Project Trio Brings Bach ‘Outside-the-Box’ Music-Making to Students

November 08, 2024 in Classical, Music Education, Ravinia Magazine, Reach Teach Play, The Artists

Classical chamber music, rock and roll, and hip-hop might seem as separate as oil and water, but for Project Trio, these are the ingredients to an ever-evolving, high-energy setlist that keeps their audiences perpetually on the edge of their seats.

On Saturday, November 9, innovative chamber group Project Trio will bring their genre-bending music to Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall—but their first Ravinia performances have been sharing their passion for improvisation and composition with hundreds of students across Chicagoland. This past week, the trio conducted three workshops and two in-school performances in collaboration with Ravinia’s Reach Teach Play education programs, showing students that improvisation and classical music can go hand-in-hand.

James Ehnes Keeps a Compelling Calendar

August 25, 2023 in Classical, Ravinia Magazine, The Artists, RaviniaNews

On September 5, James Ehnes will join the Chicago-based Music of the Baroque and Dame Jane Glover as soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. He has appeared four times previously at the Ravinia Festival, but this visit will be his first since 2013. “I love playing in the Pavilion at Ravinia, but I’ve never played in the Martin Theatre, so this is going to be something new, different, and exciting,” he said. The 47-year-old violinist appeared as a soloist with Glover at the Aspen Music Festival in 2021 in the Beethoven Violin Concerto. “I just found her music-making to be so natural and so enjoyable to play with, so I’m really looking forward to being with her again.”

Alon Goldstein Delights In A Small-Ensemble Look at Mozart Concertos

August 24, 2015 in Ravinia Magazine, Artist News

“It is no revelation,” Goldstein reminds us, “to say that these Mozart concertos are miniature operas. So in the concert we are telling a dramatic story about an infinite array of characters; we are going to have the maid, we are to have the Count, we are going to have the gardener—all these characters coming to life. And it is nicer to speak to them close!”