Juilliard Historical Performance Announces 2017-18 Season

Juilliard Historical Performance, the school's graduate-level, full-tuition scholarship program for early music, enters its ninth performance season with a full schedule of concerts, tours, residencies, and master classes anchored by performances from its primary period-instrument ensemble, Juilliard415, and a roster of distinguished guests artists. The 2017-18 season will feature appearances by Harry Bicket, William Christie, JoNathan Cohen, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Robert Mealy, Lionel Meunier, Rachel Podger, Shunske Sato, Stephen Stubbs, Masaaki Suzuki, and vocal ensembles Vox Luminis and Yale Schola Cantorum.

William Christie The new season opens with the annual visit of artist in residence William Christie leading Juilliard415, and a cast of Juilliard singers and dancers in "The Genius of Monteverdi" with works by Monteverdi, Castello, and Farina on October 5, 2017 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Peter Farrow will create new dance for Monteverdi's Il ballo delle ingrate. Juilliard415 continues its collaboration with the Yale Schola Cantorum and conductor Masaaki Suzuki in "Reformation 500" featuring Bach's Mass in G Major, BWV 236 and the celebratory cantata Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80. Performances take place on October 12, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Haven and on October 14, 2017 at St. Michael's and All Angels Church. Juilliard415 makes its first appearance at the University of Buffalo in a program of French Baroque chamber music by Marais, Rebel, and Couperin on October 20, 2017.

Nicholas McGegan returns to conduct Juilliard415 in "A World Tour," a program featuring music about different countries by Campra, Rameau, and Telemann on October 25, 2017 in Alice Tully Hall and October 29, 2017 in San Francisco at the de Young Museum. Vivaldi's virtuosic violin concerto "Il Grosso Mogul" RV 208 anchors the program. A week of chamber music follows in November with visiting artist Richard Egarr in a program of music by Couperin, Charpentier, Marais, and Rebel on November 9, 2017 in Paul Hall. On November 12, 2017, acclaimed violinist Monica Huggett joins members of Juilliard415 in an all-Couperin program in the "Music on Madison" series at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Violinist Robert Mealy, director of Juilliard Historical Performance, leads Juilliard415 in a program entitled "The Pleasure Garden: Music from Handel's London" on December 8, 2017 in Alice Tully Hall. The program features works by Arne, Festing, and Handel.

JoNathan Cohen Emerging conductor, cellist and keyboardist JoNathan Cohen, associate conductor of William Christie's Les Arts Florissant and artistic director of Arcangelo, makes his Juilliard debut in a program entitled "Madness and Enchantment" on the "Music Before 1800" concert series on January 14, 2018 at Corpus Christi Church. The program includes excerpts from Purcell's Fairy Queen and other works by Telemann, Geminiani/Corelli, Durante, and Boccherini, including his sinfonia known as "La casa del diavolo" ("House of the Devil"). Baroque violinist and Juilliard alumnus Shunske Sato will give a master class on January 25, 2018 in Paul Hall. Mr. Sato, a resident of the Netherlands, is concertmaster of Concerto Köln and the Netherlands Bach Society and is often a guest concertmaster for ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He is on the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he teaches violin in the context of historical performance practice.

Juilliard415 welcomes back Baroque violinist Rachel Podger for concerts on January 28, 2018 at the Shalin Liu Center in Rockport, Mass., and in Alice Tully Hall on January 29, 2018. The program showcases Juilliard415 Baroque flautists and features the complete First Production of Telemann's elegant Musique de Table suite. Juilliard Historical Performance harpsichord faculty member, Béatrice Martin curates a program on Couperin's treatise L'Art de toucher le clavecin on February 8, 2018 in Paul Hall. For the first time, Juilliard415 is joined by Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis with concertmaster, faculty member ElizaBeth Blumenstock, in "Handel in Rome," on February 16, 2018 at Vassar College and February 17, 2018, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. Vocalist Lionel Meunier, who co-founded Vox Luminis in 2004, is artistic director.

Stephen Stubbs Juilliard415 will be the orchestra for Juilliard Opera's presentation of the rarely performed Rameau opera Hippolyte et Aricie with conductor Stephen Stubbs and stage director Stephen Wadsworth. The opera features singers from Juilliard's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and Juilliard dancers, choreographed by alumnus Zack Winokur. It takes place April 17, 19, and 21, 2018 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

Masaaki Suzuki conducts Juilliard415 and Yale's Institute of Sacred Music Alumni Choir in a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor at the American Bach Society Conference at Yale's Woolsey Hall on April 28, 2018. Free Lunchtime Concerts at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church - Tuesdays at Twelve

Juilliard Historical Performance continues its free lunchtime concert series, Tuesdays at Twelve, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (65th Street and Central Park West). The hour-long concerts take place on October 17, December 12, February 20, and April 3, all on Tuesdays at noon, and feature chamber music performed on period instruments in the 110-year-old church, the home of the celebrated Bach Vespers series. These concerts are free, and no tickets are required. The series is an extension of Juilliard's long-running, free lunchtime performance series that takes place during the school year on Wednesdays in Alice Tully Hall. Residencies and Master Classes

Residencies and master classes are an important part of the Juilliard Historical Performance program and give Juilliard musicians a chance to work closely with a who's who list of early music specialists. Among the distinguished artists who will give master classes during the 2017-18 season are Harry Bicket, artistic director of The English Concert, and Baroque violinist and Juilliard alumnus Shunske Sato. Juilliard's full-scholarship Historical Performance program was established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner.