Jorge Federico Osorio Plays Beethoven at Ravinia, 7/15

Mexico-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Ravinia Music Director James Conlon to perform the complete Beethoven concertos over two days beginning with an 8 p.m. concert on Thursday, July 15, featuring concertos No. 1, 2 and 3. The July 15 concert continues Ravinia's celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence, with the festival teaming with its hometown city of Highland Park, which maintains a strong sister cities relationship with Puerto Vallarta. Puerto Vallarta will send a cultural delegation, including its mayor, to the festival for the July 15 concert. Chef Thierry Blouet, owner of the acclaimed Café des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta and Café des Artistes del Mar in Punta Mita, will be a guest chef in Ravinia's Park View restaurant on July 15 and 16.

In the AT&T tent acclaimed artist Oscar Romero will create a mural inspired by the music of the main-stage concert. Traditional Mexican music by Juan Rivera and Los Pichardo will be heard throughout the park prior to the 8 p.m. CSO performance. Ravinia will host a special family space on the north lawn, where families can engage in activities that include music-related crafts, Spanish storytelling and an "instrument petting zoo" where kids can experience and play instruments, including instruments from Latin America.

Earlier that day violinist Pamela Frank will conduct a Steans Music Institute master class at 2 p.m. in Bennett • Gordon Hall that is free and open to the public. Osorio joins the CSO led by Conlon to complete his traversal of Beethoven's piano concertos at 8 p.m. on Friday, July 16, performing Nos. 4 and No. 5 ("Emperor"). Prior to the main-stage concert, a free preview concert in Bennett • Gordon Hall featuring piano and strings artists from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute begins at 5:45 p.m. Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell and the CSO continue Ravinia's summer of celebrations of Mahler and Barber with an 8 p.m. concert on Tuesday, July 13. The program will include Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10, Barber's Adagio for Strings and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor. Bell, who debuted with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 14, is a Grammy Award winner and a Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame inductee. Prior to the main-stage concert, a free preview concert in Bennett • Gordon Hall featuring piano and strings artists from Ravinia's
Steans Music Institute begins at 5:45 p.m.

The Swell Season makes their Ravinia debut at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 14, in the pavilion. Glen Hansard, from the Irish band The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist, starred in the film Once and later won an Academy Award in 2007 for Best Original Song ("Falling Slowly"). Musical icon Sting makes his long-awaited Ravinia debut at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, with a second performance at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 18, as part of his "Xerox presents: Symphonicity Tour." These concerts feature his most celebrated songs re-imagined for symphonic arrangement in an evening of classic hits with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio. Known for his chart-topping hits such as "Roxanne," "Every Breath You Take," "King of Pain," and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," with Grammy Award-winning trio The Police, Sting also has celebrated a successful solo career with such hits as "Russians," "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," "Fields of Gold" and "Desert Rose." All pavilion and lawn tickets are completely sold-out for both concerts. A free chamber music concert featuring artists from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute will take place at 1 p.m. in Bennett • Gordon Hall on July 18.

Ravinia Festival is located at Lake Cook and Green Bay roads in Highland Park. For concert information or to purchase tickets please visit Ravinia.org or contact the box office at (847) 266-5100. All season long, Ravinia will accept donations of non-perishable food and toiletry items for local food depositories which can be dropped off near the information booth at the main entrance of the park. Follow, connect and interact online at backstage.ravinia.org. Ravinia Festival is a not-for-profit organization.

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