Galveston Symphony, a residency sponsored by Portland Piano International and recitals for the Shriver Hall and Union College Concert Series. A dedicated chamber musician, Ms. Yang has performed with luminaries such as Peter Wiley, Charles Neidich and Roberto Diaz, having been in residence at important music festivals in North America, such as Marlboro, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Banff and Taos. In 2008, Ms. Yang moved to the United States to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and received the 2013 Festorazzi Prize, awarded to the best graduating piano student. After further studies at the Juilliard School with Robert McDonald, she is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Boris Slutsky at the Peabody Conservatory. RSMI COLLABORATING PIANISTS PIANO AND STRINGS