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Press Release
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Juilliard School Highlights More Than 650
NEW JUILLIARD ENSEMBLE OPENS WITH U.S. PREMIERESMusic, Dance, and Drama Performances in 2001-02 OF HANS ABRAHAMSEN'S PIANO CONCERTO, AND ELLIOT SHARP'S RACING HEARTS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 AT 8 PM IN THE JUILLIARD THEATER Concert also includes the New York Premiere Of Tania León's Hechizos and Jukka Tiensuu's nemo. Season features five World Premieres by Suren Zakarian, Milica Paranosic, Bernd Franke, and Juilliard student composers Jeroen d'Hoe and Huang Ruo; the New York Premiere of a work by Klaas de Vries; and Paolo Costa Lima's Atoto de l'homme armè and David Del Tredici's Dracula. JUILLIARD PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE IN COLLABORATION WITH JUILLIARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA DEBUTS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 AT 8 PM JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA AND THE JUILLIARD CHORAL UNION PERFORM Other Orchestra Concerts Take Place: Other Symphony Concerts Take Place: JUILLIARD OPERA CENTER PRESENTS CARLISLE FLOYD'S SUSANNAH CONDUCTED BY JULIUS RUDEL ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 WORLD PREMIERE OF HELOISE AND ABELARD BY STEPHEN PAULUS JUILLIARD ALUMNA, SOPRANO JENNIFER ALYMER EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL FOCUS! FESTIVAL THE RICHARD RODGERS CENTENNIAL, A JUILLIARD CELEBRATION, DANCE DIVISION PRESENTS FALL DANCE WORKSHOPS SPRING DANCE PERFORMANCES CELEBRATE DRAMA DIVISION PRESENTS FIVE PLAYS Third-Year Actors Perform in a Variety of Smaller Projects, OTHER EVENTS JUILLIARD PRESENTS SIX FACULTY PERFORMANCES
TENTH ANNUAL IRENE DIAMOND CONCERT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 AT 8 PM THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL AND THE MARILYN HORNE FOUNDATION PRESENT WILLIAM PETSCHEK PIANO AWARD RECITAL,
The Juilliard School's 2001-2002 season features more than 650 music, dance, and drama performances - the vast majority of which are free and open to the public. Performance is an integral part of a Juilliard education, and the School strives to provide a wide array of opportunities for students to develop their skills as communicative artists, as is evidenced by the comprehensive roster of events in Juilliard's 2001-2002 season. Check each section below for ticket information or see the complete season calendar on The Juilliard School web site at www.juilliard.edu.
New Juilliard Ensemble and FOCUS! The Juilliard School's 2001-2002 season opens with a concert featuring the New Juilliard Ensemble, led by Music Director and Conductor Joel Sachs, on Saturday, September 22 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater. The Ensemble celebrates music by contemporary composers and focuses primarily on chamber orchestra repertoire of the last ten years. This season's performances again will feature world, U.S. and New York premieres. The program for the first concert includes the U.S. premieres of Hans Abrahamsen's Piano Concerto (1999/2000) and Elliot Sharp's Racing Hearts, as well as the New York premieres of Tania León's Hechizos (1994) and Jukka Tiensuu's nemo. The New Juilliard Ensemble presents its next concert on Tuesday, November 20 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall featuring the world premiere of a new composition by Suren Zakarian, the New York premieres of Klaas de Vries' Eclips (Hommage à Alexandre Scriabine) (1992); George Benjamin's Three Inventions for chamber orchestra; and David Del Tredici's Dracula (1999).
The Ensemble and Mr. Sachs also kick off Juilliard's weeklong FOCUS! 2002: Twelve-Tones and Beyond
The 2002 FOCUS! festival marks Juilliard's eighteenth annual festival of contemporary music, and this year the festival surveys the post-World War II legacy of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method. The composers featured include figures spanning three generations and the concerts will explore the broad implications of a compositional approach that has been at the center of musical thought since the 1920s. The concerts will include a mixture of styles, approaches, and generations, as well as composers who do not use the method but have been strongly influenced by its principles. The opening concert will feature Roberto Sierra's Cuentos (1997) and Ulrich Stranz' Janus (1985/6), among other works.
All FOCUS! concerts take place in the Juilliard Theater at 8 PM, with the opening performance of the New Juilliard Ensemble conducted by Joel Sachs on Friday, January 25. From Monday, January 28 through Friday, February 1 Juilliard instrumentalists give nightly programs of chamber and solo music. The concluding concert on Friday, February 1 features the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by distinguished Dutch conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. This program features Aaron Copland's rarely performed Connotations, which was composed for the opening of Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall), in 1962. Program also will include works by Stravinsky, Kurtag, and Ligeti.
Joel Sachs is Music Director and Conductor of the New Juilliard Ensemble, and serves as Music Director of Juilliard's annual FOCUS! festival. He performs a vast range of traditional and contemporary music, both as conductor and pianist. As Co-Director of the internationally acclaimed new-music ensemble Continuum, he has appeared in hundreds of performances in New York, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Sachs has conducted concerts of American symphonic and ensemble music and presented a program of solo piano music at the Kiev Festival in Ukraine. He also has conducted concerts of American music with local ensembles in Germany and Switzerland; a concert of classical and American music in San Salvador; two Continuum concerts of New York composers at Radio France's annual Prèsences Festival, Paris; and two programs with the Mexican ensemble La Camerata de las Americas in Mexico City. Dr. Sachs has held new-music residencies at the Berlin Hochschule de Künste; the Hochschule Mozarteum, Salzburg; Trinity College of Music, London; and the School of Music and Fine Arts in Curitiba, Brazil. He was twice a delegate of Dutch Music Days in Utrecht, Holland. His recordings appear on the Advance, CRI, Nonesuch, and Musical Heritage Society labels. A recording of music of the Americas with La Camerata de las Americas is forthcoming. One of the most active presenters of contemporary music concerts in New York, Dr. Sachs is wholly or partly the producer of some 35 concerts of recent music every year in New York City alone. An active music historian, Dr. Sachs is on the music history faculty at Juilliard and was the first chairman of its music history department. Currently he is writing a biography of American composer Henry Cowell and makes frequent appearances as a radio commentator on recent music.
Born in Amsterdam, conductor Reinbert de Leeuw's musical activities cover a wide field: in 1972 he founded a series of concerts in Holland's major cities and since 1974 he has been conductor and music director of the Schönberg Ensemble. He is also author of a book on Charles Ives and has collaborated on film documentaries of twentieth-century composers. His compositions include works for orchestra and chamber ensembles and he is co-librettist of two operas, Reconstruction (1969) and Axel (1977). Mr. de Leeuw regularly conducts Holland's foremost orchestras and ensembles, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Netherlands Chamber Choir, the ASKO and the Netherlands Wind ensembles, and has toured and performed in festivals worldwide. He was guest artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival (1992) and is artistic director of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music. In the 1995-96 seasons he was the center point of the Carte Blanche series in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He is now involved in the organization of the series, Contemporaries at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. This season Mr. de Leeuw has conducted two major productions for the Netherlands Opera: Stravinsky's Biblical Works and Louis Andriesseen's Writing to Vermeer. In April he lead the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Messiaen's St. Francis of Assisi in the Concertgebouw. Mr. de Leeuw has received the Sikkens Award (1991) and the prestigious 3M prize (1992) and in 1994 he was made Honorary Doctor at the University of Utrecht. His recordings as a pianist have won many prizes including the Dutch Edison, the Premio della critica discografica Italiana, the Grand Prix of the Hungarian Liszt Society and the Diapason D'Or.
Vocal Arts at Juilliard
Tickets to Juilliard Opera Center mainstage productions are $20 and are available from the Juilliard Box Office, as well as CenterCharge, (212) 721-6500, approximately five weeks in advance of the production.
Tickets for the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital are $20 and $15 and available October 9 at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office or by calling CenterCharge (212) 721-6500; FREE Tickets will be available to students and seniors at the Juilliard Box Office.
FREE tickets for this spring's Vocal Honors Recital in Alice Tully Hall are available at the Juilliard Box Office beginning March 19.
Juilliard Songbook and Liederabend are FREE For more information, contact Juilliard Box Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Monday-Friday 11 AM to 6 PM, (212) 769-7406.
