MUSICIANS FROM RAVINIA

TREETOPS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

Greenwich-Stamford, Connecticut

Tel. 203-979-6052

Great performances in an intimate setting

Musicians From Ravinia's Steans Institute

2011-2012 Season performances at Treetops CMS

April 1, 2012 - Sun at 4 pm

MUSICIANS FROM RAVINIA
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Musicians From Ravinia's Steans Institute

Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans 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 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 Institute for Young Artists identifies and brings together each summer talented young instrumentalists from around the world to make music together under the supervision of an internationally renowned faculty. Young artists at the Steans 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 both solo and chamber music performance.

For more information, please visit www.ravinia.org

2012 Tour Artists:

Miriam Fried, violin
Tessa Lark, violin (Steans ’07, ’08)
Philip Kramp, viola (Steans ’10, ’11)
Deborah Pae, cello (Steans ’10, ’11)
Nathan Vickery, cello (Steans ’10, ’11)
Adam Golka, piano (Steans ’07, ’09)

2012 Tour 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 at 2:00 p.m.
Merkin Concert 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 Series, Bennett Gordon Hall
Ravinia Festival
Highland Park, Illinois

Miriam Fried, Violin

Program director for the Steans Institute’s program for piano and strings since 1994, Miriam Fried is also first violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and for many years was distinguished professor of music at Indiana University. She is now a faculty member at New England Conservatory. Winner of Israel’s Tenth Anniversary Violin Competition, she came to the United States to study with Ivan Galamian and Josef Gingold, later winning the Paganini International Competition in Genoa and becoming the first woman to win Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. She has appeared as soloist with world’s greatest orchestras and is equally active as a chamber musician both in the United States and abroad. Master classes regularly take her around the world.