"The young musicians who played my Second String Quartet so beautifully were extraordinary both in technical accomplishment and sensitive, musical intelligence."
—Bernard Rands, composer
Steans On Tour
Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute is a chamber ensemble whose members are selected each year from the most promising musicians to attend the Institute’s summer session at Ravinia. They perform on tour with program director Miriam Fried. The repertoire for each tour varies but always includes three or four works for piano and strings. The tour, designed to bring the musical richness of Ravinia to a wider audience, presents formal concerts as well as educational outreach programs for schools and community organizations. Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute have appeared at such prestigious venues as Boston’s Gardner Museum, the Library of Congress, Miami’s Friends of Chamber Music series and New York’s Town Hall, in addition to performances each year on the Ravinia Festival’s Rising Stars series.
The Steans Music Institute is Ravinia's summer conservatory, bringing together each summer talented young musicians from around the world to make music together under the supervision of an internationally renowned faculty. Through its three programs—jazz, piano and strings, and singers—young artists at the Steans Music Institute attend master classes given by musical luminaries, have daily coaching with the institute's faculty, and present recitals offered as part of Ravinia Festival's summer programming. Many of the institute's alumni have gone on to achieve notable successes in solo performance, opera, jazz, and chamber music.
2012 TOUR PROGRAM
PROGRAM
| Beethoven: | Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Opus 11 |
| Rands: | String Quartet No. 2 |
| -Intermission- |
| Schubert: | String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 |
ARTISTS
Miriam Fried, Violin
Tessa Lark, Violin (Steans '07, '08)
Ayane Kozasa, Viola (Steans '10, '11)
Deborah Pae, Cello (Steans '10, '11)
Nathan Vickery, Cello (Steans '10, '11)
Adam Golka, Piano (Steans '07, '09)
Dates and locations:
Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 1:30 p.m
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, Massachusetts
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.
Treetops Chamber Music Society
Stamford, Connecticut
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Merkin Hall
New York, New York
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Music in the Loft
Chicago, Illinois
Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Rising Stars, Bennett Gordon Hall
Ravinia Festival
We are currently planning the 2012 and 2013 season tours. For further information or to book a performance, please contact:
Anthony Roberts
Director
Steans Music Institute
Ravinia Festival
418 Sheridan Road
Highland Park, IL 60035
847 266 5423
anthony@ravinia.org
To reach the Ravinia Festival box office, please call 847-266-5100.