Season Preview: 2024-25

We’re excited to announce some highlights of the 2024–25 Juilliard performance season. Kicked off by the new Fall Festival, more than 800 performances will take place this year, from student recitals to multidepartment extravaganzas. You’ll find some of the highlights below.

All these performances take place at Juilliard unless otherwise noted. Please see the performance calendar for box office, livestream, and other up-to-date performance details. And for early ticket access and other benefits, check out juilliard.edu/membership-programs.

FALL FESTIVAL

Opening Night Featuring music, dance, drama, and preparatory students (Sept. 12)
Also livestreamed

Touching Magic: A Juilliard Vocal Arts–Sibelius Academy Collaboration (Sept. 13; see Vocal Arts)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard Outdoors (Sept. 14; rain date Sept. 15)

The New: Celebrating Charles Ives and American Experimentalism in Music, Dance, and Drama (Sept. 14)
Also livestreamed

An Afternoon of Groundbreaking Chamber Music (Sept. 15)

Juilliard Orchestra (Sept. 16; see Orchestra)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard415 (Sept. 17; see Historical Performance)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard Singing (Sept. 18)

Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff (Density 2036: part xi) with Arnhold Creative Associate Claire Chase (Sept. 19)

An Evening of Groundbreaking Piano and Chamber Music (Sept. 20)

Juilliard Jazz Orchestra (Sept. 21; see Jazz)
Also livestreamed

THE NEW SERIES

A Musical Lineage: Schoenberg and Boulez, co-presented by the New York Philharmonic and Juilliard
David Robertson conducts Juilliard Orchestra and NY Phil musicians in Schoenberg’s Suite, Op. 29, and Boulez’s sur Incises (Oct. 9)
Also livestreamed

Schoenberg and Beyond (Nov. 19)
Also livestreamed

Composer Portrait: Jessie Montgomery* Chamber music by Arnhold Creative Associate Montgomery (Feb. 12)

Our Future Voices: Music and Technology of the Americas part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuetros sonidos (Our Sounds) Festival (Mar. 21)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard Pride Songbook Vol. 2 (May 8)
Also livestreamed

JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA

Fall Festival
David Robertson conducts Awakening, a Juilliard-commissioned premiere by Katie Jenkins*; Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (Sept. 16)
Also livestreamed

Ken Lam conducts Zhou Tian’s* Gift, Gipps’ Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, and Britten’s Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Oct. 7)
Also livestreamed

David Robertson conducts Juilliard Orchestra and New York Philharmonic musicians (Oct. 9; see The New Series)
Also livestreamed

Wind Orchestra (Oct. 27, Dec. 15, Jan. 29)
Oct. 27 and Dec. 15 are also livestreamed

Daniela Candillari conducts Bacewicz’s Overture, Barber’s Violin Concerto, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 (Oct. 28)
Also livestreamed

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain”; Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue; Joan Tower’s Chamber Dance; and Barber’s Symphony No. 1 (Nov. 18)
Also livestreamed

Gemma New conducts Salina Fisher’s Kintsugi, Walton’s Violin Concerto, and Holst’s The Planets (Dec. 14)
Also livestreamed

Jeffrey Milarsky* conducts Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra, Bartók’s Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (Jan. 27)
Also livestreamed

Ruth Reinhardt* conducts Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza, Martinů’s Cello Concerto No. 1, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 (Feb. 10)
Also livestreamed

Louis Langrée conducts the orchestra and Juilliard singers in Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye and L’enfant et les sortilèges (Feb. 20)
Also livestreamed

Chamber Orchestra with lead coach Eric Bartlett performs Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s* Concerto Grosso, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 (Feb. 27)
Also livestreamed

Jakob Lehmann conducts the orchestra and Juilliard415 in the Beethoven Project: the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Mar. 29)
Also livestreamed

Jeffrey Milarsky* conducts premieres by student composers (Mar. 31)
Also livestreamed

David Robertson conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 (Apr. 14 at Carnegie Hall)

Earl Lee conducts a Juilliard-commissioned premiere by Molly Joyce*, Ravel’s La Valse, and Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” (May 22)
Also livestreamed

CHAMBER AND NEW MUSIC

AXIOM Jeffrey Milarsky* conducts Varèse’s Octandre, Nina C. Young’s Vestigia Flammae, and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Oct. 3)
Also livestreamed

Percussion Ensemble directed by Daniel Druckman* (Oct. 21, Apr. 16)
Oct. 21 is also livestreamed

