Juilliard Historical Performance Announces 2017-18 Season

Distinguished Guest Artists in the 2017-18 Season Include Harry Bicket, William Christie, Jonathan Cohen, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Robert Mealy, Lionel Meunier, Rachel Podger, Shunske Sato, Stephen Stubbs, Masaaki Suzuki, and Vocal Ensembles Vox Luminis and Yale Schola Cantorum

Season Features Music From the 1600s and Monteverdi Through the 1730s and Rameau, Including a Fully-Staged Production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie

Two Large-Scale Programs of Bach Are Featured: “Reformation 500” With Bach’s Mass in G Major on October 12 and 14, 2017 and Bach’s Mass in B Minor on April 28, 2018

 

NEW YORK –– Juilliard Historical Performance, the school’s graduate-level, full-tuition scholarship program for early music, enters its ninth performance season with a full schedule of concerts, tours, residencies, and master classes anchored by performances from its primary period-instrument ensemble, Juilliard415, and a roster of distinguished guests artists. The 2017-18 season will feature appearances by Harry Bicket, William Christie, Jonathan Cohen, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Lionel Meunier, Rachel Podger, Shunske Sato, Stephen Stubbs, Masaaki Suzuki, and vocal ensembles Vox Luminis and Yale Schola Cantorum.

The new season opens with the annual visit of artist in residence William Christie leading Juilliard415, and a cast of Juilliard singers and dancers in “The Genius of Monteverdi” with works by Monteverdi, Farina, and Castello on October 5, 2017 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Peter Farrow will create new dance for Monteverdi’s Il ballo delle ingrate.

Juilliard415 continues its collaboration with the Yale Schola Cantorum and conductor Masaaki Suzuki in “Reformation 500” featuring Bach’s Mass in G Major, BWV 236 and the celebratory cantata Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80. Performances take place on October 12, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Haven and on October 14, 2017 at St. Michael’s and All Angels Church.

Juilliard415 makes its first appearance at the University of Buffalo in a program of French Baroque chamber music by Marais, Rebel, and Couperin on October 20, 2017.

Nicholas McGegan returns to conduct Juilliard415 in “A World Tour,” a program featuring music about different countries by Campra, Rameau, and Telemann on October 25, 2017 in Alice Tully Hall and October 29, 2017 in San Francisco at the de Young Museum.  Vivaldi’s virtuosic violin concerto “Il Grosso Mogul” RV 208 anchors the program.

A week of chamber music follows in November with visiting artist Richard Egarr in a program of music by Couperin, Charpentier, Marais, and Rebel on November 9, 2017 in Paul Hall. On November 12, 2017, acclaimed violinist Monica Huggett joins members of Juilliard415 in an all-Couperin program in the “Music on Madison” series at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Violinist Robert Mealy, director of Juilliard Historical Performance, leads Juilliard415 in a program entitled “The Pleasure Garden: Music from Handel’s London” on December 8, 2017 in Alice Tully Hall. The program features works by Arne, Festing, and Handel.

Emerging conductor, cellist and keyboardist Jonathan Cohen, associate conductor of William Christie’s Les Arts Florissant and artistic director of Arcangelo, makes his Juilliard debut in a program entitled “Madness and Enchantment” on the “Music Before 1800” concert series on January 14, 2018 at Corpus Christi Church. The program includes excerpts from Purcell’s Fairy Queen and other works by Telemann, Geminiani/Corelli, Durante, and Boccherini, including his sinfonia known as “La casa del diavolo” (“House of the Devil”).

Baroque violinist and Juilliard alumnus Shunske Sato will give a master class on January 25, 2018 in Paul Hall. Sato, a resident of the Netherlands, is concertmaster of Concerto Köln and the Netherlands Bach Society and is often a guest concertmaster for ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He is on the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he teaches violin in the context of historical performance practice.  

Juilliard415 welcomes back Baroque violinist Rachel Podger for concerts on January 28, 2018 at the Shalin Liu Center in Rockport, Mass., and in Alice Tully Hall on January 29, 2018. The program showcases Juilliard415 Baroque flautists and features the complete First Production of Telemann’s elegant Musique de Table suite.

Juilliard Historical Performance harpsichord faculty member, Béatrice Martin curates a program on Couperin’s treatise L’Art de toucher le clavecin on February 8, 2018 in Paul Hall.

For the first time, Juilliard415 is joined by Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis with concertmaster and faculty member Elizabeth Blumenstock in “Handel in Rome,” on February 16, 2018 at Vassar College and February 17, 2018, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. Vocalist Lionel Meunier, who co-founded Vox Luminis in 2004, is artistic director.

Juilliard415 will be the orchestra for Juilliard Opera’s presentation of the rarely performed Rameau opera Hippolyte et Aricie with conductor Stephen Stubbs and stage director Stephen Wadsworth. The opera features singers from Juilliard’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and Juilliard dancers, choreographed by alumnus Zack Winokur. It takes place April 17, 19, and 21, 2018 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

Masaaki Suzuki conducts Juilliard415 and Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music Alumni Choir in a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the American Bach Society Conference at Yale’s Woolsey Hall on April 28, 2018.

Free Lunchtime Concerts at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church – Tuesdays at Twelve

Juilliard Historical Performance continues its free lunchtime concert series, Tuesdays at Twelve, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (65th Street and Central Park West). The hour-long concerts take place on October 17, December 12, February 20, and April 3, all on Tuesdays at noon, and feature chamber music performed on period instruments in the 110-year-old church, the home of the celebrated Bach Vespers series. These concerts are free, and no tickets are required. The series is an extension of Juilliard’s long-running, free lunchtime performance series that takes place during the school year on Wednesdays in Alice Tully Hall.

Residencies and Master Classes

Residencies and master classes are an important part of the Juilliard Historical Performance program and give Juilliard musicians a chance to work closely with a who’s who list of early music specialists. Among the distinguished artists who will give master classes during the 2017-18 season are Harry Bicket, artistic director of The English Concert, and Baroque violinist and Juilliard alumnus Shunske Sato.

Juilliard's full-scholarship Historical Performance program was established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner.

 

2017-18 Juilliard Historical Performance

Calendar of Events

 

Thursday, October 5, 2017, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Juilliard415

Juilliard Dance

William Christie, conductor

Peter Farrow, choreographer

“The Genius of Monteverdi”

Claudio MONTEVERDI Altri canti di Marte

Lamento della ninfa

Carlo FARINA Pavana Seconda

MONTEVERDI Ohimé, ch’io cado

Gira il nemico

Dario CASTELLO Sonata XVI

MONTEVERDI Il ballo delle ingrate

 

Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 7:30pm at Trinity Lutheran (292 Orange Street, New Haven)

Saturday, October 14, 2017, at 7:30pm at St. Michael and All Angels Church

Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

“Reformation 500”

BACH Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79

Ein Fest Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80

Concerto, tba

Mass in G Major, BWV 236

 

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at noon at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (65th Street and Central Park West)

Free lunchtime concert featuring Juilliard Historical Performance musicians in a chamber music concert.

 

Friday, October 20, 2017, at 7:30pm at the University of Buffalo (Lippes Concert Hall)

An evening of French Baroque chamber music

Marin MARAIS Trio Sonatas

Jean-Féry REBEL Les caractères de la danse

François COUPERIN L’Apothéose de Lulli

 

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Sunday, October 29, 2017, at 4pm at the de Young Museum in San Francisco

Juilliard415

Nicholas McGegan, conductor

“A World Tour”

Music by Campra, Rameau, and Telemann

 

Chamber Music Week

Thursday, November 9, 2017, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Paul Hall

Richard Egarr, keyboards

François COUPERIN One of the Concert Royaux

Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER Sonate a huit

Marin MARAIS Pièce en trio, Suite No. V in E Minor: Prelude – Rondeau – Sarabande – Menuet – Caprice - Passacaille

Jean-Féry REBEL Les caractères de la danse

 

Sunday, November 12, 2017, at 3pm at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (921 Madison Avenue)

Music on Madison series

Monica Huggett, violin

COUPERIN La Sultane

L’Apothéose de Corelli

L’Apothéose de Lulli

 

Friday, December 8, 2017, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard415

Robert Mealy, violin and leader

“The Pleasure Garden: Music from Handel’s London”

Georg Friedrich HANDEL Concerto grosso in B-flat, Op. 6, No. 7, from Twelve Grand Concertos in 7 Parts, Op. 6

Thomas ARNE Concerto No. 5 in G Minor from Six Favourite Concerts for the Organ, Harpsichord, or Pianoforte

Michael Christian FESTING Concerto in C Major, Op. 3, No. 9, from Twelve Concertos in Seven Parts

HANDEL Suite in F Major from the Water Music, HWV 348

 

Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at noon at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (65th Street and Central Park West, N.Y.C.)

Free lunchtime concert featuring Juilliard Historical Performance musicians in a chamber music concert.

 

Thursday, December 14, 2017, at 11am in Juilliard’s Room 102 (closed master class)

Master Class with Conductor Harry Bicket

 

Sunday, January 14, 2018, at 4pm at Corpus Christi Church (529 West 121st Street)

Music Before 1800

Juilliard415

Jonathan Cohen, conductor

“Madness and Enchantment”

Henry PURCELL Fairy Queen (excerpts)

Georg Philipp TELEMANN Ouverture-Suite, TWV55:G10 “Burlesque de Quixotte”

Francesco GEMINIANI/Arcangelo CORELLI Concerto grosso on La Follia

Francesco DURANTE Concerto for Strings in A Major, No. 8, “La Pazzia”

Luigi BOCCHERINI Sinfonia in D Minor, Op. 12, No. 4, “La casa del diavolo”

 

Thursday, January 25, 2018, at 11am in Juilliard’s Room 102 (closed master class)

Master Class with Violinist Shunske Sato

 

Sunday, January 28, 2018, at 4pm at Shalin Liu Center, Rockport, Mass.

Monday, January 29, 2018, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard415

Rachel Podger, violin and leader

Georg Philipp TELEMANN Musique de Table, First Production

Overture (Suite) in E Minor for Two Flutes, Strings and Continuo, TWV55:e1

Quartet in G Major for Flute, Oboe, Violin, and Continuo, TWV43:G2

Concerto in A Major for Flute, Violin, and Cello, TWV53:A2

Trio in E-flat Major for Two Violins and Continuo, TWV42:Es1

Solo in B Minor for Flute and Continuo, TWV41:h4

Conclusion in E Minor for Strings and Continuo, TWV50:5

 

Monday, February 5, 2018, Kosciusko Foundation (15 East 65th Street)

The Bohemians concert series

Historical Performance chamber music concert

 

Thursday, February 8, 2018, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Paul Hall’

François COUPERIN L’Art de toucher le clavecin

Curated by Béatrice Martin

 

Friday, February 16, 2018 at Skinner Hall of Music at Vassar College (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

Saturday, February 17, 2017, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard415 and Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, artistic director

Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster

Juilliard soprano, tba

“Handel in Rome”

Georg Friedrich HANDEL Nisi Dominus, HWV 238

Concerto in B-flat for violin and orchestra, HWV 288

Laudate pueri dominum, HWV 237

Dixit Dominus, HWV 232

 

Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at noon at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (65th Street and Central Park West)

Free lunchtime concert featuring Juilliard Historical Performance musicians in a chamber music concert.

 

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at noon at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (65th Street and Central Park West)

Free lunchtime concert featuring Juilliard Historical Performance musicians in a chamber music concert.

