We’re coming to you LIVE from the 2025 Ravinia Steans Music Institute (RSMI) for an afternoon of chamber music featuring students and faculty of this year's festival.

RSMI’s Program for Piano & Strings concentrates on interpretation and small-group collaboration through the practice and performance of classical sonata and chamber repertoire. Up to 35 violinists, violists, cellists, pianists, and members of pre-existing chamber groups gather for five weeks of immersive and intensive rehearsals and coachings with a rotating roster of some of the world’s finest teaching artists.

You can learn more about the festival through an exclusive interview with former Artistic Director Miriam Fried here.

Program

Leoš Janáček

Violin Sonata

Sameer Agrawal, violin
Lindsay Garritson, piano

Alfred Schnittke

String Trio

Daniel Dastoor, violin
Yizilin Liang, viola
Joan Herget, cello

Felix Mendelssohn

Variations Concertantes, Op. 17

Andrew Ilhoon Byun, cello
Lindsay Garritson, piano

Benjamin Britten

String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36

Aoi Saito, violin
Midori, violin
Miranda Werner, viola
Danielle Akta, cello