Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2019

30 RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE at the Guildhall School of Music and has led a biennial scheme for Young Songmakers since 1985. He has had a long and fruitful link with Ted Perry and Hyperion Records for whom he has devised and accompanied a set of complete Schubert Lieder on 37 discs, a milestone in the history of recording, and a complete Schumann series. He has also recorded for Sony, BMG, Harmonia Mundi, Forlane, EMI and DGG. Awards include the Gramophone solo vocal award in 1989 (with Dame Janet Baker), 1996 ( Die schone Müllerin with Ian Bostridge), 1997 (for the inauguration of the Schumann series with Christine Schäfer) and 2001 (with Magdalena Kozena). He was The Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 1998; in June 2000 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He is author of The Songmakers’ Almanac ; Twenty years of recitals in London , The French Song Companion for OUP (2000), T he Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten (Guildhall 2003) and Gabriel Fauré—the Songs and their Poets (2009). He was made an OBE in the 1994 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and in 2002 he was created Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Government. He was also made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in February 2010. Patricia McCaffrey , Mezzo-Soprano Patricia McCaffrey is currently on the faculties of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, LidalNorth in Oslo, Norway, Berlin State Opera Studio, New Israeli Opera Studio, the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program and she maintains a private studio in New York City. Her students sing regularly at the major opera houses, festivals, and concert halls of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and have distinguished themselves as winners of numerous competitions and awards, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Tucker Foundation Awards, Pope Foundation Awards, George London Competition, Marian Anderson Competition, MacAllister Competition, Aria Awards, and Grammy Awards. She has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Miami Opera, Zürich Opera, and other venues around the world. Gerald Martin Moore , Voice Teacher Gerald Martin Moore is an internationally renowned singing teacher and a vocal consultant. Mr. Moore has worked closely with Renée Fleming since first collaborating on the production of Alcina at the Palais Garnier in Paris. Other leading artists Mr. Moore has worked with include Natalie Dessay, Erin Morley, Sabine Devieilhe Kelli O’Hara, Marie McLaughlin, Elīna Garanča, Sarah Connolly, Javier Camarena and Rene Barbera. Mr. Moore has worked in Covent Garden, La Scala, San Francisco, Opera de Bastille, Champs-Elysees, and Chatelet as well as the Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, and Glyndebourne Festivals. Mr. Moore is a faculty member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann program and adjunct faculty at Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Moore regularly teaches masterclasses at Glyndebourne, Atelier Lyrique Montreal, LA Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Recent engagements include recital tours with Ms. Fleming and recording the soundtrack for the movie Bel Canto starring Julianne Moore, whom he coached in the role. Heidi Grant Murphy , Soprano A native of Bellingham, Washington, Heidi Grant Murphy began vocal studies while attending Western Washington and Indiana Universities. Her graduate studies were interrupted when she was named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and engaged by James Levine to participate in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Today she has established a reputation not only for her musicianship and impeccable vocal technique, but also for her warm personality and generosity of spirit. Heidi has appeared with many of the world’s finest opera companies and symphony orchestras. In 2011 she was appointed to the faculty of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music as an adjunct professor of practice. She has been a featured guest on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts, and BBC Radio 3. John Musto , Composer-in-Residence John Musto is that all too rare exemplar, the classical composer whose work is both critically acclaimed and widely performed, who has also distinguished himself as an instrumentalist. His activities encompass virtually every genre: orchestral and operatic, solo, chamber and vocal music, concerti, and music for film and television. His music embraces many strains of contemporary American concert music, enriched by sophisticated inspirations from jazz, ragtime and the blues. These qualities lend a strong profile to his vocal music, which ranges from a series of operas – Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello and The Inspector – to a catalogue of art songs that is among the finest of any living American composer. He performs frequently in recital and cabaret with his wife, soprano Amy Burton. Mr. Musto was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his orchestral song cycle Dove Sta Amore, and is a recipient of two Emmy awards, two CINE Awards, a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, two American Academy of Arts and Letters awards, and a Distinguished Alumnus award from the Manhattan School of Music. He is currently the Coordinator of the D.M.A. Program in Music Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and also serves on the piano faculty. JJ Penna , Piano and Vocal Coach J.J. Penna has performed extensively with a variety of eminentsingers,includingKathleen Battle, Harolyn Blackwell, Measha Brueggergosman, David Daniels, Denyce Graves, Ying Huang, Susan Narucki, Roberta Peters, Florence Quivar, and Andreas Scholl. He has held fellowships at the TanglewoodMusic Center, Banff Center, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program. He received his training under Martin Katz, Margo Garrett, and Diane Richardson. Devoted to the teaching of classical song literature, he has been on the faculties of the Yale University School of Music, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Bowdoin Festival, Westminster Choir College, and Vancouver International Song Institute. He currently teaches at the Juilliard School, and will join the faculty of the New England Conservatory in the fall of 2019. Jennifer Ringo , Language and Diction Jennifer Ringo is known internationally as an accomplished language coach and teacher of vocal diction. She has prepared productions for the Seattle Opera, the New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Thornton School of Music- UCLA, The Herb Albert School of Music- USC, Cincinnati May Festival, The Jacobs School of Music at the University of Indiana, and the Aspen Opera Theater. Miss Ringo has worked with the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists at the Los Angeles Opera as well as the Steans Institute at Ravinia, International Vocal Arts Institute in Montreal, and The Summer opera Tel Aviv. Her master classes include, AIMS in Graz, Austria, The Arizona Opera, The Thornton School of Music- USC, UC Santa Barbara among others. She has taught vocal diction at Bard College and the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She has sung leading soprano roles with the San Francisco Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Houston Grand Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company, among others. She holds degrees in voice from the University of Iowa and attended the Juilliard School. Jennifer studied diction with Nico Castel, Robert Cowart, Janine Reiss, and Pierre Vallet, and she maintains vocal studios in New York and Los Angeles. Mark Schnaible , Bass-Baritone Mark Schnaible has served on the voice faculties of the summer opera programs; International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy, Intermezzo Foundation in Hartford, Connecticut and Brugge, Belgium, Sherrill Milnes VOICExperience Foundation in Disney, Tampa, Florida as well as Savannah, Georgia and the LidalNorth International Opera Workshop in Oslo, Norway as well as the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel-Aviv. He is a former Associate Professor of Voice at Boston University, a RSMI SINGERS FACULTY