Juilliard has announced full programming for its 2024-25 season, with more than 800 live music, dance and drama performances at the school and beyond. The school’s 2024-25 season opens with Juilliard’s first annual Fall Festival.
Over 10 days (September 12-21), students and alumni from the Music, Dance, Drama and Preparatory divisions collaborate with Arnhold Creative Associates and guest artists to present a range of programs that set the stage for the year to come.
The festival kicks off on September 12, with Opening Night — the first performance of Juilliard’s season — presenting a dynamic array of work that highlights students from all four divisions. The festival continues with:
- Touching Magic: A Juilliard Vocal Arts-Sibelius Academy Collaboration (September 13)
- An outdoor activation at Lincoln Center (September 14; rain date September 15)
- The New: Celebrating Charles Ives and American Experimentalism in Music, Dance, and Drama directed by Arnhold Creative Associate Pam Tanowitz that explores American creative ingenuity in music, dance and drama on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of composer Ives’ birth; the program world premieres including a new excerpt from Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff led by Arnhold Creative Associate Claire Chase (September 14)
- An Afternoon of Groundbreaking Chamber Music (September 15)
- The season-opening concert of the Juilliard Orchestra led by David Robertson with a world premiere by alum Katie Jenkins and works by Schoenberg and Beethoven (September 16)
- The season’s first Historical Performance concert, with Juilliard415 led by Rachel Podger (September 17)
- Juilliard Singing featuring drama, jazz, and vocal arts students in a night of musical theater that includes a salute to alum Marvin Hamlisch on the 80th anniversary of his birth (September 18)
- An evening-length performance of Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff (Density 2036: part xi) led by Claire Chase (September 19)
- A Night of Groundbreaking Chamber Music (September 20)
- The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra’s opening night features a program with music by Duke Ellington, faculty member Andy Farber and Ted Nash, inspired by the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and painters Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollack (September 21).
Arnhold Creative Associates Claire Chase and Pam Tanowitz will collaborate with Juilliard students and artistic leadership on the direction and development of select programs within the Fall Festival.
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