2015 Chicago Viola Festival at Ravinia - Clinicians Announced

The annual Chicago Viola Festival takes place Sunday, March 15, 2015 at Bennett Gordon Hall in Ravinia Festival.

If you are one of the following:

If you are a:

- Young Violist
- High School Violist
- College Violist
- Amateur Violist
- Professional Violist
- Viola teacher
- Parent of a violist
- Viola Enthusiast

...then the Chicago Viola Festival is perfect for you!

The Chicago Viola Festival is an event for the Chicago-area viola community that highlights the talents of the violists in our major performing organizations and teachers at our academic institutions while creating a learning event for the next generation. Come learn, share, and explore the vibrant Chicago viola scene and work with some of the United States’ most talented and acclaimed viola clinicians. Visit http://violafest.mya.org/ to register for the festival.

The Chicago Viola Festival takes place at the wonderful Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois, 30 minutes north of Chicago!

There will be master classes, technique sessions, instrument vendors, performances, and much more. Visit http://violafest.mya.org/ to register for the festival and see the full schedule.

The following clinicians will be in attendance at the 2015 Chicago Viola Festival:

Frank Babbitt - Lyric Opera of Chicago; faculty, Northwestern University
Anthony Devroye - Avalon String Quartet; faculty, Northern Illinois University
Christine Due - faculty, DePaul University
Kate Lewis - faculty, Illinois State University
Christiana Reader - faculty, Illinois State University
Rami Solomonow - Chicago Chamber Musicians; faculty, DePaul University
Michael Strauss - Indianapolis Symphony; faculty, Oberlin College

Midwest Young Artists would like to thank the following festival sponsors: A440 Violin Shop (http://www.a440violinshop.com/), Classic Violins (http://www.classicviolins.com/), Seman Violins (http://semanviolins.com/), and Tom Owen Violins (http://tomowenviolins.com/).

For more information, please contact the festival coordinator, Ben Rusch (BenRusch@mya.org) or call (847) 926-9898. Visit http://violafest.mya.org/ for more info.

About MYA: Midwest Young Artists is a top rated youth music ensemble programs in the Midwest and represents some of the best young musicians in the country. The program offers exceptional training in jazz, choral, chamber and orchestral instruction. MYA currently reaches more than 1,000 students from 74 communities in the metropolitan Chicago area with eight youth orchestras, more than 65 chamber music ensembles, four choral ensembles, an all-inclusive jazz program, early childhood education, and classes in music theory and history. Students have the opportunity to travel abroad and to perform in major venues throughout Chicago and around the world. MYA graduates are accepted at the most selective conservatories, universities and colleges in the country.

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