NEW YORK –– Richard Egarr, artist in residence in Juilliard Historical Performance, has programmed and prepared “An Evening of Baroque Chamber Music” featuring members of period-instrument ensemble Juilliard415. The program on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at 7:30pm in Paul Hall includes Couperin’s Troisiéme concert in A Major, from Concerts royaux; Charpentier’s Sonate à huit (H. 548); Marais’ Suite No. 5 in E Minor, from Pièces en trio; and Rebel’s Les caractères de la danse.
On the following day, Friday, November 10, 2017, at 7:30pm in Paul Hall, harpsichordist Richard Egarr joins faculty member and gambist Sarah Cunningham for an all-Bach recital, presented as part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series. They perform J.S. Bach’s Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027; Partita in D Minor, BWV 1013; Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028; Sonata in D Minor, BWV 527; three preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1; and the Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1029.
Tickets for both events are $20 ($10 for full-time non-Juilliard students and free for Juilliard students) and available for purchase at juilliard.edu/calendar.
Juilliard's full-scholarship Historical Performance program was established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner.
About Richard Egarr
Richard Egarr has been music director of the Academy of Ancient Music since 2006 and was associate artist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2011 to 2017. He was recently appointed principal guest conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague beginning in 2019. He has conducted major symphonic orchestras including the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, and Philadelphia Orchestra, has frequently been a guest artist with leading Baroque ensembles including Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, and regularly gives solo harpsichord recitals at Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall, among others.
Mr. Egarr’s diverse musicianship is reflected in his projects for the 2017–18 season, which include: a staged version of Purcell’s King Arthur at the Barbican Centre with the Academy of Ancient Music as part of their ongoing opera cycle; the St. Matthew Passion with the Rotterdam Philharmonic; Schumann’s Requiem with the Scottish Chamber; Mozart’s C Minor Mass with the Orquesta Sinfonica da Galicia; and Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony with the Luxembourg Philharmonic and Antwerp Symphony. He makes several trips to the U.S. this season, returning to the Dallas Symphony for Brandenburg concerti, guesting with Philharmonia Baroque and Les Violons du Roy, and touring the East Coast with cellist Steven Isserlis playing music by J.S. Bach.
Early in his tenure with the Academy of Ancient Music, Mr. Egarr established the Choir of the Academy of Ancient Music, and operas/oratorios lie at the heart of his repertoire. He made his Glyndebourne debut in 2007 conducting a staged version of the St. Matthew Passion. He has directed Handel oratorios at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program and staged productions at the Netherlands Opera Academy (La clemenza di Tito, Le nozze di Figaro, and Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino) and is a lasting inspiration to young musicians. He has a long-standing teaching position at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and is artist in residence at Juilliard.
Mr. Egarr trained as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College Cambridge. His studies with Gustav and Marie Leonhardt further inspired his work in the field of historical performance.
About Sarah Cunningham
Viola da gambist Sarah Cunningham trained at Harvard University, the Longy School of Music, and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She was co-founder, with Monica Huggett, of Trio Sonnerie and toured on four continents between 1982 and 1997. She was invited by James Galway to collaborate on his CDs of Bach’s flute music, and toured with him in Europe and throughout the U.S. Her solo recordings were released on ASV and EMI/Virgin Classics, and she has appeared as recitalist from Helsinki to Vancouver. As concerto soloist she recorded works by Telemann with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Monica Huggett. She has toured and recorded with conductors John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, Simon Rattle, Trevor Pinnock, Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt, and Roger Norrington; with viol consorts Les Filles de Sainte Colombe, Fretwork, Phantasm, Hesperion XX, and Parthenia; medieval ensembles including Sequentia and Virelai; and Baroque chamber music with Camerata Kilkenny among others. She founded and directed the East Cork Early Music Festival in Ireland in 2003 and was its director through 2009. She has been a member of the faculty of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program since 2011; was professor of viola da gamba in Bremen, Germany, from 1990 to 2000; and has taught at numerous summer academies and master classes worldwide.
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, Ton Koopman, 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 St. Matthew and St. 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, 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 and they have founded such new ensembles as the Sebastians, House of Time, New York Baroque Incorporated, and New Vintage Baroque.
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Program Listings:
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:30pm, Paul Hall
“An Evening of Baroque Chamber Music”
Programmed and Prepared by Richard Egarr With Members of Juilliard415
François COUPERIN Troisiéme concert in A Major, from Concerts royaux
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER Sonate à huit (H. 548)
Marin MARAIS Suite No. 5 in E Minor, from Pièces en trio
Jean-Féry REBEL Les caractères de la danse
Friday, November 10, 2017, 7:30pm, Paul Hall
Faculty Recital: Historical Performance
Sarah Cunningham, viola da gamba
Richard Egarr, harpsichord
Presented as part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series
All-J.S. Bach Program:
BACH Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027
Partita in D Minor, BWV 1013
Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028
Sonata in D Minor, BWV 527
Sonata in G Minor BWV 1029
Three Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
Tickets for both events are $20 ($10 for full-time non-Juilliard students and free for Juilliard students) and available for purchase at juilliard.edu/calendar.
