Juilliard Orchestra Announces 2018-19 Season

Marin Alsop Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in a Bernstein Centennial Celebration on September 29 at Carnegie Hall

Sir Mark Elder Makes His Juilliard Orchestra Conducting Debut in Works by Britten, Strauss, and Sibelius on October 15 in Alice Tully Hall

Barbara Hannigan Makes Her New York Conducting Debut With the Juilliard Orchestra in Works by Strauss, Haydn, Sibelius, and Bartók on February 8 in Alice Tully Hall

David Robertson Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie on May 3 in David Geffen Hall

Guest Conductors Also Include John Adams, Joseph Colaneri, Anne Manson, Steven Osgood, Peter Oundjian, and Faculty Members Itzhak Perlman, Jeffrey Milarsky, and Matthias Pintscher

NEW YORK –– The Juilliard Orchestra’s 2018-19 season features more than a dozen performances led by guest and faculty conductors. The season opens with alumna Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducting the Juilliard Orchestra in a Bernstein Centennial Celebration on Saturday, September 29, at 8pm in Carnegie Hall. Joining them will be Juilliard alumni singers, soprano Raquel González; mezzo-sopranos Naomi Louisa O’Connell and Amanda Lynn Bottoms; tenor Paul Appleby; baritone Aubrey Allicock; and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny in Bernstein’s Songfest. The program also features the Bernstein Birthday Bouquet with pieces written by four composers with Juilliard connections: Luciano Berio (former faculty member); faculty member John Corigliano; alumnus John Williams; and former Juilliard President William Schuman. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47, a Bernstein signature piece, completes the program.

Sir Mark Elder, music director of the Hallé, a principal artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and artistic director of Opera Rara, makes his Juilliard Orchestra conducting debut on Monday, October 15, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. The program features Britten’s “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes; Strauss’ Oboe Concerto in D Major, TrV 292 (soloist to be announced); Sibelius’ Night Ride and Sunrise and his Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105. Sir Mark Elder appears by kind permission of the Metropolitan Opera.

Faculty member and alumnus Jeffrey Milarsky conducts the Juilliard Orchestra on Thursday, November 8, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall in Augusta Read Thomas' Prayer Bells; Bernstein’s Serenade (After Plato’s Symposium); and Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet.

Steven Osgood, general and artistic director of the Chautauqua Opera Company, returns to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra and singers from Juilliard’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts in Juilliard Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw, directed by John Giampietro, on Wednesday, November 14, and Friday, November 16, at 7:30pm; and Sunday, November 18, at 2pm in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

Faculty member and alumnus, violinist Itzhak Perlman, conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (soloist to be announced) and Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Op. 36 (Variations on an Original Theme) on Thursday, December 6, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall.

Members of the Juilliard Orchestra partner with Juilliard’s Drama Division on their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, directed by Sarna Lapine, from December 6-10 in the Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater. Fred Lassen is musical director and conductor.

Composer/conductor John Adams returns to lead the Juilliard Orchestra in Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver (Winter Sky); his composition Doctor Atomic Symphony; and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 on Monday, December 10, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall.

In the spring semester, Anne Manson returns to conduct the closing night of the weeklong 2019 Focus festival on Friday, February 1, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. “On the Air!: A Salute to 75 Years of International Radio Commissioning,” directed by Joel Sachs, will celebrate the radio stations, primarily in Europe, that have vastly contributed to music by commissioning thousands of compositions since World War II. Among the most prominent broadcasters are the BBC, Germany’s SWR (Baden-Baden), and WDR (Cologne), and Radio France. The festival will offer a sampler of those commissions. The February 1 program features Betty Olivero’s Tenuot (WDR commission); György Ligeti’s Lontano (Radio France Commission); and Michael Tippett’s Symphony No. 2 (BBC Commission).

Singer/conductor Barbara Hannigan makes her New York debut on Friday, February 8, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall with a program featuring Strauss’ “Salome’s Dance” from Salome; Haydn’s Symphony No. 96 in D Major, Hob. I:96; Debussy’s Syrinx (flute soloist to be announced); Sibelius’ Luonnotar, Op. 70 with Juilliard soprano Meghan Kasanders; and Bartók’s Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin.

Jeffrey Milarsky conducts Juilliard’s annual composers concert featuring four world premieres by Juilliard student composers on Thursday, February 28, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall.