The Juilliard Opera Center is pleased to present two mainstage operas in the 2001-2002 season. The first is Carlisle Floyd's Susannah conducted by Julius Rudel and directed by Eve Shapiro. Susannah will be performed in the Juilliard Theater on Wednesday, November 14 at 8 PM; Friday, November 16 at 8 PM; and Sunday, November 18 at 2 PM.
In the spring semester, Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct the world premiere of Heloise and Abelard on Wednesday, April 24 at 8 PM. Additional performances are scheduled for Friday April 26, at 8 PM; and on Sunday, April 28 at 2 PM in the Juilliard Theater. With music by composer Stephen Paulus and libretto by Frank Corsaro, Heloise and Abelard was commissioned by The Juilliard School as part of the national series of works from Meet The Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, with support from The Helen F. Whitaker Fund.
The idea of writing an opera based on the letters of Heloise and Abelard began back in 1980 for composer Stephen Paulus. When he was approached to do a project for the Juilliard Opera Center he discovered that Frank Corsaro had already written a libretto for an opera on the same subject; thus the project was born. With nine operas already to his credit, Mr. Paulus believes that pacing is all-important and that the music must always be subservient to the drama. Heloise and Abelard, the love story of a 12th-century scholar and his pupil, is scored for full orchestra (including piano) and features a chorus of eight women and ten men.
Carlisle Floyd's modern classic, Susannah, takes the apocryphal story from the Bible and moves it to rural Tennessee. Floyd employs folk-like melodies, arias, hymns, and dissonant dramatic episodes and weaves them together with lyrical dialogues and interludes. The opera received its premiere at Florida State University in 1955 and went on to be performed by the New York City Opera in 1956. In 1957 it won its composer the New York Music Critic's Circle Award and subsequently was chosen to be America's official operatic entry at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. It was the only contemporary opera to be included in the inaugural season of the Metropolitan Opera's National Company. Susannah was last heard at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999 with Juilliard alumni soprano Renée Fleming in the title role, and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey singing the role of Sam.
Composer Stephen Paulus studied composition at the University of Minnesota with Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento. A recipient of both Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, he serves as co-founder and current Board Vice President of the American Composers Forum, the largest composer service organization in the world. He also serves on the ASCAP Board of Directors as the Concert Music Representative since 1990. From 1973 to 1984 he was one of the managing composers of the Minnesota Composer's Forum, an organization that he co-founded. Mr. Paulus has served as composer-in-residence for the Minnesota Orchestra since 1983 and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1988, and has completed commissions for Thomas Hampson, Evelyn Lear, Håken Hagegård, Cynthia Phelps, Robert McDuffie, Doc Severinsen, and William Preucil. Recent commissions have been received from the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, and the Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston Symphony Orchestras. Most of Mr. Paulus's works show a romantic influence and employ a style that would be considered tonal. Quartessence (1990) described by the composer as "lyrical with angularity attached," extends the string quartet tradition. Other non-operatic works include Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra: Three Places of Enlightenment (1995); and Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra: The Veil of Illusion (1994). Mr. Paulus's operas, four of which were commissioned and first performed by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, focus on people in small communities who become involved in intense dramatic situations. The Village Singer (1979) is set in New England around 1900, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1982) takes place on the California Coast in 1934, and the Woodlanders (1985) is set in a hamlet in England in 1870. The Woman at Otowi Crossing (1995) tells the story of an American woman caught between ancient Pueblo culture and the modern world. In 1999 his opera Summer, with libretto by J.V. Thorne (after a novella by Edith Wharton), debuted at the Koussevitsky Arts Centre. Mr. Paulus is also the composer of numerous choral works that have been performed and recorded by some of the most distinguished choruses in the United States including the New York Concert Singers, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Master Chorale of Washington DC, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Frank Corsaro (Director) has served on the Juilliard faculty since 1987. He has been associated with New York City Opera for more than 40 years, where his productions include Makropulos Case, Cunning Little Vixen, Dido and Aeneas (in collaboration with George Balanchine and Peter Martins) and Tosca. Other United States productions include Delius' Fennimore and Gerda, Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re, his own version of A Soldier's Tale, and numerous standard repertory works. Mr. Corsaro directed La fanciulla del West for Deutsche Oper Berlin; L'Amour des trois oranges, a double-bill of operas by Oliver Knussen (designed by Maurice Sendak), L'Heure espagnole, and L'Enfant et les sortilèges for Glyndebourne; and Rinaldo for the Metropolitan Opera. His most recent Juilliard Opera Center productions include last season's United States premiere of Weill's Der Kuhhandel, Rota's Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, and Hänsel und Gretel (designed by Maurice Sendak and broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center).
Newly appointed Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Miguel Harth-Bedoya also is Music Director of the Eugene Symphony in Oregon and the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand. His active guest-conducting schedule includes appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and Seattle Symphony, among others. Also a successful opera conductor, Mr. Harth-Bedoya has directed numerous productions with the New Opera Company of Peru. He served four years as Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony, and also was Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lima and the New Opera Company of Peru. Mr. Harth-Bedoya led the Juilliard Orchestra on highly successful tours of France and Japan, was a member of the Juilliard Pre-College faculty from 1991 to 1997, and has conducted the Pre-College Orchestra. He holds degrees in conducting from The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.
Since his debut in 1944, Julius Rudel (Conductor) has led more than 175 operas in the world's major opera houses, including the Vienna Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Paris Opera, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, and San Francisco Opera. The productions range from Baroque masterpieces to groundbreaking 20th-century operas, including numerous world and United States premieres. Mr. Rudel emigrated to the United States in 1938 and received a diploma from the Mannes College of Music. A year later, he joined the artistic staff of New York City Opera at the time of the company's founding and made his debut conducting Johann Strauss' The Gypsy Baron (1944). Mr. Rudel's 37-year relationship with the New York City Opera encompasses a 22-year tenure as General Director and Principal Conductor (1957-1979), during which time he led more than 50 20th-century operas. Additionally, he conducted operas and contemporary American musicals in this country and abroad, directed summer festivals, and led the opening seasons of Washington's Kennedy Center as its first music director. He was also the first music director of the Wolf Trap Festival, and held similar posts with the Cincinnati May Festival and the Caramoor Festival. Mr. Rudel served as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Music Advisor to the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Mr. Rudel's international career has brought him recognition from many nations; he was named an Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and has been decorated by the governments of Germany, Israel, and his native Austria.
Director Eve Shapiro has been a member of the Juilliard drama faculty since 1976. Last season she directed the Juilliard production of Shakespeare's Richard II. Other recent directing credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter's Tale, The Three Sisters, Man and Superman, The Seagull, Undiscovered Country, Uncle Vanya, And a Nightingale Sang, and Hedda Gabbler for the Drama Division, as well as The Crucible, Così fan tutte, and Gluck's Armide for the Juilliard Opera Center. Ms. Shapiro directed and taught at the Webber Douglas School in London, and has worked in Malta, Switzerland, and South Africa. She assisted Gian Carlo Menotti with his production of The Leper for the Spoleto Festival, and directed the Drama Division's portion of the PBS broadcast, Live from Lincoln Center; Juilliard at 80.
2001 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital
Alumna of the Juilliard Opera Center, soprano Jennifer Aylmer has been awarded the 2001 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital taking place on Wednesday, November 28 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. Her pianist is Kenneth Merrill. Established in 1997, the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital is an annual concert event established with a generous gift from the Alice Tully Foundation to promote outstanding young vocalists on the threshold of a professional career. Past recipients of the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital Awards include soprano Sari Gruber, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano Mariana Karpatova, and baritone Randall Scarlata.
Ms. Aylmer performs works including Kurt Weill's rarely performed Ofrah's Lieder (1916); Poulenc's Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin; and Shostakovich's Satires, op. 109. The program also features songs by de Almeida, Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri, and selections from Bolcom's Cabaret Songs, Books 1-4 (1970s-90s).
A native of Oceanside, NY, soprano Jennifer Aylmer received her bachelor of music degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Ms. Aylmer's 2001-2002 performances feature a vast array of appearances. On the opera stage, she makes her debut in A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella Kowalski with the Austin Lyric Opera, a company she will return to later in the season for her first performances of Gilda in Rigoletto; and her debut with the Kentucky Opera as Nanetta in Falstaff. In concert, Ms. Aylmer returns to the Rochester Philharmonic for performances of Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and in recital she will appear with the New York Festival of Song, the Brownville Concert Series in Nebraska, under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation.
