The Steans Institute. The Steans Music Institute is Ravinia Festival's summer conservatory. Each summer it brings together talented young musicians from around the world. On the faculty of the Steans Institute are internationally renowned musicians. This year, for example, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Gilbert Kalish and Alon Glodstein joined the Piano faculty; Pamela Frank, Mihaela Martin, Ralph Kirshbaum and Sylvia Rosenberg are on the Strings faculty, to name just a few. The Singers faculty, directed by Brian Zeiger and having Sylvia McNair among its members, is equally strong. Young musicians not only study and attend master classes, they also give public concerts. Making music together is part of the Steans tradition, so in addition to performing individual recitals students create informal ensembles and play trios and quartets, and even such pieces as Mendelssohn’s Octet.
We’re happy to report that the Steans Institute is now collaborating with Classical Connect and we’re going to feature a significant number of performances recorded during the Steans season. We’ll start with several recordings from this year’s season. First, the pianists Beatrice Berrut (Switzerland), and Henry Kramer (US) play Mozart’s Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in C Major (listen to it here). Then, the Czech violinist Josef Špaček, British cellist Jonathan Dormand, and the South Korean native, Curtis Institute-trained pianist Kwan Yi play Johannes Brahms’s Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87 (here). The 24-year old American pianist Henry Kramer comes back to perform Beethoven’s two-movement Piano Sonata no. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 (here). We follow with Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major, which is performed by the violinists Mari Lee (Japan) and Yuuki Wong (Singapore), Israeli-born American violist Atar Arad and the cellist Jonathan Dormand (here). In conclusion, here is Sonata in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1 by Beethowen. It’s played by the American cellist Nathan Vickery, and Kwan Yi, piano.
September 12, 2011
The Steans Institute. The Steans Music Institute is Ravinia Festival's summer conservatory. Each summer it brings together talented young musicians from around the world. On the faculty of the Steans Institute are internationally renowned musicians. This year, for example, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Gilbert Kalish and Alon Glodstein joined the Piano faculty; Pamela Frank, Mihaela Martin, Ralph Kirshbaum and Sylvia Rosenberg are on the Strings faculty, to name just a few. The Singers faculty, directed by Brian Zeiger and having Sylvia McNair among its members, is equally strong. Young musicians not only study and attend master classes, they also give public concerts. Making music together is part of the Steans tradition, so in addition to performing individual recitals students create informal ensembles and play trios and quartets, and even such pieces as Mendelssohn’s Octet.
We’re happy to report that the Steans Institute is now collaborating with Classical Connect and we’re going to feature a significant number of performances recorded during the Steans season. We’ll start with several recordings from this year’s season. First, the pianists Beatrice Berrut (Switzerland), and Henry Kramer (US) play Mozart’s Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in C Major (listen to it here). Then, the Czech violinist Josef Špaček, British cellist Jonathan Dormand, and the South Korean native, Curtis Institute-trained pianist Kwan Yi play Johannes Brahms’s Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87 (here). The 24-year old American pianist Henry Kramer comes back to perform Beethoven’s two-movement Piano Sonata no. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 (here). We follow with Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major, which is performed by the violinists Mari Lee (Japan) and Yuuki Wong (Singapore), Israeli-born American violist Atar Arad and the cellist Jonathan Dormand (here). In conclusion, here is Sonata in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1 by Beethowen. It’s played by the American cellist Nathan Vickery, and Kwan Yi, piano.