Juilliard 2019-20: An Eye-Popping Performance Year

Here are some of the on-campus highlights of the 2019-20 season's more than 700 performances. For more details (and more performances) go to juilliard.edu/calendar.

Juilliard Orchestra

Karina Canellakis conducts Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), and Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (Sept. 21)

Juilliard Wind Orchestra conducted by Patricia Rogers (Oct. 13); and by Raymond Mase and William Short (Nov. 24)

Jeffrey Milarsky conducts Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Metacosmos (Oct. 17)

Mark Wigglesworth conducts Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, Wagner’s Suite from Die Meistersinger, and Walton’s Portsmouth Point: An Overture (Oct. 28)

Juilliard Chamber Orchestra plays works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Strauss (Dec. 9)

Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Copland’s Symphony No. 3, John Harbison’s Viola Concerto, and Gabriela Ortiz's Téenek—Invenciones de Territorio (Dec. 14)

Marin Alsop conducts Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Barber’s Toccata festiva, and Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 (Jan. 25)

Anne Manson conducts the Focus festival finale (Jan. 31; see New Music)

Nicholas McGegan conducts the orchestra and Juilliard415 (Feb. 10; see Juilliard415)

Jeffrey Milarsky conducts works by student composers (Feb. 20)

David Robertson conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Steven Mackey’s Beautiful Passing at Carnegie Hall (Feb. 25+)

Jörg Widmann conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”), Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, and Widmann’s Con Brio and Violin Concerto No. 2 (Mar. 27)

Elim Chan conducts Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and Lera Auerbach’s Icarus (Apr. 6)

Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 and Sean Shepherd’s Magiya (Commencement concert, May 21)

Chamber Music, Ensembles, and Recitals

Paul Jacobs The Great French Organ Tradition (Sept. 10)

Gina Bachauer Piano Competition Recital Michael Davidman and Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (Sept. 19)

Faculty Piano Quartet Catherine Cho, Hsin-Yun Huang, Natasha Brofsky, and Robert McDonald: works by Ives, Schumann, and Paul Wiancko (Oct. 10)

Misha Amory, Viola faculty (Oct. 18)

Percussion Ensemble (Oct. 30, Feb. 3)

Ensemble Connect (Nov. 5, Jan. 7, Mar. 10, May 28)

American Brass Quintet (Nov. 20)

Juilliard String Quartet Beethoven (Op. 18, No. 1 in F Major; and Op. 131 in C-sharp Minor), György Kurtág (6 Moments Musicaux) (Dec. 12); Mozart (B-flat Major “The Hunt”), Britten (No. 3, Op. 94), and Brahms (A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2) (Apr. 16)

ChamberFest (Jan. 13-15)

Astrid Schween, Cello faculty (Jan. 16)

Juilliard and Tianjin Juilliard Faculty (Feb. 24)

Lydia Brown, Collaborative Piano faculty (Mar. 17)

Ulysses Quartet graduate string quartet in residence (May 12+)

Sonatenabend collaborative piano and instrumentalist recitals (Oct. 9 and 23, Nov. 13, Dec. 4, Jan. 22, Feb. 19, Mar. 25, and Apr. 8)

Drama

September Playwrights Festival (Sept. 4-7) Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying by Jessica Huang, directed by Ricardo Vázquez; What Happens Next by Margot Connolly, directed by Jessi D. Hill; Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, directed by Taneisha Duggan

Houghton Festival Readings (Dec. 7-8 and 14-15)

Fourth-Year Productions
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Janet Zarish (Oct. 9-13)

Bright Half Life by Tanya Barfield, directed by Rebecca Guy (Nov. 6-10)

Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Brandon Dirden (Dec. 12-15)

Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage, directed by Melissa Maxwell (Feb. 14-22)

The Flick by Annie Baker, directed by Zi Alikhan (Feb. 15-23)

Black Snow Keith Reddin’s dramatization of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed by Dustin Wills (Feb. 16-23)

Third-Year Productions
The Red Letter Plays, by Suzan-Lori Parks: In the Blood, directed by Shaun Tubbs, and Fucking A, directed by Erin Ortman (Oct. 15-20)

Cabaret, directed by Deborah Lapidus (Feb. 12-17)

Shakespeare repertory cycle (Apr. 23-May 13)

Vocal Arts

Juilliard Opera
Mozart’s Così fan tutte with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Nimrod David Pfeffer and directed by David Paul (Nov. 13, 15, 17)

Handel’s Rinaldo in concert with Juilliard415 conducted by Nicholas McGegan (Feb. 17)

Puccini’s La bohème with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson and directed by Stephen Wadsworth (Apr. 22, 24, 26)

Undergraduate Opera
There's Blood Between Us, featuring excerpts from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmélites conducted by David Moody and directed by John Giampietro (Oct. 28 and 30; Nov. 1 and 3)

