Monday, June 12, 2023, at 7:00
2023 NEGAUNEE MUSIC INSTITUTE SHOWCASE
Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Musicians from the Civic Orchestra of Chicago Alumni of the Civic Fellowship Program
Percussion Scholarship Program
Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative
Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition
Notes for Peace
dukas Fanfare from La Péri
Lina González-Granados, conductor, Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice of the CSO
Matt Baker, trumpet, Civic Fellow Alum
John Hagstrom, trumpet, CSO Musician
Sean Whitworth, trumpet, Civic Orchestra Member
Abby Black, horn, Civic Fellow Alum
Daniel Gingrich, horn, CSO Musician, Civic Orchestra Alum
David Griffin, horn, CSO Musician, Civic Orchestra Alum
Michael Stevens, horn, Civic Orchestra Member
Ignacio del Ray, trombone, Civic Orchestra Alum
Hugo Saavedra, trombone, Civic Fellow
Alexander Mullins, bass trombone, Civic Orchestra Member
Benjamin Poirot, tuba, Civic Orchestra Member
amandi Ritmo Bagatello
Percussion Scholarship Program
Douglas Waddell, conductor, PSP Co-Director
Patricia Dash, PSP Co-Director, CSO Musician
Daniel Kim, First-Year Student
Rebecca Phan, First-Year Student
Natalia Victor, First-Year Student
Ben Williams, First-Year Student
živković
godard
Trio per Uno
Percussion Scholarship Program
Hanna Lam, Eighth-Year Student
Kevin Reyes, Ninth-Year Student
Wanye Williams, Sixth-Year Student
Légende pastorale from Scènes écossaises
Zachary Allen, oboe, Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative Fellow
Mio Nakamura, piano, Civic Orchestra Alum
ysaÿe Violin Sonata No. 3 (Ballade)
Esme Arias-Kim, violin, 2023 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition Winner
The Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is endowed by a generous gift from the Negaunee Foundation.
The 2022–23 Civic Orchestra season is generously sponsored by the Julian Family Foundation, which also provides major funding for the Civic Fellowship program.
Support for the Percussion Scholarship Program is provided by Irving Stenn, Jr., with additional support by Nancy Abshire.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to the Crain-Maling Foundation as title sponsors of the CrainMaling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition.
Support for the Notes for Peace program is provided by the Clinton Family Fund, Megan and Steve Shebik, Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs, and an anonymous donor.
good Umbral Dust
World premiere. Civic Orchestra commission
Zachary Good, bass clarinet, Civic Fellow Alum
schoenfield Presto from Café Music
Marian Mayuga, violin, Civic Fellow
Lindsey Sharpe, cello, Civic Fellow
Hyejin Joo, piano, Civic Orchestra Alum
sorey For Peter Sellars
World premiere. Civic Orchestra commission
Theo Ramsey, violin, Civic Fellow Alum
Maria Arrua, violin, Civic Fellow Alum
Roslyn Green, viola, Civic Fellow Alum
Genevieve Guimond, cello, Civic Fellow Alum
Pei-Yeh Tsai, piano, Civic Fellow Alum
Simón Gómez Gallego, timpani, Civic Fellow Alum
Joe Bricker, percussion, Civic Fellow Alum
Taylor Hampton, percussion, Civic Orchestra Alum
green, olivares & turman Triumphant Peace
Notes for Peace
Meagan McNeal, vocals
Nelson Mendoza, violin, Civic Fellow
Bethany Pereboom, viola, Civic Fellow Alum
fink CIVIC 100
Civic Orchestra commission
Lina González-Granados, conductor
Maria Arrua, violin, Civic Fellow Alum
Marian Mayuga, violin, Civic Fellow
Nelson Mendoza, violin, Civic Fellow
Theo Ramsey, violin, Civic Fellow Alum
Roslyn Green, viola, Civic Fellow Alum
Bethany Pereboom, viola, Civic Fellow Alum
Genevieve Guimond, cello, Civic Fellow Alum
Lindsey Sharpe, cello, Civic Fellow
Josh Fink, bass, Civic Orchestra Alum
Olivia Reyes, bass, Civic Orchestra Member, CSO Fellow
Alexandria Hoffman, flute, Civic Fellow Alum
Zachary Allen, oboe, Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative Fellow
Zachary Good, clarinet, Civic Fellow Alum
Midori Samson, bassoon, Civic Fellow Alum
Abby Black, horn, Civic Fellow Alum
Michael Stevens, horn, Civic Orchestra Member
The commission of Zachary Good’s Umbral Dust was made possible by a generous sponsorship from John D. and Leslie Henner Burns.
