Marin Alsop Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in a Bernstein Centennial Celebration on Saturday, September 29, 2018, at 8pm in Carnegie Hall

Juilliard Presents Bernstein’s Genius: The Maestro as Educator, A Symposium Featuring Jamie Bernstein, Thomas Cabaniss, Peter Kazaras, Stephen Wadsworth, and Brian Zeger on Sunday, September 30, 2018, 3-6pm in Paul Hall

NEW YORK –– The Juilliard Orchestra’s 2018-19 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, 2018, at 8pm in Carnegie Hall. As one of Leonard Bernstein’s best known pupils, Marin Alsop is central to his centennial global celebrations in 2018. Joining Alsop and the Juilliard Orchestra will be Juilliard alumni singers, soprano Meghan Kasanders; 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 with additional variations by former faculty members Leon Kirchner and Jacob Druckman; Lukas Foss; and Toru Takemitsu. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47, a Bernstein signature piece, completes the program.

Tickets at $30 (parquet, first tier, second tier) and $15 (dress circle) will be available at juilliard.edu/calendar or at the Carnegie Hall Box Office. Full-time students with a 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.

Juilliard will also host a symposium, Leonard Bernstein: The Educator, on Sunday, September 30, 2018, from 3-6pm in Paul Hall (155 West 65th Street, 1st Floor, NYC). The event is free, and tickets are required. Further details on the symposium will be available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

Join us the next day at Juilliard for a symposium entitled Bernstein’s Genius: The Maestro as Educator, an afternoon of music, film, conversation, and a book reading featuring Jamie Bernstein, Thomas Cabaniss, Peter Kazaras, Stephen Wadsworth, and Brian Zeger. The symposium will take place on Sunday, September 30, 2018, 3-6pm in Paul Hall (155 West 65th Street, 1st Floor). The event is free, and tickets are required. Further details on the symposium will be available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

About Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop has been music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007, and she has had two extensions in her tenure, now confirmed until 2021. As part of her artistic leadership in Baltimore, Ms. Alsop has created several bold initiatives: OrchKids, for the city’s most deprived young people, and the BSO Academy and Rusty Musicians for adult amateur musicians. In 2012, she became principal conductor and music director of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, with her contract now extended to the end of 2019, when she becomes conductor of honor. In September 2019, she becomes chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Alsop received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Philharmonic Society, and is the director of graduate conducting at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. She attended Juilliard and Yale, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2017.

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.

This season, the Juilliard Orchestra welcomes distinguished guest conductors John Adams, Joseph Colaneri, Sir Mark Elder, Barbara Hannigan, Anne Manson, Steven Osgood, and Peter Oundjian and faculty conductors Jeffrey Milarsky, Itzhak Perlman, Matthias Pintscher, and David Robertson.

Last season, guest artists conducting the Juilliard Orchestra included Thomas Adès, Joseph Colaneri, Chen Lin, David Robertson, Speranza Scappucci, Gerard Schwarz, Emmanuel Villaume, and faculty conductors Alan Gilbert and Jeffrey Milarsky.

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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Program Listing:

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

Bernstein Centennial Celebration

Juilliard Orchestra

Marin Alsop, conductor

Meghan Kasanders, 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, Leon Kirchner, Jacob Druckman, Lukas Foss, John Corigliano,

John Williams, Toru Takemitsu, William Schuman)

BERNSTEIN Songfest

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

Tickets at $30 (parquet, first tier, second tier) and $15 (dress circle) will be available beginning August 28 at juilliard.edu/calendar or at the Carnegie Hall Box Office. Full-time students with a 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.

Juilliard will also host a symposium, Leonard Bernstein: The Educator, on Sunday, September 30, 2018, from 3-6pm in Paul Hall (155 West 65th Street, NYC). The event is free, and tickets are required. Further details on the symposium will be available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

Join us the next day at Juilliard for a symposium entitled Bernstein’s Genius: The Maestro as Educator, an afternoon of music, film, conversation, and a book reading featuring Jamie Bernstein, Thomas Cabaniss, Peter Kazaras, Stephen Wadsworth, and Brian Zeger. The symposium will take place on Sunday, September 30, 2018, 3-6pm in Paul Hall (155 West 65th Street, 1st Floor). The event is free, and tickets are required. Further details on the symposium will be available at juilliard.edu/calendar.