String Quartet Haydn-a-thon (Oct. 24–25)
Also livestreamed

Sounds of US @ the Kennedy Center Arnhold Creative Associate Jennifer Koh curates a program that includes world premieres by student and faculty composers (Nov. 16 at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; see also Preparatory Division)

Honors Chamber Music (Nov. 21, Apr. 16–17, 21, 23–24; May 2)
Also livestreamed

AXIOM Jeffrey Milarsky* conducts Perry’s Homunculus C.F.; Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat Major, “Dumbarton Oaks”; Ives’ Central Park in the Dark; and a Juilliard-commissioned premiere by Augusta Read Thomas (Nov. 25)
Also livestreamed

Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital Nina Bernat+*, double bass, and Umi Garrett*, piano, perform works by Mendelssohn, Janáček, Prokofiev, Walker, and Shinuh Lee (Dec. 2 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall)

Ensemble Connect performs Tomasi’s 5 danses sacrées et profanes, Fred Lerdahl’s Waltzes, Valerie Coleman’s Afro-Cuban Concerto, and Kenji Bunch’s* Danceband (Dec. 5)
Also livestreamed

ChamberFest (Jan. 13–17)
All but Jan. 15 at 1pm are also livestreamed

String Quartet Mozart-a-thon (Jan. 30–31)
Also livestreamed

Ensemble Connect performs Andrew Norman’s Light Screens, Coleridge-Tyalor’s Nonet, and Beach’s Piano Quintet (Feb. 20)
Also livestreamed

Jeffrey Milarsky* conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in premieres by four student composers (Mar. 31)
Also livestreamed

AXIOM Jeffrey Milarsky* conducts the premiere of a Juilliard-commissioned work by Liam Cummins+, Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 5 for viola and chamber orchestra, and Boulez’s Dérive 2 (Apr. 25)
Also livestreamed

String Quartet Beethoven-a-thon (Apr. 26 at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center)

Ensemble Connect performs Huang Ruo’s* Drama Theatre II: Shifting Shades, Kevin Puts’ Seven Seascapes, and Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” (May 1)
Also livestreamed

Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital featuring the Katarina String Quartet, the graduate string quartet in residence (May 7 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall)

Deans’ Commencement Chamber Music Recitals (May 20–21)
Also livestreamed

Saidenberg Faculty Recitals
Lydia Brown*, Collaborative Piano (Sept. 29)
Elaine Douvas, Oboe, and Kim Laskowski*, Bassoon (Nov. 3)
Laurie Smukler, Violin; Gwen Krosnick, Cello; and Qing Jiang*, Piano perform trios by Weinberg and Shostakovich (Nov. 14)
American Brass Quintet (Nov. 17; Feb. 23 includes a world premiere by Tyshawn Sorey)
Juilliard String Quartet (Dec. 3, Apr. 10)
Juilliard New York and Tianjin Faculty Recital (Jan. 24)
Joseph Lin* and Friends Lin and Claire Bourg*, violins; Raman Ramakrishnan*, cello; and Helen Huang*, piano, perform an all-Beethoven program (Apr. 6)
All livestreamed

Series
Sonatenabend (Oct. 2, 16, 30; Nov. 20; Feb. 19; Mar. 26; Apr. 9, 16)
All livestreamed

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Master Classes at the Rose Building
Gilbert Kalish (Nov. 15), Paul Watkins (Jan. 21), Calidore String Quartet (Feb. 6), Chad Hoopes (Mar. 10), Adam Walker (Apr. 11)

Chamber Music Sundays (Nov. 17, 24; Dec. 8, 15; Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 27; May 4, 11)
All livestreamed

Wednesdays at One
Vocal Arts (Nov. 6, Apr. 2)
Percussion Ensemble (Apr. 16)
Lab Orchestra (Nov. 20, Apr. 9)
Music for Piano (Nov. 13, Feb. 19)
Chamber Music (Dec. 11, Mar. 26, Apr. 30)
ChamberFest (Jan. 15)
Wind Orchestra (Jan. 29)
Music for Brass (Feb. 26)
Pre-College Chamber Music (May 14)

JAZZ

Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
Fall Festival
Jazz Inspired by Visual Art and Architecture (Sept. 21)
Also livestreamed

Afro-Cuban Music: Barretto, Henriquez, Machito, Puente, and Villafranca (Oct. 19)
Also livestreamed

Celebrating Big Band Vocalists: Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson (Jan. 23)
Also livestreamed

The Shanghai Suite (Feb. 26)
Also livestreamed

Extended Masterpieces in Jazz: Evans, Herman, Mingus, Mulligan, and O’Farrill (Apr. 5)
Also livestreamed

Ellington: The Blanton Webster Era (May 8–11 at Dizzy’s Club)

