Juilliard Chamber Orchestra Performs Works by Rossini, Mozart, Elgar, and Stravinsky on Friday, February 16, 2018, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

NEW YORK –– The conductorless Juilliard Chamber Orchestra will perform works by Rossini, Mozart, Elgar, and Stravinsky on Friday, February 16, 2018, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. The ensemble is coached by Orpheus and New York Philharmonic member Eric Bartlett, an adjunct faculty member and alumnus of Juilliard.

The program features Rossini’s Overture to La scala di seta; Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 271, (“Jenamy”) with Juilliard pianist Angie Zhang; Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra, Op. 47; and Stravinsky’s Suite from Pulcinella.

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

About Eric Bartlett

Eric Bartlett teaches cello orchestral repertoire at Julliard and has been lead coach of the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra since 2007. As a cellist, he has been a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1983 and the New York Philharmonic since 1997, where he holds the third chair. He served 14 seasons as principal cellist of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and was a guest principal of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Mr. Bartlett grew up in Marlboro, Vt., where he was a student of Stanley Eukers, George Finckel, and Leopold Teraspulsky. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard in 1978 and 1979 as a student of Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins. He made his New York Philharmonic solo debut in 2015, as the soloist in Per Nørgård’s Second Cello Concerto on the Philharmonic’s Contact series. Mr. Bartlett has appeared frequently as a member soloist with Orpheus and is featured on several of its Deutsche Grammophon recordings. In addition to Orpheus, he has made solo appearances with the Cabrillo Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Anchorage Symphony, Hartford Chamber Orchestra, Aspen and Juilliard Orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic’s Horizons ’84 series. Dedicated to contemporary music, Mr. Bartlett recently released a CD of four commissioned works, entitled Essence of Cello, on the Albany Records label.

About Angie Zhang

Pianist Angie Zhang is a graduate student at Juilliard where she studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Joseph Kalichstein. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras since her debut at the age of 10 in Portland, Ore. Since 2016 she has appeared with the Olympia Symphony Orchestra under Huw Edwards, Juilliard Orchestra under Fabio Luisi, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under Andrews Sill, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra under Matthew Kraemer, and the Downtown Sinfonietta of White Plains (consisting of members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) under Vincent Lionti. She has also appeared as a return soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, and Missouri Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Zhang was awarded the Gluck Fellowship during her undergraduate studies at Juilliard and traveled with other musicians, dancers, and actors to perform interactive concerts in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, pediatric centers, and psychiatric wards throughout New York City. Aside from her musical initiatives, she has served as chair of the school’s Student Council, a Student Ambassador, has written for the Juilliard Journal, spoken on panels for prospective students, and been a faculty teaching assistant, departmental assistant, and college division teaching fellow. At the Juilliard commencement ceremony last spring she was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music and graduated with Academic Honors. She also sings in the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and will be artist in residence at pianoSonoma this summer. She is the proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

Juilliard Chamber Orchestra

The Juilliard Chamber Orchestra works without a conductor, using the shared leadership model of Orpheus. The players change seats between pieces, thereby putting a different group of players in the leadership chairs for each work on the program. In the ensemble, everyone is expected to be both a leader and a follower. The players themselves make all the musical decisions, while the coaches try only to guide the decision-making process. The players also explore all the roles that a conductor normally fills and decide collectively how best to distribute those responsibilities. All the players are given a score to the works that they are included in and they bring those scores to rehearsals and consult them extensively. Additionally, they take turns listening to the ensemble from the audience position, a responsibility called the “Designated Listener.” It is the goal of the program that all participants will develop enhanced leadership skills, have renewed respect for the conductor’s complicated role, and acquire new insight into their own ability and responsibility to enhance the music making process. The lead coach is Eric Bartlett.

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Program Listing:

Friday, February 16, 2018, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Chamber Orchestra

Eric Bartlett, coach

Angie Zhang, piano

 

ROSSINI Overture to La scala di seta

MOZART Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 271, (“Jenamy”)

ELGAR Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra, Op. 47

STRAVINSKY Suite from Pulcinella

 

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.