December 19, 2002 Contact: Li-Ling Wang

Program Features Original Works by Juilliard Student Composers and Choreographers

Juilliard’s Wednesdays At One series presents the annual Composers and Choreographers performance on Wednesday, January 22 at 1 PM in Alice Tully Hall. This presentation features six teams of student composers and choreographers and their original works in various compositional styles both in dance and music. Directed by Juilliard graduate studies faculty member Pia Gilbert and Elizabeth Keen of the dance division, Composers and Choreographers begins as a class in September where students first observe each other’s creative work and eventually come together to produce new works in unison. The result of this close collaboration is always surprising and has been part of the Juilliard season for eleven years. Titles of the works featured in this performance include: Low Languid Lucid, Impression of Wind, Space Between, and Sotto in Sù. Two works still are to be named.

Wednesdays at One is a series of free, one-hour, lunchtime concerts presented by Juilliard artists at Alice Tully Hall. No tickets are required for this concert series. For more information please visit our website at www.Juilliard.edu, or contact the Juilliard Box Office, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Monday - Friday, 11 AM - 6 PM, (212) 769-7406.

This performance features six creative teams of student composers and choreographers. They are: composer Cynthia Lee Wong, a third-year undergraduate student who studies with Samuel Adler, working on the piece entitled Low Languid Lucid with choreographer Sebastian Gehrke, a third-year dance student; Adam Birnbaum, who is in his second year of the artist diploma program of Jazz Studies, working with a third-year dance student Michiko Isono; a second-year master’s composition student Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, who currently studies with Milton Babbitt, collaborating with a third-year dance student Yin-Ling Lin on the piece entitled Impression of Wind; Composer of Space Between Tim Whitelaw, who is in his second year of the graduate diploma program, studying with Rober Beaser, pairing with a third-year dance student Andrea Miller; a first-year master’s composition student Nicolas Muhly, studying with John Corigliano, working with Rachel Tess, who is also a third-year dance student; and last, composer Susan Burkey, who is in her second year of the graduate diploma program, studying with Christopher Rouse, collborating with another third-year dance student Marie Zvosec on the piece called Sotto in Sù.

Pia Gilbert, born in Kippenheim, Germany, is a professor of music and dance and was the resident composer at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1948-1985. She has written a textbook entitled Music for the Modern Dance, several articles on the composer-choreographer relationship, and lectured extensively in the United States and Europe on the topic. Ms. Gilbert has composed scores for choreographers including Valerie Bettis, Jack Cole, Daniel Lewis, Marion Scott, Carol Scothorn, and Gus Solomons; as well as music for Gordon Davidson’s productions of The Deputy, The Devils, and Murderous Angels at The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and The Playhouse, in New York. Her composition Gestures for large orchestra was premiered by the Cincinnati Philharmonia under the direction of Gerhard Samuel and was subsequently performed at the Aspen Music Festival with conductor Lawrence Foster. Her opera Dialects was performed at the Opera House in Bonn, Germany in 1994. Other works by Ms. Gilbert have been performed at the Cal Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Alice Tully Hall, and the Aspen Music Festival, as well as on radio broadcasts throughout Europe. Ms. Gilbert’s recordings are distributed on the Protone label. She has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School since 1986.

Elizabeth Keen is a choreographer of opera, theater, and concert dance who also is the artistic director of the Elizabeth Keen Dance Company and has performed in tours with companies from Paul Taylor and Helen Tamiris/Daniel Nagrin. Ms. Keen is the recipient of several NEA grants and has taught at Pratt Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU and was a faculty member at Princeton University. Her recent choreography credits include Carmen at Glydebourne and the Metropolitan operas; The Fiery Angel at Los Angeles Opera, and Salome at Los Angeles Opera and Covent Garden; and The Mother of Us All at the Guggenheim Museum. Ms. Keen also has staged movement for productions at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford; McCarther Theatre in Princeton; Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, and the Goodman Theater in Chicago as well as Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest in London. In New York she has choreographed for the Acting Company, the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of A Comedy of Errors; The Beggar’s Opera and Polly at Chelsea Theater; H.M.S. Pinafore at Lehman Arts Center; and Peg of My Heart at the American Stage Festival. Ms. Keen has been a member of the Dance Division faculty at Juilliard since 1989.

Wednesdays at One
Composers and Choreographers
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
1 PM in Alice Tully Hall

Cynthia Lee Wong	Low Languid Lucid
Sebastian Gehrke
Adam Birnbaum	Work to be named
Michiko Isono
Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum	Impression of Wind
Yin-Ling Lin
Tim Whitelaw	Space Between
Andrea Miller
Nicolas Muhly	Work to be named
Rachel Tess
Susan Burkey	Sotto in Sù
Marie Zvosec