Juilliard has announced that it will confer honorary doctorates on Gustavo Dudamel, Alicia Graf Mack, Marsha Norman, Masaaki Suzuki, Darren Walker, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Dudamel is a word-renowned conductor and the forthccoming music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic. Mack is the dean and director of Juilliard Dance and incoming artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance {…}
The “Juilliard Pride Songbook” is set to make a comeback this May. On May 8, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. the institution will showcase a program of premieres written by seven LGBTQIA+ Juilliard composers. The program will open with Conrad Cummings “Love Stories,” performed by tenor Colin Aikins and pianist Luis Villarreal Lozano. Then, mezzo-soprano Lauren Torey and pianist Michele Wong {…}
The Juilliard School has announced that it will be engaging in a fundraising effort to eliminate tuition for all college students. The campaign launches with $180 million in commitments, including a $130 million pledge for its Board of Trustees. The aim is to raise a total of $500 million to increase the number of tuition-free students each year on a {…}
Juilliard Opera is set to present Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” on Nov. 18, 21, and 23 at Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The new production will be directed by Mo Zhou and will be set in bohemian San Francisco in the late 1960s and brings a relevant new take on Mozart’s comedy with a new ending addressing the original libretto’s {…}
The Juilliard School is set to present “Christmas on Fifth Avenue” on Dec. 14, 2023. The holiday concert will feature The Boys of the Saint Thomas Choir alongside the Music Advancement Program String Ensemble as they take on music by John Rutter, Bruce Neswick, Edward Bairstow, and Georg Philipp Telemann, among others. The performance will take place at Saint Thomas {…}
The Juilliard School has announced several of the vocal programs that it will have on offer during the 2023-24 season. “Vox Celli Cello!” is a cello choir program that will be coached by Joshua Roman and developed in partnership with Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and Center for Innovation in the Arts. The showcase will include {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced the official public opening of Restart Stages, a new outdoor performing arts center constructed on the Lincoln Center campus. The new initiative will welcome back audiences to reimagined community spaces and new outdoor venues and will feature Pop-Up performances in music, dance, drama, and more. For this article, we will only focus {…}
Famed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will join the Juilliard School’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts as a distinguished visiting faculty this month. Graves will be in residence with Juilliard for a multiweek residency every semester while also holding coaching and mentoring sessions each term. Residencies will focus on the performance of opera scenes and there will also be a group recital. {…}
(Credit: Evan Zimmerman) At one time or another, artists face this question: what to do with the physical possessions accumulated during their careers, especially if they might be helpful to future generations? In soprano Renée Fleming’s case, she decided to call on The Juilliard School, where she received her postgraduate training. “Most artists have a relationship with their alma mater {…}
As most of The Juilliard School’s students are now off-campus or living back home due to the coronavirus pandemic, Juilliard’s faculty continues to proactively develop alternate ways to prioritize safety and support for their students and community. Juilliard is like other educational institutions that are trouble-shooting and preparing for indefinitely new circumstances that effect education moving forward. Specifically, however, Juilliard {…}
Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” has always left room for discussion in regards to musical content and timeline. However, it is with this openness that Juilliard took the opportunity to mold this opera into what was a remarkably intimate production of English Chamber music that told the heartbreaking story of a hell-bent Queen of Carthage. More specifically, Conductor Avi Stein {…}