January 14, 2024: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration January 14, 2024

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NICHOLS CONCERT HALL 2023-2024 The Music Institute of Chicago is grateful to all its funders and partners, whose generous support helps us to entertain, inspire, and educate through live music performed by both new emerging artists and the most established artists of our time.

Special thanks to these annual institutional funders: Thomas W. Dower Foundation, The Florian Fund at The Chicago Community Trust, Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation, John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Irving Harris Foundation, ITW, Negaunee Foundation, John D. & Alexandra C. Nichols Family Foundation, Northern Trust, Sargent Family Foundation, and many others.

We acknowledge the generous support of the Illinois Arts Council Agency as well as the support of the Highland Park Community Foundation and the Evanston Arts Council, a city agency supported by the City of Evanston; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Thank you to our technical sponsor

This program is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Sponsorship opportunities range from concerts and performances, to the annual Gala, special capital projects, and community engagement initiatives. For more information contact the Development Office: 847.448.8323.

Dear friends, Welcome to the Music Institute of Chicago (MIC) and our 21st annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert. This event is a “platform for listening,” one that gives voice to the work of young musicians, composers, and artists of color. We also have the opportunity to hear directly from community leaders about the important work they do every day.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked that, “people fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” Nichols Concert Hall offers us a beautiful and welcoming space in which we can come together to learn, share, and celebrate with one another.

Today’s performances are uplifting and demonstrate that Dr. King is still an inspiration to young artists and the organizations that nurture them. I would like to thank our partners, whose hard work and commitment to equity in the arts allows these performances to happen: Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative, Evanston Arts Center, Hearing in Color, Ravinia’s Reach Teach Play Program, and the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago, as well as the generosity of Dr. Marcus Campbell, Superintendent of Evanston Township High School, District 202.

Music and the arts are of vital importance in keeping us connected to one another as well as expanding our understanding of the world around us.

If this is your first time at Nichols Concert Hall, we hope you will return with friends and colleagues. We believe that this historic space is a cultural gem for all of Evanston to enjoy and that our annual concert series offers a wonderful way to help further our mission to lead all people toward a lifelong engagement with music.

President and CEO Music Institute of Chicago

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Sunday, January 14 at 3 PM

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Sunday, January 14 at 3 PM

PROGRAM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Mark George, Music Institute of Chicago President and CEO RAVINIA’S REACH TEACH PLAY PROGRAM Lost

Wanye Williams (b.2006) Wanye Williams, vibraphone • Brandon Harper, piano, Daniel Ellis Perez, bass • Chase Wilkins, drums CHICAGO MUSICAL PATHWAYS INITIATIVE MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ACADEMY

Adoration (1951) Florence Price (1887-1953) Neena Agrawal, viola and Milana Pavchinskaya, piano REMARKS Dr. Marcus Campbell Superintendent of Evanston Township High School District 202 CHICAGO MUSICAL PATHWAYS INITIATIVE Allegro from Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Caprice No. 13 Niccolò Paganini (1782-1896) Naseem Shakir-Muhammad, violin and Milana Pavchinskaya, piano

HEARING IN COLOR The Black Finger (2023) World Premiere

Celebration

Nyandeng Juag (b.2001)

“The Black Finger” by Angelina Weld Grimké

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I have just seen a most beautiful thing Slim and still Against a gold, gold sky, A straight black cypress, Sensitive, Exquisite, A black finger Pointing upwards.

Why, beautiful still finger, are you black?

And why arc you pointing upwards?

MIC Faculty Angela De Venuto, soprano • Barbara Ann Martin, mezzo-soprano Mark George, piano Suite for Violin and Piano (1943) William Grant Still (1895-1978) II. Mother and Child MIC alumni Hannah White, violin and Joshua White, piano MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHORALE Daniel Wallenberg, director | Gregory Shifrin, piano City Called Heaven Lift Every Voice and Sing

Traditional Spiritual (arr. Josephine Poelinitz) Music by John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) Words by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Lift every voice and sing, ‘Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on ‘til victory is won.

Please join us for a special art exhibition in the Nichols Concert Hall lobby presented by the Evanston Arts Center and curated by Fran Joy.

Founded in 1929, the Evanston Art Center is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences by offering extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach. In 2015 the Evanston Art Center moves into a new facility at 1717 Central Street in Evanston and quickly began expanding programming to meet the growing demands of a larger space. More than 30,000 people from all walks of life, representing over 100 Illinois zip codes use the Art Center, viewing exhibitions in their four galleries or participate in classes.

FRAN JOY Fran Joy is an artist, designer, curator, and life coach currently living in Evanston.

Born and raised in southern Illinois, she moved on to New Orleans and then to the greater Chicago/Evanston area. This life experience plus ten years of residence in Los Angeles and frequent visits to New York City have flavored and colored her passion as an artist.

After studying oil painting, creative writing, and drawing at Columbia College in Chicago, Joy combined her own experimentation with the impromptu training she received from independent artists whose work she admired. Joy is known for her images on social justice, women, spirit images, iconic portraits, colorful abstract landscapes, and large designer wood screens and wall mounts. Her paintings usually begin with an acrylic base on canvas or wood followed by oil pastels, which are used with various sponges for texture, blending and intensity.

The colors are usually vivid!

Joy has been featured on the cover of Evanston Magazine and has appeared in the Evanston Review and in the Chicago Tribune. She received the Evanston Mayor’s Artist of the Year Award in 2019 for her work on social justice and women. Joy formerly served on the Evanston Arts Council and on the board of Young Evanston Artists!. She now serves on the Evanston Public Art Committee and on the Exhibition Committee of the Evanston Art Center.

ABOUT THIS EXHIBIT Dr. Martin Luther King lived and died fighting for non-violence, peace, and civil rights. He challenged us to believe there is always hope and things we can do. Dr. King manifested that hope.

These are difficult times and there are those who wish to erase and recreate the people and history of this country. Artists have the freedom, opportunity, and or responsibility to express and record history, hoping it does not repeat the wrongs. I thank the artists, the Evanston Art Center, and the Music Institute of Chicago for this collaboration and opportunity.

~ Fran Joy

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Raissa Bailey

Tasha Nemo

Debra Flint Salter

David Niari

Alvin Hawkins

Jevoid Simmons

Yancey Hughes

Stacy Thomas

J Allen Hyde

John Wangendo

Fran Joy

Angela Williams

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MARCUS A. CAMPBELL Marcus Campbell has served as the Superintendent of Evanston Township High School District 202 since July 2022.

Dr. Campbell was previously the assistant superintendent/Principal at ETHS, where he was responsible for providing leadership in the development of district strategy and organizational change, including effective instruction practices, impactful diversity and equity initiatives, and responsive programs and services. He provided administrative leadership to carry out the Board’s Equity & Excellence Mission Statement and oversaw the implementation of all District equity transformation programs, training, and initiatives to help improve the overall school culture for all students and to eliminate barriers to the equitable education of students from underrepresented backgrounds. His goal is to effectively engage students, staff, parents, the Board, and members of the community, clearly articulate the goals and priorities of the District and Superintendent, and build support for the District's mission while increasing pride and trust in the school.

Dr. Campbell earned his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at National College of Education, National Louis University. He also holds an M.A. in Social and Cultural Foundations in Education from DePaul University and a B.A. from University of Illinois at Champaign with a major in English and minor in African American Studies.

RAVINIA’S REACH TEACH PLAY PROGRAMS

Over 75,000 community members are served through Reach Teach Play® each year, ensuring that music education remains accessible to all. These programs are designed to educate, foster diverse audience involvement, and provide the population with equitable access to live music experiences in their communities and at Ravinia.

For more information about the program visit: ravinia.org/ReachTeachPlay

CHICAGO MUSICAL PATHWAYS INITIATIVE The mission of the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative is to identify and develop gifted and motivated orchestral students from underrepresented backgrounds for acceptance into top-tier conservatory, college or university classical music programs in preparation for careers as professional musicians.

The initiative involves close collaboration and resource sharing among a diverse network of well-established non-profit Chicago youth and music-education focused organizations. Together, participating organizations work to identify talented, motivated students early in their training. 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 from underrepresented backgrounds before they are able to realize their full musical potential.

For more information about the program visit: chicagopathways.org

NEENA AGRAWAL

Neena Agrawal, 14, is a scholarship fellow at the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, a precollege program for advanced string and piano students, where she studies viola with Sang Mee Lee. She began studying violin at age four and added viola at age 12. Neena is also a fellow of the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative, a scholarship and mentorship organization for classical musicians from underrepresented backgrounds.

In 2023, Neena was selected to participate in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Youth in Music Festival Honors Orchestra under Ken-David Masur. Neena currently performs with the Academy Chamber Orchestra and is principal viola of Northside College Prep’s Chamber Strings.

During the summer, Neena attended Center Stage Strings, where she was featured in a Young Artist Recital. She has also participated in the Chicago Chamber Music Festival and attended Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Currently, Neena plays in a string trio and she has also performed in quartets, duos, and trios through the Music Institute of Chicago, Center Stage Strings, Chicago Chamber Music Festival, and Chicago Public Schools.

NASEEM SHAKIR-MUHAMMAD

Naseem Shakir-Muhammad began studying violin at age eight. He is currently a student at the Merit Tuition Free-Conservatory as well as a member of the Merit Philharmonic. In addition, he is an ensemble member at the Music Arts Institute and a Chicago Musical Pathways Fellow. Naseem was accepted into the Ascent International Chamber Music Festival as a violist for the summer of 2022 and as a violinist for the summer of 2023.

MILANA PAVCHINSKAYA

Milana Pavchinskaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She studied piano for eleven years at the Special Music School of Stolarsky in Odessa before entering the State Music Institute of Gnessin in Moscow, Russia. She joined the faculty of the Special Music School (Moscow) and later became the staff accompanist at the Odessa State Conservatory. Pavchinskaya received her MM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and was the recipient of the Hoverson Piano Award in honor of Pauline Lindsley. She now frequently appears as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist throughout the Chicagoland area and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago.

Milana often collaborates with string students in the Academy program at area competitions and in preparation of conservatory audition recordings.

HEARING IN COLOR Hearing in Color is a Chicago-based organization dedicated to sharing music, stories, and composers that have been historically excluded from musical spaces, with its community. Their productions underscore the work of artists who are overlooked in mediums where White-centered experiences are the default. Hearing in Color believes in the power of music to build community, to bring comfort, to embolden, and to inspire in the face of subjugation and oppression and believes that gatekeeping has appropriated perspectives and stories of specific lived experiences. By sharing space with those most deeply affected, we are able to present stories grounded in truth.

Hearing in Color and La Caccina are proud to partner on the Hearing in Color Young Composer Residency, an immersive residency focused on engaging emerging composers of various backgrounds to write choral music for advanced treble voices. Composers will work closely throughout the season with the artists of La Caccina and Hearing in Color to compose an original piece of music. The residency will include extensive mentoring from both Hearing in Color and La Caccina artists, workshops of the piece with La Caccina, and both written and video interviews to help promote the composer and their work.

For more information visit: www.hearingincolor.org

NYANDENG JUAG Nyandeng Juag is a South Sudanese-American vocalist, conductor, and composer. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Kenyon College in 2022. While at Kenyon, she studied voice with Rebecca Keck, conducting with Benjamin Locke, and composition with Ross Feller. Nyandeng sang in the Kenyon College Chamber Singers for four years and served as president her senior year. She was also president of Colla Voce, a treble-voice classical and folk a cappella group. Passionate about cultivating inclusive, genre-expansive musical spaces, Nyandeng co-founded and was president and co-music director of POCappella, a group for students of color performing music by artists of color. In summer 2020, Nyandeng was the Administrative & Sound Design intern at New Perspectives Theatre Company (New York City), and premiered her piece “Vibrates with Memory” at the Virtual Women’s Work Short Play Festival.