The Juilliard Orchestra will provide live music for Juilliard’s Spring Dances performances featuring Juilliard dancers. Members of the orchestra will perform Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major for choreographer Bill T. Jones’ D-Man in the Waters and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps for choreographer Martha Graham’s The Rite of Spring for Spring Dances, March 27-30, in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Jeffrey Milarsky leads the Juilliard Orchestra in the Stravinsky.  

Alumnus Peter Oundjian, who recently finished his fourteenth and final season as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, returns to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. The program features Bloch’s Suite for Viola (1919) (soloist to be announced) and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major.

Joseph Colaneri, music director of the acclaimed Glimmerglass Festival since 2013, returns to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra and singers from Juilliard’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts in Juilliard Opera’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, directed by Emma Griffin, on Wednesday, April 24, and Friday, April 26, at 7:30pm; and Sunday, April 28, at 2pm in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

David Robertson, recently appointed director of conducting studies and distinguished visiting faculty at Juilliard, makes his annual appearance with the Juilliard Orchestra in Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie on Friday, May 3, at 7:30pm in David Geffen Hall.

Faculty member and conductor/composer Matthias Pintscher leads the Juilliard Orchestra in its annual Commencement Concert on Thursday, May 23, at 6pm in Alice Tully Hall. The all-Ravel program will feature La Valse; Piano Concerto in G Major (soloist to be announced); and Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2. Mr. Pintscher is director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Juilliard’s smaller ensembles also have a busy season. The Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, a conductorless ensemble coached by Orpheus member and Juilliard faculty member and New York Philharmonic cellist Eric Bartlett, performs on Monday, February 25, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. The ensemble performs a run-out concert at West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, N.J., on Sunday, February 24, at 3pm. The Juilliard Wind Orchestra presents three concerts this season in October, November, and January led by Juilliard faculty members William Short, Erik Ralske, and Alan Kay.

Reasonably priced tickets are available for the concerts, which take place in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, David Geffen Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Full-time students with a valid ID may purchase half-price tickets. Box Office and ticket information follows at the end of the release.

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2018-19 Juilliard Orchestra

Calendar of Events

 

Fall 2018 Semester

Saturday, September 29, 2018, 8pm, Carnegie Hall

Bernstein Centennial Celebration

Juilliard Orchestra

Marin Alsop, conductor

Raquel González, soprano

Naomi Louisa O’Connell, mezzo-soprano

Amanda Lynn Bottoms, mezzo-soprano

Paul Appleby, tenor

Aubrey Allicock, baritone

Ryan McKinny, bass-baritone

Bernstein Birthday Bouquet (Luciano Berio, John Corigliano, John Williams, William Schuman)

BERNSTEIN Songfest

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

 

Saturday, October 13, 2018, 3pm, Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater

Juilliard Wind Orchestra

William Short, conductor

MOZART Selections from Don Giovanni (arr. for winds)

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (arr. for winds)

 

Monday, October 15, 2018, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

Sir Mark Elder, conductor

BRITTEN “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes

STRAUSS Oboe Concerto in D Major, TrV 292 (soloist to be announced)

SIBELIUS Night Ride and Sunrise and Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105

 

Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

Augusta Read THOMAS Prayer Bells

BERNSTEIN Serenade (After Plato’s Symposium) (violin soloist to be announced)

PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet

 

Sunday, November 11, 2018, 3pm, Paul Hall

Juilliard Wind Orchestra

Erik Ralske, conductor

BRAHMS Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16

STRAUSS Sonatina No. 2 in E-flat Major, TrV 291 "Happy Workshop"

 

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 7:30pm, Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Friday, November 16, 7:30pm

Sunday, November 18, 2pm

Juilliard Opera

Steven Osgood, conductor

John Giampietro, director

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw

 

Thursday, December 6, 2018, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

Itzhak Perlman, conductor

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto (soloist to be announced)

ELGAR Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variations on an Original Theme)

 

Thursday, December 6, 2018, 7:30pm

Friday, December 7, 7:30pm

Saturday, December 8, at 2 and 8pm

Sunday, December 9, 7pm

Monday, December 10, 7:30pm

Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater at Juilliard

Juilliard Drama

Juilliard Orchestra members

Fred Lassen, musical director and conductor

Into the Woods

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by James Lapine

Director by Sarna Lapine

 

Monday, December 10, 2018, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

John Adams, conductor

Kaija SAARIAHO Ciel d’hiver (Winter Sky)

John ADAMS Doctor Atomic Symphony

BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

 

Spring 2019 Semester

Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 1pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Wind Orchestra

Alan Kay, conductor

RAFF Sinfonietta, Op. 188

SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

 

Friday, February 1, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

2019 Focus Festival

On the Air!

