Juilliard’s Inaugural Fall Festival Launches the 2024-25 Season

[NEW YORK, September 10, 2024]—Juilliard opens the 2024-25 academic year with its first- ever Fall Festival. The 10-day series takes place between September 12 and 21 and launches the season with world premieres, collaborative programs, and participatory public events. Setting the stage for the year to come, the Fall Festival brings together students and alumni from the music, dance, drama, and preparatory divisions along with Arnhold Creative Associates and special guest artists.  

Individual and interdisciplinary programs with students from dance, drama, chamber music, composition, historical performance, jazz, and vocal arts include:  

• World Premieres
  • Dance alum My’Kal Stromile sets new choreography to a movement from composition faculty member Valerie Coleman’s chamber work Shotgun Houses
  • The Elephant Graveyard by drama student Baxter Westby with music composed and performed by fellow drama students
  • Composer and alum Katie Jenkins’ new work Awakening, commissioned by Juilliard and performed by the Juilliard Ochestra led by David Robertson
  • Caroline Shaw’s* new song inspired by the lyrics of Two Little Flowers, which was written by Harmony Twitchell and composed by her husband, Charles Ives
  • A new excerpt from Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff (part of Claire Chase’s* Density 2036 project)
• Outdoor Events
  • An activation at Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza of alum Philip Glass’ Satyagraha (Act III, Conclusion) that invites all to join in vocally. Arranged by alum Nico Muhly* and shaped by alum and Arnhold Creative Associate at Large Nadia Sirota, the song will be led by students. The event will also include guest artist violinist Nicola Benedetti and a tuning meditation created by Pauline Oliveros that invites all present to participate.
• Collaborative Programs
  • A 150th birthday celebration of American composer Charles Ives that looks at the Experimentalism movement through the lens of historic and current composers, choreographers, and writers. The program is directed by Pam Tanowitz* and features works by Ives for piano, voice, and chamber orchestra including The Unanswered Question, conducted by alum Anna Handler, who begins this fall as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This performance features several world premieres; groundbreaking dances by choreographers Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, and Caili Quan*; an excerpt from Juilliard drama students’ performance of María Irene Fornés’ Abingdon Square; and a selection from composition faculty member Nina C. Young’s Tête-À-Tête for two toy pianos, two desk bells, and electronics accompanying a dance duet by Tanowitz.  
  • A cultural exchange between students from Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and Finland's Sibelius Academy that explores Nordic and American songs in Touching Magic: A Juilliard Vocal Arts- Sibelius Academy Collaboration 
  • Juilliard Singing, a night of musical theater songs that salutes alum Marvin Hamlisch on the 80th anniversary of his birth and features drama and vocal arts students, directed by Kurt Crowley*
• Season Openers
  • First performances of the season by the Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and Juilliard 415 

*Arnhold Creative Associate 

Full programming details are below. Many of the festival events will be livestreamed at juilliard.edu. Please refer to juilliard.edu/calendar for the most up-to-date livestream schedule and performance details.  

Tickets to Fall Festival events are $30 (Members: $15) and are available at juilliard.edu or the Juilliard box office.

CONTACT:
Allegra Thoresen
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Image: Juilliard Music students Elise Winkler, Yuchan Li, and Aidan Gold perform a selection from Tête-à-Tête by Nina C. Young at Juilliard’s 2024 Convocation. Photo by Erin Baiano, courtesy of Juilliard. 

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PROGRAM DETAILS: JUILLIARD FALL FESTIVAL

Thursday, September 12 | 7:30pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theater | Also livestreamed 
Opening Night 
Juilliard’s opening 2024-25 performance features student artists from the music, dance, drama, and preparatory divisions.

Friday, September 13 | 7:30pm
Paul Hall | Also livestreamed 
Touching Magic: A Juilliard Vocal Arts-Sibelius Academy Collaboration 

Saturday, September 14 (rain date Sun Sept 15) | Noon
Lincoln Center  
Juilliard Outdoors
Free 

Saturday, September 14 | 7:30pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
The New: Celebrating Charles Ives and American Experimentalism in Music, Dance, and  Drama 

Sunday, September 15 | 2pm
Paul Hall | Also livestreamed
An Afternoon of Groundbreaking Piano and Chamber Music

Monday, September 16 | 7:30pm
Alice Tully Hall | Also livestreamed
Juilliard Orchestra Conducted by David Robertson
 Katie JENKINS Awakening (World premiere, commissioned by Juilliard)
 SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto
 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 

Tuesday, September 17 | 7:30pm
Alice Tully Hall | Also livestreamed
Juilliard415: Baroque Indulgence
Rachel Podger, Director
 TELEMANN Ouverture-Suite in E Minor, TWV 55:e1
 J.S. BACH Concerto for Violin in A Minor, BWV 1041
 HANDEL Concerto Grosso in G Major, Op. 3, No. 3
 VIVALDI Concerto for Four Violins in E Minor, Op. 3, No. 4 
 REICHENAUER Suite in B-flat Major
 
Wednesday, September 18 | 7:30pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater
Juilliard Singing
A night of musical theater with drama, jazz, and vocal arts students that salutes alum Marvin Hamlisch on the 80th anniversary of his birth; it’s directed by Arnhold Creative Associate Kurt Crowley. 

Thursday, September 19 | 7:30pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater
Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff (Density 2036: part xi)
With Arnhold Creative Associate Claire Chase and Juilliard students

Friday, September 20 | 7:30pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater
A Night of Groundbreaking Piano and Chamber Music

Saturday, September 21 | 7:30pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theater | Also livestreamed
Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Inspired by Visual Art and Architecture