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Ravinia is both North America’s longest-running music festival and its most artistically diverse. Over 100 different events by a mix of classical, rock, pop, jazz, R&B, indie, and country performers make up a typical summer season on our two open-air and two indoor stages. Each year the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is featured in six weeks of concerts, many with Chief Conductor Marin Alsop. During the same summer months, the Ravinia Steans Music Institute provides young professional classical and jazz musicians with career-advancing training and concert settings. Offstage and year-round, Ravinia’s Reach Teach Play education programs engage 75,000 children and adults—in schools with little to no music curriculum, in our Chicagoland communities, and at our 36-acre park—in our mission to make music equitably accessible to all.
The Violin/Viola instructor will teach students in small (studio) and large (Strings Ensemble sectionals) groups of elementary school students participating in the Sistema Ravinia Lake County nucleo. The Violin/Viola instructor reports to the Program Manager and will be part of a team of instructors that will inspire all participating students and be responsible for maintaining a standard of excellence and upholding the values and mission for Sistema Ravinia. The ideal candidate will be an extraordinary teacher, artist, mentor, and model for Sistema Ravinia students. This role is a part-time, hourly instructional seasonal employee position.
Duties and Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Education and Experience
Work Environment
Compensation: $50 per hour for instructional time and $25 per hour for non-instructional time (meetings, professional learning, and curriculum development)
About the program
Sistema Ravinia is an intensive orchestral music education program that provides daily music training for students at two schools in the Lawndale community. Participating students meet daily throughout the year at their nucleo (program site) and are taught in sectionals and full orchestra. Shaped by the philosophy of the noted El Sistema model, Ravinia has embraced the notion of transforming groups of children into communities of musicians who in turn transform their communities. Students receive mentorship from teachers and administrators that make them feel loved and valued as an asset to their nucleo community.
Sistema Ravinia Lake County launched in 2015. The Elementary School program welcomes students at three schools - Glen Flora, Lyon Magnet, and North. Students from Lyon Magnet focus on woodwind instruments, while students from North learn string instruments and Glen Flora, brass and percussion instruments. The Secondary School program takes place at Ravinia and John Lewis Middle School (Waukegan), the middle school students are bused from five schools to John Lewis Middle School and Ravinia two days per week to work in studios, sectionals, strings or band ensembles, and orchestra. In fall 2021, three of our first students cohort, founded the Honors Ensemble formed by high schoolers and some selected middle schoolers who meet at Ravinia once every week.
Ravinia is an Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Ravinia strongly believes that diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives is essential to our success and we strive to create and sustain an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees. Ravinia does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under federal, state, or local law. We encourage individuals of all identities and abilities to apply.
Full Time
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
$40k-80k (estimate)
11/16/2023
07/20/2024
ravinia.org
HIGHLAND PARK, IL
50 - 100
1904
Private
WELZ KAUFFMAN
<$5M
Civic & Environmental Advocacy