Juilliard Songfest curated and performed by Brian Zeger with Juilliard singers (Dec. 5)

The Mother of Us All
This production of Thomson’s opera at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a collaboration with MetLiveArts and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Daniela Candillari and directed by Louisa Proske (Feb. 8, 11, 12, 14+)

Alice Tully Hall Vocal Arts Recital mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey with pianist Brian Zeger (Apr. 1)

New York Festival of Song at Juilliard Cubans in Paris; pianist Steven Blier, NYFOS artistic director (Jan. 15)

Vocal Arts Wednesdays at One (Dec. 4, Mar. 25)

Vocal Arts Honors Recital (March 19)

Liederabend collaborative piano and vocalist recitals (Oct. 31, Nov. 21, Dec. 12, Jan. 29, Apr. 2 and 23)

Jazz

Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
Ah’ That’s Freedom: Music by Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra From 1966 to 1978 (Sept. 24)

On the Cutting Edge: Vincent Gardner, Carlos Henriquez, Sherman Irby, Elliot Mason, and Marcus Printup (Oct. 15)

Classics From the Classic Era of Swing: Basie, Dorsey, Ellington, Goodman, Miller, and Shaw—Music by the Big Bands of the 1930s and ’40s (Jan. 18)

The Music of Chick Corea (Feb. 26)

Music of Young Composers and Bebop Legends—Music by Swing Bands of the 1920s to ’60s (Apr. 11)

Juilliard Jazz Ensembles
The Beat Goes On: The Art Blakey Sound (Oct. 1)

Rhythm Masters: Nazareth, Pixinguinha, Joplin, and Morton (Oct. 29)

Jazz Singers of the Civil Rights Era: Nina Simone, Bob Dorough, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown Jr. (Nov. 19)

Americana: Folk, Country, and Church Music (Dec. 10)

Music Influenced by Jazz: Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Marquis Hill, and Kurt Rosenwinkel (Jan. 28)

What We Hear: Student Compositions (Apr. 7)

Marsalis Music: The Magic Hour and The Razor Rim (Apr. 14)

Dance

Choreographers and Composers aka ChoreoComp (Nov. 22-23)

New Dances: Edition 2019 (Dec. 11-15) world premieres created for Juilliard dancers by Amy Hall Garner, Jamar Roberts, Andrea Miller, and Stephen Petronio

Juilliard Spring Dances (Mar. 25-28) Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset/Reset, Donald McKayle’s Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder, and Paul Taylor’s Promethean Fire

Senior Dance Production (Apr. 24-26)

Choreographic Honors (May 15-16)

Senior Graduation Concert (May 18)

Historical Performance/Juilliard415

Richard Egarr conducts celebratory works by Handel and Avison/Scarlatti (Oct. 11)

Masaaki Suzuki conducts Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum in an all-Telemann program (Nov. 1+ and 2)

Nicholas McGegan conducts Juilliard415 and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in works by Bach, Rameau, and Vivaldi (Nov. 10+)

Madness and Folly: Night Music From Spain with Pablo Heras-Casado (Nov. 22)

Baroque Odyssey Juilliard415 and Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie (Dec. 21+)

All-Handel program Juilliard415 and Les Arts Florissants conducted by Paul Agnew (Dec. 22+)

Nicholas McGegan conducts Juilliard415 as part of a program also featuring the Juilliard Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Feb. 10; see Juilliard Orchestra)

Handel’s Rinaldo (Feb. 17; see Vocal Arts)

Music Inspired by Shakespeare with Rachel Podger (violin) featuring Juilliard actors and singers (Mar. 28, 30+, 31+)

All-C.P.E. Bach program with Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) (Apr. 25, 26+)

New Music

AXIOM conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky

Works by Stravinsky, Takemitsu, and Harrison Birtwistle (Nov. 1)

Works by Carter, George Lewis, Feldman, and Philip Glass (Nov. 23)

Works by Takemitsu, Melinda Wagner, Boulez, and Thomas Adès (Feb. 27)

New Juilliard Ensemble conducted by Joel Sachs

Works by Shulamit Ran, Balázs Horváth, Alexander Goehr, and Magnus Lindberg (Oct. 1)

Works by Julian Anderson, Oleg Felzer, Deirdre Gribbin, Narong Prangcharoen, Alfredo Rugeles, and Eric Tanguy (Nov. 12)

Works by Diana Syrse, Ye Xiaogang, Yao Chen, Evan Anderson, and Marc Migó Cortés (Apr. 13)

Focus 2020 | Trailblazers: Pioneering Women Composers of the 20th Century (Jan. 24-31) Joel Sachs conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble (Jan. 24); chamber concerts (Jan. 27-30); Anne Manson conducts the Juilliard Orchestra (Jan. 31)

+ = takes place off-campus