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NewsSteve Reich receives President’s Medal from Juilliard
The US composer, who celebrates his 90th birthday on 3 October, graduated from the New York conservatoire in 1961
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NewsViolinist and pedagogue Sally Thomas has died
The former assistant to Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School was 92
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Focus11 views on teaching by Juilliard School violin professor Dorothy DeLay
During the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover in 1995, jury member Dorothy DeLay led a 90-minute discussion on teaching. Evelyn Chadwick recorded some of her views.
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Premium ❘ FocusThe secrets of violinist Dorothy DeLay's teaching methods
Violinist Piet Koornhof witnessed Dorothy DeLay's extraordinary teaching skills as one of her students at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2001 he analysed what made her method so successful
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Focus5 tips for viola teachers by Juilliard School professor Michael Tree
How can viola teachers help their students develop into good players? The former Guarneri Quartet violist outlines the most important areas to focus on
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VideoAzure Quartet: Spiral Sequences by Jack Frerer
‘Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements,’ writes composer Jack Frerer. ‘The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern, one which is played in its ...
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ArticleThe Juilliard School reveals designs for its new Tianjin Juilliard School in China
The Juilliard School has unveiled the preliminary designs for its new Tianjin Juilliard School, due to open in China in 2019. Construction of the facility will be overseen by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the same firm that was responsible for the 2009 renovations of Juilliard's New York City campus and ...
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ArticleThe Juilliard School appoints Damian Woetzel as its new president
Woetzel, a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, will replace Joseph W. Polisi as head of the New York music, dance, and drama school in July 2018
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NewsThe Juilliard School appoints violinist Wei He as artistic director of its Tianjin Juilliard campus
The new Tianjin Juilliard School, to be based in Tianjin, China, will open in 2019 and offer a US accredited master’s degree – the first for any performing arts institution in China
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NewsThe Juilliard School launches online performing arts courses
Developed in collaboration with nonprofit web-based learning platform edX, Open Classroom aims to connect Juilliard and its faculty with a global audience
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ArticleBartók: String Quartet no.3, Dvorák: String Quartet no.11 in C major op.61, Mozart: String Quartet no.20 in D major K499 ‘Hoffmeister'
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Salzburg recordings from 1965 in slightly compromised soundMusicians: Juilliard QuartetComposer: Bartók, Dvorák, MozartCatalogue number: ORFEO C927 161B Live Juilliard performances can be illuminating, but here the tape imparts a tremulous quality to the strings. In a purposeful Allegretto to Mozart’s ‘Hoffmeister’, tangy ...
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NewsJuilliard School appoints Carol Rodland to its viola faculty
Currently professor of viola at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, Rodland takes up her Juilliard post in autumn 2017
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NewsJuilliard Students respond to Westboro Baptist Church protesters with music
Between 60 and 100 Juilliard School students confronted three protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church with music and singing this morning. The church, which regularly stages racist and homophobic protests, targeted the New York school 'where vanity and pride rule,' according to a press release on its website.The ...
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NewsJuilliard School president Joseph W. Polisi to step down in 2018
The New York music school’s sixth president will have held office for 34 years
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NewsThe Juilliard School tops QS World University Rankings performing arts category
Second place goes to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and third to the Royal College of Music in London
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NewsThe Juilliard School teams with medici.tv to broadcast live masterclasses
The three sessions this month feature cellist David Finckel, and conductors Harry Bicket and Fabio Luisi
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NewsCellist Joel Krosnick receives Juilliard School’s President’s Medal
The musician will retire from the Juilliard String Quartet after 42 years at the end of its current season
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NewsJuilliard announces plans for The Tianjin Juilliard School in China
The music institution’s first campus outside of New York will offer a US accredited master’s degree
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman's first encounter with Jascha Heifetz
Your Symphonie Espagnole is very nice, but I would like to hear some scales...' Violinist Itzhak Perlman remembers his first meeting with the great Jascha Heifetz when he played to him as a 14-year-old student at the Juilliard School in New York. Watch Jascha Heifetz put students ...
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NewsCellist Joel Krosnick to leave Juilliard String Quartet after 42 seasons
His replacement is University of Massachusetts professor Astrid Schween
