Juilliard Historical Performance presents L'ART DE TOUCHER LE CLAVECIN, 2/8

Juilliard Historical Performance will present an all-Couperin program featuring Juilliard harpsichordists on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at 7:30pm in Paul Hall, programmed and coached by faculty member Béatrice Martin. Juilliard harpsichordists Katarzyna Kluczykowska, Caitlyn Koester, Eunji Lee, and Francis Yun will each play a solo piece, and the program will conclude with the complete L'Espagnole from Les Nations. (The complete program follows at the end of this press release.)

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

The ensemble for Les Nations will include Juilliard violinists Sarah Jane Kenner and Ruiqi Ren; flutist Bethanne Walker; oboist Andrew Blanke; bassoonist Joe Jones; gambist Matt Zucker; theorbist Adam Cockerham; and harpsichordist Eunji Lee.

Couperin wrote 240 pieces for harpsichord, and they are gathered in 27 ordres and published in four books (plus the eight preludes of L'Art de toucher le clavecin).

Juilliard's full-scholarship Historical Performance program was established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner.

About Béatrice Martin

Harpsichordist Béatrice Martin, who was born in Annecy, France, and has been a Juilliard faculty member since 2015, attended the Geneva and Paris Conservatories. Ms. Martin created and directed the harpsichord class in the Escola Superior de Música of Catalunya in Barcelona (2001-2013). She adjudicated for the International Harpsichord Competition of Bruges in 2011 and 2015. Festivals where she has taught include Ambronay, La Roque d'Anthéron, Aix-en-Provence, Couperin, Bach ein Combrailles, Lanvellec, Printemps Baroque du Sablon, Utrecht, Bruges, Daroca, Girona, Malta, Tallinn, 'Cycle clavecinistes Français' in Mexico, London Festival of Baroque Music, Folle Journées of Nantes, and Lisbon. She has played recitals at Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Comique, and the Cité de la Musique in Paris. Ensembles she has played with include Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert Spirituel, Ricercar, Il Seminario Musicale, and Les Arts Florissants. Ms. Martin is co-founder, with Patrick Cohën-Akenine, of Les Folies Françoises. With Les Folies Françoises, she recorded four discs of music by J.S. Bach: the Dialogue Cantatas (Cypres); the complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord; and concertos for harpsichord, BWV 1052, 1053, 1055 and 1056. With Les Arts Florissants, she has recorded more than 20 CDs and DVDs. She won the first prize, audience prize, and Bärenreiter Prize at the International Harpsichord Competition of Bruges in 1998.

About Juilliard Historical Performance

Juilliard's full-scholarship Historical Performance program offers comprehensive study and performance of music from the 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments. Established and endowed in 2009 by the generous support of Bruce and Suzie Kovner, the program is open to candidates for the Master of Music, Graduate Diploma, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. A high-profile concert season of opera, orchestral, and chamber music is augmented by a performance-oriented curriculum that fosters an informed understanding of the many issues unique to period-instrument performance at the level of technical excellence and musical integrity for which Juilliard is renowned. The faculty comprises many of the leading performers and scholars in the field. Frequent collaborations with Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, the integration of modern-instrument majors outside of the Historical Performance program, and national and international tours have introduced new repertoires and increased awareness of historical performance practice at Juilliard and beyond. Alumni of Juilliard Historical Performance are members of many of the leading period-instrument ensembles, including the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Mercury, and Tafelmusik, and they have founded such new ensembles as the Sebastians, House of Time, New York Baroque Incorporated, and New Vintage Baroque.