The Ravinia Steans Music Institute is an international destination for young professional musicians devoted to uniquely honing and advancing their talents as collaborative artists. RSMI’s Program for Singers offers 15 singers annually an opportunity to delve deeply into the vast repertoire of art song for three weeks. Fellows work with a faculty of distinguished musicians, pedagogues, and scholars on varied aspects of the musical tradition, including style, technique, language, diction, dramaturgy, performance, and career preparation. Many of the program’s alumni have cultivated highly visible and successful careers. This week, Kevin Murphy, Artistic Director of the RSMI Program for Singers, joins WFMT to talk about this oasis for the study and performance of art song at Ravinia Festival. See the schedule for this season’s events HERE.
Ravinia Steans Music Institute Program for Singers
Playlist
Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42;
2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen
Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano
Kevin Murphy, piano
Alban Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
3. Die Nachtigall
5. Im Zimmer
Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano
Brent Funderburk, piano
Henri Duparc: Phydilé
Laurence Kilsby, tenor
Marika Yasuda, piano
Franz Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen, D. 343
Schubert: Erlkönig, D. 328
Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Joaquín Rodrigo: Cuatro madrigales amatorios
4. De los álamos vengo, madre
Olivia Boen, soprano
Cameron Richardson-Eames, piano
Jacques Ibert: Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte
2. Chanson à Dulcinée
Nicholas Newton, bass-baritone
Marika Yasuda, piano
Hugo Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
1. Auch kleine Dinge
8. Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen, liebstes Leben
46. Ich hab’ in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen
Diana Newman, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Francis Poulenc: Les Chemins de l’Amour
Reynaldo Hahn: L’heure exquise
Nils Nilsen, tenor
Brent Funderburk, piano
All performances were recorded live in Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia Festival and are used with permission.