 

Tuesday, April 17, Thursday, April 19, and Saturday, April 21, 2018 in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Juilliard Opera

Juilliard415

Juilliard Dance

Stephen Stubbs, conductor

Stephen Wadsworth, director

Zack Winokur, choreographer

Jean-Philippe RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie

 

Saturday, April 28, 2018, at 7:30pm at Woolsey Hall in New Haven

American Bach Society Conference

Juilliard415

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

Yale Institute of Sacred Music Alumni Choir

Johann Sebastian BACH Mass in B Minor

 

Monday, May 7, 2018, at 7:30pm in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Honors Chamber Music

 

Ticket and Box Office Information

Tickets for Juilliard Historical Performance concerts in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater and concerts in Paul Hall are $20 and will be available at events.juilliard.edu or in person at the Juilliard Box Office. Tickets are free for Juilliard students; non-Juilliard students with valid ID may purchase tickets for $10, only at the Juilliard Box Office.

Tickets for Alice Tully Hall concerts are $20 and will be available at events.juilliard.edu, through CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500, or at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office. Tickets are free for Juilliard students; non-Juilliard students with valid ID may purchase tickets for $10, only at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office.

About Juilliard415

Since its founding in 2009, Juilliard415, the school’s principal period-instrument ensemble, has made significant contributions to musical life in New York and beyond, bringing major figures in the field of early music to lead performances of both rare and canonical works of the 17th and 18th centuries. The many distinguished guests who have led Juilliard415 include Harry Bicket, William Christie, the late Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, Ton Koopman, Nicholas McGegan, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Jordi Savall, and Masaaki Suzuki. Juilliard415 tours extensively in the U.S. and abroad, with notable appearances at the Boston Early Music Festival, Leipzig Bachfest, and Utrecht Early Music Festival (where Juilliard was the first-ever conservatory in residence). With its frequent musical collaborator, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble has played throughout Italy, Japan, Southeast Asia, the U.K., India, and New Zealand. Juilliard415 has performed major oratorios and fully staged Baroque operas every year since its founding. Recent performances include Handel’s Agrippina and Radamisto, Bach’s Matthew and John Passions, Cavalli’s La Calisto, Charpentier’s Actéon with William Christie, and performances in the U.S. and Holland of Bach’s Mass in B Minor conducted by Ton Koopman (a collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague). The ensemble’s most recent international engagement was a 10-concert tour throughout New Zealand with Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki. The 2017-18 season is notable for the Juilliard debuts of the rising conductor Jonathan Cohen and the Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, a side-by-side collaboration with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, as well as return visits by Rachel Podger in a program of Telemann, William Christie leading Monteverdi’s Il Ballo delle Ingrate, a concert of music from Handel’s London under the direction of Robert Mealy, an all-Bach concert for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with Maestro Suzuki, and the rare opportunity to see a fully-staged production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie with Stephen Stubbs conducting.

About Juilliard Historical Performance

Juilliard’s full-scholarship Historical Performance program offers comprehensive study and performance of music from the 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments. Established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner, the program is open to candidates for the Master of Music, Graduate Diploma, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. A high-profile concert season of opera, orchestral, and chamber music is augmented by a performance-oriented curriculum that fosters an informed understanding of the many issues unique to period-instrument performance at the level of technical excellence and musical integrity for which Juilliard is renowned. The faculty comprises many of the leading performers and scholars in the field. Frequent collaborations with Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, the integration of modern-instrument majors outside of the Historical Performance program, and national and international tours have introduced new repertoires and increased awareness of historical performance practice at Juilliard and beyond. Alumni of Juilliard Historical Performance are members of many of the leading period-instrument ensembles, including the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Mercury, and Tafelmusik, as well as launching such new ensembles as the Sebastians, House of Time, New York Baroque Incorporated, and New Vintage Baroque.

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