In the 2000-2001 seasons, Ms. Aylmer also appeared under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation at the Kosciusko Foundation in New York, made her Rochester Philharmonic debut as the soprano soloist in Elijah, and her Wheeling Symphony debut in a program of opera favorites. She was the soprano soloist at the Beijing Music Festival in a program celebrating the music of Leonard Bernstein. In New York, Ms. Aylmer appeared in an evening of the music of Kurt Weill presented by Regina Resnik at the Kaye Playhouse, and has performed concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Festival of Song.
With the Houston Grand Opera Ms. Aylmer has appeared as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and created the role of Amy in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women. She has also appeared with the Minnesota Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, New York City Opera, and the Aspen Music Festival as well as on the orchestral stage with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Florida Philharmonic.
A highly experienced performer of contemporary works, Ms. Aylmer sang the role of Cynthia Reid, specifically written for her, in the world premiere of Bernard Rand's Belladonna at the Aspen Music Festival, conducted by David Zinman. Also in Aspen, she has appeared in Augusta Read Thomas' Ligiea. Ms. Aylmer is also the recipient of many honors and awards, most recently including a Career Grant from the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation. Other notable awards include the Palm Beach Opera Competition, the Richard F. Gold Career Grant, an encouragement award from Opera Index, the National Society of Arts and Letters, second prize in the 1997 Oratorio Society of New York Competition, several Opera Fellowship Awards at the Aspen Music Festival and the 1996 Catherine Filene Shouse Career Grant from the Wolf Trap Opera Company.
Pianist Kenneth Merrill has appeared in concert with artists such as Gerard Souzay, Anna Moffo, Robert Merrill, Eleanor Steber, James King, Jan DeGaetani, John Aler, Neil Rosenshein, Paul Groves, Charlotte Hellekant, Faith Esham, and Jeanette Thompson. He recently began an association with Regina Resnik Presents, which sponsors recitals built around specific composers or themes. These recitals are accompanied by narrations from Mme. Resnik and feature singers Jennifer Aylmer, Ruth Golden, and Michael Philip Davis.
As conductor of opera, he has led productions of Britten's The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Beggar's Opera, Mozart's The Impresario, Handel's Acis and Galatea, Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Cavalli's La Calisto, Rossini's La Cenerentola, and most recently, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Britten's Albert Herring with the Juilliard Opera Theater. In 1995 he was head of musical preparation and played harpsichord continuo for the Houston Grand Opera production of Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role. This performance has been issued on London CD and Video. In 1997 he was head of musical preparation for the Houston production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. As harpsichordist and organist, he has appeared in many concerts of early music, particularly with the Baroque ensemble Affetti Musicali, which he helped to found in 1992.
Mr. Merrill received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Arkansas and his master of music degree from Juilliard and currently coaches singers as a faculty member of The Juilliard School Vocal Arts Department. Also a member of the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, he teaches song repertoire, accompanying, and vocal-instrumental ensemble. Mr. Merrill has been associated with the Aspen Music Festival since 1980, acting as head coach for the Aspen Opera Theater Center. In 1998 he began an association with the Chautauqua Institution Voice Program, and in 1999 he was appointed a visiting lecturer in vocal repertoire at Princeton University. Most recently he has begun an association with the New National Theater of Tokyo.
Vocal Arts Honors Recital
Juilliard presents its annual Vocal Arts Honors Recital on Tuesday, April 2 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. The Vocal Arts Honors Recital, now in its fourth season, provides an important opportunity for Juilliard singers to perform before the general public. Selected by audition, several artists from the Juilliard Opera Center and the Department of Vocal Arts are featured during this evening of song. The artists are chosen for both their performing abilities and for their selection of appropriate repertoire featuring their unique strengths and developing voices.
Jennie Tourel Vocal Arts Series
The Jennie Tourel Vocal Arts Series, which includes the Juilliard Songbook and Liederabend, showcases vocalists from Juilliard's Department of Vocal Arts in the performance of song literature. Liederabend performances pair Juilliard singers with members of the Collaborative Piano Department and take place on Thursday evenings at 6 PM in Paul Hall. This season's Liederabend performances are scheduled for October 18, November 29, January 31, March 21, and April 11. The Juilliard Songbook features singers who have been coached by members Department of Vocal Arts or the Collaborative Piano Department. Concerts take place on Thursday evenings at 6 PM in Morse Hall. Juilliard Songbook concerts are scheduled for October 4 (an all-Hugo Wolf program), December 6, February 7, and April 25. The First Year Songbook, featuring singers who are just beginning their training at Juilliard, will be held in Paul Hall on Friday, May 3, 2002 at 4 PM. These concerts are FREE and no tickets are required.
The Song Continues.2002
On Wednesday, January 16, Thursday, January 17, and Friday, January 18, the Marilyn Horne Foundation will present its annual series of master classes and a concert - The Song Continues.2002. Both Marilyn Horne and pianist Warren Jones are scheduled to teach classes this season; the third master teacher is to be announced. The first master class will be held on Wednesday, January 16 from 4 to 6 PM, followed by a second master class on Thursday, January 17 also from 4 to 6 PM; a final master class will be given on Friday, January 18 from 1 to 3 PM. The ninth annual concert will take place on Friday, January 18, at 7:30 PM. All events are in the Juilliard Theater. Tickets may be purchased individually or as a group; prices are $20 for each master class, $30 for the recital, or $80 for a package ticket to all four events. Tickets will be available at the Juilliard Box Office. For further information, please call The Marilyn Horne Foundation at (212) 582-2000.
Special Events
A native of Korea, Soyeon Lee recently completed her undergraduate studies at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal, and will begin graduate studies at Juilliard this fall as a student of Robert McDonald. An active solo and chamber musician, she has performed at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Van Cliburn and Jessye Norman Tribute Gala Concerts at the University of Michigan, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Alice Tully Hall. She has won top prizes in the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, Nena Wideman Competition, and the Grace Welsh Prize for Piano, among others. Ms. Lee has also performed as a featured soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Music Academy of the West Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall. While at Juilliard, Ms. Lee has received numerous scholarships including the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship, William Petschek Undergraduate Scholarship in Piano, John and Eva Post Scholarship in Piano, Edna Reifsnider Scholarship in Violin and Piano,
Born in China in 1979, Xun Wang began his piano studies at the age of five and entered the Central Music Conservatory just two years later. A featured soloist with the Beijing Philharmonic, Tenerife Symphony, and the Chinese National Youth Orchestra, Mr. Wang also has won top honors in competition, including first prize in the Xin Hai National, the Stravinsky International, and the Senigalia International piano competitions and second prize in the Grace Welsh International Piano Competition. After studying at the University of Cincinnati and the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Wang currently is a third-year undergraduate student at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Jerome Lowenthal with the financial assistance of the Howard and Ethel Ross Piano Scholarship.
Irene Diamond Concert
The tenth annual Irene Diamond Concert takes place on Tuesday, October 23, at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. Juilliard honors Mrs. Irene Diamond, President of the Irene Diamond Fund, in a special Alice Tully Hall concert each year as a means of expressing Juilliard's gratitude to Mrs. Diamond, whose personal philanthropy has funded student scholarships, faculty salaries, and special projects. Most recently the School received a major new grant of $10 million from the Irene Diamond Fund, a key component of a Juilliard plan to dramatically increase the amount of financial aid the School offers to students in its master of music degree program. The grant is part of the $150 million capital Campaign for Juilliard. FREE tickets are required for this concert and are available at the Juilliard Box Office beginning October 9.