A Salute to 75 Years of International Radio Commissioning

Juilliard Orchestra

Anne Manson, conductor

Betty OLIVERO Tenuot (WDR commission)

György LIGETI Lontano (Radio France commission)

Michael TIPPETT Symphony No. 2 (BBC commission)

 

Friday, February 8, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

STRAUSS “Salome’s Dance” from Salome, Op. 54

HAYDN Symphony No. 96 in D Major, Hob. I:96 “The Miracle”

DEBUSSY Syrinx (flute soloist to be announced)

SIBELIUS Luonnotar, Op. 70 (with soprano Meghan Kasanders)

BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

 

Sunday, February 24, 2019, 3pm, West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, N.J.

Monday, February 25, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Chamber Orchestra

BEETHOVEN Overture to Creatures of Prometheus

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E Minor (soloist to be announced)

RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical”

 

Thursday, February 28, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

Concert featuring four world premieres by Juilliard student composers.

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 7:30pm, Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 7:30pm

Friday, March 29, 2019, 7:30pm

Saturday, March 30, 2019, 2pm and 7:30pm

Spring Dances

Juilliard Dancers

Juilliard Orchestra

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat Major (not conducted)

STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps

 

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 7:30pm

Juilliard Orchestra

Peter Oundjian, conductor

BLOCH Suite for Viola (1919) (soloist to be announced)

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, “Romantic”

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 7:30pm, Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Friday, April 26, 2019, 7:30pm

Sunday, April 28, 2019, 2pm

Juilliard Opera

Juilliard Orchestra

Joseph Colaneri, conductor

Emma Griffin, director

MOZART Don Giovanni

 

Friday, May 3, 2019, 7:30pm, David Geffen Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

David Robertson, conductor

Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot

MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie (piano soloist to be announced)

 

Thursday, May 23, 2019, 6pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard’s Commencement Concert

Juilliard Orchestra

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

All-Ravel program

La Valse

Piano Concerto in G Major (soloist to be announced)

Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2

 

Ticket and Box Office Information

Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Tickets are $30 ($15 for full-time students with a valid ID) and will be available beginning September 20 juilliard.edu/calendar or at Juilliard’s Box Office.

Alice Tully Hall

Tickets are $30 and will be available beginning September 20 at juilliard.edu/calendar, through CenterCharge (212) 721-6500, or at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office. Full-time students with valid ID may purchase tickets for $15, only at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office.

David Geffen Hall

Tickets are $30 (orchestra and first tier) and $15 (second and third tiers) and will be available beginning September 20 at juilliard.edu/calendar, through CenterCharge (212) 721-6500, or at the David Geffen Hall Box Office. Full-time students with valid ID may purchase tickets for $15 orchestra and first tier) and $7.50 (second and third tiers), only at the David Geffen Hall Box Office.

Carnegie Hall

Tickets are $30 (parquet, first tier, second tier) and $15 (dress circle) and will be available beginning August 28 at juilliard.edu/calendar or at the Carnegie Hall Box Office. Full-time student tickets with valid ID may purchase tickets at $15 (parquet, first tier, second tier) and $7.50 (dress circle, balcony), only at the Carnegie Hall Box Office.

About the Juilliard Orchestra

Juilliard’s largest and most visible student performing ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra, is known for delivering polished and passionate performances of works spanning the repertoire. Comprising more than 350 students in the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, the orchestra appears throughout the season in concerts on the stages of Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, David Geffen Hall, and Carnegie Hall.

The orchestra is a strong partner to Juilliard’s other divisions, appearing in opera and dance productions, as well as presenting an annual concert of world premieres by Juilliard student composers. David Robertson was recently appointed director of conducting studies and distinguished visiting faculty.

Last season, the Juilliard Orchestra welcomed an impressive roster of world renowned conductors, including Alan Gilbert, Thomas Adès, Joseph Colaneri, Chen Lin, Jeffrey Milarsky, David Robertson, Speranza Scappucci, Gerard Schwarz, and Emmanuel Villaume. The Juilliard Orchestra has toured across the U.S. and throughout Europe, South America, and Asia, where it was the first Western conservatory ensemble allowed to visit and perform following the opening of the People’s Republic of China in 1987, returning two decades later, in 2008.

Other ensembles under the Juilliard Orchestra umbrella include the conductorless Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Wind Orchestra, and the new-music groups AXIOM and New Juilliard Ensemble.

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