Juilliard415

Juilliard415 is a music ensemble that is integrated into the Juilliard School ( New York ), specifically in the area of historical performance at this conservatory, and specializes in historical performance practice . It specializes in the performance of canonical, but also seldom performed works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble was founded in 2009 and has played an important role in New York's musical life ever since. The name of the ensemble refers to the tuning of 415 hearts for the concert pitch A.

The orchestra has worked with renowned artists such as William Christie , Ton Koopman , Harry Bicket , Nicholas McGegan , Christopher Hogwood , Kristian Bezuidenhout and Monica Huggett . In April 2011 the ensemble made its Carnegie Hall debut with arias from Handel together with David Daniels and Dorothea Röschmann . The New York Times qualified this concert as one of the ten best concerts of the season. A performance of Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno ( The Triumph of Time and Disappointment ) with the conductor William Christie in 2012 received similarly high praise .

A trademark of Juilliard415 are the numerous domestic and foreign tours with appearances at the Virgina Art Festival , the Tropical Baroque Festival in Miami and the Juilliard in Aiken Festival, South Carolina. Together with the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki , Juilliard415 went on tours in Italy, Japan, Singapore and Burma. In the 2014/15 season, Yale and Juilliard cooperated in performances of Beethoven, Haydn and Zelenka in Boston, New York and on a tour of England.

Web links

• The Juilliard School, New York: Historical Performance at The Juilliard School. Accessed December 20, 2017 . 
• Early Music Vancouver: Juilliard415 with conductor Nicholas McGegan - Concert announcement at Early Music Vancouver in November 2017, there a description of Juilliard415 . ( bc.ca [accessed December 20, 2017]).