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RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE

RSMI

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IN HONOR OF LOIS M. STEANS

RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE

Since 1991

www.performancemedia.us

3453 Commercial Avenue, Northbrook, IL 60062

Gail McGrath

Publisher & President

Sheldon Levin

Publisher & Director of Finance

A. J. Levin

Director of Operations

Account Managers

Rand Brichta - Arnie Hoffman - Tony Ralenkotter

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Accounting

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Supervisor Operation

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Earl Love

Operations

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Operations

Steve Dunn

Web & Internet Development

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Nothing may be reproduced in any manner

without written permission. © 2018

Performance Media and

Gail McGrath & Associates, Inc.

is a Woman Owned Business

2018 – RSMI’s 30th Anniversary

and Miriam Fried’s 25th Season

Billy Childs and Rufus Reid

, Program Directors, Jazz

Miriam Fried

, Program Director, Piano and Strings

Kevin Murphy

, Program Director, Singers

Jennifer W. Steans

, Chairman, Ravinia

Welz Kauffman

, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ravinia

Molly Sender

, Administrative Director, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute

Ravinia’s Summer Conservatory with Programs for Piano and Strings, Singers, and Jazz

Founded in 1988 by Edward Gordon

CONTENTS

Departments

4

The 30th Anniversary Summer

11

Alumni Highlights

12

Alumni Tours

13

Alumni and Faculty on Ravinia’s Stages

14

Memoriam

15

$10 BGH Classics Series Concerts

17

Free Concerts and Master Classes

Program for Jazz

17

Events in Bennett Gordon Hall

18

Faculty

19

Fellows

Program for Piano and Strings

21

Events in Bennett Gordon Hall

21

Faculty

25

Collaborating Pianists

25

Fellows

Program for Singers

31

Events in Bennett Gordon Hall

31

Faculty

34

Collaborating Pianists

35

Fellows

Features

6

Building

Bridges

The iron is hot for fusing jazz and

classical in RSMI’s composition

competition.

By James Turano

38

His Gift Is His Song

Leonard Bernstein made lyrics glitter

still today.

By Jack Zimmerman

44

Treasured

Fried

oms

Miriam Fried feels privileged to share

and shape the future.

By Kyle MacMillan

Information

42

Donors

43

Ravinia Trustee Committee &

RSMI Administration

On the Cover

The names of the

32 RSMI alumni

who return this

summer as Ravinia

concert headliners

Illustration by

Chris Anderson

Performances take place in Bennett Gordon Hall

in the John D. Harza Building, unless otherwise noted.

Steinway is the official piano of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute.

ZACHARYBORNHEIMER

SAMBLAKESLEE

BLAISEMAGNIERE

MARIEWANG

ANTHONYDEVROYE

CHENG-HOU LEE

BILLY TEST

ILYADACOSTA

CLIFWALLACE

SHAIGOLAN

MILESOKAZAKI

JOSEPH LIN

PAULDWYER

KENNETHOLSEN

ROBERT REYNOLDS

CORNELIUSCHIU

LEIHOU

QINGHOU

WEI-TINGKUO

MICHELLEDEYOUNG

PAULAPPLEBY

YUJAWANG

INONBARNATAN

CLARAKIM

JASON ISSOKSON

DANAKELLEY

JOANNWHANG

MICHELLEAREYZAGA

NADINESIERRA

DAVIDKAPLAN

GUYBEN-ZIONY

DREW PETERSEN

R AV I N I A ’S ST E A N S M U S I C I N ST I T U T E