Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2019

24 RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE Charles Galante , viola Esther W. and Saul Stone Memorial Fellowship from Donna and Tom Stone Family, Bruce K. Goodman, Jr. Fellowship from Mr. and Mrs. Bruce K. Goodman Violist Charles Galante is a dedicated soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Mr. Galante has collaborated in concert with The Silk Road Ensemble, Colin Carr, Ara Gregorian, Charles Neidich, Steven Mackey, Elmar Oliviera, James Dunham and Antonio Lysy. His festival appearances include Ravinia, Taos, Four Seasons Winter Workshop, Kneisel Hall, Sarasota, Lake George, The Heifetz Institute, Sejong and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was the recipient of the Maurice Schwarz Viola Prize in 2017. Mr. Galante currently serves as a principal violist of the Juilliard Orchestra and has been principal of the New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. He currently serves as a guest musician with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Galante is currently a senior at the Juilliard School where he studies with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. He is the recipient of the 2018 Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award and Virtu Foundation Award. Brandon Garbot , violin Fellowship in Memory of Sally and Ernest A. Grunsfeld III Brandon Garbot has appeared in solo and chamber performances in venues including Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Severance Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Hall, the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, the Kennedy Center, and in Tainan, Taiwan. He has soloed with the Oregon Symphony, Jefferson Symphony, and on tour with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Garbot is a substitute violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and has been a guest musician with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has performed and collaborated with members the Artemis and Belcea Quartets, as well as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Timothy Eddy, Viviane Hagner, Hsin- Yun Huang, Ivan Monighetti, Steven Tenenbom, and Jason Vieaux. He has been invited to perform at festivals including the Music@Menlo International Program, Taos, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, Chamber Music Northwest, Krzyzowa-Music Festival, Gstaad Academy, Perlman Music Program, Rheingau Musik Festival, and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He was also invited to participate in the inaugural Chamber Music Encounters of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2016. Brandon Garbot received his Bachelor of Music degree studying violinists Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt at the Curtis Institute of Music. He is currently studying with Ani Kavafian at the Yale School of Music. His previous mentors have included Catherine Cho, Itzhak Perlman, and William Preucil. Brandon is also a member of the Trio St. Bernard, a piano trio named after the Hotel St. Bernard in Taos, New Mexico. Christopher Goodpasture , piano The Charlotte and Stanton Hadley Fellowship The Toronto Concert Review described Christopher Goodpasture’s playing as a “rare combination of strength, energy and sublime musical sensitivity…”. He has performed recitals in concert venues throughout North America, including the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Benaroya Hall (Seattle), Koerner Hall (Toronto), Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall (New York), Bing Concert Hall (San Francisco), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has appeared in the festivals of Ravinia, Aspen, Music Academy of the West, Kneisel Hall, and Sarasota and is a top-prize winner of the Washington International, Seattle International, Iowa International and Dallas International Piano Competitions. Born in Los Angeles, California, Christopher holds degrees from The Juilliard School, The University of Southern California and Yale University, where his teachers included Hung-Kuan Chen, Peter Frankl, Jerome Lowenthal, Christopher Elton and John Perry. Currently, Christopher is a member of Ensemble Connect, a chamber music fellowship program of Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School. Natania Hoffman , cello St. Margaret’s College and Schools Foundation Fellowship from Mr. Tadashi Enami, Kovler Family Fellowship from the Blum-Kovler Foundation, Josephine and Newton N. Minow Fellowship Natania Hoffman recently completed an Artist Diploma the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with Gary Hoffman, after studies with Troels Svane and Gustav Rivinius. An avid chamber musician, Natania has toured Europe, the USA, China, New Zealand, Russia, and India, participating in festivals and programs such as the Encuentro de Santander, Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, and IMS Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove. Natania is a founding member of Trio Agora, with whom she recorded two CDs and won first prize at the Anton Rubinstein chamber music competition. As a soloist, Natania premiered Joel Hoffman’s “sizzle” in Beijing, China, performed with the Orchestre Royale de Chambre de la Wallonie, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Lakeland Civic Orchestra, among others. She toured Europe with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and is delighted to return to the Ravinia Steans Institute for a second year after being a fellow in 2018. Leland Ko , cello Judy and Bill Cottle Fellowship and Diane B. and Lowell S. Fixler Fellowship Leland Ko is a 21-year-old cellist from the Boston area. He was most recently a student of Paul Katz of the New England Conservatory (NEC), and is now a third-year at Princeton University. Though he grew up a part of the extensive youth orchestra culture in Boston, Leland has often sought out chamber music at various summer festivals over the years, having attended the Perlman Music Program for many years, as well as RSMI last year. Through these festivals, Leland has had the chance to study with and occasionally perform alongside artists such as Ronald Leonard, Merry Peckham, Laurence Lesser, Lluis Claret, Joel Krosnick, Natasha Brofsky, Timothy Eddy, Marcy Rosen, Ralph Kirshbaum, Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Vivian Weilerstein, and Peter Salaff. Leland is also currently a competitive long-distance runner, but remains loyal to tennis as a player and even more so as a fan. Both those activities conveniently complement his love for eating. Leland plays one of the many cellos made in Maine over the last few decades by Nathaniel Slobodkin, and a Swiss-made bow by Pierre-Yves Fuchs. Anna Lee , violin Starling Foundation Fellowship Korean-American Anna Lee began violin studies at the age of four with Alexander Souptel and debuted as soloist performing the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 a year and a half later with maestro Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Concert venues that Anna Lee has appeared in are the Carnegie, Wigmore, and Avery Fisher Concert Halls. She has claimed top and special prizes in the 2018 Indianapolis, and 2010 and 2012 Menuhin (Junior and Senior Divisions, respectively) Violin Competitions. As a chamber musician, Anna Lee has been featured in music festivals around the world such as the the Marlboro Music Festival, and at the BeethovenFest in Bonn where she was presented by Sir András Schiff. As a soloist, Anna Lee made her New York Philharmonic debut in April 2011, as well as her German debut in 2016 with maestro Christoph Eschenbach and the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra. Anna Lee’s principal teachers at the Juilliard School Pre- College Division were Masao Kawasaki and Cho- Liang Lin; at the Kronberg Academy she studied with Ana Chumachenco. Currently, she is studying privately with Miriam Fried and Don Weilerstein while pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature at Harvard College. Anna Lee plays a Giovanni Tononi violin, dated ca. 1690, on a generous loan from the Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute. Haesue Lee , viola Clarissa H. Chandler Fellowship, John and Alice Deimel Fellowship, Nicki and J. Ira Harris Fellowship, Maurice and Ethel Fried Memorial Fellowship Haesue Lee was accepted to the Juilliard Pre-college program at the age of 9, to study with Toby Appel. And since the age of 13, she is currently a studying at the Curtis Institute of Music with Roberto Díaz and Hsin-Yun Huang. Recently she performed Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote as soloist with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Haesue has been recently awarded the first prize and audience award at the 2018 Primrose International Viola Competition. Also, Haesue has won several competitions including the first prize of the Johansen International Competition RSMI PIANO AND STRINGS FELLOWS