The Richard Rodgers Centennial On Monday February 4, 2002, The Juilliard School will hold a gala benefit in the Juilliard Theater, (followed by a black-tie dinner on the Paul Milstein Plaza at Lincoln Center) honoring Board Chairman Emeritus Mary Rodgers Guettel on the occasion of the Richard Rodgers Centennial. Part of an entire year-long Rodgers Centennial Celebration taking place worldwide, the concert will be hosted by Julie Andrews and feature the Juilliard Orchestra and special celebrity guest stars. The Juilliard School has figured prominently in the Rodgers family history. From 1920 to 1924 Richard Rodgers studied music theory at Juilliard when it was known as the Institute of Musical Art. He was a Juilliard Trustee for many years, and his daughter, Mary Rodgers Guettel, is currently a Trustee and Chairman Emeritus. The Juilliard School annually awards two scholarships that honor the name and legacy of Richard Rodgers: the Richard Rodgers Memorial Scholarship in Drama and the Richard Rodgers Scholarship in Composition. A third award, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Scholarship in Composition, was endowed in 1959 by Max Dreyfus, Mr. Rodgers' music publisher. For benefit ticket information please call: (212) 769-6434.
Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Award Recital
The annual Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Award Recital takes place on Thursday, April 4 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. The Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award was established through the generosity of the William Petschek Charitable Trust to assist in launching the careers of young pianists. Distinguished past recipients have included Robert Benz, Jeffrey Biegel, Shu-Ching Evelyn Chen, Frederic Chiu, Jeremy Denk, Akira Eguchi, Eduardus Halim, Jennifer Hayghe, Hsing-Ay Hsu, Panayis Lyras, Ick Choo Moon, Pedja Muzijevic, Jon Kimura Parker, Vassily Primakov, John Root, Ju-Ying Song, Hai-Kyung Suh, Albert Tiu, and the late James Barbagallo and Gregory Slag. The recipient traditionally is announced in early winter. Tickets for this concert are $20 and $15 and will be available for purchase starting March 4 at the Alice Tully Box Office, or by calling CenterCharge, (212) 721-6500. FREE tickets are available to students and senior citizens with valid ID at the Juilliard Box Office beginning March 25.
Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, Symphony, and Jazz Orchestra concerts in the Juilliard Theater and Alice Tully Hall require FREE tickets available two weeks prior to performance.
Tickets for Avery Fisher Hall concerts are $15 and $7, available five weeks prior at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office and via CenterCharge (212) 721-6500. They are free to students and senior citizens with ID.
Tickets for the Carnegie Hall concert are $40, $15, and $10, available November 1at the Carnegie Hall Box Office and via CarnegieCharge (212) 247-7800. They are ½-price to students and senior citizens with ID.
For information contact the Juilliard Box Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Monday-Friday 11 AM to 6 PM, (212) 769-7406.
Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, the School's newest ensemble, makes its debut on Tuesday, October 30, at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. Guest artists Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) and Director of Jazz Studies at Juilliard Victor Goines (clarinet/saxophone) join in the debut performance of the newly formed Orchestra.
Conductor Michael Morgan leads members of the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra and the Juilliard Orchestra in a program featuring works of Benny Goodman, Thad Jones and songs by Duke Ellington arranged by Wynton Marsalis, including Afro Bossa (Bula); Blues in Blueprint; Happy-go-lucky Local; and A Tone Parallel to Harlem. The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra is comprised of fifteen of the first eighteen musicians admitted to the new Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies. Other scheduled performances for the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra highlight the works of some of the landmark composers of the 20th century and take place on Friday, December 7 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall highlighting the music of Thad Jones; Wednesday, February 27 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater; and Thursday, May 16 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall including music of Count Basie and student composers. The Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies is a collaboration of The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center. These concerts require FREE tickets, which are available at the Juilliard Box Office two weeks prior to the concert.
Other Juilliard Jazz performances include small ensemble concerts that are scheduled for Tuesday, November 13, A Tribute to John Lewis featuring Percy Heath; Monday, December 17; and Monday, March 25, featuring the music of Art Blakey and Horace Silver. All Jazz Ensemble concerts take place at 8 PM in Paul Hall; they are FREE and no tickets are required.
Juilliard Symphony and Juilliard Orchestra
This season's orchestral concert series features a Carnegie Hall appearance by the Juilliard Orchestra in addition to the traditional Avery Fisher Hall concerts. The Juilliard Symphony performs first in Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday, December 3 at 8 PM under the direction of Andrew Litton. The program includes Strauss' Don Juan, op. 156; Barber's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op. 38; Mozart's Symphony No. 35 ("Haffner") in D Major, K. 385; and Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier Suite. On Monday, December 10 at 8 PM in Carnegie Hall, conductor Jahja Ling leads the Juilliard Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2. The Orchestra is joined by the Juilliard Choral Union under the direction of Judith Clurman; featured soloists to be announced. Guest conductor Kurt Masur joins the Juilliard Orchestra on Monday, February 18 at 8 PM in Avery Fisher Hall in a program including the Bartók Viola Concerto; Beethoven Symphony No. 2; and selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The Juilliard Orchestra performs next on Monday, April 8 at 8 PM in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of George Manahan in a program featuring the Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements; Bartók's Dance Suite, other works to be announced. On Monday, April 29 at 8 PM in Avery Fisher Hall, conductor David Atherton leads the Juilliard Orchestra in a program that includes Elgar's Concerto in E Minor for Cello and Orchestra, op. 85; Haydn's Overture to L'infedeltà delusa; Mozart Symphony 32 in G Major, K. 318; and Stravinsky's Petrushka (1947 version).
Tickets for Avery Fisher Hall concerts are $15 and $7, and are free to students and senior citizens with ID. Tickets are available at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office and through CenterCharge, (212) 721-6500, approximately five weeks prior to each performance.
Tickets for the Mahler 2nd performance at Carnegie Hall are $40 for 1st and 2nd tier, $15 for dress circle, and $10 for balcony seats; and are ½ price for students and senior citizens with ID. Tickets may be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office and by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800.
The Juilliard Orchestra and the Juilliard Symphony continue their Alice Tully Hall and Juilliard Theater performance series with nine concerts this season.
On Thursday, October 4 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater, Otto-Werner Mueller conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in a performance of Mozart's Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor, K.486; and his Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major, K. 482; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, op. 64. On Thursday, October 11 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater, conductor James DePreist leads the Juilliard Symphony in performances of Aaron Jay Kernis' New Era Dance; Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") in F Major, op. 68. The Juilliard Symphony presents a concert under the direction of JoAnne Falletta in Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, November 6 at 8 PM, featuring works including Debussy's Petite Suite (arranged by Busser); Mozart's Concerto in G Major for Flute and Orchestra, K, 313; and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, op. 45. On Friday, February 1 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater, conductor Reinbert de Leeuw leads the Juilliard Orchestra as part of the final concert in the FOCUS! 2002 series. Program includes works by Kurtag, Ligeti, Stravinsky, and Copland's Connotations. On Tuesday, February 26 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall, the Juilliard Symphony is led by conductor Larry Rachleff in a program including Berlioz' Le corsaire, op. 21; Webern's Passacaglia; the Hindemith Symphony "Mathis der Mahler"; and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.3 in D Minor, op. 30. Juilliard's Director of Orchestral Studies Otto-Werner Mueller conducts the Juilliard Orchestra on Friday, April 12 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall in a program that includes Smetana's The Moldau; Dvořák's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 53; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67. On Tuesday, April 30 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall, conductor Jeffrey Milarsky leads the Juilliard Symphony in a program of this season's chosen compositions from Juilliard student composers. Mr. Milarsky coordinates Juilliard's Composition Forum and also is an assistant to the Percussion Department. On Thursday, May 23 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall, Michael Christief leads the Juilliard Orchestra in this year's Commencement Concert. The program includes Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra; the Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Violin, op. 63; and Smetana's Overture to the Bartered Bride.
The Juilliard Choral Union
Now in its second season, the Juilliard Choral Union is a symphonic chorus composed of more than 100 volunteer singers from New York and New Jersey, including currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate Juilliard students and administrators. This season, conductor and choral director Judith Clurman leads the choir in two concerts. On Monday, December 10 at 8 PM at Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard Choral Union appears with the Juilliard Orchestra and soloists, in a performance of Mahler's Second Symphony under the direction of conductor, Jahja Ling. Tickets go on sale November 1. Prices for Carnegie Hall tickets are $40 for 1st and 2nd tier; $15 for dress circle; $10 for balcony seats; half price tickets will be available for students and senior citizens with valid ID. Tickets may be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office or by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800.
