The Juilliard Journal

Launching a New Season With More Than 700 Performances

By SUSAN JACKSON

Co-productions with London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program, four first-time conductors, and more than two dozen premieres are among the highlights of the 2011-12 Juilliard performance season, which begins on September 19 with a performance by the Juilliard Jazz Quintet. More...

Bachauer Winners Declare Independence

By BENJAMIN LAUDE

On September 21, the winners of the 35th annual Gina Bachauer Piano Competition, Oskar Jezior and Andrew Tyson, will present a joint program of Scarlatti, Szymanowski, Chopin, and Franck in Paul Hall. More...

A Decade Later: Remembering 9/11

At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the Juilliard loudspeaker called for an all-school meeting. Students emerged from practice rooms, many of them unaware of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Everyone was told to evacuate the residence hall and to remain on the street level for fear that other tall buildings could be attacked next. People read, snuggled, played games. Those whose cell phones worked called their families. The director of counseling services talked about the emotional impact of catastrophe. One student offered to form a prayer group. Another suggested that Paul Hall be opened to those who wanted to express themselves by playing music. This month’s Journal recalls that day. More...

N.J.E. Brings 4 Premieres to the Sharp Theater

By JOEL SACHS

On September 24 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, the New Juilliard Ensemble presents two world premieres, Jingjing Luo’s Tsao Shu (“Grass Script”) and Carman Moore’s Concerto for Ornette; and two Western Hemisphere premieres, Hans Abrahamsen’sWald (2008-09) and Peter Maxwell Davies’s De Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis (2001). More...

Juilliard Summer Grants Fund International Arts Initiatives

This year’s Juilliard Summer Grants recipients brought the healing and transformative powers of the arts to Botswana, Guatemala, and Detroit this year, learning and laughing a lot along the way. More...