ESO concertmaster, a 2024 Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame inductee, will be featured soloist at ESO concerts March 2-3
Elgin Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Isabella Lippi, one of four 2024 Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame inductees, will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 on March 2-3.
Lippi, who joined the orchestra in 2004, has performed extensively throughout the Fox Valley for the ESO, Chamber Music on the Fox, at recording sessions, operas and in numerous other local performances.
She will be honored at the April 19 Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame banquet along with three other nominees; band leader Bobby Rosengarden, and broadcasters Jerry Rose and Tom Skilling.
The event, to be held at Villa Olivia in Bartlett, is open to the public and includes dinner and entertainment. For more information, visit FoxValleyArtsHallofFame.org. For tickets to the ESO concert, visit www.elginsymphony.org.
Throughout her career, Lippi has garnered a stellar reputation. The Los Angeles Times raved, “She exhibited flawless bow control, dazzling listeners with her technical polish and her clean articulate playing … the expressive lyricism of her cantabile playing proved captivating.” She has performed solos with major orchestras nationally and internationally, including the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, Baltimore, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, and the Mexico State Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfonica de Bilbao of Spain, the Moscow Symphony and Taipei Symphony.
Born in Chicago, Isabella Lippi’s teachers have included Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California, Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School and Almita and Roland Vamos in Chicago. She has appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival and more; presented recitals at New York’s 92nd Street Y and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; played on major radio stations in New York, Chicago and L.A., and has recorded Miklos Rozsa’s complete music for solo violin on the Koch International label.
The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame recognizes artists associated with the Fox Valley by birth, education, residence or service who have achieved international or national acclaim. Candidates should have completed 20 years in their professional field and received recognition for excellence. The honor is for living artists or can be awarded posthumously.
The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame was a dream of arts leaders that took tangible form during millennium (2000) celebrations in Aurora, Illinois. The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization that gives public recognition to artists associated with the Fox Valley. A second objective is to ensure a strong cultural legacy for future generations. Inductees are honored with gold medals, and engraved plaques that are displayed at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. For more information, visit FoxValleyArtsHallofFame.org.