The second concert by the Juilliard Choral Union will be on Friday, April 5 at 8 PM at Alice Tully Hall. The program includes a rarely performed choral work by the young Richard Wagner, "Dein ist das Reich von ewigkeit zu ewigkeit" and Beethoven's Elegiac Song, op. 118. Written in 1814, the Elegiac Song is scored for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass soloists with string accompaniment. Its dedication was "to the memory of the transfigured wife of my honored friend, Pasqualati, from his friend Ludwig van Beethoven" (Pasqualati was a former landlord and his beloved wife had died in childbirth several years before). Also featured on the program are Beethoven's Mass in C Major, op. 86; and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, scored for un-conducted chamber orchestra by Wagner himself. Accompanying the Choir will be the Juilliard Choral Union Orchestra, which is comprised of members of the Juilliard Orchestra and Juilliard Symphony. FREE tickets are required and will be available at the Juilliard Box Office on March 22.
Judith Clurman, a leader in the field of choral music, is a member of the faculty at The Juilliard School, where she teaches conducting and directs the Juilliard Choral Union as well as other choral ensembles. Founder and director of The New York Concert Singers and the Judith Clurman Choral Workshop, and Director of Choral Activities at the TodiMusicFest, Ms. Clurman performs regularly with her choruses throughout Europe and America, appearing at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, Mostly Mozart Festival, and Great Performers, as well as on television. Her ensembles have performed at Carnegie Hall, and with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Boston Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, and the New York Pops. Ms. Clurman is music director for Lincoln Center's annual tree-lighting ceremony with Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. She has commissioned works by Beaser, Bolcom, Diamond, León, Larsen, Pasatieri, Paulus, and Rouse and also has conducted the premieres of works by Bernstein, Glass, Kernis, Rorem, Schoenfield, and Zwilich. Many of these compositions are featured on her recordings with the New York Concert Singers, Divine Grandeur and The Mask (both on New World Records).
Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series The Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series opens its season on Monday, September 24 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater, with a concert honoring the 90th birthday of cellist Harvey Shapiro. Pianist Jonathan Feldman appears with Mr. Shapiro in a program that includes the Tartini Adagio; Strauss' Sonata in F Major for Cello and Piano, op.6; Schumann's Phantasiestücke, op. 73; and Rachmaninoff's Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, op. 19. Harvey Shapiro studied with Willem Willeke and D. Alexanian and was a winner of both the Loeb and Naumburg prizes at an early age. From 1937-46, he was a member of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini and was a solo cellist with that group from 1944-46. He also was a member of the Primrose and WQXR String Quartets. He has been a member of the Juilliard faculty since 1970.
Pianist Jonathan Feldman is a graduate of Juilliard where his teachers included Dorothy Taubman, Rosetta Goodkind, and Irwin Freundlich. He has performed with some of the world's greatest instrumentalists including Nathan Milstein, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, and Zara Nelsova, among others. He has participated in numerous music festivals and has recorded for Angel/EMI, Columbia Masterworks, RCA Red Seal, Naxos, and Nonesuch. His most recent recording is for DGG with violinist Gil Shaham. Mr. Feldman also lectures extensively. He joined the faculty of Juilliard in 1989 where he now serves as chairman of the Collaborative Piano Department.
On Monday, October 15 at 8 PM, the American Brass Quintet presents a concert in the Juilliard Theater. The program features Elizabethan consort music including and Dovehouse Pavan by Alfonso Ferrabosco II; Joyne Hands - Widow's Myte by Morley/Holborne; Two Madrigals by Thomas Weelkes; and Allemande - Volta by Simpson/Dowland. The program continues with a New York premiere of a work by Samuel Adler "Be Not Afraid: The Isle Is Full Of Noises" and Eric Ewazen's Frost Fire. Also featured are Canons of the 16th century including Josquin des Prés' Vive le roy; Palestrina's Pleni sunt caeli; Martini's J'ay pris amours; de Prés/Palestrina's Pleni sunt caeli - Agnus Dei; Snow's Dance Movements; and Gabrieli's Sonata XX.
Now in its 41st season, the American Brass Quintet has performed in virtually every important concert hall in the United States and abroad. In addition to its extensive performing and recording schedules, the members of the ABQ - trumpeters Raymond Mase and Kevin Cobb, French horn player David Wakefield, trombonist Michael Powell, and bass trombonist John D. Rojak - are dedicated teachers administering the brass chamber music program at Juilliard. They were appointed Quintet-in-residence at Juilliard in 1987.
The Juilliard String Quartet presents two concerts as part of the Saidenberg Series on Thursday, February 7 and March 21; both concerts are at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. The first program is Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080; the second program features a new work by American composer Ralph Shapey, Quartet No. 10; and Schubert's Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887.
Composer Ralph Shapey's music has long been a staple in the repertoire of the Juilliard String Quartet. But when asked to provide notes on this new work, Mr. Shapey gave the following statement:
Born in Philadelphia in 1921, he showed early talent as a violinist, developed as a conductor during his teens, and was appointed the Youth Conductor of the Philadelphia National Youth Administration Symphony Orchestra when he was seventeen. As a composer, Mr. Shapey uncompromisingly holds the idea that the music, once created, should stand on its own. His commitment to this attitude, and disillusionment with the musical climate of the time, led him to withdraw his compositions from 1969 to 1976. As a conductor, Ralph Shapey has led many ensembles, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta. He was the founder in 1964 and music director of the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. He has served on the music faculty of the Universities of Pennsylvania and Chicago and was recognized as a Distinguished Professor of Music at New York's Queens College in 1985. Honored with numerous awards and commissions, Mr. Shapey received the MacArthur Prize from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1982); First Prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Competition (1990); and commissions from The Philadelphia Orchestra (Symphonie Concertante, written for the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987) Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Concerto Fantastique marking the centennials of both the orchestra and the University of Chicago, premiered in 1991); and the Library of Congress.
Formed in 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet, whose members are first violinist Joel Smirnoff, second violinist Ronald Copes, violist Samuel Rhodes, and cellist Joel Krosnick, has been recognized internationally for its uncompromising musicianship and the emotional intensity of its performances. As Quartet-in-Residence at Juilliard, the Juilliard String Quartet is widely admired for its seminal influence on aspiring string instrumentalists from all over the world. In the six decades of its association with The Juilliard School, the Quartet has trained some of the world's foremost ensembles, including the Concord, Emerson, LaSalle, Miró, Shanghai, St. Lawrence, Tokyo, and Whitman (nèe Magellan) String Quartets.
The New York Woodwind Quintet makes its appearance in this year's Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series on Tuesday, March 26 at 8 PM in Paul Hall. For more than 50 seasons, the New York Woodwind Quintet has performed in numerous concerts and workshops in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. The members of the New York Woodwind Quintet frequently are heard as soloists and recording artists, in addition to their regular schedule as chamber music performers, teachers, and chamber music coaches at Juilliard. The Quintet was appointed Ensemble-in-Residence at Juilliard in 1987.
On Wednesday, May 1 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater violinist Glenn Dicterow will be joined by pianist Gerald Robbins and violist Karen Dreyfus in the final concert of the Saidenberg Faculty Series. The program will include Schumann's Sonata in A minor for Violin and Piano, op. 105; Prokofiev Sonata in D Major for Violin and Piano, op. 94bis; Sibelius' Six Humoresques and a world premiere work by composer George Tsontakis.
Glenn Dicterow is a graduate of Juilliard where he was a student of Ivan Galamian. He also worked with Jascha Heifetz, Henryk Szerying, Manuel Copinsky, and Eudice Shapiro. A prizewinner in many international competitions, he has appeared as both an orchestral soloist and recitalist in concerts throughout the world. Mr. Dicterow was appointed Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic in 1980 and is a featured soloist on many of their recordings. He also has recorded the Holdridge Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bernstein Serenade with the New York Philharmonic, and for Cala and EMI, solo works of Korngold, Ives, Bernstein, Martinu, and Corigliano. An active teacher, Glenn Dicterow serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. He and his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, are founding members of the Lyric Piano Quartet, currently in residence at Queens College.
