The Juilliard School Announces 2008-09 Season

Highlights of 700-event season include: 

Alice Tully Hall Opening Nights Festival with the Juilliard Orchestra and conductor David Robertson and numerous other artists on the opening night gala concert on February 22 and a performance of Messiaen’s Des canyon aux étoiles on February 26; Juilliard students perform a free Wednesdays at One all-Schubert concert on February 25 
   
Juilliard Opera Center presents two full-length operas and three one-act operas in 2008-09: Trilogy, three rarely performed one-act operas conceived and conducted by James Conlon, realised by Darko Tresnjak and directed by James Marvel on November 12, 14, and 16; John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer on January 31, conducted by the composer and directed by Edward Berkeley; and Verdi’s Falstaff on April 22, 24, and 26, conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson and directed by Stephen Wadsworth 

CALIFORNIA: A Century of New Music is subject of this year’s 2009 FOCUS! Festival, which opens on January 23 with the New Juilliard Ensemble and director/conductor Joel Sachs and closes with a concert version of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer on January 31; Festival also will include world premiere of a new string quartet by John Adams written for and performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet

World premieres of new works by composers Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Bruce MacCombie performed by the Juilliard Orchestra 

New Dances/Edition 2008 features Juilliard dancers in four world premieres by innovative choreographers Sidra Bell, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Johannes Wieland, and Larry Keigwin; Juilliard Dance Repertory features works by leading choreographers Lar Lubovitch, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, and Ohad Naharin

Juilliard Jazz welcomes Benny Golson and Christian McBride as artists-in-residence next season and new faculty members Ron Carter, Xavier Davis, Ray Drummond, Benny Green, Frank Kimbrough, Ted Nash, Steve Turre, and Kenny Washington; Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents two special evenings featuring the music of Andrew Hill and the music of Terence Blanchard

Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds featuring a concert with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert as part of citywide Bernstein commemoration in November 2008

Juilliard Drama Division graduating actors are featured in four fully-staged productions in 2008-09: Molière’s The Misanthrope, directed by Lucie Tiberghien; Lanford Wilson’s Burn This, directed by Pam MacKinnon; Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Ethan McSweeny; and The Greeks, Part III, The Gods, adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander, and directed by Brian Mertes

William Christie and Les Arts Florissants return for second early music residency, March 23-27, focusing on the music of Handel

Roster of guest conductors making appearances at Juilliard in 2008-09 includes: John Adams, David Atherton, James Conlon, Alan Gilbert, Ludovic Morlot, Nicholas McGegan, David Robertson, Emmanuel Villaume, and Keri-Lynn Wilson and Juilliard conductors James DePreist, Adam Glaser, Jeffrey Milarsky, and George Stelluto

For the complete 2008-09 Juilliard Season Announcement (PDF document), click here.

For the complete season calendar (PDF document), click here.