Nyandeng finds inspiration in her South Sudanese heritage and in diversifying classical music communities and repertoire. Nyandeng is also a singersongwriter. She self-released her debut EP Fluorescent in 2021 and is now working on her next project. Nyandeng is currently based in her hometown of Augusta, Georgia, and hopes to relocate to Chicago in the coming months.

Her first Hearing in Color commission “Stranger” was premiered by La Caccina on November 10, 2023 in Chicago, IL.

MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The Music Institute of Chicago (MIC) leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music through unparalleled teaching, exceptional performances, and valuable service initiatives that educate, inspire, and build strong, healthy communities. Since its founding in 1931, the Music Institute’s commitment to innovation, access, and excellence has served as an important community resource and helps to ensure music is available to everyone. Each year, MIC provides personalized music instruction to more than 1,500 students, regardless of age, level of experience, or financial means, across eight Community Music School locations in Chicago, Downers Grove, Evanston, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, and Winnetka, as well as online. In addition, MIC brings music education, arts curriculum integration, professional development, and music performance and engagement opportunities to thousands in the Chicago area; offers scholarship opportunities to students in its Community Music School and Academy, and welcomes more than 15,000 visitors annually for performances, and special events at Nichols Concert Hall.

More information at musicinst.org.

ANGELA DE VENUTO Soprano Angela De Venuto has portrayed roles from the innocent girl next door, Emily Webb (Our Town), and the young ingenue, Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), to the comedically jaded Despina (Così fan tutte), and cunning Adele (Die Fledermaus), to the fiery siren Angélique (Ibert), and the hauntingly obsessive Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw). In more intimate settings, Angela’s recital work has depicted the life and work of historical figures and

legendary wordsmiths such as Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mörike, Goethe, Jammes, Toni Morrison, Agee, Rubino, and the wives of King Henry VIII, set by influential composers like Debussy, N. Boulanger, Libby Larsen, Previn, Pasatieri, Britten, Wolf, Barber, Poulenc, Bolcom, Respighi, and Schubert among others.

De Venuto’s affinity for new and lesser known composers has made her a sought after performer of this music. Highlights include Comala Suite by ZohnMuldoon based on the novel Pedro Párama by Mexican author Juan Rulfo; Ode on St. Cecelia’s Day by Parry, Poems of Amy Lowell set by Benjamin Krause, and Estonian folk texts set by Leo Radosavljevic.

De Venuto has been awarded first prizes in the Classical Singer competition Emerging Professional Division (2017), Musician’s Club of Women (2017), the Sherrill Milnes Opera Idol competition (2016), and been named a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition (2018).

She received her Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from DePaul University. She is a member of the Music Institute of Chicago’s voice faculty.

BARBARA MARTIN 2023 Richard D. Colburn Award for Teaching Excellence Recipient Mezzo-soprano Barbara Ann Martin has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, appearing at major music festivals such as Aspen, Boulder, Ravinia, Caramoor, Huddersfield, Adelaide, and Salzburg. A well-known interpreter of the works of American composer George Crumb, she has sung his master-work, Ancient Voices of Children, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin and New York Philharmonics, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Maggio Musicale, the Montreal Symphony, and the Israel Philharmonic to critical acclaim. Her opera appearances include the Metropolitan, Chicago (as guest artist with the Lyric Opera Center), Central City, New Jersey State, and Minnesota operas. Martin’s recordings feature works by Dominick Argento, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Alan Hovhaness, Karel Husa, Patricia Morehead, George Rochberg, Augusta Reed Thomas, Virgil Thompson, Louise Talma, and Chinary Ung. She is the featured soloist with James Freeman and Orchestra 2001 on the 2010 Grammynominated CD A Journey Beyond Time and The Winds of Destiny by George

Crumb, two major song cycles written for her by the composer. Martin has been a guest professor at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Royal Danish and Odense Conservatories in Denmark. She has served on the faculties of Bennington College and CUNY at Brooklyn and is current chair of the Music Institute of Chicago Voice Department. As an audio book narrator, her work is featured on Amazon and Audible. She is a voting member of NARAS (Grammys) and is an active member of SAG-AFTRA, serving on the Singers and Audio Book Committees in Chicago.