Karen Dreyfus violist is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. Her teacher included Leonard Mogill, Karen Tuttle, and Michael Tree. The is the winner of numerous prizes, including the 1982 Naumburg Viola Competition, 1980 Lionel Tertis Competition, and a National Endowment for the Arts Soloist Award, she has concertized throughout the world and performed with such distinguished ensembles as Musicians from Marlboro, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Recital appearances include collaborations with Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Schneider, Leon Fleisher, and Yehudi Menuhin. Ms. Dreyfus' recordings include a debut CD for Bridge Records featuring works by Hindemith and de Falla, and the Walton and McKinley viola concertos for the MMC label, among others. In addition she is co-founding member of the Lyric Piano Quartet and a member of the Manhattan School of Music faculty.
Gerald Robbins has distinguished himself internationally as a soloist and has appeared with many major orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Virtuosi Chamber Orchestras. A champion of neglected romantic repertoire, he has won praise for his solo recordings for the London-Decca, Orion, and Genesis labels. His recordings include a performance of Dvorak's "Poetic Tone Pictures", and Goetz's Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings, all for the Genesis label. Mr. Robbins recorded the Leonard Bernstein and John Corigliano Sonatas for violin and piano with violinist Glenn Dicterow for Cala records and, most recently, a CD of the Strauss and Turina Piano Quartets performed by the Lyric Piano Quartet on the Black Box label. Mr. Robbins holds bachelor and master of music degrees from the University of Southern California, where he assisted in the string master classes of Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, and Gregor Piatigorsky. He holds prizes from many important competitions including a diploma from the Tchaikovsky International Competition.
Juilliard Percussion Ensemble
This year the Chamber Music season begins with a unique collaboration between the Percussion Department and the Department of Music Technology that will include world premiere works by Edward Bilous and Bryan Rulon. On Tuesday, October 9 at 8 PM in the Ju, illiard Theater, Daniel Druckman will direct the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble in a program featuring Mario Davidovsky's Synchronisms No. 5 (1969); Joseph Pereira's Facing the Mirror (2000); John Bergamo's Blanchard Canyon (1985); Bryan Rulon's The Stelliferous Era (from the Love Songs of Molecules cycle, world premiere, 2001); and excerpts from Edward Bilous' Black Madonna (world premiere, 2001), a cantata in thirteen parts (three of which will be heard). FREE Tickets are required for this concert and are available at the Juilliard Box Office on September 25.
This first concert jointly produced by the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble and the Music Technology Center will feature players of traditional acoustic instruments performing on their electronic counterparts (percussion, flute-wind controller, and guitar) as well as interacting with computers.
The program traces the development of electronic music from its earliest examples, to newly composed works. Mr. Bilous' Black Madonna (2001) is scored for two sopranos and alto, violin, electric violin, amplified cello, bass, flute, and wind controller, oboe, English horn, three saxophones, piano and electronic keyboards, acoustic and electric guitar, and six percussionists, and is performed in Arabic, Catalan, Egyptian, Ethiopian, French, German, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, and Polish. The idea for this work grew out of the cult of the Black Madonna, which began, sometime in the late Middle Ages in parts of France, Spain, and Italy. The image of the Black Madonna became a powerful symbol to many; by the 15th-century the most revered spiritual centers of several countries housed images of the Black Madonna, including Mont St. Michelle in France, the Cathedral at Chartres, the Monastery at Montserat, the road to Compostella in Spain, and the Cathedral at Czestochowa, Poland where she is the Patron Saint of an entire nation. This work is not a sacred one; instead, as the composer notes, "it is a musical exploration of a hidden spiritual tradition which has often been at odds with traditional western views of God and religion."
Composer Bryon Rulon's The Stelliferous Era is a work for multiple percussionists, strings with live electronic processing, and recorded computer-processed and generated sounds. In this work computer-processed percussion sounds, computer-altered live percussion sounds, and live strings are layered to create a wave of sound. The seminal idea is that the computer extends the sounds made by recorded and live instruments; this sound extension acquires a harmonic resonance. The strings then take up this harmonic material. The layering of these elements creates a wave of sound which will do two things: 1) give a particular percussion instrument a sustained aspect to the normally quickly decaying sound; 2) free the percussion to ornament this sustained sound. This 'wave' will introduce pitch and harmonic material and the structure of the work will eventually be realized in a melody. The component parts of the melody will comprise the materials from which the percussion derives its rhythm and the strings their pitch materials. As the work unfolds, the materials are treated, developed and deconstructed with this result in mind: when the fully realized melody does present itself, it will do so with a surprise sense of familiarity.
Composer John Bergamo named his work Blanchard Canyon after a place located close to his home in Piru, California. Written for the new music group the California Ear Unit, Blanchard Canyon is written for five amplified suspended cymbals. The amplification is used only to pick up the special sounds that are not normally part of the cymbal family's vocabulary. The instruments are played with the usual mallets and sticks but bamboo barbeque skewers, and knitting needles also are used. In addition, finger techniques similar to those of East Indian drumming are used. There are five muffling techniques, including the use of the belly, to further vary the sounds. Harmonics are produced by the various muffling methods and some improvisation also is used.
Among the first collaborations using electro-acoustic and instrumental resources, Synchronisms No. 5 (1969) is from a series of groundbreaking works by composer Mario Davidovsky. The ability to record sound was, according to Davidovsky, one of the most important breakthroughs in the 20th century as it enabled "sound" to be used as an independent element in a composition. Mario Davidovsky was born in Argentina in 1934. He studied the violin as a child and began to compose at an early age. In 1958 he studied at the Berkshire Music Center where he met Milton Babbitt who encouraged him to move to New York to continue his work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Mr. Davidovsky is the recipient of the Koussevitzky fellowship, two Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships, and a Pulitzer Prize. Since 1993 he has been a member of the faculty of Harvard University.
Composer, percussionist, and conductor John Bergamo began his training at the Lenox School of Jazz. Under scholarship, he studied drumset with Max Roach. He went on to the Manhattan School of Music where he completed both bachelor and master of music degrees, followed by three summers at Tanglewood. In 1964, he joined the Creative Associates at the State University at Buffalo. This group was formed by composer, conductor, pianist Lukas Foss and explored the avant-garde in a wide variety of 20th century styles. After relocating to the West Coast, Mr. Bergamo became involved in learning Tabla and other hand drums traditional to non-European cultures, and since 1970, has been coordinator of the percussion program at California Institute of the Arts. This has led him to such diverse musical involvements as concerts with John McLaughlin's Shakti, performing in Frank Zappa's Abnuceals Emukka Orchestra, recording with Ali Akbar Khan, and a tour to the Soviet Union with Robert Shaw. Mr. Bergamo has co-founded two all-percussion groups the Repercussion Unit in 1976 and The Hands On'Semble in 1997.
Timpanist and composer, Joseph Pereira has been Assistant Principal Timpanist of the New York Philharmonic since January 1998. A native New Yorker, Mr. Pereira is also an active composer as well as a member of the New York Percussion Quartet. His piece Conversation for solo flute was selected by soloist Linda Witherall to be performed in New York in February 1999. Before enrolling at Juilliard, he graduated from Boston University's School for the Arts, where he received a double bachelor of music degree in Performance and Composition/Theory. While in the Boston area, Mr. Pereira also performed with the new music group Alea III and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is an alumnus of both the Tanglewood and Pacific (Sapporo, Japan) music festivals. In 1994 he toured and recorded in southern France with the Robert Shaw Choral Institute. In 1996, he performed with Sir Neville Marriner and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as its acting principal timpanist. In the summer of 1998, he was featured at Juilliard's summer percussion seminar in a solo recital of all original compositions and in a master class as a composer/performer. He received his master of music degree from the Juilliard School in 2000.
Bryan Rulon attended the Indiana University School of Music where he received his bachelor of music in composition and a double master of music degree with distinction in composition and electronic and computer music. He has studied with Earle Brown, Luciano Berio, Bernard Rands, and the late Jacob Druckman. Moving to New York in 1982 he co-founded the electroacoustic, improvisational ensemble First Avenue with oboist Matt Sullivan, allowing him to work with actors, dancers, performance artists, and lighting designers, as well as prominent and emerging composer-performers. First Avenue has performed at a wide variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theater at Columbia University, and the Knitting Factory, among others. Presently in residence at Princeton University, the ensemble has received numerous grants and produced several CDs. Mr. Rulon is the recipient of awards and commissions including music for Bill T. Jones' Corporate Whims, a 1992 commission grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship Grant, a 1995 Fromm Foundation Commission, a 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 1996 Chamber Music America Commission for the New Millennium Ensemble. In 1995, Mr. Rulon completed a PhD in composition from Princeton University. His music is available on CBS, CRI, Centaur, Princeton, and OO Discs labels.
