David Robertson Conducts Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony, Copland’s Clarinet Concerto featuring Yan Liu, and Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
NEW YORK––A special performance at Carnegie Hall on February 23 by the Juilliard Orchestra and Juilliard Jazz Orchestra—the groups’ first-ever joint performance—continues the 20th anniversary celebration of Juilliard Jazz and showcases Juilliard’s talented music students from both classical and jazz studies. Tickets ($15-$30) are available online at carnegiehall.org or at the Carnegie Hall box office.
Led by Juilliard’s director of conducting studies, David Robertson, the varied program opens with the Juilliard Orchestra performing Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town followed by Copland’s Clarinet Concerto featuring Juilliard clarinetist Yan Liu—the winner of a recent concerto competition—as soloist. The program closes with the combined forces of the Juilliard Orchestra and Juilliard Jazz Orchestra performing Juilliard Jazz director and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony. The seven-movement work traces the evolution of jazz from New Orleans ragtime to Kansas City swing and New York bebop.
“We couldn’t be more excited for the upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall,” conductor David Robertson said. “The program features all American composers, culminating in Wynton Marsalis’s majestic Swing Symphony—a work that digs deeply into the rich culture of American musical history and that highlights what Juilliard does so well in its boundless creative expression across genres and disciplines.”
“Swing Symphony is designed to bring large orchestral forces together in the spirit of E Pluribus Unum,” Wynton Marsalis, director of Juilliard Jazz, said. “The search for a common language and performance standard between Jazz, American vernacular music, and the symphonic orchestral tradition has been at the heart of our quest to define ourselves in the broadest context. In the celebration of 20 years of Juilliard Jazz, we come together to form a new type of American orchestra, one that is both down home and virtuosic. I’m very proud of all of our young people.”
VENUE AND TICKETING INFORMATION
Tickets ($15-$30) are available online at carnegiehall.org or at the Carnegie Hall box office. The Juilliard performance calendar at juilliard.edu/calendar always has the latest schedule updates for both in-person and streamed performances.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
To be admitted to in-person performances, audience members must have tickets, wear masks, and show proof of vaccination, and booster when eligible, which will be accepted via any of the following free mobile apps: CLEAR Health Pass (Apple or Android); New York State Excelsior Pass; or the New York City COVID Safe App (Apple or Android). In addition to these apps, vaccination cards along with government-issued photo ID will also be accepted. More information and the latest updates are available carnegiehall.org.
About the Artists
David Robertson—conductor, artist, thinker, and American musical visionary—occupies some of the most prominent platforms, internationally, in opera, orchestral music, and new music. In the 2021-22 season, Robertson makes his Rome Opera debut conducting Káťa Kabanová and conducts encore performances of the lauded 2019 production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess the Metropolitan Opera, which was awarded a Grammy for best opera recording. In 2018, Robertson completed his transformative 13-year tenure as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), creating fruitful relationships with a spectrum of artists and solidifying the orchestra’s status as among the nation’s most innovative. As Robertson’s 2019 valedictory season as chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra culminated, he joined the Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council, guiding Juilliard’s branch campus in China, complementing his role as director of conducting studies, distinguished visiting faculty at Juilliard in New York. He appears regularly in Europe and, in addition to his longstanding relationship with the New York Philharmonic, frequent North American musical destinations include Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, and Seattle. He conducts the New Japan Philharmonic, China NCPA Orchestra, and, this year, debuts with the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. Robertson has served in numerous artistic leadership positions: with the Orchestre National de Lyon; Ensemble InterContemporain as a protégé of Pierre Boulez; and principal guest conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra. Robertson has been a Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist, and in 2010, became a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. In addition to his work at Juilliard, he is devoted to supporting young musicians and works with teaching festivals from Aspen to Lucerne. In 2020, he helped form the international digital electric guitar ensemble Another Night on Earth. Born in Santa Monica, California, Robertson was educated at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He is married to pianist Orli Shaham, a Juilliard faculty member and alumna, and lives in New York.
Clarinetist Yan Liu made his solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra on its Bernstein: 100 Years Young family concert, playing Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata (orchestral version). In the same year, he was bass clarinet soloist with the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, giving the world premiere Sonic Cell by Slovakian composer Matej Sloboda at the Beijing Contemporary Music Festival. An experienced orchestral musician, Liu was invited to be principal clarinet by two prestigious orchestras in China: NingBo Symphony Orchestra (for one month) and the newly formed professional orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music (for two weeks). Liu has won prizes in several international competitions: the CCOM International Mozart Clarinet Competition, International Youth Competition in Memory of E.A. Mravinsky, Curtis Young Artist Summer Program Concerto Competition, and CCOM’s Woodwind Quintet Competition. In 2021, Liu gave a solo recital at Tianjin Juilliard’s recital hall playing and conducting the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Rossini’s Theme and Variations with the Juilliard Alumni Chamber Orchestra. Also last year, he was invited to conduct Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture (arrangement for brass ensemble) at Jhao-Yin Academy’s Young Artist Summer Festival in Shenzhen, China. Liu’s conducting mentors include Robert Kahn and Paul Bryan. Now studying at Juilliard, Liu received his bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Anthony McGill, now the artistic director of Juilliard’s MAP program. Prior to his time in the U.S., Liu received his high school certificate at the music school attached to China’s Central Conservatory of Music.
Juilliard’s largest and most visible student performing ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra is known for delivering polished and passionate performances of works spanning the repertoire. Comprising more than 375 students in the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, the orchestra appears throughout the season in concerts on the stages of Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. The orchestra is a strong partner to Juilliard’s other divisions, appearing in opera, dance, and drama productions, as well as presenting an annual concert of world premieres by Juilliard student composers. This season an impressive roster of world-renowned conductors lead the Juilliard Orchestra, including John Adams, Mei-Ann Chen, Kevin John Edusei, Barbara Hannigan, Antonio Pappano, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Christian Reif, Xian Zhang, and faculty conductors Jeffrey Milarsky and David Robertson. The Juilliard Orchestra has toured across the U.S. and throughout Europe, South America, and Asia, where it was the first Western conservatory ensemble allowed to visit and perform following the opening of the People’s Republic of China in 1987, returning two decades later, in 2008. In summer 2019, the orchestra traveled to London where they performed alongside the Royal Academy of Music in Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms. Other ensembles under the Juilliard Orchestra umbrella include the conductorless Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, Wind Orchestra, Lab Orchestra, and the contemporary music groups AXIOM and New Juilliard Ensemble.
The Grammy nominated Juilliard Jazz Orchestra (JJO), which makes its Carnegie Hall debut with this concert, performs music from the entire jazz continuum with fire and an understanding of the music's meaning and context. Composed of bachelor’s and master’s degree students, the orchestra appears on the stages of Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, Dizzy’s Club, and other venues. It has performed with the Princeton Symphony and Albany Symphony and been featured at the Jazz Educator Network’s national conference. The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra performs music by composers such as Jelly Roll Morton and Bill Challis of the pre-swing era as well as works of the swing, bebop, and post-bop eras by composers such as Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Eddie Durham, Tadd Dameron, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman. The JJO also performs new works by alumni and students including Kyle Athayde, Joe Block, and Summer Camargo, as well as contemporary composers including Wynton Marsalis, faculty member Ted Nash, Matt Wong, and Courtney Wright. Guest conductors have included Scotty Barnhart of the Count Basie Orchestra, NEA Jazz Legend Jimmy Heath, José Madera, Jon Faddis, alumna Jennifer Krupa of the Navy Commodores, Bill Charlap, Bill Dobbins, and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In recent years, faculty conductors have included Marsalis, James Burton, Jerome Jennings, Andy Farber, and Loren Schoenberg.
About Juilliard Jazz
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this season, Juilliard Jazz is thriving under the direction of Juilliard alums Wynton Marsalis, director, and Aaron Flagg, chair and associate director. The undergraduate and graduate level programs serve 50 instrumental and vocal students and focus on the entire jazz continuum, its American vernacular roots, and the expressive musicianship and collaboration needed to propel the genre forward. The curriculum combines classroom, private studio, and performance ensemble courses with substantial interactions with jazz masters and multiple performance opportunities in diverse venues around the city and the world. Recent alumni of the program include Creative Associate Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Aaron Diehl, Endea Owens, Alexa Tarantino, and Immanuel Wilkins.
About The Juilliard School
Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors, composers, choreographers, and playwrights from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens. Under the leadership of President Damian Woetzel since 2018, Juilliard is guided in all its work by the core values of excellence; creativity; and equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB). Juilliard is committed to enrolling the most talented students regardless of their financial background.
Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). Currently more than 800 artists from 43 states and 44 countries and regions are enrolled in Juilliard’s College Division, where they appear in more than 700 annual performances in the school’s five theaters; at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen halls and at Carnegie Hall; as well as at other venues around New York City, the country, and the world. The continuum of learning at Juilliard also includes nearly 400 students from elementary through high school enrolled in the Preparatory Division, including its Music Advancement Program (MAP), which serves students from diverse backgrounds often underrepresented in the classical music field. More than 800 students are enrolled in Juilliard Extension, the flagship continuing education program taught both in person and remotely by a dedicated faculty of performers, creators, and scholars. Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through a global K-12 educational curricula and graduate studies at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 8pm
Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
Juilliard Orchestra and Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
David Robertson, Conductor
Yan Liu, Clarinet
BERNSTEIN Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
COPLAND Clarinet Concerto
Wynton MARSALIS Swing Symphony
Tickets: $15-$30
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