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Please make certain that all electronic devices are turned off during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not permitted in this auditorium.

The Juilliard School presents

The Center for Innovation in the Arts Edward Bilous, Founding Director

Beyond the Machine 18.1 InterArts WorkshopMarch 15 and 16, 2018, 3 and 7:30pmRosemary and Meredith Willson Theater

InterArts is a program for students and recent alumni interested in using digital technology in the creation of interdisciplinary and multimedia work. Participants collaborate with creative artists in diverse disciplines including video and film, animation, gaming, and experience design. The works presented this evening were developed by artists from the Drama, Dance and Music divisions.

House of Ones Sato Matsui, Creator and composerArsh Sharma, Co-composerJoey Chang, Co-composer, piano, video performerVivian Yau, SopranoEthan Colangelo, ChoreographerMason Manning, Dancer (video)

Video provided by Will DeRocco, Christopher Janson, Donnie Kost, Hilary McHone, Ofilio SinbadinhoVideo performances byTyler Cunningham, Kevin DeYoe, Diamond Gray, Liana Kleinman, Sean Lammer, Jackson Mailer, Mattie Mailer, Alessandro Pittorino, Ofilio SinbadinhoVoiceover byMish Eusebio, George Meyer, Cornelia Sommer

Double StarsHelen Cespedes, Writer and directorMacy Sullivan, Choreographer and video performerAvi Amon, Composer and sound designerNatasha Warner, Associate director

(Program continues)

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CASTCaroline Herschel Natasha WarnerWilliam Herschel Forrest Malloy

Kambi Gathesha, Video performer

Recorded Music Philip Shehog, CelloBlair Shephard, BassoonSumire Hirotsuru, ViolinPhilip Solomon, ClarinetPeter Mark Kendall, Guitar

Role of ReasonJack Gulielmetti, Jack Frerer, Magdalyn Segale, ConceptJack Gulielmetti, Composer and live electronicsMagdalyn Segale, ChoreographerJack Frerer, Filmmaker and film directorJacob Gelber, Choral directorPhilip Stoddard, Stage directorHannah Kurth, Mezzo-sopranoMatilda Sakamoto, Dancer

CHORUSChristina Kay, SopranoMaya Webe Behrman, AltoMark Rossnagel, TenorPaul Holmes, Bass

The Winter’s Tale based on the play by William ShakespeareKatharine Lorraine Robinson, Director and adaptorJoshua Abraham Getman, Composer

CAST (in order of appearance)Leontes Michael MarkhamMariner/Mamillius Mabel Byrne (video)Antigonus Kambi GatheshaHermione Danaya Esperanza (video)

Rear WindowJack McGuire, Creator, composer, and performer

Approximate performance time: 1 hour and 10 minutes, performed without intermission

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Please make certain that all electronic devices are turned off during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not permitted in this auditorium.

The Juilliard School presents

The Center for Innovation in the Arts Edward Bilous, Director

Beyond the Machine 18.2 WorkshopMarch 23 and 24, 2018, 7:30pm Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater

Beyond the Machine is pleased to present the world premiere of five, electro-acoustic works by Juilliard composers. The works are representative of the diverse styles and idioms students at the Center for innovation the Arts are exploring today. We’re also pleased to present compositions by Andy Akiho and Juilliard alumni Yan Maresz (1992).

What Will Be RememberedChason Goldschmitz, Composer

Joanie Hofmeyr, SopranoEvan Saddler, Percussion

et sequentur astraZachary Detrick, Composer

Stephen Whimple, TromboneGeorge Foreman, Trombone (pre-recorded)

48 Testigos o música transitoria (48 Witnesses or Transitory Music)Marco-Adrián Ramos, Composer

Madeline Olson, Harp

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Working TitleChris Staknys, Piano and electronicsManami Mizumoto, Violin and electronicsJack McGuire, Bass and electronics

Stop SpeakingAndy Akiho, ComposerEvan Saddler, Snare drum and tape

MetallicsYan Maresz, ComposerMaximilian Morel, Trumpet and electronics

A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian ModeJack McGuire, ComposerManami Mizumoto, ViolinHarriet Langley, ViolinLauren Siess, ViolaThapelo Masita, CelloJack McGuire, Guitar and electronicsJ.Q, Whitcomb, Trumpet

Approximate performance time: 1 hour and 15 minutes, performed without intermission

Edward Bilous, Director of CIA and Artistic Director of BTM William David Fastenow, Director of Performance Technology and Associate Director of BTMHilary McHone, Producer/Manager of Performance Activities Caleb Wertenbaker, Scenic DesignerPaul Hudson, Lighting DesignerEric Mann, VideographerSarah Outhwaite, Video Designer

