August 28, 2002 Contact: Matt Schicker Paula Mlyn Li-Ling Wang Janet Kessin

Juilliard Orchestra performs Haydn’s Symphony 100 ("Military") and E-flat Trumpet Concerto,
Bach’s Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068,
And Stravinsky’s Suite from Pulcinella

Juilliard Symphony performs Stravinsky’s Fireworks, Op. 4,
Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto, Op. 3, and
Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27

Juilliard’s Director of Orchestral Studies Otto-Werner Mueller conducts the Juilliard Orchestra on Thursday, October 3 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater, in a program of orchestral music by Haydn, J.S. Bach, and Stravinsky. A trumpet soloist for the Haydn concerto will be announced after September 25. Free tickets are required and will be available September 19 at the Juilliard Box Office. For more information, please call the box office at (212) 769-7406.

Flutist and conductor Ransom Wilson, a Juilliard alumnus, returns to the school as guest conductor of the Juilliard Symphony on Thursday, October 10 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater. The program will include Stravinsky’s Fireworks, Op. 4, Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, and one of the few pieces written for double bass soloist with orchestra, Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto in F-sharp Minor, Op. 3. The soloist will be announced after October 3. Free tickets are required and will be available September 26 at the Juilliard Box Office. For more information, please call the box office at (212) 769-7406.

Born in Bensheim, Germany in 1926, conductor Otto-Werner Mueller has helped shape the orchestral training programs of distinguished musical institutions in the United States and Canada. After studying conducting, composition, piano, trumpet, and viola in Frankfurt, Mr. Mueller became director of the chamber music department for Radio Stuttgart at the age of nineteen, and was founder and conductor of the celebrated Radio Stuttgart Chamber

Choir. Two years later, he served as conductor of opera and operetta for the Heidelberg Theater. In Heidelberg, he founded the orchestra for dependents of United States military forces stationed there. Emigrating in 1951 to Canada, Mr. Mueller worked extensively for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as conductor of opera, ballet, and symphonic presentations, and in 1958 became teacher and conductor at the Montreal Conservatory. He later served as director of the Victoria Symphony, and was founder and dean of the Victoria School of Music.

Mr. Mueller was a guest professor at the Moscow State Conservatory in 1963, and toured the Republics of the former Soviet Union in 1968 and 1970, conducting the Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Riga symphonies. He has conducted throughout North America and was a guest conductor at the Scottish National Orchestra and the Krakow Philharmonic.

Mr. Mueller has trained the conductors of many American orchestras, teaching at the Yale University School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Choral Foundation's Summer Institute, Aspen Music Festival, American Symphony Orchestra League's conducting seminars, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. He is currently a member of the faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School.

Flutist and conductor Ransom Wilson, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was educated at The Juilliard School and the North Carolina School of the Arts. After school, he was an Atlantique Foundation scholar in Paris for a year, studying privately with Jean-Pierre Rampal. His other flute teachers have included Alain Marion, Sandra Taylor, Lawrence Morgan, Philip Dunigan, Severino Gazzelloni, Julius Baker, Christian Lardé, and Arthur Lora. He has appeared with major orchestras around the world, and has played in recital with many of the greatest musicians of our time.

Mr. Wilson is an orchestral conductor of growing reputation, and he is the founder and conductor of Solisti New York Orchestra, as well as the artistic director of Oklahoma's OK MOZART International Festival. He has been guest conductor of many prestigious ensembles, including the Houston Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera. His conducting teachers have included Roger Nierenberg, James Dixon, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Leonard Bernstein.

He has recorded 30 albums as both flutist and conductor, and was three times nominated for the Grammy award. Other awards he has received include the Alabama Prize from the New York Times Foundation, and the Award of Merit in Gold, from the Republic of Austria. He is an Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is Professor of Flute at Yale University, as well as music director of the orchestra at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, and artistic director of Oklahoma's OK MOZART International Festival. He taught a weeklong master class at the Paris Conservatory, as well as classes at International Summer Academy in Nice, and at The Juilliard School in New York City.

Mr. Wilson acts as producer and director of artists and repertoire for the recently formed CD label, Image Recordings.