Joel Fan joins Ravinia Festival’s 2011-2012 Rising Stars 11/19

American pianist Joel Fan joins Ravinia Festival's 2011-2012 Rising Stars series with a concert on Saturday, Nov. 19. Fan has embraced traditional literature as well as an eclectic range of repertoire, including new music commissioned especially for him, world music and his own transcriptions. As a recording artist, he earned two consecutive Billboard top-10 debuts with his solo CDs, World Keys and West of the Sun. In collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma as a member of the Silk Road Ensemble, Fan has appeared in numerous venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and on television programs Good Morning America and Late Night with David Letterman. As a soloist he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Singapore Symphony, and Odessa Philharmonic, among others. Fan's program includes works by Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Kirchner (composed for Fan), Bolcom, Bonds and Succari. This Nov. 19 concert replaces the previously announced performance featuring pianist Daria Rabotkina.

Ravinia's Rising Stars series continues the music during the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012, bringing the brightest stars of the next generation of professional classical musicians to the festival. All concerts take place in the festival's most intimate performance space, the

indoor 450-seat Bennett Gordon Hall, and tickets are priced at only $10. In addition to their Rising Stars performances, the artists will also perform in free concerts for students involved

in Ravinia's REACH*TEACH*PLAY education programs throughout the Chicago area.

The series opens with the Joseph M. Fabbioli concert featuring 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner pianist Gilles Vonsattel on Oct. 1; and continues with violinist and Ravinia Steans alum Bella Hristova, first-prize winner of the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions who has been featured on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, on Oct. 15; the Linden String Quartet, the Yale School of Music graduate string quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music and grand-prize-winner of the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, on Oct. 29; Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute, a touring chamber ensemble whose members are selected each year from the most promising musicians to attend Ravinia's summer conservatory, on April 7; and the a cappella quintet Calmus, first prize winners at the Robert Schumann Choral Competition and the International Competition for Vocal Ensembles in Finland, on April 28.

Ravinia Festival gratefully acknowledges the support of The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund and The Bruning Foundation for their generous participation as sponsors of this series.
Tickets for Rising Stars concerts are $10, with a 20 percent discount on orders for tickets to four or more concerts. All concerts are at 8 p.m. on Saturdays. Ravinia also offers concert/dining packages for each show at a special price of $40. Catered by Carlos' Restaurant, a number one rated restaurant by Zagats located in Highland Park, Carlos's Rising Star dinners will take place prior to the concert at 6 p.m. in the Freehling Room.

Ravinia Festival's Bennett Gordon Hall is located in the John D. Harza building on the Ravinia Festival grounds, 201 St. Johns Ave in Highland Park, IL. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Ravinia.org or call the Ravinia Box Office at 847-266-5100. Ravinia Festival welcomes all fans to follow, connect and interact online at facebook.com (search Ravinia Festival), twitter.com/raviniafestival and backstage.ravinia.org. Listen to the music of Ravinia artists at the festival's free online radio station at Raviniaradio.org, which is available 24 hours a day. Ravinia Festival is a not-for-profit organization.

Saturday, Oct. 1, 8 p.m. - Bennett Gordon Hall

Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

Dallapiccola: Sonatina cononica

Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D. 958

Sibelius: Kyllikki: Three Lyric Pieces, Op. 41

Heinz Elis: Drei Nachtstücke

Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Joseph M. Fabbioli Concert

Program Sponsor: The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund

Tickets: $10/Park opens at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. - Bennett Gordon Hall

Bella Hristova, Violin

Anna Polonsky, Piano

Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105

Joan Tower: String Force

Janá?ek: Violin Sonata

R. Strauss: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18

Program Sponsor: The Bruning Foundation

Tickets: $10/Park opens at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m. - Bennett Gordon Hall

Linden String Quartet

Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 In C Minor, D. 703 ("Quartettsatz")
Berg: String Quartet Op. 3
Kelly-Marie Murphy: Dark Energy
Ravel: String Quartet In F Major

Program Sponsor: The Bruning Foundation

Tickets: $10/Park opens at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m. - Bennett Gordon Hall

Joel Fan, Piano

Dia Succari: La Nuit du Destin ("The Night of Destiny")

Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water

Rachmaninoff: Sonata in B-Flat Minor, Op. 36

William Bolcom: Nine New Bagatelles

Leon Kirchner: Sonata No. 3 ("The Forbidden")

(written for Joel Fan)

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Program Sponsor: The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund

Tickets: $10/Park opens at 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m. - Bennett Gordon Hall

Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute

Miriam Fried, Violin

Tessa Lark, Violin

Ayane Kozasa, Viola

Deborah Pae, Cello

Nathan Vickery, Cello

Adam Golka, Piano

Beethoven: Piano Trio In B-Flat Major, Op. 11

Bernard Rands: String Quartet No. 2

Schubert: String Quintet In C Major, D. 956

Program Sponsor: The Bruning Foundation

Tickets: $10/Park opens at 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 28, 8 p.m. - Bennett Gordon Hall

Calmus

Bach: Dir, Dir, Jehova, Will Ich Singen, Bwv 452

Sei Lob Und Preis Mit Ehren Bwv 28

Alles, Was Odem Hat, Lobe Den Herrn Bwv 225

Purcell: Remember Not, Lord, Our Offenses

Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry

Flecha: El Fuego ("El Viejo")

Stanford: Shall We Go Dance?

The Blue Bird

Traditional/Irish: Sally Gardens (arr. L. Böhme)

Traditional/Irish: Finnegan's Wake (arr. S. Krause)

Harold Banter: Abendharmonie

Three Jazz Ballads

Sting: Fragile (arr. Fredo Jung)

Freddie Mercury: Love Of My Life (arr. Makaroff)

Georg Kreisler: Good Old Ed (arr. S. Krause)

Michael Jackson: Remember The Time (arr. L. Böhme)

Bobby McFerrin: Don't Worry, Be Happy (arr. Böhme)

Tickets: $10/Park opens at 7 p.m.