Juilliard Jazz Ensembles
New Music: Jazz Now (Oct. 1)
Also livestreamed

Bebop Composers: Dameron, Hope, and Powell (Oct. 29)
Also livestreamed

The Swing Song Tradition: Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington (Nov. 10)
Also livestreamed

New Orleans Music: Jelly Roll Morton and Joe King Oliver (Nov. 24)
Also livestreamed

From the Plantation to the Penitentiary by Wynton Marsalis (Dec. 9 at Dizzy’s Club)

The Southern Piano Style: Brown, Mabern, Miller, Morton, Newborn, and Williams (Feb. 2)
Also livestreamed

The Blue Guitars: A Night of Jazz Guitar (Feb. 11)
Also livestreamed

Music by the Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey and Horace Silver (Feb. 17 at Dizzy’s Club)

An Afternoon of Double Bass: Give the Bass Some (Mar. 30)
Also livestreamed

The Music of Geri Allen, Dorothy Donegan, and Shirley Horn (Apr. 15)
Also livestreamed

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE

Fall Festival
Rachel Podger directs Juilliard415 in Baroque Indulgence: Telemann’s Ouverture-Suite in E Minor, TWV 55:e1; Bach’s Concerto for Violin in A Minor, BWV 1041; Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major, Op. 3, No 3, HWV 314; Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins in E Minor, Op. 3, No 4; and Reichenauer’s Suite in B-flat Major (Sept. 17)
Also livestreamed

Chamber Music (Nov. 7–8; Dec. 11–12)

William Christie directs Juilliard415 and soprano Song Hee Lee+ in arias and suites by Handel and Rameau (Jan. 18)
Also livestreamed

Masaaki Suzuki conducts Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum in Bach’s Actus Tragicus Cantata, BWV 106, and Köthener Trauermusik, BWV 244a (Feb. 21 at Alice Tully Hall; Feb. 22 at Woolsey Hall, New Haven)
Feb. 21 is also livestreamed

Jakob Lehmann conducts Juilliard415 and the Juilliard Orchestra in the Beethoven Project (Mar. 29, see Orchestra)

Lionel Meunier directs Juilliard415 and Juilliard singers in Focus on Handel, featuring Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day and excerpts from Messiah (May 3)
Also livestreamed

Robert Mealy directs Juilliard415 and the Juilliard Community Chorus in Corelli in Chiquitos: Music From the Missions as part of the Music Before 1800 series (May 18 at Corpus Christi Church)

VOCAL ARTS

Fall Festival
Touching Magic: A Juilliard Vocal Arts–Sibelius Academy Collaboration (Sept. 13)
Also livestreamed

Liederabend (Oct. 9; Nov. 13; Dec. 12; Feb. 26; Apr. 2, 30)
All livestreamed

Juilliard Opera: Mozart’s Così fan tutte directed by Mo Zhou; Patrick Furrer conducts the singers and the Juilliard Orchestra (Nov. 18, 21, 23)
Nov. 23 is also livestreamed

Second-Year Songbook (Dec. 4)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard Songfest (Dec. 8)
Also livestreamed

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) at Juilliard Steven Blier, artistic director (Jan. 15)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard Opera: Britten’s The Turn of the Screw directed by Mary Birnbaum; Zachary Schwartzman conducts the singers and members of the Juilliard Orchestra (Feb. 19, 21, 23; by invitation only)
Feb. 23 is also livestreamed

Honors Recital (Mar. 19 at Merkin Concert Hall)
Also livestreamed

Third-Year Recitals (Mar. 27–28)
Also livestreamed

First-Year Songbook (Apr. 2)
Also livestreamed

Alice Tully Vocal Recital Joshua Blue*, tenor (Apr. 7 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall)
Also livestreamed

Juilliard Opera: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites directed by Louisa Muller; Arnhold Creative Associate Matthew Aucoin* conducts the singers and the Juilliard Orchestra (Apr. 23, 26, 28)
Apr. 26 is also livestreamed

DANCE

Choreographers and Composers aka ChoreoComp (Nov. 22–23)
Nov. 22 is also livestreamed

New Dances: Edition 2024 world premieres created for dance students by Houston Thomas (first-years), Jenn Freeman (second-years), Arnhold Creative Associate Pam Tanowitz with music by Arnhold Creative Associate Caroline Shaw (third-years), Yue Yin (fourth-years) (Dec. 11–15; relaxed performance Dec. 13)

Spring Dances José Limón’s A Choreographic Offering with music by J.S. Bach (first-year dancers); William Forsythe’s Duo Extended staged by Riley Watts* and Brigel Gjoka; and a world premiere by Aszure Barton with music by Ambrose Akinmusire (Mar. 26–29)

