March 10, 2003 Contact: Paula Mlyn

On Thursday, April 10 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall, The Juilliard School presents the first annual Jerome L. Greene concert honoring the memory of the School’s late trustee and supporter Jerome L. Greene. In 2001, a $12 million grant from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation put the Campaign for Juilliard past its $100 million goal. The gift the largest in the School’s history, provides scholarships for students in music, dance, and drama and was the first scholarship in Juilliard’s history that supported students in all three of the performing arts taught at the School. This event initiates the first series of concerts in Juilliard’s history dedicated exclusively to the performance of Baroque music thus allowing Juilliard students to intensively address the performance of music from this period under the direction of faculty coaches.

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Led by harpsichordist and Juilliard faculty member Lionel Party, the program features Vivaldi’s Concerto for two trumpets, strings, and continuo in C Major, RV 537, Handel’s Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 6, No. 11, Marini’s Sonata Terza for violin and basso continuo, Frescobaldi’s Canzona Seconda a Canto Solo, detta La Bernardinia and his Toccata per Spinettina e Violino, Fontana’s Sonata Seconda for violin and basso continuo, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051. Juilliard performers include Denver Dill and Gareth Flowers, trumpets; Sungmin Yoo, violin, Entela Barci, Marcus Takizawa, Richard O'Neill, and Jennifer Stumm, violas; Soo Ryoung Bae and Clara Lee, cellos, Da-Geng He, bass, Aya Hamada and Tomoko Nakayama, harpsichords

A native of Santiago, Chile, Lionel Party studied with Elena Waiss at the Escuela Moderna de Musica, graduating in 1965. In 1966 he was awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship by the West German government to study piano with Rosl Schmid and harpsichord with Hedwig Bilgram at the Musikhochschule of Munich. In 1970 Mr. Party came to The Juilliard School to study harpsichord with Albert Fuller first as a Fulbright scholar and then as recipient of a Juilliard Alumni grant. He obtained his doctor of musical arts from Juilliard in 1976. Mr. Party has played solo recitals in New York City's major concert halls including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frick Collection, Alice Tully Hall, Abraham Goodman House, 92nd St. Y - as well as Boston, Washington and other U.S. cities. He has made numerous appearances with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Waverly Consort, Solisti New York, among other ensembles. Celebrating Bach's 300th anniversary, he played Concertos for one, two, three and four harpsichords with the Handel and Haydn Society at Boston's Symphony Hall. In November 1991, he was soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Erich Leinsdorf in Poulenc's Concert Champêtre. He was a member of Aulos Ensemble and Y Chamber Symphony and currently is a member of Aston Magna and the New York Philharmonic. Abroad he has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra, German Bach Soloist, South German Chamber Orchestra, Collegium Instrumentale of the Gewandhaus of Leipzig, and has given solo recitals in Leipzig, Berlin, Dsseldorf, Geneva, Saint-Saphorin, Vevey, Chateau de Coppet, Ottawa and Santiago. In addition Mr. Party has presented broadcast concerts over the RAI of Rome, the East and West German radio networks, and U.S. public radio and television. Mr. Party has made numerous recordings for Desmar, Musical Heritage Society, Smithsonian, Titanic, and Orion record labels. A faculty member at The Juilliard School, Mr. Party teaches baroque music and harpsichord. He also is a member of the faculty of The Mannes College of Music teaching harpsichord and The Curtis Institute teaching baroque music and harpsichord