Celebrating Music Institute of Chicago Luminaries Program - May 6, 2023

E A S O N S P O N S O R S

NICHOLS CONCERT HALL 2022-2023

The Music Institute of Chicago is grateful to the following sponsors, 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.

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.

Please contact the Development Office to learn more: 847.448.8323.

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the finale of the 2022-23 concert series at Nichols Concert Hall, a season that included chamber music, a Gospel tribute, romantic era piano repertoire, a family concert, MLK celebration, elegant jazz, and dynamic alumni performers. There was truly something for everyone.

There is no better place to hear a concert than Nichols Concert Hall. The pristine acoustics, Greek revival architecture, and welcoming hospitality create an intimate and thoroughly satisfying listening experience.

I encourage you to share your Nichols Concert Hall experience with your friends and colleagues. The Music Institute of Chicago regularly presents world-class musicians in a beautiful and conveniently located performance space, for a fraction of the cost of events in downtown Chicago. Nichols Concert Hall is a tremendous value.

The concert series is only one part of our mission. The Music Institute of Chicago is a top-tier community music school, offering music lessons and classes to thousands of students of all ages and levels. The Music Institute is also deeply committed to making music and providing music education to people and communities who might not otherwise have access. You can learn more about MIC’s many activities, register for lessons, and purchase tickets by visiting us at musicinst.org.

Tickets for our 2023-24 season go on sale on June 15. I look forward to seeing you next season at Nichols Concert Hall!

President and CEO Music Institute of Chicago

ONE COMPOSER, ONE COMMUNITY

First launched in 2021, the Music Institute of Chicago’s One Composer, One Community (OCOC) focuses on the life and work of a single, often underrepresented BIPOC composer over the course of an academic year. This composer’s work is featured on the Nichols Concert Hall series as well as in other special events, including gatherings to discuss aspects of the composer’s life and music through autobiographical, biographical, or critical writing, as well as though active music listening.

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

This year we celebrate the life and work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Considered the single most significant creative figure in 20th century Brazilian art music, Villa-Lobos synthesized contemporary European techniques with elements of national music to create his unique compositional style. A prolific composer, Villa-Lobos penned more than 2,000 orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and vocal works.

This fall the Calcifer Quartet and the Pelios Quartet from the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy had the opportunity to perform quartets by Heitor Villa-Lobos for the awardwinning Cuarteto Latinoamericano at Nichols Concert Hall in a special master class.

CELEBRATING MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO LUMINARIES

Saturday, May 6 at 7:30 pm

PROGRAM

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for soprano and cello choir Heitor Villa-Lobos

I. Ária (Cantilena) (1887-1959)

II. Dança (Martelo)

Angela De Venuto, soprano

ACADEMY CELLO ENSEMBLE

Amelia Zitoun, Serge Kalinovsky, Ma’ayan Kertcher, Jan Vargas Nedvetsky, Simon Updegraff, Xavier Miyazaki, Lucy Wu

Bianca D’Avila Do Prado, guest artist

James Setapen, conductor

Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 452

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I. Largo – Allegro Moderato (1756-1791)

II. Larghetto

III. Rondo: Allegretto

Marta Aznavoorian, piano

Erica Anderson, oboe • Barbara Drapcho, clarinet

Galina Kiep, bassoon • Matthew Oliphant, horn

INTERMISSION

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466

I. Allegro

II. Romanza

III. Allegro Assai

Inna Faliks, piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ACADEMY ORCHESTRA

James Setapen, conductor

ANGELA DE VENUTO, SOPRANO

Praised for her versatility and range, soprano Angela

De Venuto is becoming known as a dramatic force in classical music. In addition to the standard repertory, De Venuto’s affinity for new music makes her a soughtafter interpreter by many of today’s established and up-and-coming composers of vocal music.

De Venuto has recently made role debuts with the Savannah Voice Festival as Musetta (La Bohème) and the title role in Alice Riley (Michael Ching) under the baton of Andrew Bisantz, and the world premiere of Michael Ching’s Anna Hunter as Sarah Davenport/Jane.