Percussionist Daniel Druckman is active as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician and recording artist. He has concertized throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the American Composers Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic's Horizons concerts, the San Francisco Symphony's New and Unusual Music series, and in recital in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Tokyo. A member of the New York Philharmonic, Speculum Musicae, and the New York New Music Ensemble, Mr. Druckman also has made numerous appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the American Brass Quintet, the Group for Contemporary Music, Orpheus, Steve Reich and Musicians, and the Philip Glass Ensemble. He also was an original cast member of Peter Brook's Carmen at Lincoln Center. Mr. Druckman has performed at chamber music festivals in Santa Fe, Ravinia, Saratoga, Caramoor, Tanglewood, and Aspen. An integral part of the new music community in New York, Mr. Druckman has premiered works by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Oliver Knussen, Poul Ruders, Joseph Schwantner, Ralph Shapey, and Charles Wuorinen, among many others. Recent appearances include collaborations with Alan Feinberg at Dartmouth College, with Fred Sherry at BargeMusic, with Dawn Upshaw at Carnegie Hall, and solo concerts at Columbia University's Miller Theater and Merkin Concert Hall. Mr. Druckman is coordinator of the percussion department and director of the percussion ensemble at The Juilliard School. He has recorded for the Columbia, Angel, Teldec, DGG, CRI, Nonesuch, Bridge, and New World labels, as well as for radio, television, and films.
Chamber Music at Juilliard
Chamber music holds a prominent and active place in the curriculum at Juilliard. Dozens of participating student ensembles receive coachings from leading chamber music performers on the School's faculty, such as Toby Appel, Earl Carlyss, Rohan De Silva, Jonathan Feldman, Jerry Grossman, Curtis Macomber, Itzhak Perlman, and members of the school's ensembles-in-residence: the Juilliard String Quartet, the American Brass Quintet, and the New York Woodwind Quintet.
Juilliard presents nighttime concerts at Alice Tully Hall featuring chamber music by a variety of student ensembles, coached by Juilliard faculty members. This series is entitled An Evening of Chamber Music; all concerts are at 8 PM. The concerts are scheduled for Wednesday, December 5 in Alice Tully Hall, Tuesday, February 19 in Alice Tully Hall, Friday, March 1, in the Juilliard Theater, and Friday, April 26 in Alice Tully Hall. In addition, students of Juilliard's ensembles-in-residence perform each year in a concert at Alice Tully Hall. This year students of the American Brass Quintet perform on Wednesday, December 12 at 8 PM followed by students of the New York Woodwind Quintet on Monday, March 25 at 8 PM; the Juilliard Wind Ensemble directed by Mark Gould, performs on Wednesday, April 10 at 8 PM.
Chamber music performances at Alice Tully Hall also include FREE lunchtime concerts, Wednesdays at One, throughout the season. No tickets are required for these concerts, which last approximately one hour. Doors open at 12:30 PM. This series begins on Wednesday, October 17 and continues every Wednesday through December 5; begins again every Wednesday from January 16 through February 27; and concludes on Wednesdays from March 20 until May 8. Highlights of this series include Composers and Choreographers on Wednesday, January 23, which features a remarkable array of compositional styles in both dance and music from six teams of student composers and choreographers. Pia Gilbert, a member of Juilliard's graduate faculty, and Elizabeth Keen of Juilliard's Dance Division, direct this program. Other concerts of note include Guitar Students of Sharon Isbin, on Wednesday, May 1 and the Pre-College Chamber Music program on Wednesday, May 8.
The Sonatenabend series features pianists from Juilliard's Collaborative Piano Department in recital with student instrumentalists. These concerts are on Thursdays in Paul Hall. The dates and times for Sonatenabend are as follows: October 11 at 6 PM; October 25 at 6 PM; November 15 at 6 PM; December 6 at 8 PM; February 14 at 6 PM; February 21 at 6 PM; February 28 at 8 PM; and April 18 at 6 PM. No tickets are required for these FREE performances, as well as the previously mentioned Liederabend and Juilliard Songbook series (see Vocal Arts).
Lisa Arnhold Memorial Concert
The tenth annual Lisa Arnhold Memorial Concert takes place on Tuesday, April 23 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. The Lisa Arnhold Memorial Concert is presented annually by The Juilliard School's graduate quartet-in-residence through the generosity of the Arnhold family. The members of the Quartet, named Lisa Arnhold Fellows, receive free tuition and stipends, as well as regular ensemble coachings with the Juilliard String Quartet. As teaching assistants to the Juilliard String Quartet, the Arnhold Fellowship holders coach other ensembles and will participate in the January 2002 Juilliard String Quartet Seminar. Juilliard is deeply grateful to the Arnhold family for its generous commitment to string quartet studies at the School. Program and Quartet information to be announced. Free tickets are required for this concert and are available at the Juilliard Box Office starting April 9.
Juilliard Pre-College
Juilliard's Pre-College Division presents numerous concerts throughout their academic year, which closely matches local school calendars. Talented young musicians, ages eight to eighteen, are admitted by audition for approximately 325 places in the Saturday-only program that includes courses in theory and ear-training, history, composition, choral, orchestral, and chamber music coaching, and large ensembles, as well as private study. The majority of the students - two-thirds of them - are high-school-age, but many of the world's youngest high-profile musicians have been drawn to Juilliard's Pre-College Division from around the world, among them Han-Na Chang, Sarah Chang, Helen Huang, Rachel Lee, Midori, Itzhak Perlman, and Gil and Orli Shaham. The high level of musicianship throughout the student body often makes performances by Pre-College ensembles surprising and exciting.
Juilliard's Pre-College Division season opens on Tuesday, December 11 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall with the Pre-College Orchestra (the Division's most senior ensemble) conducted by Mischa Santora in a program featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes oublièees; the Lizst Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra; and the Mahler Symphony No. 4. On Saturday, March 23 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater the Pre-College Orchestra is lead by conductor Adam Glaser in a program including Kabelevsky's Overture to Colas Breugnon; Tim Andres' Piano Concerto; Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33; and the Brahms Symphony No. 4, op. 98. Conductor Ki-Sun Sung leads the Pre-College Orchestra in their Commencement Concert on Saturday, May 25 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater. The program includes Glazunov's Introduction to Act III from the ballet Raymonda; Glazunov's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 82; and Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Preludes to Act I & III of Lohengrin; and the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. FREE tickets are required for these concerts.
Conductor Adam Glaser leads the Pre-College Symphony in three concerts in the Juilliard Theater beginning on Saturday December 22 at 8 PM in a performance featuring Copland's An Outdoor Overture; Saint-Saëns' Concerto No. 1 in A Minor for Cello and Orchestra, op. 33; and Smetana's The Moldau. On Saturday, March 16 at 8 PM the Symphony performs Faurè's Pellèas et Mèlisande, op. 80; Mozart Concerto in A Major for Violin and Orchestra, K. 219; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67. The Pre-College Symphony's Commencement Concert takes place on Saturday, May 25 at 1 PM and features the Shostakovich Festive Overture, op. 96; Mozart Concerto No. 20 in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 466; and Liszt's Les Prèludes. No tickets are required for these concerts.
The Pre-College Chamber Orchestra - the division's youngest group of ensemble musicians - presents its first concert on Saturday, December 22 at 5 PM in the Juilliard Theater. Conductor Ki-Sun Sung conducts the ensemble in a program including Purcell's Chacony in G Minor; Tartini's Concerto No. 45 in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra, D.43; Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201; and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47. The next concert takes place Saturday March 16 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater; the program is to be announced. The final concert of the Pre-College Chamber Orchestra's season takes place on Saturday, May 4 at 6 PM in the Juilliard Theater. Ki-Sun Sung will lead the ensemble in a program to include Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances; Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 102; and the Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92.
Other performances by Pre-College ensembles include three chamber music concerts. These take place on Saturday, January 26 at 8 PM and on Saturday, March 9 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater. Additionally, Juilliard Pre-College chamber musicians appear in the School's Wednesdays at One series in Alice Tully Hall on May 8 at 1 PM.
