The Juilliard Chamber Orchestra performs Melinda Wagner’s “Little Moonhead.” The title borrows a word from each of the piece’s three movements—“Little Prelude (with Rills),” “Moon Ache,” and “Fiddlehead.” The work originated as part of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s New Brandenburgs project.

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CAUTION: This video contains sequences of flashing lights which may affect viewers with epilepsy and other conditions sensitive to light. This program is offered in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice”. These pieces—Schoenberg’s “Ode ...

Excerpted from “Claiming Your Space: A Celebration of Black Music at Juilliard”. View the program here: https://www.juilliard.live/videos/claiming-your-space-2024

Hosted earlier this year by distinguished visiting faculty member Denyce Graves, this concert commemorates the 90th anniversary of a ...

Created by composer and Creative Associate Nathalie Joachim, this performance weaves together vocal samples, somber flute tones, and longing melodies that take listeners on a journey of discovery and defining of self. Made in collaboration with director and choreographer Chanel DaSilva, this inti...

Excerpted from “Claiming Your Space: A Celebration of Black Music at Juilliard”. View the program here: https://www.juilliard.live/videos/claiming-your-space-2024

Hosted earlier this year by distinguished visiting faculty member Denyce Graves, this concert commemorates the 90th anniversary of a ...

Masaaki Suzuki leads Juilliard415, the school’s primary period-instrument ensemble, in a wonderful rendition of this light and refreshing concerto from one of the most prolific composers in history.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in A Major for Flute, Violin, and Cello, TWV 53:A2
La...

Composed in honor of the 30th anniversary of Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, MAP: A New World combines American, African, Caribbean, and European musical influences to celebrate global communities of young musicians. Francisco J. Núñez conducts his nine-movement work, creating a joyful vis...

“The concert overture, in sonata-allegro form captures the strident (and occasionally tender and even mysterious) energy of a busy American port city. The great port of Norfolk, Virginia, where I live, was the direct inspiration.”—Adolphus Hailstork

Adolphus Hailstork wrote “An American Port of ...

The Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Euan Shields (MM ‘23), performs Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Avanti!” to open the 2023 Juilliard Celebration! program. Zwilich (DMA ’75, composition), the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in composition, composed “Avanti!” in celebration of the idea of...

Enjoy two excerpts from an evening focused on the contributions of international women of color in jazz music.

Toshiko Akiyoshi (b. 1929, in Liaoyang, Manchuria)
“A Long Yellow Road”
A pianist and composer who was the first Japanese student admitted to Berklee College of Music, Toshiko Akiyosh...

This performance, filmed in early 2021 with the pandemic creating endlessly changing barriers to live performance, features Juilliard’s vocal arts department in collaboration with our historical instrument ensemble in a beautiful and unique performance of Handel’s Greek tragedy. Gary Thor Wedow c...

This short documentary follows the teams from Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and the Historical Performance program as they navigate the challenges of a global pandemic to mount a unique production of Handel's opera "Teseo."

Juilliard415 joins forces with Juilliard dance students and a professional Baroque dance troupe for Moving Through Time: Baroque Dances Old and New. New choreography by Caroline Copeland and Aaron Loux (BA ’09, dance) pairs with Baroque masterpieces to create an engaging and lively program.

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The Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by David Robertson, performs Reena Esmail’s “RE|Member.” Esmail originally planned this overture to be premiered at the beginning of the Seattle Symphony’s 2020-21 season, but the premiere was pushed back by a year due to the pandemic. Esmail saw this piece as a...

This program, conducted by David Robertson, features a double bill of musical stories: “L’histoire du Soldat” (The Soldier’s Tale) by Igor Stravinsky and “A Fiddler’s Tale” by Wynton Marsalis (‘81, trumpet), director of Juilliard Jazz. In each work, the main characters struggle with the temptatio...

Revel in the pure joy of these three excerpts from the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra’s evening of music from legendary composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal as conducted by Jovino Santos Neto.

Excerpts in order of appearance:
“Choro Árabe”
“Bebê”
“Jegue”

Jovino Santos Ne...

“Atalanta” is a three-act pastoral opera by George Frideric Handel based on the eponymous mythological Greek athlete. This excerpt features the pre-intermission aria “Non sarà poco,” performed by Mary Beth Nelson as Meleagro.

Gary Thor Wedow conducts Juilliard415 and students from Juilliard’s E...

Atalanta is a three-act pastoral opera by George Frideric Handel based on the eponymous mythological Greek athlete. This excerpt features the Act III duet “Caro! Cara!,” performed by Mary Beth Nelson as Meleagro and Shelén Hughes as Atalanta. 

Gary Thor Wedow conducts Juilliard415 and students ...

Conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero, Beethoven’s “heroic” symphony is a boundary-breaking piece that’s widely considered a landmark in the transition between the Classical and the Romantic era of music as well as marking the start of the composer’s innovative “middle period.”

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sy...

Premiered in 1924, “Pines” is the most frequently performed of Respighi’s triptych of vivid sonic portraits celebrating Rome. Speranza Scappucci (MM ‘97) conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in performing this iconic tone poem.

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Pines of Rome, P. 141 (1924)
I pini di Vi...

Xian Zhang conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in this concertante work of 24 variations on the 24th, and last, of Niccolò Paganini’s Caprices for Solo Violin.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (1934)

Xian Zhang conducts the Juilliard Orchestra
Maxim Lando, P...

Acclaimed conductor and pianist Speranza Scappucci (MM ‘97) leads an engaging vocal master class featuring students from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and the Juilliard Collaborative Piano Department.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
“Il mio tesoro intanto” from Don G...

In this collaboration between our campuses in New York and Tianjin, students from both schools perform a piece arranged by Juilliard alumni and Tianjin faculty member Niccolo Athens. “Little Folk-Song Serenade” celebrates our shared commitment to fostering cross-cultural understanding between our...

Xian Zhang conducts one of Rimsky-Korsakov’s most popular works, inspired by the folk tales that make up “One Thousand and One Nights.”

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1888)
The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
The Tale of Prince Kalendar
The Young Prince and the Princess
The Fest...