VC LIVE | Ravinia Festival Presents a Master Class with Violinist Miriam Fried

Tune in here on Wednesday, June 28th at 3:00PM (ET) for a special masterclass led by violinist Miriam Fried

We are coming to you live from the Ravinia Festival, North America's oldest music festival, which is known for presenting a large variety of different events throughout the summer. These concerts feature performances from acclaimed musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma and John Legend as well as the annual summer residency of the nation's finest orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to several afternoon and evening concerts presented during the summer, musicians participate in a series of public master classes, where the faculty or a Ravinia guest artist provide in-the-moment insights on the fellows’ performances of excerpts from their repertoire, guiding both the growth of their interpretations and the experience with all in attendance.

This master class is led by Miriam Fried, who has been the RSMI Piano & Strings Program Director since 1994. She has been one of the world’s preeminent violinists since winning the Paganini Competition in 1968 and, three years later, becoming the first woman to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Fried has been featured with virtually every major orchestra in the United States and Europe, and she has earned praise throughout her career with Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas, from New York recitals in 1985 to recordings in France (1999) and Jerusalem (2017). Her discography also includes acclaimed performances of Sibelius and Donald Erb concertos, the latter written for her in 1993.