VC LIVE | Ravinia Steans Music Institute Presents James Lee III Premiere

Tune in here on Friday, August 4th at 3PM (ET) for an exciting concert featuring performances by musicians of the RSMI Program for Piano & Strings

We are coming to you from the Ravinia Festival, North America's oldest music festival, which stands today as its most musically diverse, presenting a large variety of different events throughout the summer.

This program includes an ensemble of RSMI’s Piano & Strings fellows giving the premiere of Untranslatable, a string quartet commissioned from James Lee III in recognition of Miriam Fried’s 30th and final season as Piano & Strings Program Director. The five-movement work is inspired by music’s “universal language” ability to communicate feelings, emotions, ideas, and more across cultures in a way that words from other tongues can be challenging to express clearly and concisely in English.

Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924) | Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op.15

Allegro molto moderato
Scherzo, Allegro vivo
Adagio
Allegro molto

Haerim Oh, violin
Otoha Tabata, viola
Derek Louie, cello
Adria Ye, piano

James Lee III (b. 1975) | Untranslatable

Nhujuanya
Iktsuarpok
Chesed
Saudade
Elation

Sophia Anna Szokolay, violin
Masha Lakisova, violin
Andy Park, viola
Jiyeon Kim, cello

Intermission

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) | Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, op. 25

Allegro
Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo – Trio: Animato
Andante con moto
Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto

Clara Neubauer, violin
Sarah Sung, viola
Eugene Lin, cello
Amir Ron, piano