De Venuto has portrayed a wide range of characters, including: Emily Webb (Our Town), Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), the title role in Angélique, Adele (Die Fledermaus), Amore (The Return of Ulysses, DePaul Opera Theatre), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Despina (Cosí fan tutte, DuPage Opera Theatre), Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw, Chicago Fringe Opera), Marzelline (Fidelio, Intermezzi), and Maria (West Side Story, Northwest Chicago Symphony).

De Venuto has been a soloist and recitalist with Ensemble 20+, a Chicago based contemporary music ensemble, the Music Institute of Chicago, the Metropolis Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra of Evanston, and DePaul University’s Symphony Orchestra, singing pieces from the concert canon such as Mozart’s Requiem and C Minor Mass, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G Major, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. New music highlights include Comala Suite by Zohn-Muldoon based on the novel Pedro Párama by Mexican author Juan Rulfo, Poems of Amy Lowell set by Benjamin Krause, and Estonian folk texts set by Leo Radosavljevic. Notable composer collaborations include, Thomas Pasatieri, Libby Larsen, and her husband, singer, pianist, and composer, Leo Radosavljevic.

Most recently, De Venuto was a quarterfinalist in the 12th International Telemann Competition held in Telemann’s birthplace of Magdeburg, Germany and was named a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition (2019). De Venuto has been awarded first prizes in the Evanston Music Club Competition (2018), Classical Singer competition Emerging Professional

Division (2017), Musician’s Club of Women (2017), the Sherrill Milnes Opera Idol competition (2016), and won 2nd place in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition (2018). Working in collaboration with her husband, they received 2nd prize in Chicago’s 3rd annual SongSlam art song competition with his setting of Eleanor Roosevelt’s address to the United Nations in 1948 (Words of Eleanor).

De Venuto has been on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago since 2020 and was a former MIC student of Susan Charles. Angela received her Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from DePaul University.

BIANCA D’AVILA DO PRADO, CELLO

Brazilian cellist and pedagogue Bianca d’Avila do Prado is member of the cello faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago and an online instructor for the University of Idaho Preparatory Division. At MIC she teaches Suzuki and Traditional cello and works with the Third Coast Suzuki Strings outreach program students.

Prado holds a Master of Music in Cello Performance and String Pedagogy degree from Illinois State University. She was principal cellist at the ISU Symphony Orchestra and North Idaho Philarmonia and has been playing as a guest cellist with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. As a member of Camerata Ontoarte, she recorded six CDs and performed concerts in Brazil, Italy, and Russia. She was also part of the Theatro São Pedro Chamber Orchestra and Quatricelli Cello Quartet.

Prado has been working on making Brazilian music for strings more accessible to students in the US. She had her articles "Teaching Diversity: Four Brazilian Pieces for String Orchestra" published in the Scroll Magazine and "Viajando Pelo Brasil I, Suite for Strings: A Fun way to Explore the Richness of Brazilian Culture and Music” in the American String Teacher Magazine. Her composition “Brazilian Habanera” was one of the five pieces selected to be part of the Beginning Level Volumes of the Celebrating Diversity in String Music Anthology. She is also one of the composers commissioned by the Cello Teaching Repertoire Consortium this year and is writing a cello solo suite for intermediate students.

Her article "Setting Habits for Success: How Being a Suzuki Student Can Transform Your Child’s Brain" was published in the American Suzuki Journal.

ACADEMY CELLO ENSEMBLE

The seven cellists in the MIC Academy, joined by MIC faculty member Bianca d’Avila do Prado, are pleased to play Heitor Villa-Lobos’ famous work for soprano and cello ensemble, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. MIC faculty soprano Angela de Venuto will sing the haunting melody of this work that, when it was first recorded in 1939, instantly made Villa-Lobos famous.

