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

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