The Juilliard School has announced details of its 2011-12 orchestra season, which will be the first for New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert in his new role as director of orchestral and conducting studies. Gilbert will conduct the Juilliard Orchestra on March 2 in Avery Fisher Hall in Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, and Christopher Rouse’s Violin Concerto. Gilbert will also meet weekly for a repertoire survey with Juilliard’s Lab Orchestra, which is led by students in the conducting program. In addition to Juilliard Orchestra Principal Conductor James DePreist, several guest conductors are scheduled to lead the orchestra in public concerts during the 2011-12 season, including David Afkham in a program of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2; Jeffrey Kahane, in a program of Janáček, Beethoven, and Sibelius; Matthias Pintscher, in works by Ravel, Hindemith, and Debussy; Anne Manson for the U.S. premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies’s new opera Kommilitonen! with the Juilliard Opera and Orchestra; Jayce Ogren in works by Strauss and Varèse; Jeffrey Milarsky leading a program of world premieres by student composers; Emmanuel Villaume in works by Wagner, Berlioz, and Strauss; and Gary Thor Wedow, conducting Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Juilliard Opera and Orchestra.
Posted July 28, 2011