Senior Production (Apr. 25–27)

Choreographic Honors (May 16–17)

Senior Graduation Concert (May 21)

DRAMA

Fourth-Year Plays
Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by Michael Rudko (Oct. 3–6)
Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes directed by Lisa Peterson (Nov. 8–11)
Will Power’s The Seven directed by Raz Goldman (Dec. 13–16)
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Miranda Haymon (Feb. 20–23)

Third-Year Plays
Third-Year Spring Play 1 (Apr. 23–26)
Third-Year Spring Play 2 (May 9-11)

CREATIVE ENTERPRISE

Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture (Jan. 23)

Carnegie Hall Presents Juilliard at Zankel Hall
A Celebration of Meredith Monk (Apr. 3 at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall)

PREPARATORY DIVISION

Faculty Recitals

Amy Barston*, Cello, and Noreen Cassidy Polera*, Piano (Sept. 7)
Philip Patyon, Violin, and Vital Quartet (Sept. 21)
Audrey Flores*, Horn (Sept. 28)
Alex Shiozaki*, Violin, and Momenta Quartet with Nana Shi, Piano (Oct. 5)
Pre-College Music Theory and Ear-Training Department (Oct. 26)
John Popham, Cello (Nov. 2)
Jo-Ann Sternberg*, Clarinet (Nov. 9)
Joohyun Kate Kim, Viola (Nov. 16)
Daniel Felsenfeld, Composition (Nov. 23)

Sounds of US @ the Kennedy Center Arnhold Creative Associate Jennifer Koh curates a program featuring world premieres by student and faculty composers (Nov. 16 at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; see also New Music)

Pre-College Orchestra Adam Glaser* conducts a Kayden Commissioning Program at Juilliard Pre-College world premiere by Jeff Scott as well as Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite, Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’Clock Shout, and other work (Nov. 22)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Winter Songbook (Dec. 7)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Chamber Music (Dec. 7, 14; Apr. 12; May 3, 10, 14, 17)

MAP Chamber Music (Dec. 14, Apr. 5)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Composition Recitals (Dec. 14, Mar. 22, Apr. 5, May 3)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Percussion Ensemble (Dec. 14, Apr. 12)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College String Orchestra
Nico Olarte-Hayes* conducts Grieg’s Holberg Suite, the Shostakovich/Barshai Chamber Symphony (after String Quartet No. 8), and Dinuk Wijeratne’s “A Letter From the After-Life” from Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems (Dec. 14)
Also livestreamed

MAP Wind and String Ensembles and MAP Orchestra conducted by Catherine Birke and Terry Szor (Dec. 21)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Symphony Ankush Kumar Bahl conducts Reena Esmail’s* Testament (from Vishwas), Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique (Dec. 21)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Youth Chorus directed by Esther Liu Harris (Jan. 25, May 10)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Orchestra Adam Glaser* and Valentina Paolucci+ conduct Farrenc’s Overture No. 1, the world premiere of Alex Robertson’s Nenia, Korngold’s Cello Concerto, Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, and other works (Feb. 22)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Symphony Adam Glaser* and Soo Jin Chung+ conduct Rossini’s Overture to La gazza ladra; Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7 (Mar. 1)
Also livestreamed

Kayden Commissioning Program at Juilliard Pre-College solo and chamber premieres (Apr. 5, 26)

MAP Composers Showcase (Apr. 12)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Opera Scenes (Apr. 26)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College String Orchestra
Nico Olarte-Hayes* conducts Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K. 546; Walker’s Lyric for Strings; Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041; and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite (May 3)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Symphony Adam Glaser* conducts a Kayden Commissioning Program at Juilliard Pre-College concerto premiere by Yi Chen as well as Fauré’s Masques et Bergamasques and Liszt’s Les Preludes (May 3)
Also livestreamed

MAP Wind and String Ensembles and MAP Orchestra conducted by Catherine Birke and Terry Szor perform a Juilliard-commissioned world premiere of a work for string ensemble by composer in residence Conni Ellisor (May 10)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College High School Chorus led by Patrick Romano (May 10)
Also livestreamed

Pre-College Orchestra Xian Zhang conducts Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, and Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade (May 24)
Also livestreamed

EXTENSION

Juilliard Extension Showcases featuring Extension students from piano, voice, drama, guitar, and composition classes (Dec. 15, May 4)

SAVE THE DATES

Juilliard Celebration (Feb. 5)

Commencement (May 24)

Preparatory Division Commencement (May 24)

* alum
+ student