The Juilliard Percussion Ensemble. Photo by Nan Melville.
A percussion extravaganza, a benefit concert for the Food Bank for New York City and more events are on the Juilliard calendar this week.
Brazilian Romance with Paulo Braga and Friends
Monday, November 11 at 8 PM
Juilliard’s Paul Hall (155 W 65th Street)
Jazz pianist Paulo Braga returns to Juilliard with fellow Brazilian jazz artists for an evening of original charts with the Juilliard Jazz Ensembles coached by Frank Kimbrough and Rodney Jones.
FREE tickets available at the Juilliard Box Office
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Ensemble ACJW
Tuesday, November 12 at 8 PM
Juilliard’s Paul Hall (155 W 65th Street)
The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute—is a two-year fellowship providing the finest post-graduate musicians with performance opportunities in New York. Members perform works by Bach, Donatoni, Carter, Kurtag, and Brahms for this first of ACJW’s 2013-2014 concerts at Juilliard.
FREE tickets available at the Juilliard Box Office
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Juilliard Percussion Ensemble | The Strasbourg Legacy: Celebrating 50 Years
Tuesday, November 12 at 8 PM
Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway)
Juilliard Percussion celebrates the 50th anniversary of Les Percussions de Strasbourg—a group that has been the most influential in expanding the percussion ensemble repertoire by working with some of the most important composers of the 20th century. The selections presented in this concert by Ondrej Adamek, Stefano Gervasoni, and Philippe Manoury, represent three different generations of works cultivated by this celebrated organization.
FREE tickets available at the Juilliard Box Office
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Wednesdays at One: Music for Piano
Wednesday, November 13 at 1 PM
Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway)
Juilliard performers share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts on Wednesday afternoons throughout the season.
FREE; no tickets required
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Weill Recital Hall Debut by Clarinetist Balázs Rumy
Wednesday, November 13 at 8 PM
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th Street & 7th Ave)
Hungarian clarinetist and Juilliard alum Balázs Rumy performs a program of 20th-century East European music inspired by folklore and folksongs for his Weill Recital Hall debut, and for the second annual Leo Ruiz Memorial Recital, made possible by the Artists International L. Ruiz Memorial Fund. Mr. Rumy is joined by pianist Deborah Lee, and performs works by Lutoslawski, Martinu, Weiner, Filas, Bartók, Orban, and Kokai.
FREE tickets available beginning one hour prior to the concert at the Carnegie Hall Box Office
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Sonatenabend
Thursday, November 14 at 6 PM
Juilliard’s Paul Hall (155 W 65th Street)
Pianists from Juilliard’s Collaborative Piano Department perform sonata repertoire in collaboration with student instrumentalists.
FREE; no tickets required
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Sonatas Stopping Starvation | A Benefit Recital for the Food Bank for New York City
Thursday, November 14 at 6 PM
Juilliard’s Morse Hall (155 W 65th Street)
Violinists Ariel Horowitz and Zeynep Alpan, and pianist Angie Zhang present a program of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt, and Sarasate in a student-organized project to benefit the Food Bank for New York City.
FREE; non-perishable food donations suggested
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Jeffrey Milarsky Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra
Friday, November 15 at 8 PM
Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway)
Internationally-acclaimed American conductor and Juilliard faculty member Jeffrey Milarsky leads the Juilliard Orchestra in a program of 20th-century works featuring John Adams’ Tromba lontana (1986), Samuel Barber’s virtuosic Concerto for Piano (1962) performed by Juilliard pianist Kevin Ahfat, Salome’s Dance (1903-05) from Richard Strauss’ famous one-act opera, and Charles Ives’ Three Places in New England (1914, rev. 1929)—a musical personification of iconic places of the Northeast.
Tickets $20 available at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office, by calling CenterCharge (212) 721-6500, or online at www.juilliard.edu/fallorch. Half-price senior/student tickets available at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office only
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Pre-College Faculty Recital by Matthew Odell
Saturday, November 16 at 6 PM
Juilliard’s Paul Hall (155 W 65th Street)
Pre-College faculty pianist Matthew Odell performs works by Oliver Messiaen, Ned Rorem, Philip Lasser, Michel Merlet, Toru Takemitsu, and a world premiere by Edward Niedermaier.
FREE; no tickets required
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