Chamber Recital: Historical Performance at the Juilliard School

Sunday, November 2, 2025

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5:15 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church

Students of Juilliard's historical performance program performing French chamber music in the Meredith D. Willson Theatre on December 11, 2024 (photo credit: Mei Stone)

The Sunday Recital Series is free and open to the public. Usually starting at approximately 5:15 p.m., it follows the 4 p.m. service on most Sundays during the academic term. The use of cameras and recording devices is strictly prohibited during the performance.

Today we welcome Historical Performance at the Juilliard School

Sonata 9 from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro primo (1621) Kiyoun Jang, violin Gracie Carney, violin Lev Meniker, dulcian William Rehwinkel, organ	Dario Castello (b. fl. early 17th-century)
"La Benaglia", from Sonate dà Chiesa, e dà Camera, Op.4 (1656) Eliana Estrada, violin Gracie Carney, violin Josue Daniel Reyes, violone Shuntaro Sugie, harpsichord	Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
Sonata Terza from La Cetra, Op.10 (1673) Eliana Estrada, violin Gracie Carney, violin Josue Daniel Reyes, violone Shuntaro Sugie, harpsichord	Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
Sonata V, from Trattenimento musicale sopra il violoncello (1691) Sarah Ghandour, cello	Domenico Galli (1649-1697)
Trio Sonata in G minor, Op.2 no.5 Larghetto — Allegro — Adagio — Allegro	George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
La Follia, from Suonate da camera (1705) Epongue Wei-Dikaki Ekille, violin Kaya Can Gür, violin Jackie Hager, cello Zoe Czarnecki, bass Alex Vourtsanis, guitar Ziwei Zhou, harpsichord	Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

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Students in Juilliard’s Historical Performance department are part of a small and highly selective training program for advanced students who aspire to leadership in the field of early music. Our graduates have gone on to perform with many of the world’s most prominent historical-performance ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants (concertmaster), Il Pomo d’Oro (concertmaster), Seattle Baroque (concertmaster), Tafelmusik (principal cello), Boston Baroque (principal cello), The English Concert, Pygmalion, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Bach Collegium Japan, Teatro Nuovo, The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, New York’s Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque.

As outstanding historical performers also need to be excellent historians and researchers, the HP program combines high-level performance training with rigorous academic study. Students take private lessons with our renowned faculty and visiting artists; participate in a variety of ensembles; and take classes tailored to the scholar-performer, including improvisation, performance practice, Baroque theory and ear-training, historic dance, and continuo.

Our students also acquire the skills to create and manage their own ensembles, and to communicate effectively with their audiences. They also share their skills with the young members of Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and the Sphinx Performance Academy at Juilliard, introducing the idea of historical performance to music students in their teens, and to the wider community through Juilliard’s Community Engagement program.

Juilliard HP students are in the forefront of reinventing our field for the 21st century. Several students worked with musician Rhiannon Giddens earlier this year, and transcribed and arranged movements from her ballet “Black Lucy and the Bard” for historic instruments. Alumni and faculty members headlined the 2022 Ojai Music Festival with their innovative ensemble Ruckus. Other graduates are creating new music written in old styles with the collective Nuova Pratica. The first flutist to graduate from Juilliard HP is creating genre-defying albums that climb the Billboard charts, while also being principal flute of Handel and Haydn. Other students have founded string quartets that combine period performance with commissions of new works, or are exploring the relation of Bach suites to new choreographies. Our students are discovering unheard works from the archives of early modern Germany, or recording French harpsichord music on spectacular instruments of the period; they are bringing old works to vivid life again.

Juilliard Historical Performance immerses our students in the traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries, so this language can speak to us anew today.

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