VC LIVE | Ravinia Festival Presents Celebrating Women in Chamber Music
Tune in here on Friday, August 11th at 3:00PM (ET) for an outstanding concert featuring works written by women composers
Tune in here on Friday, August 11th at 3:00PM (ET) for an outstanding concert featuring works written by women composers
We are coming to you live from the Ravinia Festival, North America's oldest music festival, presenting a large variety of different events throughout the summer.
Presented as part of Ravinia’s Breaking Barriers Festival, the performance carries a season-long focus on highlighting women composers writing for small classical ensembles. Among other works, RSMI’s Piano & Strings fellows perform the Double Quartet by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
The Program for Piano & Strings concentrates on interpretation and small-group collaboration through the practice and performance of classical sonata and chamber repertoire. Up to 35 violinists, violists, cellists, and pianists—and often a pre-existing chamber group or two—gather for five weeks of immersive and intensive rehearsals and coachings with a rotating roster of some of the world’s finest teaching artists.
PROGRAM:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
String Quartet No.19 in C Major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
Adagio - Allegro
Andante cantabile
Menuetto. Allegro
Allegro
Yebin Yoo, violin
Masha Lakisova, violin
Andy Park, viola
Timothy Eddy°, cello
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b
Chorale St. Antoni. Andante
Poco più animato (Andante con moto)
Più vivace (Vivace)
Con moto
Andante con moto (Andante)
Vivace (Poco Presto)
Vivace
Grazioso
Presto non troppo (Poco presto)
Andante
Amir Ron, piano
Adria Ye, piano
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939)
Double Quartet for Strings
Allegro moderato
Lento
Allegro vivo
Adagio
Left Quartet Right Quartet
Anna Im, violin Evan Johanson, violin
Anatol Toth, violin Haerim Oh, violin
Tabitha Rhee, viola Joseph Skerik, viola
Derek Louie, cello Hannah Rubin, cello
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
String Octet in Eb Major, Op. 20
Allegro moderato con fuoco
Andante
Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo
Presto
Anatol Toth, violin
Haerim Oh, violin
Evan Johanson, violin
Anna Im, violin
Joseph Skerik, viola
Tabitha Rhee, viola
Hannah Rubin, cello
Derek Louie, cello
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