SERGE KALINOVSKY , 16, an Academy Merit Scholarship Fellow, is a student of Susan Moses in Bloomington, IN. He has been the First Prize winner of the 2020 Indianapolis Symphony Maurer Young Musicians Contest, the 2021 Philadelphia International Music Festival Competition, the 2023 DePaul Concerto Competition, the 2023 Orchestra Indiana Young Artist Competition, and a runner-up at the 2023 International Young Artist Concerto Competition in Chicago. He has participated in the IU Summer String Academy, Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program, and the Heifetz International Music Institute in Virginia. This summer, he’ll attend Chamber Music Northwest and Music@Menlo Young Artists Programs.

MA’AYAN KERTCHER , 17, an Academy Merit Scholarship Fellow, currently studies with Academy faculty member Dr. Tanya Carey. Ma’ayan has been featured on the WFMT Introductions program several times and has played for esteemed artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Aaron, and Natasha Brofsky. She has also received honors in the Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition and Society of American Musicians Competition.

XAVIER MIYAZAKI , 16, an Academy Merit Scholarship Fellow, has studied at the Meadowmount School of Music during the summers of 2021 and 2022, performed for the Emperor of Japan, and played in masterclasses with David Requiro and Lluís Claret. A passionate advocate for social justice, Xavier frequently performs for older adults in isolation through a Music Institute outreach program and participates in Kids’ Guerunica, a global art-based youth diplomacy and peace program. Xavier studies with Hans Jensen and plays a German cello, c. 1890, generously loaned to him by the Carlsen Cello Foundation.

JAN VARGAS NEDVETSKY , 16, an Academy Merit Scholarship Fellow, studies with Hans Jensen and Oleksa Mycyk. As a solo and chamber performer, Jan has won numerous awards in competitions and soloed with orchestras in the US and Europe. Most recently Jan was a First Alternate winner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, a Semi-Finalist in the 2023 and

2022 Sphinx Competitions, and a First Prize winner in the 2022 Society of the American Musicians Competition. He participated in the 2016-2021 Musica Mundi International Chamber Music Festivals in Waterloo, Belgium, 20192021 Moulin D’Ande Masterclasses in Ande, France, and 2022 Meadowmount School of Music in Westport, NY.

SIMON UPDEGRAFF , 16, began studying cello at age four and studies with faculty member Avi Friedlander. He is a Scholarship Fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy and a Merit Scholarship winner at the Music Institute of Chicago. He received an honorable mention in the 2022 Walgreens National Concerto Competition and was selected for the 2022 Illinois Music Education Association all-state honors orchestra. Simon has won first place in the Primary, Junior, and Intermediate cello division competitions of the Society of American Musicians.

LUCY WU , 14, an Academy Merit Scholarship Fellow, began cello studies at age seven and currently studies with Dr. Stefan Kartman. She won the 2019 and 2020 MYSO Concerto Competition and made her solo orchestral debut with MYSO. In 2023, Lucy was a finalist of the Bolz Young Artist Competition, where she performed the Elgar Concerto with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. She was also a finalist and recipient of the Anne French Burnham Scholarship award at the 2023 Schubert Club Competition.

AMELIA ZITOUN , 17, an Academy Merit Scholarship Fellow, currently studies with Hans Jensen. Amelia has won first place in many competitions, including the Bolz Competition, the Milwaukee Symphony’s Stars of Tomorrow Competition, the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee High School Competition, the DePaul Concerto Competition, and the Schubert Club Competition (junior and senior division). She will also compete as a semi-finalist in the Stulberg International String Competition later this month. This summer she will attend the Perlman Music Program.

MARTA AZNAVOORIAN, PIANO

Pianist Marta Aznavoorian is known for her inspiringly spirited playing and vast emotional reach. The multi Grammy-nominated artist has performed to critical acclaim throughout the world as orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician.

Aznavoorian made her professional debut at the age of 13 performing Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, K 491 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the invitation of Sir George Solti. She then went on to engage with orchestras throughout the United States and abroad including Sydney Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Chicago Symphony and many others including an engagement with the New World Symphony as a result of an invitation from Michael Tilson Thomas who was also the conductor.

