The Museum welcomes the participation of The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center to present a program of musical premieres. Juilliard concerts will be performed by current students and recent graduates of The Juilliard School, under the artistic direction of Joel Sachs, who creates three distinct programs of contemporary compositions, each is a New York or United States premiere. The works, drawn from the United States and many corners of the globe, exemplify recent trends in music.
Juilliard Concert I: Music for Piano and Strings, on July 17, features the western hemisphere premiere of Benjamin Yusupov’s (Tajikistan/Israel, b. 1962) Quintet (1996) and other works, while Concert II: Music for Mixed Ensemble on July 31 features members and alumni of the New Juilliard Ensemble performing the Western hemisphere premiere of Zoltan Jeney’s (Hungary, b. 1943) Onidézetek (Self-Quotations, 1991) and other pieces. Concert III on August 14 includes the world premiere of String Quartet No. 5, Op. 50 (2002) by the late Valentin Bibik, performed by the Attaca Quartet.
Jazz at Lincoln Center will present three leading jazz artists, each of whose concerts will emphasize original works. Myra Melford has written a new work honoring the reopening of the Sculpture Garden for her quintet, The Tent, to perform at MoMA on July 24. On August 7, alto saxophonist Greg Osby’s Sound Theatre debuts Cityscape Oasis, a new composition written for MoMA. The series concludes with Henry Threadgill’s 3+3, a new ensemble that makes its debut at Summergarden on August 21.
Summergarden 2005 Schedule:
Sunday, July 17: Juilliard Concert I: Music for Piano and Strings
Sunday, July 24: Jazz: Myra Melford’s quintet The Tent
Sunday, July 31: Juilliard Concert II: Music for Mixed Ensemble
Sunday, August 7: Jazz: Greg Osby’s Sound Theatre
Sunday, August 14: Juilliard Concert III: Music for String Quartet featuring the Attacca Quartet
Sunday, August 21: Jazz: Henry Threadgill 3+3
Program information is available to the public at www.moma.org or by calling 212-708-9491.
Entrance to Summergarden is through the Sculpture Garden gate on West 54 Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Summergarden is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are distributed outside the Sculpture Garden gate on 54 Street starting at 5:30 p.m. on the day of the concert. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, and seating is limited and unreserved. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m., and concerts start at 8:00 p.m. and run approximately one hour. The Sculpture Garden closes at 10:00 p.m. In the event of rain, concerts will take place inside the Museum in the Garden Lobby, and the 54 Street entrance will open at 7:30 p.m. Galleries are closed during Summergarden.
About Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2005-06 season in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. For more information visit www.jalc.org.
About Juilliard and Joel Sachs
The Juilliard School is one of twelve constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The school’s divisions of music, dance, and drama have earned it an international reputation as one of the most celebrated institutions of its kind. The gifted young artists who study there participate in the Juilliard tradition of excellence. The Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden concert series presents these emerging artists in a wide range of works.
Joel Sachs, artistic director of the Juilliard concerts, is conductor, pianist, and co-director of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Continuum. Dr. Sachs is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, where he is director of the school's annual FOCUS! Festival of recent music and director/conductor of The New Juilliard Ensemble (a chamber orchestra for new music). Dr. Sachs conducts and performs a broad range of contemporary and traditional music in a wide variety of venues. His numerous appearances include increasing activity as a conductor and pianist in Latin America, the former Soviet Union, and in Europe. He has been a member of the artist faculty of the Dartington International Summer School in England. Dr. Sachs holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University and is a member of the music history faculty at The Juilliard School. He has written and lectured on many nineteenth- and twentieth-century topics and is currently writing a biography of the American composer Henry Cowell.
Sponsorship
Summergarden is made possible by a generous grant from the Ethel P. Shein Fund for Music at MoMA.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
