Recent Events for November for 2010

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JOHN CLAYTON WITH THE JUILLIARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA
October 19, Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Grammy Award-winning musician John Clayton, a bassist, composer, and conductor, performed his arrangements of jazz standards with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra. Clayton (above) shared conducting duties with Bob Stewart and Brandon Lee, respectively the ensemble’s conductor and assistant conductor.
(Photo by Hiroyuki Ito)

LOBBY ART UNVEILING
September 28, June Noble Larkin Lobby
An opening reception showcased Untitled 2010, a mural by Chris Dorland (left), this year’s winner of the visual arts competition established by board member Dr. Bernard T. Ferrari and his wife, Linda, in partnership with Juilliard. The competition was inaugurated last year with the selection of Matthew Brannon’s Lobby (I). As was the case last year, Juilliard commissioned a complementary work by a Juilliard composer to be premiered at the event. City Music: No One Sleeps, composed by alumnus Niccolo Athens (B.M. ’10, composition; right) for two harps and three trumpets, plays off of the dystopian, urban aesthetic of Dorland’s installation. The piece was performed by an ensemble of Juilliard students, including harpists Grace Browning and Michelle Gott and trumpet players Caleb Hudson, Toby Penk, and Carolyn Schoch.
(Photo by Chad Heird)

THE NEW YORK VIRTUOSO SINGERS
October 12, Paul Recital Hall
In celebration of William Schuman’s centenary, rarely heard choral works by the composer were performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers, a contemporary choral music ensemble, conducted by its founder Harold Rosenbaum. Juilliard musicians joined the group for several works. Pictured: Vocal Arts students (foreground, left to right) Tobias Greenhalgh, Meredith Lustig, and Timothy Beenken were featured in choruses from Schuman’s music theater piece, The Mighty Casey. Members of the chorus are in the background.
(Photo by Peter Schaaf)

THE JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA-SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
October 18, Alice Tully Hall
During its first-ever tour of the U.S., the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chamber Orchestra performed works by Australian and American composers in a collaborative concert with the Juilliard Orchestra. The orchestras performed side by side with James DePreist of Juilliard and Imre Palló of the Sydney Conservatorium (above) alternating as conductors. The program included works by Schuman, Dello Joio, Richard Mills, and Britten.
(Photo by Nan Melville)

THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN: FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL
September 30-October 2, Paul Recital Hall
Three concerts of works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, the often-overlooked 19th-century composer whose younger brother Felix Mendelssohn is more widely recognized, featured performances by Juilliard’s C.V. Starr doctoral fellows. Hensel expert R. Larry Todd, arts and sciences professor of music at Duke University, curated the series and gave preconcert talks. Pictured performing Hensel’s A Cappella Trios are (left to right) Erika Switzer, piano (who provided tuning chords); Golda Schultz, soprano; Nathalie Mittlebach, mezzo-soprano; and Daniel Curran, tenor.
(Photo by Nan Melville)

DAVID EFFRON CONDUCTS THE JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA
October 4, Peter Jay Sharp Theater
David Effron, head of orchestral conducting at Indiana University, led the Juilliard Orchestra in its opening concert of the season, featuring works by Strauss and Shostakovich, as well as Bloch’s Suite for Viola and Orchestra, with Juilliard violist Adrienne Hochman as soloist.
(Photo by Nan Melville)

RACHEL PODGER MASTER CLASS
October 12, Room 309
English violinist Rachel Podger (far left), a Baroque-music specialist, led a master class presented by the Historical Performance department. As Historical Performance students Abigail Karr, violin, Fernando Aguado, harpsichord, and Leonhard Bartussek, cello (not pictured) tackled J.S. Bach’s Sonata in E Minor for Violin and Basso Continuo, Podger demonstrated appropriate technique.

VOCAL ARTS HONORS RECITAL
October 6, Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Artist Diploma student Cecelia Hall, mezzo-soprano, and baritone John Brancy, a fourth-year undergraduate, performed as winners of the annual Vocal Arts Honors Recital, which gives selected students the opportunity to appear as soloists at Lincoln Center. Both singers were accompanied by Juilliard collaborative piano students. Hall, accompanied by Erika Switzer (not pictured), sang Alan Smith’s Vignettes: Ellis Island and songs by Debussy and Mahler, while Brancy, with pianist Renate Rohlfing, performed works by Ives, Ravel, and William Bolcom, among others.
(Photo by Peter Schaaf)

PUMPKIN CARVING
October 19, Student Multipurpose Room
Voice student Liz Sutphen showed off a painted mini-pumpkin at a pumpkin decorating activity put on by the Student Affairs Office. Students personalized mini-pumpkins or teamed up to carve jack-o’-lanterns.

AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET
October 15, Alice Tully Hall
In commemoration of its 50th anniversary, the American Brass Quintet, comprising Raymond Mase and Kevin Cobb (trumpet), David Wakefield (horn), Michael Powell (trombone), and John D. Rojak (bass trombone), gave a Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital that included two new works: Trevor Gureckis’s Fixated Nights and David Sampson’s Chants and Flourishes. Also on the program were In Gabrieli’s Day, edited by Mase, and works by Joan Tower and Thomas Stoltzer.
(Photo by Hiroyuki Ito)

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On October 13 in Paul Hall, cellist and faculty member Bonnie Hampton was joined by fellow Juilliard faculty members, violinists Robert Mann and Earl Carlyss, violist Nicholas Mann, and pianist Seymour Lipkin for an evening of chamber music by Beethoven, Schumann, and Dvorak. The event was a reunion for Hampton, who had performed in the past with all of the other artists in the program. Other recent events include John Clayton with the Juilliard Orchestra, new lobby art, the New York Virtuoso Singers, David Effron conducts the Juilliard Orchestra, vocal arts recital, among others.

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