2001-2002 Juilliard Dance Division's 50th Anniversary Season
Tickets to the Spring Dance Performances are $15 and are available approximately five weeks prior to performance dates at the Juilliard Box Office; TDF is available. Throughout the Dance Division's 50th Anniversary season in 2001-2002, students will be featured in master works of the classical and modern stage, as well as works by outstanding student choreographers performed by Juilliard dancers. In addition to its annual February performance series that celebrates the anniversary, the Dance Division presents numerous workshops and less formal performances to complete the season.
The Juilliard Dance season opens with Fall Dance Workshops featuring guest choreographers Pat Catterson and Margie Gillis. The workshops combine conversation about the choreographers' technique and process with live performances of their works, and the presentation of choreography by the Juilliard dancers as well. Performances are scheduled for Friday, December 14, Saturday, December 15, and Monday, December 17. All performances are at 8 PM and in the Juilliard Theater. Performances are FREE and no tickets are required.
Pat Catterson has created eighty dances and received multiple choreographer grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the CAPS Program, as well as the Vogelstein and Harnkess foundations. She also was a 1995 Fulbright Scholar. Ms. Catterson has taught and performed in Scandinavia and has been a guest artist at numerous U.S. universities. Her choreography has been commissioned by individual artists, schools, and companies, such as Creach/Koester, Minneapolis' New Dance Ensemble, the Dance Theatre of Oregon, and the Eglevsky Ballet Company. Ms. Catterson was Dance Consultant for the feature film I Shot Andy Warhol. Formerly on the faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, UCLA, and the Merce Cunningham Studio, she has performed with Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Dunn, the Grand Union, and James Cunningham's ACME Dance Company. Her principal teachers have been Merce Cunningham, Voila Farber, Margaret Hills, Jocelyn Lorenz, Charles "Cooky" Cook, Honi Coles, Martha Myers, and Bessie Schönberg.
Margie Gillis has been performing her solo dance concerts across Canada and internationally for two decades. Her instructors have included such prominent teachers as May O'Donnell, Linda Rabin, Lynda Raino, and Allan Wayne. In 1979, she introduced modern dance to China, being the first performer, teacher, and lecturer in the art since the Revolution. Her extensive touring has taken her throughout the world and she holds the distinction of being named Cultural Ambassador for both Canada and Québec. In January 1988, Ms. Gillis was appointed to the Order of Canada for her "outstanding abilities as a solo performer and choreographer" (she was the first modern dancer to receive this award). As a guest artist, Ms. Gillis has appeared with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens as Miss Lucy in James Kudelka's Dracula. She also has appeared with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and made guest appearances with the National Ballet of Canada, Momix, Bruce Wood Dance Company, Faustworks Mask Theater, Stephanie Ballard & Dancers, the Montreal and Québec symphonies, and is currently part of the Jessye Norman tour Sacred Ellington. In addition to her solo shows and guest appearances, Ms. Gillis tours a program of duets and solos. Her guest artists and co-choreographers have included Christopher Gillis (her late brother and former principal dancer and choreographer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company), Paula Styron, Joao Mauricio, Peggy Baker, Bruce Wood, David Grenke, Robbie LaFosse, Rex Harrington, and Rob Faust. In 1998 She won a Gemini Award for the CBC Special documentary Wild Hearts in Strange Times.
Student choreographers also contribute to the Composers & Choreographers concert on Wednesday, January 23 at 1 PM in Alice Tully Hall. Directed by Pia Gilbert, a member of Juilliard's graduate music faculty, and Elizabeth Keen of Juilliard's Dance Division, Composers & Choreographers features a remarkable array of compositional styles in both dance and music from six teams of student composers and choreographers who create new works specifically for this performance - traditionally a highlight of the Wednesday at One series. This concert is FREE and no tickets are required.
The Spring Dance Performances - a 50th Anniversary Celebration -- open on Thursday, February 21 at 8 PM, continue Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM, and conclude on Sunday, February 24 at 3 PM. This presentation of works all by noted Juilliard alumni, takes place in the Juilliard Theater. Works include world premieres by Robert Battle (1994), music to be announced, and Lar Lubovitch (1964) with music by Mozart. Other works to be performed include Duet by Paul Taylor (1953), with music by Haydn; and the New York Premiere of Minus 16 by Ohad Naharin (1977).
Robert Battle, choreographer, holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance from The Juilliard School where he studied choreography with Bessie Schönberg, Elizabeth Keen, and Doris Rudko. While at Juilliard, he received a Princess Grace Dance Scholarship and the Martha Hill prize. A member of the Parsons Dance Company since 1994, Mr. Battle's work has been performed by the PDC across the United States, at the Sydney Opera House in Australia, throughout Italy, and was featured in the Company's 1999 Joyce Theater season. In New York City, Mr. Battle's work has been presented at the Joyce Theater, Dancenow, St. Mark's Church, the Juilliard Theater, and the Joyce Soho. He holds commissions for both new works and restagings from the Hubbard Street Repertory Ensemble, Ailey II, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Ruth Rosenberg Dance Ensemble, and Evolving Arts, Inc. Most recently, Evolving Arts, Inc. commissioned him for a new work, Isolation, with music by Steve Reich. Isolation has been televised on Metro Arts Thirteen in New York. At the Parson's 2000 Joyce season, Mr. Battle's Dementia, a work with music by Steve Reich, was premiered.
Each April, Juilliard graduating dancers produce their own six-performance series featuring their new works. The series is hosted by Juilliard in Lincoln Center's Clark Theater, with the students handling all marketing, publicity, backstage, and ticketing chores. Information is available closer to performance time, directly from the student graduating company of dancers.
The final season presentations by the Dance Division are the Young Choreographer Workshops in the Juilliard Theater. Three performances will be presented beginning on Wednesday, May 15, Thursday, May 16, and Saturday, May 18. All performances are at 8 PM and are FREE with no tickets required. The Senior Graduation Performance will be held on Monday, May 20 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater.
The Juilliard Dance Division was established in 1951 by William Schuman during his tenure as President of the School. Under the guidance of Martha Hill, founding director of the Division, Juilliard became the first major teaching institution to combine equal dance instruction in both modern and ballet techniques; Miss Hill's program was a forecast of the future of dance in America, where ballet and modern dance companies routinely cross into one another's territory. Current Artistic Director of the Dance Division, Benjamin Harkarvy, has continued and expanded this tradition. Graduates of the Division include noted dancers and choreographers including Robert Battle, Pina Bausch, Gregory Burge, Martha Clarke, Mercedes Ellington, Saeko Ichinohe, Lar Lubovitch, Ohad Naharin, and Paul Taylor.
2001-2002 Juilliard Drama Division
Free tickets are required for the Fall Preview performances. Tickets become available approximately two weeks prior to the opening of each show. Tickets to the Drama Repertory Season in the spring semester are $15, available five weeks prior to performances, with TDF available. For information please contact the Juilliard Box Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Monday-Friday 11 AM to 6 PM, (212) 769-7406.
The Drama Division, under the artistic direction of Michael Kahn, presents a series of five fully staged productions each season featuring actors in their fourth and final year of actor training at Juilliard. The productions first are presented as previews, and then are re-mounted as a repertory season during the months of March and April in the spring semester. The 2001-2002 season includes plays to be announced from the classic and modern stage, directed by Juilliard faculty members and guest artists, and featuring actors in Juilliard's Group XXXI: Nathan Baesel, Craig Baldwin, Daniel Breaker, Denis Butkus, Jennifer Carpenter, Matt D'Amico, Frank Harts, James Martinez, Toi Perkins, Wayne Scott, Samantha Soule, Daniel Talbott, Jason Van Over, and Sarah Wilson. All productions are open to the public. Performance dates for the Preview Season are listed on the following page.
Actors in their third year of training also perform in a series of projects throughout the academic year. The 2001-2002 third-year performance series includes two productions of classic plays in the fall semester and a special collaboration between the third year actors and Juilliard Playwrights, featuring performances of new works created at Juilliard. These performances are presented in Studio 301. The third-year students also present the annual evening of Cabaret at Stand-Up New York and a year-end Shakespeare production in the Drama Theater. Performance dates for all the above events are listed on the following page.
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