MARK GEORGE Dr. Mark George, President and CEO of the Music Institute of Chicago since 2010, has enjoyed a unique career making music and connecting people of all kinds to the performing arts. In 2011, the Chicago Tribune named him “Chicagoan of the Year” in classical music. George served as national board chair for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and he is currently a trustee for the Solti Foundation US, The Billy Strayhorn Foundation, and the Evanston Chamber of Commerce.

A highly regarded pianist, Dr. George has performed and recorded extensively throughout the United States. He has held faculty positions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, and the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music.

Dr. George previously served as director of the Hartt School Community Division and director of distance learning at the Cleveland Institute of Music. His work as an interdisciplinary curriculum developer and consultant has rendered the arts and humanities more accessible to diverse communities. He also led the resurgence of the 2006 Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony. His boardlevel leadership, striking performances as a pianist, and inventive programming ideas re-established the ensemble as a major force in contemporary music.

HANNAH WHITE

At age nine, Hannah White performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she’s performed extensively throughout United States and internationally spanning four continents.

She has been a featured artist at Carnegie Hall and soloed with numerous orchestras including Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Noir. Hannah has earned dozens of rave reviews including those from the New York Times and New York Concert Review.

As a soloist Hannah has toured nationally and internationally with Sphinx Virtuosi. As Concertmaster, she has toured with Chineke! Chamber Ensemble and she was Concertmaster and Co-Artistic Director of Kontrapuncktus Baroque Ensemble.

Hannah has performed as a back up violinist with top pop artists including Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Steve Lacey, Busta Rhymes, John Legend, H.E.R., Coco Jones, Earth Wind and Fire, Bell Biv Devoe, Billy Porter, and Chaka Khan. She has performed at the Oscars Awards, BET Awards, ESPYs Awards, Oscars Academy Museum Gala, and has worked with top producers for movie sound tracks, music videos, albums, and animes. She performed for world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Hannah’s media appearances include: ABC, CNN, BBC, Amazon Livestream, Strad Magazine, Strings Magazine, Bein and Fushi Magazine, The Violin Channel, Al Jazeera, CNBC International, Today Show International in Davos, ABC, Chicago’s WFMT, NPR’s From the Top, WCLV, WVIZ, Ideastream, Classical MPR, MPTV’s Black Nouveau, WPT, DPTV, and many news outlets.

Hannah teaches at the Colburn Community School in the Jumpstart Program, Stories and Strings Program, and the University of Southern California Program as well as maintains a private studio. She has participated in short residencies at colleges and universities as Columbia University, Penn State, and San Jose State University and has taught at various high schools as well as given master classes and outreach performances.

Hannah studied at the Music Institute of Chicago from 2010 – 2017. She graduated from the Colburn Conservatory and is continuing her graduate studies with Robert Lipsett.

JOSHUA WHITE

Joshua White is Competition Coordinator at PianoArts North American Competition and Music Festival. Joshua studied piano at the Music Institute of Chicago from 2010 – 2016. He was a merit scholarship recipient during those years.

His teachers included Dr. Soo Young Lee, Brenda Huang, and Dr. Matthew Hagle.

Joshua has won or received Honorable Mentions at competitions including: Grandquist Music Competition, Sejong Junior Music Competition, Milwaukee Youth Piano Competition, Chicago Duo Piano Festival Competition, CAMTA Roberta Savler Piano Contest, Kettle Moraine Musicians Festival Competition, Society of American Piano Competition, Northwest Suburban Association of Music Teachers Competition, and Wisconsin Music Teachers Association Piano Competition.

Joshua has appeared on WFMT FM 98.7 and MPTV’s Black Nouveau.

MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHORALE Daniel Wallenberg, director | Gregory Shifrin, piano

A community chorus that provides an opportunity for adult singers with prior experience to study and perform the best in sacred and secular choral music. Since it began in 1987, the Chorale has one continuing goal: to perform the finest sacred and secular choral music with the highest of standards in a community setting.

