Juilliard Orchestra Presents Concerts on October 17 and 28 in Alice Tully Hall

Jeffrey Milarsky Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in Works by Bartók, Prokofiev, and Anna Thorvaldsdóttir
Thursday, October 17, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Mark Wigglesworth Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in Works by Sibelius, Wagner, and Walton
Monday, October 28, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

NEW YORK –– The Juilliard Orchestra presents two concerts in Alice Tully Hall in October. Juilliard faculty member and alumnus Jeffrey Milarsky conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in works by Bartók, Prokofiev, and Thorvaldsdóttir on Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. The program features Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor with soloist Jaewon Wee and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. The concert also includes Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s Metacosmos (2017), which the New York Philharmonic premiered and the Juilliard Orchestra performed in a concert this past summer at the BBC Proms with the Royal Academy of Music. That performance was the U.K. premiere of the work. Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students with a valid ID) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

British conductor Mark Wigglesworth, who has had a long relationship with the English National Opera and who will be in New York to conduct Orfeo at the Metropolitan Opera this fall, returns to lead the Juilliard Orchestra on Monday, October 28, 2019, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall in Walton’s Portsmouth Point Overture, Wagner’s Suite from Die Meistersinger, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major. Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students with a valid ID) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

About Jeffrey Milarsky
American conductor Jeffrey Milarsky (BM '88, MM '90, percussion) is the founding music director of AXIOM. Known for his innovative programming, he has been hailed for his interpretation of a wide range of repertoire, which spans from Bach to Xenakis. In recent seasons he has worked with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, MET Chamber Ensemble, Bergen Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New World Symphony, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. In the U.S. and abroad, he has premiered and recorded works by many groundbreaking contemporary composers in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and IRCAM in Paris.

Milarsky has a long history of premiering, recording, and performing music by American composers and in keeping with that, in 2013 was presented with the prestigious Ditson Conductor’s Award. His interest and dedication has brought forth collaborations with esteemed composers such as Adams, Babbitt, Cage, Carter, Corigliano, Crumb, Davidovsky, Druckman, Gordon, Lang, Mackey, Rouse, Shapey, Subotnick, Wuorinen, and an entire generation of emerging composers.

A dedicated teacher, Milarsky serves on the conducting faculty at Juilliard and is a senior lecturer in music at Columbia University, where he is the music director and conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra.

An in-demand timpanist and percussionist, Milarsky has been the principal timpanist for the Santa Fe Opera since 2005. In addition, he has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Symphony. He has recorded extensively for Angel, Bridge, Teldec, Telarc, New World, CRI, MusicMasters, EMI, Koch, and London records.

Milarsky received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Juilliard, where he was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding leadership and achievement in the arts.

About Mark Wigglesworth

Internationally renowned conductor Mark Wigglesworth is one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, as much at home in the opera house as the concert hall. Recognized for his masterly interpretations, his highly detailed performances combine a finely considered architectural structure with great sophistication and rare beauty. Through a broad repertoire ranging from Mozart to Boulez, he has forged enduring relationships with many orchestras and opera houses throughout the world. Wigglesworth has enjoyed a long relationship with English National Opera, and operatic engagements elsewhere include the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera as well as the Bavarian State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, Netherlands Opera, La Monnaie, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne, and Opera Australia. In 2017 he received the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

On the concert platform, highlights include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, and the Sydney Symphony. His recordings include a critically acclaimed complete cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Mahler’s Sixth and Tenth symphonies with the Melbourne Symphony, a disc of English music with the Sydney Symphony, Britten’s Peter Grimes with Glyndebourne, and the Brahms Piano Concertos with Stephen Hough. His book, The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters, was published in October 2018 by Faber & Faber.

About Jaewon Wee

Jaewon Wee is in Juilliard’s master of music program, studying with Ronald Copes. Born in Seoul, she started playing violin at age 7 and soon began to win top Korean and international violin competitions. She was awarded the grand prix at the Journal of Music Europe Debut Concours and the KBS·KEPCO Music Competition. Wee was awarded first prizes in national and international music competitions including the Joongang, Strad, Korean Chamber Orchestra, and concerto competition at the Great Mountains Music Festival, along with receiving the Ishikawa International Music Award. She also received top prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Kloster Schöntal (baroque special prize), Menuhin Competition, and Fritz Kreisler Competition (special prize). At age 11, she made her debut at the Kumho Prodigy concert series in Korea, and has since appeared as a soloist with many leading Korean and international orchestras. She has given recitals in the Samsung Concert Hall series, KNUA Violin series, and Art-m Rising Star series, among others. Among the music academies and festivals which she has attended and participated in are the Great Mountains (PyeongChang) International Music Festival and Ishikawa Music Academy. She was awarded a fellowship from the Aspen Music School this past summer. She received her bachelor’s degree from Korea National University of Arts, where she studied with Nam Yun Kim and Koichiro Harada, and graduated with the president’s and highest performance awards.She holds a Juilliard Scholarship.

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. The Juilliard Orchestra welcomes an impressive roster of world-renowned guest conductors this season including alumna Marin Alsop, Elim Chan, Anne Manson, Nicholas McGegan, Carlos Miguel Prieto, alumnus Jörg Widmann, and alumna Keri-Lynn Wilson as well as faculty conductor David Robertson.

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, and also 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 Listings:

Thursday, October 17, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall
Juilliard Orchestra
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Jaewon Woo, Violin
Anna THORVALDSDÓTTIR Metacosmos (2017)
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

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

Monday, October 28, 2019, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall
Juilliard Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth, Conductor
WALTON Portsmouth Point Overture
WAGNER Suite from Die Meistersinger
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D Major

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