Juilliard will present a free lunch-hour performance series at Juilliard Station, running Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. from July 8 through August 27. The major vocal performance on offer is “Les Délices: Baroque Bass Lines,” headlined by mezzo-soprano Julie Knott. She is joined by an ensemble featuring baroque oboist Remy Libbrecht, baroque cellists Grace Mockus and Charlie Reed, viola {…}
The Juilliard School has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. The season opens when Juilliard415, directed by former faculty member Rachel Podger, presents “Shakespeare Restored,” featuring singers from Vocal Arts in incidental music from Shakespeare’s plays written after the Restoration. Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2026 Juilliard415 joins forces with Yale Schola Cantorum for Bach’s “St. {…}
The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program (MAP) Chorus will present the world premiere of “Brave” by Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman on Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church in New York City. The 105-voice chorus of students from Juilliard’s MAP, joined by an ensemble of MAP faculty, Juilliard alumni, and College {…}
The Juilliard School will present “AXIOM: Kurtág @ 100” on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall. Jeffrey Milarsky leads Juilliard’s new music ensemble AXIOM in a centennial celebration of Hungarian composer György Kurtág. Soprano Kerrigan Bigelow, soprano Fantine Douilly, pianist Heting Xia, and violinist Tianyou Ma are the featured soloists. The program opens with “The Iron {…}
Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts is set to present “Before and After” on Feb. 22, 2026. The livestreamed opera program was conceived by Artistic Director of Vocal Arts Brian Zeger and stage director Mary Birnbaum and pairs mid-20th-century American repertoire with contemporary works inspired by Classical tragedy. The showcase opens with Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer {…}
Juilliard announces its 2025-26 season. This article only features classical voice events. Juilliard and Columbia University Present Italian Opera 200. Performance Date: October 5, 2025 Up next is the start of school’s “Liederabend” series. Performance Dates: October 8, November 19, December 10, 2025 & February 25 & April 1 & 29, 2026 “Sound On: Inward Journeys” features the Neue Vocalsolisten {…}
Juilliard’s music, dance, drama, preparatory, and extension divisions will launch New York’s performing arts season with the return of the Fall Festival. This article specifically features opera events. Juilliard at Joe’s Pub presents “Songs From the Tesori Sessions.” Performance Date: September 17, 2025 The festival closes with “Departing,” an evening curated and conducted by Arnhold Creative Associate Barbara Hannigan with {…}
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 {…}