The commission of Tyshawn Sorey’s For Peter Sellars was made possible by a generous grant from the Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation.
Video editing by Green River Films. Videography by Todd Rosenberg.
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Across Chicago and around the world, the Negaunee Music Institute connects people to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Programming educates audiences, trains young musicians, and serves diverse communities, with the goal of transforming lives through active participation in music.
Current Negaunee Music Institute programs include CSO School and Family Concerts; open rehearsals; in-depth school and community partnerships; the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and Fellowship program; intensive training and performance opportunities for young musicians including the Percussion Scholarship Program, Chicago Youth in Music Festival, and Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition; and education and community engagement activities during CSO domestic and international tours. Worldwide, the Negaunee Music Institute’s annual reach is approximately 200,000 through all channels, including radio broadcasts, teacher’s guides, and online resources.
Under the visionary leadership of the CSO’s tenth music director Riccardo Muti, the Negaunee Music Institute has deepened the Orchestra’s engagement with communities across the city and abroad while nurturing a new generation of musicians and music lovers.
cso.org/institute
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s leading orchestras, and in September 2010, renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti became its tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra has deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated
with visionary artists. The musicians of the CSO command a vast repertoire and annually perform more than 150 concerts, most at Symphony Center in Chicago, and, since 1936, in the summer at the Ravinia Festival. Since its first tour to Canada in 1892, the Orchestra has performed in twenty-nine countries on five continents during sixty-two international tours.
Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Current releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label, include the Grammy Award–winning release of Verdi’s Requiem led by Riccardo Muti. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have earned sixty-four Grammy awards from the Recording Academy. Listeners around the world can hear the CSO in weekly airings of the CSO Radio Broadcast Series, which is syndicated on the WFMT Radio Network and online at CSO.org/Radio.
Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Since 1919, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago has been one of the nation’s premier orchestral training programs for emerging professionals. Benefiting from a unique alliance with the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Civic members refine their skills under the guidance of musicians of the CSO, Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti, and Principal Conductor Ken-David Masur, as well as numerous guest artists who visit Symphony Center each season. The Civic Orchestra is a signature program of the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO.
Civic Fellowship Program
For more than a century, young musicians have received expert training through the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, which offers performance opportunities with top-tier conductors and mentorship from musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Currently in its tenth anniversary season, the Civic Fellowship program provides additional professional development for
a select group of Civic Orchestra members. The mission of the Fellowship is to prepare participants for multifaceted careers in music through four areas of focus: concert curation, music education, social justice, and project management.
Percussion Scholarship Program
The Percussion Scholarship Program (PSP) offers intensive, weekly percussion instruction on a full scholarship basis to Chicago youth in grades 3–12. Students are selected for the program through a competitive application process that includes a provisional period followed by an invitation to participate through eighth grade. Select students are invited to continue through high school. The program meets weekly on Saturdays year-round, and provides each student with instruments, lesson books, and materials at no cost. PSP members also perform as an ensemble twice per year in Buntrock Hall at Symphony Center in addition to giving special concerts throughout each season. PSP boasts a roster of alumni who have gone on to some of the nation’s finest colleges, universities, and conservatories, later assuming notable careers within and outside of music.
Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative
The Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI) is a program housed at Merit School of Music and co-led by a consortium of Chicago-area musical organizations including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Its mission is to identify and develop gifted and motivated orchestral students from historically underrepresented backgrounds for acceptance into top-tier conservatory, college, or university classical music programs in preparation for careers as professional musicians. Musicians selected for CMPI are carefully assessed and provided with comprehensive supports—musical and extra-musical (e.g., financial, instructional, academic, etc.) to remove many of the barriers to access that can discourage or derail the training
of talented young musicians before they are able to realize their full musical potential.
chicagopathways.org
Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition
The Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition is a prestigious concerto competition for Illinois’s top young soloists. Applicants audition live at Symphony Center for a distinguished panel of judges. Following a preliminary round, four finalists are selected to perform in the final round in Orchestra Hall, accompanied by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. The winner is featured on the following season as soloist with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as part of CSO School and Family Concerts.
The Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition is presented jointly by the League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Notes for Peace
Launched in March 2018, the Notes for Peace project empowers parents who have lost children to gun violence to create original songs of tribute. With guidance from the Civic Fellows, guest teaching artists from the U.K.-based Irene Taylor Trust, and professional vocalists, parents compose, perform live, and professionally record their music, which is then featured alongside family photos and lyrics on notesforpeace.org. To date, over ninety families have written songs to honor lives lost to gun violence.
