Juilliard Orchestra’s Winter 2025 Season Showcases a Range of Repertoire and Presents Major Debuts and Today’s Leading Conductors

Monday, Jan 27, 2025
Press Release
 

Jeffrey Milarsky Leads 2025 Semester’s Opener; Ruth Reinhardt and Louis Langrée Make Their Juilliard Orchestra Debuts

[NEW YORK, January 27, 2025]––The Juilliard Orchestra presents a wide range of repertoire and talent on the podium in winter 2025, featuring the debuts of conductors Ruth Reinhardt and Louis Langrée alongside the return of Jeffrey Milarsky. The repertoire in all three concerts showcases the dynamism of each musician onstage, illustrating the orchestra itself as a musical instrument. Concerts take place on January 27, February 10, and February 20 at Alice Tully Hall and will also be livestreamed on Juilliard’s website.

Monday, January 27 | 7:30 pm
Jeffrey Milarsky, director of Juilliard’s new music ensemble, AXIOM, conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in a program that opens with A Short Piece for Orchestra by Julia Perry (1924-79), a Black composer who studied at Juilliard’s Extension Division. This contemporary entry is followed by Bartók’s Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin and Rachmaninoff’s famously difficult Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring student concerto competition winner and debut soloist Hechao Yang. By ending with this concerto, Milarsky flips the conventional concert sequence and brings a fresh rendition to these orchestral classics.  

Monday, February 10 | 7:30pm
Juilliard conducting alum Ruth Reinhardt—newly appointed music director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic—makes her Juilliard Orchestra debut. She leads a varied program that includes the student cello concerto competition winner, Gaeun Kim, as a debuting soloist in Martinů’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Reinhardt, who has been praised for her vitality and mastery of new music and traditional composers, opens the program with Unsuk Chin’s 2020 orchestral miniature inspired by Beethoven, subito con forza. Brahms’ First Symphony—painstakingly written by the composer in the hopes that it might be the next great symphony after Beethoven’s Ninth—closes the program.

Thursday, February 20 | 7:30pm 
Louis Langrée, who is known for his imaginative programming and remarkable career leading Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, makes his Juilliard Orchestra debut leading an all-Ravel program. Langrée, who is also the director of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique in Paris, will open with Mother Goose (Ma mère l’Oye) for orchestra, followed by L’enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel’s fantastical opera in one act. The semistaged program is directed by faculty member Jeanne Slater and will feature singers from Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts.   
 Tickets for all three concerts are $40 (Members: $20) and are available at juilliard.edu or the Juilliard box office.  

Please refer to juilliard.edu/calendar for the most up-to-date livestream schedule and performance details.  

 
Program Details

Monday, January 27 | 7:30pm
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Juilliard Orchestra 
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Hechao Yang, Piano 

PERRY                               A Short Piece for Orchestra 
BARTÓK                            Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin 
RACHMANINOFF             Piano Concerto No. 3

Monday, February 10 | 7:30pm  
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Juilliard Orchestra 
Ruth Reinhardt, Conductor (debut)
Gaeun Kim, Cello 

Unsuk CHIN                      subito con forza 
MARTINŮ                          Cello Concerto No. 1 
BRAHMS                           Symphony No. 1

Thursday, February 20 | 7:30pm
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Juilliard Orchestra 
Featuring singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts 
Louis Langrée, Conductor
Jeanne Slater, Stage Director 

RAVEL                                 Ma mère l’Oye 
RAVEL                                 L’enfant et les sortilèges


Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts was established in 2010 by the generous support of Ellen and James S. Marcus.  

Juilliard’s lead digital sponsor is Bloomberg Philanthropies.

 

About the Artists
Jeffrey Milarsky

Ruth Reinhardt

Louis Langrée


About The Juilliard School
Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors, composers, choreographers, and playwrights from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens. Juilliard is led by Damian Woetzel, seventh president of the school, who has prioritized affordability and access to the highest level of artistic education while championing Juilliard’s tradition of excellence.

Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). More than 800 artists from 42 states and 50 countries and regions are enrolled in Juilliard’s College Division, where they appear in more than 800 annual performances in the school’s five theaters; at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen halls and at Carnegie Hall; as well as at other venues around New York City, the U.S., and the world. The continuum of learning at Juilliard also includes nearly 400 students from elementary through high school enrolled in the Preparatory Division—Pre-College and Music Advancement Program (MAP); MAP serves students from diverse backgrounds often underrepresented in the classical music field. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in Juilliard Extension, the flagship continuing education program taught both in person and remotely by a dedicated faculty of performers, creators, and scholars. Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through a global K-12 educational curricula and preparatory and graduate studies at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.

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CONTACTS:  
Allegra Thoresen 
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Jeffrey Milarsky conducts the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. Photo by: Rachel Papo, courtesy of Juilliard.

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