Aznavoorian has many awards and accolades including First prize in the Stravinsky International Competition and the special prize for best interpretation of the commissioned contemporary work. As a recipient of the Level 1 award in the National Foundation of the Arts talent search, Aznavoorian became a Presidential Scholar and was invited to the White House where she met former President George H.W. Bush and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. With her expressive energy and originality she brings to new and traditional classical music, Aznavoorian has recorded extensively for Naxos, Warner Classics and Erato, and has just released her 7th album under record label, Cedille Records.

Aznavoorian is founding member of the Grammy-nominated Lincoln Trio, which Fanfare Magazine has labeled as the “hottest Trio in the business”. Aznavoorian also performs extensively with violinist Stefan Milenkovich, and her sister, cellist Ani Aznavoorian. The Aznavoorian sister Duo released their debut album in 2022 called Gems from Armenia for Cedille Records.

Champion and lover of contemporary music, Aznavoorian has recorded music and premiers by the world’s leading composers of our time including William Bolcom, Osvaldo Golijov, Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Stacy Garrop, Joan Tower and Jennifer Higdon among others.

A student of the renowned teacher, Menahem Pressler, Aznavoorian received her Bachelor Degree and Artist Diploma at Indiana University and Masters Degree from New England Conservatory. As a dedicated educator and philanthropist, she gives lessons and masterclasses across the United States and abroad, and is on faculty at DePaul University and the Music Institute of Chicago where she is also Artist in Residence. Aznavoorian works with many programs to help create training pathways for students from traditionally under represented backgrounds. Her new foundation aims to help fund these students and help them achieve their full musical potential. Marta Aznavoorian is a Steinway Artist.

More information at martaaznavoorian.com.

Summer Chamber Music Opportunities

Chamber Music Mondays

for Woodwinds and Brass

Eight week session begins Monday, June 12

7 - 9 PM | 300 Green Bay Road, Winnetka

For intermediate to advanced students

This summer enjoy making music with friends and build musical and team building skills. Each two-hour class includes a coaching and rehearsal time with your group.

Summer Chamber Music for Adults

Six week session begins Thursday, June 15

4 - 6 PM | 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston

For intermediate to advanced musicians

Explore chamber music throughout music history and learn how ensembles evoled over time. Connect with fellow musicians with whom to play during the year.

Quintet Attacca Chamber Camp for Adults

Friday, July 14 - Sunday, July 16

40 East Old Mill Road, Lake Forest

For adult musicians with three or more years of private study

Join Quintet Attacca, MIC ensemble-in-residence and winner of the 2002 Grand Prize of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Wind quintets, trios, and quartets enjoy daily rehearsals, coachings, and master classes. Immerse yourself in chamber music for the weekend and develop your craft as a performer, communicator, and musician.

Chamber Music at the Music Institute of Chicago

musicinst.org/chamber-music

QUINTET ATTACCA

Founded in 1999, Quintet Attacca is one of Chicago's most dynamic chamber music ensembles. Grand Prize Winner and Wind Division Gold Medal Winner of the 2002 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the quintet spent 20062009 as the Chicago Chamber Musicians' Professional Development Program Ensemble. Quintet Attacca is also proud to be in residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, offering performances, family programming, chamber music coaching and individual lessons.

Quintet Attacca is an ensemble dedicated to bringing the unique sound of the wind quintet to all types of audiences. Quintet Attacca has reached audiences from Italy (at the 2003 Emilia Romagne Festival) to New York (at the Schneider Concerts Series at the New School) to concert halls all over Chicagoland as well as many live broadcasts on WFMT. Recent performances include a residency with Chamber Music Society of Detroit, C3 Composers at Constellation, and Chamber Music on the Fox.