Lina González-Granados Conductor
Colombian American Lina González-Granados has distinguished herself nationally and internationally as a singularly-talented young conductor. Her powerful interpretations of the symphonic and operatic repertoire, as well as her dedication to highlighting new and unknown works by Latin American composers, have earned her international recognition, most recently as the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the Third Prize and ECHO Special Award (European Concert Hall Organization) of La Maestra Competition, as well as the 2020 and 2021 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award.
After winning the fourth Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, Lina was named the new Solti Conducting Apprentice under the guidance of Riccardo Muti, from February 2020 and continuing through June 2023. Last season, she was also appointed Resident Conductor by the LA Opera, a post she will hold through June 2025, opening this season with a production of Lucia di Lammermoor. She has also held positions as conducting fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Seattle Symphony.
Douglas Waddell Conductor
Douglas Waddell is a member of the Grant Park Symphony and acting principal percussion at Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has been timpanist with the renowned Music of the Baroque ensemble since 1983, and as a member of the Contemporary Chamber Players of Chicago has performed and recorded a wide variety of twentieth century chamber works. Waddell has
performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and can be heard all over the world on hundreds of television and radio commercial jingles. He has appeared as soloist with the Grant Park Symphony, Symphony of the Shores, and the Contemporary Chamber Players of Chicago. Waddell considers his greatest achievement is directing, along with his wife Patricia Dash, the CSO’s Percussion Scholarship Program.
Zachary Allen Oboe
Zachary Allen hails from Skokie, Illinois, and is a junior at Niles West High School. He studies oboe with Erica Anderson at the Music Institute of Chicago, where he is currently a Merit Scholar. He has been a fellow of the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative since 2019, and is currently co-principal oboe of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Zachary has been named a first prize winner in a number of international competitions, including the 2020 Music and Stars Awards, the 2020 Canadian International Music Competition, the 2020 Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, the 2020 Great Composers Competition (Best Saint-Saëns Performance), and the 2020 American Fine Arts Festival, which resulted in an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Zachary was selected as the winner of the Winds and Percussion category for the 2020 Midwest Young Artists Walgreens National Concerto Competition, and the Winds Division of the 2021 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers. Zachary is a 2022 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist.
Esme Arias-Kim Violin
Esme Arias-Kim made her solo debut with orchestra with the Oistrakh Symphony at the age of ten in addition to being featured on WFMT’s Introductions and NPR’s From the Top. Her upcoming and recent concerto performances include those with the New Philharmonic, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Southern California Philharmonic, and the Chicago Arts Orchestra.
In addition to being the 2023 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition Winner, Esme has received first-place awards at the Walgreens National, International Young Artist, Arthur D. Montzka, Fox Valley, Sphinx, Enkor International, New York International Artist Association, Sejong Music, Music Festival in Honor of Confucius, DePaul Concerto Festival, and Illinois Music Teachers National Music Association competitions, and at the American String Teachers Association National Solo, Musicians Club of Women, Minnesota Orchestra, and Southern California Philharmonic Concerto competitions.
Esme is currently studying with Robert Lipsett and is performing on a violin by Alfredo Contino from 1920, courtesy of Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago.
Zachary Good Clarinet
Zachary Good is a clarinetist, baroque recorder player, composer, arranger, and educator. Zachary is clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a founding co-artistic director of the performance collective Mocrep, one-third of the clarinet/percussion/cello trio ZRL, and one-fifth
of the ensemble Honestly Same. He has frequently performed with International Contemporary Ensemble, Music of the Baroque Chicago, Manual Cinema, and Ensemble Dal Niente. He has been a featured soloist with International Contemporary Ensemble, DePaul University’s Ensemble 20+, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music series. His discography includes releases on American Dreams Records, Carrier Records, No Index, Homeroom, Parlour Tapes+, ears&eyes, and more.
Zachary is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and DePaul University’s School of Music. He is the recipient of the 2021 Luminarts Classical Winds Fellowship. Zachary has participated in fellowships with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Aspen Contemporary Music program. Zachary is a D’Addario Woodwinds Artist and uses Reserve Classic reeds.
Meagan McNeal Vocalist
Meagan McNeal is a powerhouse singer/ songwriter and recording artist from Chicago. Wellversed in the genres of soul, jazz, and R&B, she is known for her diverse range and soulful voice. She has attracted attention on the local circuit and received international acclaim with the release of her debut album entitled Mindset in 2013. Gracing the stage of NBC’s The Voice in 2017, her radiating vocals landed her on the team of Jennifer Hudson. With a fervent drive and dedication, she was a backing vocalist for world-famous artists like Eminem, Common, and the O’Jays. In 2019, she released “Roses,” a haunting call to action. Her music transcends boundaries and spreads messages of unapologetic, universal truth.
