Ravinia 2025 Issue 4

ALEXANDRA ARRIECHE A conductor known for breaking boundaries between classical and pop music, Alexandra Ar- rieche has a rare versatility with international or- chestras, stadium tours, and major cross-genre collaborations. Currently she serves as Music Director of the Olympia Symphony Orchestra (since 2022) and Principal Conductor of the Antwerp Philharmonic in Belgium (since 2015). With Antwerp Philharmonic, Arrieche regular- ly leads the European Emmy Award-winning Night of the Proms concert series, collaborating with such music icons as Steve Lukather and Jo- seph Williams (Toto), Bryan Ferry, Joe Jackson, Seal, Suzanne Vega, Simple Minds, Pointer Sis- ters, Chaka Khan, Roger Hodgson, Peter Cetera, and Alan Parsons. In 2016, she was appointed Music Director of the Henderson Symphony and led the organization through 2025, elevat- ing the arts scene of the Vegas Valley with a free concert season and youth programs. In collab- oration with the HSO, a conducting studio she began in Brazil was expanded into an interna- tional program. With the Olympia Symphony, she has begun a young artists competition and master class series to nurture emerging talent. As a guest conductor, Arrieche has appeared with some of the finest orchestras around the globe. A highlight of her collaborations is a se- ries of recordings with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic featuring Brazilian Music ar- ranged by Roeland Jacobs. Saudade , the first al- bum of the series, won the Edison Prize in 2020 as the best jazz recording of the year. Arrieche and Jacobs continue to collaborate—their most recent album with the Antwerp Philharmonic, The Seven Symphonies: A Classical Tribute to the Beach Boys Music , was shortlisted by Gram- mys in 2022. She has also collaborated with and championed new works by some of the finest composers of this generation, including Dobrin- ka Tabakova, Lera Auerbach, Mason Bates, Jen- nifer Higdon, Clarice Assad, Kevin Puts, Anna Clyne, John Adams, James MacMillan, Michael Daugherty, and John Corgliano. Arrieche is fea- tured in The Conductor , a documentary about her mentor, Marin Alsop, which shows her con- ducting young female musicians from the New York Youth Symphony in the opening scenes. Alexandra Arrieche is making her Ravinia and Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuts. MOLLY YEH Molly Yeh is the star of Food Network’s series Girl Meets Farm , which first appeared in June 2018 and celebrates the very best of her food, with recipes inspired by her Jewish and Chinese heritage and a taste of the Midwest. In 2019, Yeh was nominated for both a James Beard Founda- tion Media Award for Outstanding Personality/ Host and a daytime Emmy Award for Outstand- ing Culinary Host. She rose to national promi- nence with the debut of her memoir, Molly On The Range: Recipes and Stories from an Unlikely Life on a Farm . Her cookbook was selected by the New York Times as one of the top releases of 2016 and was the winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Judge’s Award. The book was also selected by NPR as one of their “Great Reads of 2016.” In March 2018, Yeh followed the release with Yogurt by Short Stack Editions, featuring recipes dedi- cated to an ingredient she calls “the duct tape of food.” Named to Forbes ’s 30 under 30 list for 2017, she has also been featured by the New York Times , Food &Wine , Bon Appetit , Parents , Better Homes & Gardens , Glamour , USA Today , CBS Saturday, Wall Street Journal Magazine, and New York Magazine, and has contributed to Vanity Fair , Saveur , Condé Nast Traveler , Food52 , and The Jewish Daily Forward . Outside the kitchen, Yeh is a Juilliard-trained percussionist and has performed with orchestras around the world, in Off-Broadway theater, and as the glockenspiel- ist for the pop-band San Fermin. She lives on a sugar beet farm on the North Dakota–Min- nesota border with her fifth-generation farmer husband, Nick, their daughters Bernie and Ira, and some very fluffy farm cats. Yeh released her second cookbook, Home Is Where the Eggs Are: Farmhouse Food for the People You Love Most in 2022 via William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and it became a New York Times bestseller. This March, she released her third cookbook, titled SWEET FARM!: More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights from My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm . VADIM KARPINOS Vadim Karpinos was appointed to the Chica- go Symphony Orches- tra in 2001 by Daniel Barenboim. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and began showing an interest in percussion at a very early age. His family moved to New York in 1991, and he attended the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Christopher Lamb, Duncan Patton, and Don Liuzzi. Karpinos was a Tanglewood fellow and has performed with numerous orchestras, including the New York and Rhode Island Philharmonics, New Jersey and Grant Park Symphonies, and New York City Opera. He has appeared as a soloist with numerous ensembles, including the CSO and at Roosevelt University, where he has been adjunct faculty since 2005. Karpinos is on the board of advisors to The New Music School in Chicago and gives percussion clinics world- wide. Karpinos has received such honors as the Morton Gould Memorial Award, ASCAP’s Leiber and Stoeler Scholarship, and top priz- es of several concerto competitions, including the Soviet Union’s Young Virtuoso competi- tion. He is an active chamber musician and has made many recordings with the Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra. Karpinos endorses Zildjian and Innovative Percussion. ED HARRISON Ed Harrison is a mem- ber of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Originally hired as section percussionist by Bruno Bartoletti, he was subsequently appointed Principal Timpa- nist by Sir Andrew Davis. Harrison has had five concertos written for him—most recently Great Lake Concerto by Tim Corpus, and also includ- ing Pataruco for maracas and orchestra by Ri- cardo Lorenz, which was premiered in Chicago and recorded by the Czech National Orchestra. As timpanist with the Caracas Philharmonic in Venezuela, Harrison collaborated with the Joropo maraca virtuoso Maximo B. Teppa and developed new techniques to adapt the maracas to a variety of musical styles, including orches- tral music and as a solo instrument. Harrison has a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Vic Firth. In addition to orchestral timpani and percussion, he studied jazz vibraphone with Gary Burton through the Berklee School of Music and is an active jazz vibraphonist. Har- rison has served on the faculties of Northwest- ern, DePaul, and Roosevelt Universities, and he has written articles for Modern Drummer and Percussive Notes magazines. He has presented classes at multiple Percussive Arts Society In- ternational Conventions and events through- out the United States and Europe. MARIN ALSOP, Ravinia Chief Conductor For Marin Alsop’s biography, see page 66. RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 61 CHANTELL&BRETTQUERNEMOEN(YEH);TODDROSENBERG(KARPINOS,HARRISON)