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2010-11: A Year in Pictures In a year of changes, new alliances were formed—between Juilliard Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and between the Historical Performance program and its counterpart at Yale, among others. The Juilliard Orchestra added a new director of conducting and orchestral studies. The Drama Division produced a fourth-year repertory cycle, and Dance took on a long-unseen classic. More...4 Luminaries to Receive Honorary Degrees Composer and conductor John Adams will address the class of 2011 at Juilliard’s 106th commencement, on May 20 in Alice Tully Hall. Adams and jazz musician Herbie Hancock will receive honorary Doctor of Music degrees; actor Sir Derek Jacobi and choreographer Twyla Tharp will be given honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees. This is the 25th year that Juilliard is awarding honorary degrees. More...A Juilliard-Yale Passion The Historical Performance program will culminate its season with two landmarks. The first is the graduation of the first class of students from the program. The second is the program’s largest performance project yet: a collaborative production of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (I.S.M.) in early May. More...Putting Training to the Test With Shakespeare Two very different plays by William Shakespeare—All’s Well That Ends Well, an engaging yet ambiguous “problem play,” and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of his most familiar comedies—are being presented this month by Juilliard’s third-year actors (Group 41). The productions are the culmination of a Shakespeare-themed year. More...Petschek Award Offers a New York Renewal With a medal from the Cliburn Competition, a coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a list of orchestra appearances eminent enough to make Herbert von Karajan blush, pianist Joyce Yang has accomplished at age 25 what would take most pianists several lifetimes. Most recently she won the William Petschek Piano Recital Award; the recital takes place on May 5. More...James DePreist Looks Back—and Forward This year’s commencement concert, which will feature Brahms’s Violin Concerto and Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony, is unique in that both maestro and musicians will be observing milestones. At the end of this season, James DePreist, director of orchestral and conducting studies since 2004, will pass the literal and figurative baton to Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, and will assume the title of principal conductor and director emeritus of the Juilliard Orchestra. More... |
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