Priding itself on its innovative programming, Quintet Attacca enjoys presenting concerts that are both accessible and cutting-edge. Programs span from Classical and Romantic eras to jazz and Latin influenced works and include pieces of today’s leading composers as well. Additionally, six works have been written for the quintet: David Smooke's Trompe L'oeil , Collin Anderson's Tangram , Rami Levin’s Danças Brasilieras and Portraits , Dana McCormick's Two Episodes for Wind Quintet , and Daniel Asia’s Chicago Variations.

More information at quintetattacca.com.

INNA FALIKS, PIANO

Called “Adventurous and passionate” by The New Yorker, Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most communicative, and poetic artists of her generation. She has made a name for herself through commanding performances of standard piano repertoire, as well genrebending, interdisciplinary projects, and inquisitive work with contemporary composers.

Faliks’s distinguished career has brought thousands of recitals and concerts throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Recent seasons have included performances at the Ravinia Festival, National Gallery of Art, and the Wallis Annenberg Center, tours of China, with appearances in all of its major halls including the Beijing Center for Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Arts Theater and Tianjin Grand Theater; debuts at the Festival Internacional de Piano in Mexico, the Fazioli Series in Italy, Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum, Portland Piano Festival, Camerata Pacifica and a collaboration with the contemporary dance company, Bodytraffic at the Broad Stage. She has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Salle Cortot in Paris, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall and at many important festivals such as Verbier, Mondo Musica Cremona, Gilmore, Newport, Music in the Mountains, Brevard, Taos, the International Keyboard Festival in New York, Bargemusic Here and Now, and Chautauqua. Since her acclaimed teenage debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Harvey Felder she has been regularly engaged as a concerto soloist: Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the Greensboro Symphony, Gershwin with Daniel Meyer and the Erie Symphony, Clara Schumann with Erin Freeman at the Wintergreen Festival, Beethoven 3rd with the Williamsburg Symphony, Prokofiev 1 and 3 with Victor Yampolsky and the Peninsula Festival Orchestra, Tchaikovsky 1 with Robert Moody and the Memphis Symphony, and numerous concerti under the batons of such renowned conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart, Edward Polochick, and Neal Stuhlberg, as well as important emerging conductors like Thomas Heuser and Yaniv Attar.

Inquisitive and versatile, Inna Faliks has had a strong commitment to contemporary music giving premieres of works composed for and dedicated to her by Timo Andres, Billy Childs, Richard Danielpour, Paola Prestini, Ljova, Clarice Assad, Peter Golub. Faliks’ discography includes Reimagine: Beethoven

& Ravel (Navona, 2021), for which she commissioned nine composers to respond to Beethoven’s Bagatelles op 126 and Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. Also released in 2021 (MSR Classics) is The Schumann Project, Volume 1, which includes Clara Schumann’s G minor sonata and Robert Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, opus 13. Other releases include all-Beethoven and Rachmaninoff/Ravel/Pasternak discs for MSR Classics, and The Master and Margarita project, featuring three world premieres on Sono Luminus (2022).

Faliks founded the award-winning poetry-music series Music/Words in 2008, with dozens of performances in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, both on stage and on WFMT radio. She regularly tours her monologue-recital PolonaiseFantasie, the Story of a Pianist, which tells the story of her immigration to the United States from Odessa with music by Bach, Chopin, Gershwin and Carter (recorded on Delos).

A past winner of many prestigious competitions, Inna Faliks is currently Professor of Piano and Head of Piano at UCLA. She is in demand as Artist Teacher and is frequently invited to judge competitions and give masterclasses at major conservatories and universities. As a writer, she has been published by LA Times and Washington Post. During Covid, she started a weekly online recital series, Corona Fridays, featuring children’s concerts, new music, and poetry. Her musical memoir, titled Weight in the Fingertips, will be published in 2023 by Globe Pequot. Inna Faliks is a Yamaha Artist. More information at innafaliks.com.

JAMES SETAPEN, CONDUCTOR

James Setapen, Director of the Academy and Conductor-in-Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, has a broad background and varied interests, which include positions as music director, associate conductor, guest conductor, university professor, opera coach and conductor, mentor to young musicians, conducting teacher, and public speaker.

