[NEW YORK, February 28, 2025]––Juilliard’s Center for Creative Technology (CCT) will host the Future Stages Festival from March 21 to 28—a series of performances exhibiting innovative applications of technology to the performing arts. This inaugural festival marks the 25th anniversary of the center’s first full performance and includes four public performances with a lineup that engages cutting-edge technological innovations within music, dance, and drama.
On March 21, the Future Stages Festival kicks off with Our Future Voices: Music and Technology of the Americas—a collaboration with Juilliard’s The New Series and Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival. The program features compositions by Tania León (who received an honorary doctorate from Juilliard in 2024), Angelica Negrón, Juilliard alum Vivian Fung, and Pre-College composition faculty member Alyssa Weinberg. Performed by Juilliard music students, the concert will include live integration of digitally created video projections that are synced to the movement of the musicians onstage. Before the performance, David Ludwig, the dean and director of the Music Division and chair of the composition department, will lead a preconcert conversation.
The festival continues with three additional:
“For decades, Juilliard has been at the forefront of using technology to extend creative practice,” Ludwig said. “By engaging with technology, our students are empowered to develop their artistry in new ways as they prepare for project-based 21st-century careers. And perhaps even more importantly, technology enables us to think inclusively on a global scale, creating access to what is uniquely Juilliard for an ever-widening audience.”
“Today, performing artists across disciplines are exploring new modes of creative expression and audience engagement through digital technology, redefining how we experience space and time,” said Edward Bilous, founding director of the Center for Creative Technology and director of the Future Stages Festival. “Since 2001, the center has been home to Juilliard's technology-driven activities. These creative collaborations have led to the emergence of new art forms and transdisciplinary experiences that bridge the visual and performing arts.”
Program Details
The New Series | Our Future Voices: Music and Technology of the Americas
Friday, March 21 | 7:30pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater,155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Tickets are pay-what-you-wish.
Future Stages Festival | Beyond the Machine: Music and Emerging Technologies
Saturday, March 22 | 7:00pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Tickets are $20.
Future Stages Festival | The Space Between Us
Thursday, March 27 | 7:00pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Tickets are $20.
Future Stages Festival | Convergence
Celebration of 25 Years of Technology in Performance at Juilliard
Friday, March 28 | 7:00pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Tickets are $20.
Edward BILOUS Convergence for solo voice, dancer, and interactive video
design
Ray LUSTIG Clouds in Single File for string ensemble performing over the
internet
Lawrence Irving WILDE Artificial Midnight for string quartet and recurrent audio
variational autoencoder (RAVE)
Emre SENER Sinking Under for alto flute and live, interactive electronics
Mari KIMURA Rossby Waving for violin solo and MUGIC sensor
Isabela TANASHIAN Pipe Dream for solo voice and live, interactive electronics
Steve REICH Electric Counterpoint for solo electric guitar and interactive
video design
Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise programming, including the Creative Associates program, is generously sponsored by Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation.
About the Center for Creative Technology
The Center for Creative Technology (formerly the Music Technology Center and Center for Innovation in the Arts), was created in 1993 to provide music students with opportunities to work with new digital technologies. In 2001, it presented Beyond the Machine, the first concert of electroacoustic music at Juilliard. The center also launched InterArts, a program for advanced students and recent alumni from the music, dance, and drama divisions who share an interest in collaborating across disciplines.
In 2012, the Music Technology Center changed its name to the Center for Innovation in the Arts to reflect the growing interest from students to explore new ways of creating, collaborating, and performing with technology. Since its inception, the center has pioneered the use of innovative technologies and practices used by performing artists working in diverse genres and platforms including immersive video and projection design, ambisonic audio, virtual and spatial technologies, and haptic tools to interact with computers. The center also pioneered telematic and distributed performances including live, interactive events with artists in the U.K., Italy, Japan, and China. In 2023, the center collaborated with the Tianjin Juilliard School and Juilliard’s The New Series in a production of Terry Riley’s In C featuring orchestras in New York City and Tianjin China performing together live, in real time.
In 2021, the center developed Future Stages, a class for graduate students that combines research and creative exploration to examine how new philosophical ideas, aesthetic trends, and technological innovations inform artists working in diverse disciplines and platforms.
In addition to supporting innovative and experimental performances, the center also offers a range of classes in music production and recording. Art of the Score is a two-semester series of classes for musicians interested in creating original music for film and visual media which concludes with a screening of international films that feature original music by Juilliard students. Past screenings included films produced in France, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, the U.K., Los Angeles, and New York. The Center for Creative Technology also offers several classes in music production that provide skills needed to record, produce, and mix music in diverse genres and styles.
About The New Series
The New Series is a contemporary performance series that explores music of our time by bringing students from across the school’s departments together with some of today’s leading artistic voices. The multidisciplinary series was conceived by David Serkin Ludwig, the dean and director of the Music Division, who also serves as the series’ curator and artistic director. The New Series debuted in the 2022–23 season with four programs that featured collaborations by music, dance, and drama students from Juilliard’s New York campus as well as music students from The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.
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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Photo: The New Series: In C, presented by Juilliard February 26, 2023. Erin Baiano, courtesy of The Juilliard School
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