Under the leadership of Conductor Daniel Wallenberg, the Chorale has developed a wide range of repertoire, including motets, madrigals, partsongs, folk songs, and larger choral-orchestral works by Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Duruflé, and many others. Throughout the years, the Chorale has collaborated with local choirs and symphony orchestras and has produced two fully costumed Elizabethan madrigal dinners. In addition, the Chorale has collaborated several times with the Music Institute’s voice faculty for concerts of opera and Broadway music.

DO YOU LOVE TO SING? Join the Music Institute Chorale!

Rehearsals begin: January 30 | Concerts: March 17 and June 2, 2024 Learn more: musicinst.org/adult-studies

APOLLO’S FIRE AT MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The GRAMMY®-winning baroque ensemble returns to Nichols Concert Hall!

NIGHTS IN VENICE

Sunday, November 12, 2023, 3:00pm Gorgeous songs of Monteverdi meet fiery double violin concertos of Vivaldi – an evocative Italian evening.

¡HISPANIA! A VOYAGE FROM SPAIN TO THE AMERICAS Sunday, March 24, 2024, 5:00pm

Internationally-renowned Puerto Rican soprano Sophia Burgos joins with strings, harp, guitars and percussion.

TICKETS & INFO: 800.314.2535 | apollosfire.org Additional performances October, November, December, and March in Evanston and downtown Chicago. See website for details.

FRIENDS OF THE MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The Music Institute is grateful for every gift. The following friends made contributions of $5,000 or more between September 1, 2022 and January 10, 2024.

$100,000 and above The Negaunee Foundation Alexandra* and John† Nichols $50,000 - $99,999 Mr. John H. Krehbiel Jr. and Mrs. Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel ITW Ms. Barbara Ann Speer $25,000 - $49,999 Paul M. Angell Family Foundation John and Pauline Fife KPMG and Scott* and Areta Verschoor Jim and Kay* Mabie Family Northern Trust Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Patrick W. Ryan Lee Anne* and Rich Stoddart Jim Stone* The Wallace Foundation William E. Wolf and Meredith Bluhm-Wolf $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous Gifts Dr. Jim Hsu and Ms. Elisa Barston The Canning Foundation Lester and Renée Crown Roger and Sandra Deromedi Craig and Janet Duchossois John and Fran Edwardson Evanston Arts Council Jim and Karen Frank Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation Wilbur and Linda Gantz Ronald and Christina Gidwitz

Norman and Cynthia Goldring Mrs. Mona Golub Dan* and Yoo Mi Hahn Caryn and King Harris Courtney Holohan* and Wesley Mueller Caroline and Charles Huebner J. Thomas Hurvis and Ann Andersen Illinois Arts Council Agency Anne Kaplan Ethelle Katz Susan R. Kiphart Mrs. Paul Klimstra Tom and Joyce Leddy Diane vS. and Robert M. Levy Molex Incorporated Mr. Ernest Mahaffey National Endowment for the Arts Bill and Cathy Osborn Ms. Renée Parquette* Timothy Patenode* and Judy Royal Ms. Sheila Penrose Ravinia Festival Association Andrew and Betsy Rosenfield Michael and Cari Sacks Sage Foundation Scott and Nancy Santi Barbara* and Peter Sereda Lisbeth C. Stiffel UL Audrey L. Weaver Mr. Miles D. White Wintrust Commercial Banking Tao Zhu* and Weihua Ye

$5,000 to $9,999 Anonymous Gifts Mrs. Carol Lavin Bernick BMO Harris Bank Norman and Virginia Bobins Boys & Girls Club of Chicago Carlos R. Cárdenas* Lawrence O. Corry Mr. and Mrs. Mark Deangelis Thomas W. Dower Foundation Thomas and Patricia Gahlon Hans* and Denitta Germann John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Irving Harris Foundation Highland Park Community Foundation Dr. Erin and Dr. Wellington Hsu Dolores Kohl Kaplan Karen and Mark Koulogeorge Mr. John W. Madigan Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moore