From 1988 to 2007 he was Music Director and Conductor of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. His very successful tenure included raising and sustaining the quality of performance, developing community interest and knowledge in the orchestra, and establishing innovative and accessible programs. During his tenure the Symphony premiered several works, expanded its outreach into the community, initiated an outdoor Labor Day concert with fireworks, and was the subject of two television documentaries which were each broadcast in over one hundred markets throughout the country.

Setapen has guest conducted many orchestras and opera companies throughout the country, including those of Denver, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Orlando, and Honolulu. He has also conducted in several cities in Italy, Germany and Austria. He was Music Director of Summer Music Monterey, a program for middle school and high school music students, for seven summers. He has also worked with the youth orchestras of Oakland, Denver, and Amarillo. He was recently guest conductor for the Vermont All-State Orchestra, the Milwaukee High School Honors Orchestra, and the Northeast Kansas Honors Orchestra.

In June 2002 he and his daughter Ilana were guest conductor and violin soloist with the “Musical Offering of Venice” Chamber Orchestra. In June 2005 they were again featured as soloist and conductor with the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Former Associate Conductor of the Denver Symphony, Setapen won first prize in the Oakland Symphony’s American Conductor’s Competition, and as the San Francisco Examiner reported, “the consensus choice of the six judges, the orchestra and the audience…[he displayed] undeniable power and vitality –conductorial authority – that won him the prize.”

James Setapen received his Bachelor of Music with Distinction and a Performer’s Certificate in Clarinet from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master of Music in Opera Direction from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has also studied conducting with Boris Goldovsky and Max Rudolf, with Carl Melles at the Salzburg Mozarteum, with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy, and in Krakow, Poland with Christoph Eschenbach. Setapen has also been on the faculty of the Conductor’s Institute at Bard College in New York.

THE ACADEMY

The Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, led by Director James Setapen, is a nationally recognized training center for gifted pre-college pianists and string players that provides a comprehensive music education for students who aspire to be professional musicians.

Located 30 minutes north of Chicago on the beautiful grounds of Reid Hall and Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at Lake Forest College, the Academy is a musical community of faculty, staff and students who come together for an intensive 30-week Saturday program.

The Academy program includes private instruction, chamber music, orchestra, music theory, master classes, and a variety of performance opportunities. All Academy students are introduced to a broad range of teaching styles, likeminded peers, and artist faculty.

Because of the Academy’s small size (approximately 35 young musicians ages 13 to 19), the program provides each student individual attention and unparalleled support while nurturing and inspiring musical growth and fostering life-long friendships.

ACADEMY ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLIN

Sameer Agrawal

Ellen Zhou

Kana Aihara

Pavlo Kyryliuk

Sarah Plum*

Naomi Culp*

SECOND VIOLIN

Zak Chen

Lily Sullivan

Elle Cho

Emily Chen

Neal Eisfeldt

Leo Zupko

VIOLA

Lauren Kim

Mingshi Xia

Julia Perekhozhuk

Sarah Montzka*

CELLO

Jan Vargas Nedvetsky

Ma’ayan Kertcher

Serge Kalinovsky

Lucy Wu

Amelia Zitoun

Xavier Miyazaki

Simon Updegraff

BASS

Luke Reaume

Eric Snoza*

FLUTE

Gaby Vargas*

OBOE

Erica Anderson*

Lindsay Haukebo*

BASSOON

Galina Kiep*

Joshua Fleming*

FRENCH HORN

Joanna Schulz*

Alexander Love*

TRUMPET

William Baxtresser*

John Burson*

TIMPANI

John Corkill*

ORCHESTRA MANAGER

Naomi Culp

*Guest artist

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 April 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023.

$100,000 or more

The Negaunee Foundation

Alexandra C.* and John D. Nichols

$50,000 to $99,999

John and Pauline Fife

Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.

