September 3, 2002 Contact: Li-Ling Wang

The New Juilliard Ensemble launches its 10th anniversary season with a concert on September 21 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater. Led by its director and founder Joel Sachs, the New Juilliard Ensemble marks the occasion with four U.S. premieres including a tuba concerto by Austrian composer Hartmut Schmidt, to be played by Juilliard tubist Robinson Love. Other U.S. premieres featured in this concert include skell Másson’s Chamber Symphony No. 2, Colin Matthews’ Two Tributes, and Frederic Rzewski’s Main Drag. FREE tickets are required for this concert and are available at the Juilliard Box Office starting September 6. The Box Office, located at 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, is open Monday through Friday, from 11 AM to 6 PM. For more information, please call (212) 769-7406. The Juilliard Theater is located at 155 West 65^th Street.

A native of Langley, Virginia, Robinson Barnwell Love started playing tuba at the age of eleven. Under the tutelage of David Porter of U.S. Air Force Band, he was selected to be the first tubist to participate in the National Symphony Orchestra’s prestigious fellowship program. In 1995, Mr. Love was one of three finalists in the International Solo Competition of the International Tuba Euphonium Conference in Chicago, Illinois. While studying with David Bragunier of the National Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Love was heard frequently in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for the American Youth Philharmonic and the Brass of Peace brass choir. Mr. Love studied for three years at the Peabody Institute of Music with David Fedderly, principal tubist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Upon entering The Juilliard School in the fall of 2000, Mr. Love studied with Warren Deck, former principal tubist of the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Love has played with many professional ensembles including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and New York’s Gramercy Brass Orchestra. Currently, he is in his last year of undergraduate study at Juilliard where he studies with David Fedderly. He is a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship.