Le Jardin des Mélodies: Music from the French Baroque
Members of Juilliard415
7:30 PM, December 2, 2019
The Kosciuszko Foundation
15 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
The students of Juilliard's remarkable Historical Performance department, celebrating its 10th anniversary, present a program of brilliant and stylish music from France before the Revolution.
Juilliard Historical Performance
Established in 2009, Juilliard Historical Performance is a full-tuition scholarship program open to candidates for Master of Music, Graduate Diploma, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees and offers comprehensive study focusing on music from the 17th and 18th centuries. A high-profile concert season of opera, orchestral, and chamber music concerts is augmented by a performance-oriented curriculum that fosters an informed, vital understanding of the many issues unique to period instrument performance with 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 and the integration of modern-instrument majors outside of the Historical Performance program have introduced new repertories and increased awareness of historical performance practice at Juilliard.
The program maintains close relationships with professional ensembles and presenting organizations, and has helped establish the English Concert American Fellowship and the summer festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie. Residencies and master classes with the leading figures in early music are an integral part of the student experience. Recent guests have included Harry Bicket, Fabio Biondi, William Christie and members of Les Arts Florissants, the late Christopher Hogwood, Dame Emma Kirkby, the London Haydn Quartet, Nicholas McGegan, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and Jordi Savall, among many others. Graduates of Juilliard Historical Performance perform many of the leading ensembles around the world, including the English Concert, Les Arts Florissants, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and with emerging ensembles they have created themselves, such as the Diderot String Quartet, the Sebastians, New York Baroque Incorporated, and House of Time.