ITW

Barbara A. Speer

$25,000 to $49,999

The Grainger Foundation

Lori Julian for the Julian Family Foundation

Susan Kiphart

David C. Blowers and Northern Trust

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan

Scott and Nancy Santi

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

The Wallace Foundation

William Wolf and Meredith Bluhm-Wolf

$10,000 to $24,999

Anonymous (2)

Abbott

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

BMO

Rita and John Canning, The Canning Foundation

The Crown Family

Roger and Sandra Deromedi

Janet and Craig Duchossois

Edwardson Family Foundation

Evanston Arts Council

Linda and Bill Gantz

Hans* and Denitta Germann

Ambassador and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz

Mona Golub

Norman and Cynthia Goldring

Guidehouse

Dan* and Yoo Mi Hahn

Harris Family Foundation

Caroline and Charles Huebner

J. Thomas Hurvis and Ann Andersen

Illinois Arts Council Agency

Irving Harris Foundation

Hans and Angela Jostlein

Anne L. Kaplan

Ethelle Katz

Susan R. Kiphart

Mrs. Paul Klimstra

KPMG

Tom* and Joyce Leddy

Jim and Kay* Mabie Family

Make It Better Foundation

Robert R. McCormick Foundation

Molex

National Endowment for the Arts

Brenna and John Nichols

Northern Trust Corporation

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Renée Parquette*

Timothy Patenode* and Judy Royal

Ravinia Festival Association

Michael and Cari Sacks

Sage Foundation

Barbara* and Peter Sereda

Sidley Austin LLP

Liz Stiffel

Lee Anne* and Rich Stoddart

Jim Stone*

Pam and Russ Strobel

The John Taylor Family

UL Research Institute

Zalman* and Karen Usiskin

Scott* and Areta Verschoor

$5,000- $9,999

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bobins, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation

Beth and Chuck Boehrer

Dr. Tanya L. Carey

Lawrence Corry

Dana and Mark DeAngelis

Thomas W. Dower Foundation

Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation

Thomas L. and Patricia S. Gahlon

James and Louis Glasser

Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Harper Family Foundation

Courtney Holohan* and Wesley Mueller Erin and Wellington Hsu

Jane Irwin

The Dolores Kohn Education Foundation

Karen and Mark Koulogeorge

Mr. and Mrs. William J. McKenna

Joan and Charles Moore

Robert and Diane Moriarty

Sylvia M. Neil and Dan Fischel

Nancy and Marc Poggioli

Sargent Family Foundation

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Jennifer Steans and Jim Kastenholz

Bob and Gael Strong

David* and Eileen Zampa

Helen Zell

Weihua and Tao Zhu

* MIC Trustee

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

Contributions of all sizes support our shared commitment to educate and inspire musicians and music lovers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds, regardless of experience or financial means.

Nichols Concert Hall

Summer Chicago Duo Piano Festival

July 7-16, 2023

GALA OPENING CONCERT

FRIDAY, JULY 7 AT 7:30 PM

Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem

“Bringer of Jollity”

GUEST DUO MASTER CLASS

SUNDAY, JULY 9 AT 1:00 PM

Inna Faliks & Daniel Schlosberg

GUEST DUO CONCERT

SUNDAY, JULY 9 AT 4:00 PM

Inna Faliks & Daniel Schlosberg

Mahler’s Symphony No. 6

FACULTY CONCERT

TUESDAY, JULY 11 AT 7:30 PM

GUEST DUO CONCERT

FRIDAY, JULY 14 AT 7:30 PM

Duo Amadeae

Gershwin’s “An American in Paris ”

GUEST DUO MASTER CLASS

SATURDAY, JULY 15 AT 10:00 AM

Duo Amadeae: Esther & Sun-A Park

BOARD OF TRUSTEES TRUSTEES

Scott Verschoor, Chair

Alexandra C. Nichols, Chair Emerita

Tom Leddy, 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

Timothy Patenode

James H. Stone

Ross Updegraff

Zalman Usiskin

Audra Wilson

David Zampa

Florian Zettelmeyer

LIFE TRUSTEES

John J. Berwanger

Gilbert W. Bowen

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

RECITAL