Richard Egarr Leads Juilliard415 in Works by Handel and Avison/Scarlatti on Friday, October 11, 2019, at 7:30pm in Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Concert Opens Juilliard Historical Performance’s 10th Anniversary Season

NEW YORK ––  Juilliard Historical Performance’s 10th anniversary season opens with artist in residence Richard Egarr, music director of the Academy of Ancient Music and music director designate of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, leading Juilliard415 in celebratory works by Handel and Avison/Scarlatti on Friday, October 11, 2019, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater.  

The program features Handel’s Concerto grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 2; Handel’s Concerto grosso in A Minor, Op. 6. No. 4; Avison/Scarlatti’s Concerto grosso in A Major, No. 1; Handel’s Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1; Handel’s Organ Concerto in F Major, Op. 4, No. 5; Handel’s Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 3, No. 3; and Avison/Scarlatti’s Concerto grosso in D Minor, No. 3.

Tickets at $20 ($10 for students with a valid ID) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

Later this semester, in celebration of Juilliard Historical Performance's 10th season and Les Arts Florissants' 40th season, Juilliard415 joins forces with Les Arts Florissants at the Philharmonie de Paris for two festive programs, led by William Christie, Juilliard Historical Performance artist in residence, and conductor Paul Agnew. The programs take place on December 21 and 22. 

About Richard Egarr

Music director of the Academy of Ancient Music since 2006, Richard Egarr adds two new responsibilities this season: as principal guest conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague and artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota. He will become music director designate of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale in 2020-21 and will assume the music directorship in 2021-22. Associate artist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, 2011-17, Egarr has conducted orchestras such as the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, and Philadelphia Orchestra, and he has guest conducted leading Baroque ensembles such as Philharmonia Baroque and the Handel and Haydn Society. He regularly gives solo harpsichord recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall.

In 2019-20, Egarr conducts Elgar, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven in The Hague; Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in Tokyo’s Kioi Hall; Rossini and Mozart with the Luxembourg Philharmonic; Berlioz with the Orquesta da Galicia; and Schubert in Saint Paul. Not neglecting the Baroque repertoire, he leads the City of Birmingham Symphony through its first Handel Messiah in many years, conducts the St. Matthew Passion in Antwerp, debuts in St. Louis with a Handel/Bach program, and joins the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale for an all-Bach program in his first concerts since being named future music director. Plans with the Academy of Ancient Music this season includes a performance of the Mass by Beethoven’s Czech contemporary, Jan Ladislav Dussek.

About Juilliard415

Celebrating its 10th anniversary season, 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 by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The many distinguished guests who have led Juilliard415 include Harry Bicket, William Christie, Monica Huggett, Nicholas McGegan, Rachel Podger, Jordi Savall, and Masaaki Suzuki. Juilliard415 tours extensively in the U.S. and abroad, having now performed on five continents, 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), and on a 10-concert tour of New Zealand, where it returns for a second tour in spring 2020. With its frequent musical collaborator, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble has played throughout Scandinavia, Italy, Japan, Southeast Asia, the U.K., and India. Juilliard415 recently made its South American debut with concerts in Bolivia, a tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. In a concert together with the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, Juilliard415 recently played a historic period-instrument performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in Germany. Previous seasons have been notable for side-by-side collaborations with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, as well as concerts directed by such eminent musicians as Ton Koopman, Robert Mealy, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the late Christopher Hogwood.

Juilliard415, which takes its name from the pitch commonly associated with the performance of Baroque music (A=415), has performed major oratorios and Baroque operas every year since its founding, including the rare opportunity to see a fully-staged production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie during the 2017-18 season. During the 2018-19 season, the ensemble presented Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Opera Holland Park in London and the Royal Opera House of Versailles. A frequent collaborator with Juilliard’s Dance division, Juilliard415 premiered new choreography by Juilliard dancers in an all-Rameau program led by Robert Mealy and teams up again with Juilliard Dance this season for a new work choreographed by Andrea Miller.

Juilliard415 has had the distinction of premiering new works for period instruments, most recently for its Seven Last Words Project, a Holy Week concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for which the ensemble commissioned seven leading composers, including Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, and Tania Leon. Highlights of the upcoming concert calendar include performances with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Philharmonie de Paris; Handel’s Rinaldo conducted by Nicholas McGegan in New York and at the Göttingen Handel Festival in Germany; a program of music inspired by Shakespeare, led by Rachel Podger; the Juilliard415 debut of Pablo Heras-Casado in a program of music from the Spanish Baroque; another side-by-side collaboration with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco; and a return engagement by Masaaki Suzuki.

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Program Listing:

Friday, October 11, 2019, 7:30pm, Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Juilliard Historical Performance 10th Anniversary Season

Juilliard415

Richard Egarr, Conductor

 

HANDEL Concerto grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 2

HANDEL Concerto grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4

AVISON/SCARLATTI Concerto grosso in A Major, No. 1

HANDEL Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1

HANDEL Organ Concerto in F Major, Op. 4, No. 5

HANDEL Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 3, No. 3

AVISON/SCARLATTI Concerto grosso in D Minor, No. 3

 

Tickets at $20 ($10 for students with a valid ID) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.