Juilliard Celebrates 100 Years Of Pre-College

Juilliard Pre-College, under the direction of artistic director Yoheved Kaplinsky, celebrates its centennial season with a gala evening on Monday, November 5. Juilliard presents An Evening Celebrating 100 Years of the Juilliard Pre-College Division, featuring distinguished conductor Robert Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, leading the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra in a concert with Juilliard faculty member and Pre-College piano alumnus Emanuel Ax, at 7pm in Alice Tully Hall. The program includes Bernstein's Overture to Candide; Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 ("Emperor"); and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34, with additional performances by Pre-College students and alumni.

A gala dinner dance follows on the David H. Koch Theater Promenade. The gala chair is Mercedes T. Bass, and Bruce and Suzie Kovner are honorary chairs. Katherine Farley, Jerry Speyer, and Frederick Iseman are underwriters. Also expected to be in attendance are Annette de la Renta, Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Ellen Marcus, Judy and Leonard Lauder, and many others. Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg are underwriters of the event.

Proceeds from the evening will support Juilliard's Pre-College Division including student scholarships.

To purchase tables or gala tickets, please contact (212) 799-5000, ext. 329 or events@juilliard.edu or visit giving.juilliard.edu/precollege100.
Additional designated centennial events will take place during the season. A complete listing of Juilliard Pre-College events is available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

One of the foremost music preparatory programs in the world, the Juilliard Pre-College Division educates today's most promising artists. The Pre-College Division at Juilliard offers a complete curriculum of music instruction for highly gifted children up to age 18. Students attend Juilliard every Saturday for 30 weeks during the school year for an individualized course of instruction carefully designed to meet their particular needs. The selective program includes instruction in a chosen major, academic study of music, and solo and ensemble performances. Recognizing the importance of early development and discipline in the music field, the program provides a caring, collaborative, and challenging atmosphere where artistic gifts and technical skills can flourish. Approximately 300 students are enrolled in Juilliard's Pre-College program. Yoheved Kaplinsky, a Pre-College alumna who also received her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate from Juilliard, is artistic director of Juilliard Pre-College; she is also the Susan W. Rose Chair of the piano department in Juilliard's College Division.

Among the many Pre-College alumni who have gone on to illustrious careers are conductors Marin Alsop, James Gaffigan, Alan Gilbert, and Eric Jacobsen; pianists Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, Conrad Tao, and Joyce Yang; violinists Pamela Frank, Anne Akiko Meyers, Midori, Itzhak Perlman, and Gil Shaham; cellists Matt Haimovitz, Yo-Yo Ma, and Astrid Schween; singers Patti LuPone and Neil Sedaka; and composers Nicholas Britell, Peng-Peng Gong, Marvin Hamlisch and Stephen Schwartz.