Mary P. Murley Yana Nedvetsky* and Axel Vargas Mr. Robert Perlmutter Mr. and Mrs. John J. Piepgras Vikram K. Raghavan* and Shruthi Atmaram Sargent Family Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Sidley Austin LLP Jennifer Steans and James P. Kastenholz Pam and Russ Strobel Ross* and Emily Parker Updegraff Mr. and Mrs. David F. Vitale Frederick and Catherine Waddell Audra Wilson* David* and Eileen Zampa Florian Zettelmeyer *and Meghan Busse * Trustee † Deceased

The Music Institute of Chicago provides high-quality teaching, performing, and service activities for thousands of Chicagoland residents each year.

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2023-24 Season

FALL: BAROQUE SPLENDOR CHRISTMAS: JOY TO THE WORLD Saturday, October  • : pm Sunday, October  • : pm

Saturday, December  • : pm Sunday, December  • : pm

Featuring Händel’s Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir, and Bach’s Magniicat, with the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra and soloists.

Including beautiful arrangements of traditional carols, beloved CMS favorites, and new discoveries, accompanied by organ, brass, and percussion.

NEXT GEN: HAGENBERG

SEASON FINALE: HEAVENLY HOME

Saturday, May  • : pm An exciting new initiative to support Sunday, May  • : pm

Friday, February  • : pm

the next generation of composers An unaccompanied program of French and singers. Meet composer Elaine and American choral gems, including Hagenberg and hear a concert of her works by Maurice Duruué, Jocelyn Hagen, works, including her new major work, Jake Runestad, and others. This concert is Illuminare, performed by CMS with a prelude to the CMS performance tour the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra. to Paris and Normandy in the summer of Other pieces will be performed by .

CMS with pianist Lyudmila Lakisova and singers from area schools.

We invite you to join us for this inspiring new season!

Tickets available for $25 with code MUSICINSTITUTE

CONCERT VENUE Glenview Community Church 1000 Elm Street, Glenview, IL

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leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music through unparalleled teaching, exceptional performances, and valuable service initiatives that educate, inspire, and build strong, healthy communities.

Scott Verschoor, Chair Alexandra C. Nichols, Chair Emerita Timothy J. Patenode, Treasurer Barbara Sereda, Secretary Lee Anne Stoddart, Vice Chair Carlos R. Cárdenas, CPA Hans Germann Daniel Hahn Courtney Holohan Kay Mabie Yana Nedvetsky Renée Parquette Vikram Raghavan Jim Stone Ross Updegraff Zalman Usiskin Audra Wilson David Zampa Florian Zettelmeyer Tao Zhu

LIFE TRUSTEES John J. Berwanger Mitzi Freidheim Brooks Morgan Rachel Barton Pine Betsey L. Puth Priscilla F. Richman William N. Topaz

EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Jennifer Koh Nina Kraus Christopher Rintz Deborah F. Rutter

Since its founding in 1931, the Music Institute’s commitment to innovation, access, and excellence has served as an important community resource and helps to ensure music is available to everyone.

Each year, the Music Institute provides personalized music instruction to more than 2,000 students, regardless of age, level of experience, or financial means, across seven Community Music School locations in Chicago, Downers Grove, Evanston, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, and Winnetka, as well as online.

In addition, the Music Institute brings music education, arts curriculum integration, professional development, and music performance and engagement opportunities to thousands in the Chicago area; offers scholarship opportunities to students in its Community School and its Academy, a nationally recognized training center for highly gifted pre-college pianists and string players; and welcomes thousands of visitors annually for performances, master classes, and special events at Nichols Concert Hall.

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“The ensemble’s hot rapport churns with conviction.” ~ Grammophone

IMANI WINDS February 24 | 7:30 PM CURTIS ON TOUR

with acclaimed violinist, Curtis faculty member, and Music Institute of Chicago alumnus, Benjamin Beilman

March 9 | 7:30 PM TITUS UNDERWOOD March 23 7:30 PM

TIME FOR THREE April 27 | 7:30 PM

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