Kevin DeYoe, Interactive Technology Designer Collin Chudwick, Audiovisual and Interaction EngineerJarrod Ratcliffe, Audiovisual and Interaction EngineerNathan Prillaman, Audio/Video Engineer Taylor Suffridge,* Stage ManagerMaxwell Rosenberg,* Stage Manager

* Member, Professional Apprentice Program

Center for Innovation in the Arts Administration

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About the Center for Innovation in the Arts

The precursor for the Center for Innovation in the Arts, the Music Technology Center, was created in 1993 to provide students with the opportunity to use technology in the creation and performance of new works. Since then the program has expanded to include classes in music production, film scoring, and performance technology. In 2009, the Music Technology Center moved to a state-of-the-art facility that includes a record and mix suite to support music production activities and a digital playroom with interactive performance technology. The center’s performance activities take place in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, which was designed with Beyond the Machine (BTM) events in mind and which features a variety of interactive audio, lighting, and computer systems. In 2012 the Music Technology Center was renamed the Center for Innovation in the Arts (CIA) to reflect the growing opportunities for students in all divisions to collaborate on innovative projects. Together with the Willson Theater, the center is the home for interdisciplinary (InterArts) and technology-driven activities at Juilliard.

Using innovative performance technology, the BTM programs allow artists to expand the range of their instruments, control audio and visual elements with electronic tools, shape video and projection design in real time, and interact with artists and computers around the world via the web. InterArts begins with a series of presentations in performance technology given by CIA faculty and designers including hands-on experience with music and sound design, video and projection, lighting and scenic design, and interactive performance technology. Participants then gather into collaborative teams to develop their own interdisciplinary projects that conclude with these workshop performances.

Next year, Beyond the Machine and InterArts will be dedicated to the Centennial of the Armistice of World War I. The program will feature the original, multimedia, and interdisciplinary works centered on key social and political themes from the World War I era that continue to resonate today. Those themes include the beginning of the civil rights movement, women’s rights and the suffrage movement, the refugee crisis and immigration, the end of European colonialism and the beginning of the American Century, and the birth of jazz. Students interested in developing an original project should contact the Center for Innovation of the Arts. —Edward Bilous

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About Beyond the Machine 18.1

InterArts Workshop

House of OnesWe live during a time in which human relationships have been dramatically redefined by the global and technological age. House of Ones is a virtual house built by a web of remote collaborators from around the world. As the visitor enters the house in search of an unknown host, she discovers room after room of strangers’ lives in far off places. Like a game of telephone, each room has been curated by musicians and videographers who have created a chain of collaboration from around the world. Will our visitor find the host?

Double StarsWhile political and social revolutions shook the world in the late 1700s, a brother and sister kept their eyes on the stars. William rescued his younger sister Caroline from a life of servitude to their family in Germany when he brought her to England and made a living running the local church choir. William’s amateur obsession with astronomy quickly took over the siblings’ daily and nightly life. By day, Caroline ran the household while her brother taught music lessons; by night, she took meticulous notes while William observed the cosmos through telescopes they built themselves. Their DIY scientific method launched William into international fame when they discovered the planet to later be named Uranus. Meanwhile, Caroline carved out a professional space for herself beyond assisting her brother. She discovers eight comets on her own and gains widespread recognition as “The Lady Astronomer.”

Role of ReasonRole of Reason is explores love, loss, obsession, and acceptance through the lens of the works of 13th century mystic nun Hadewijch of Brabant. Combining ancient religious text with 21st-century ideals, the work uses choral and electronic music, dance, and film to tell the story of someone who falls in love with their own ideal. Throughout the work the character, as represented in the film and on the stage, goes through the four stages of love as described in Hadewijch’s writings, while her voice and thoughts are conveyed by singers and pre-recorded electronics who use the text as well. Her views on love and how to hold oneself higher in the goal of attaining true happiness are timeless, regardless of religious or social background.

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The Winter’s Tale The phrase, a winter’s tale, in Shakespeare’s time referred to gossip, lies, or silly fairy tales told to comfort children. The Winter’s Tale is the ultimate fanciful story a man tells himself to ease the guilt of a terrible wrong he has committed.

Rear WindowCreator Jack McGuire writes: Rear Window consists of sounds and musical sketches that come from working in my apartment in New York City. The inspiration for tying all of these musical ideas together came from looking out to see a multitude of windows. Each window, much like each sound, contains another deep and meaningful life that we unknowingly coexist with every day. The slow unfolding, and luscious soundscape of the piece is a perfect meditation on the idea of having many unrelated things—be it sounds or human lives—that come together in a harmonious and diverse way. In this performance, the audience looks into the rear window of my apartment, witnessing my own introversion through the intimacy and fragility of my voice. But all windows are reflective, and everything learned by observing my introspection can be applied to the lives of those watching.

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Meet the Artists

Avi Amon (18.1: Double Stars)

A composer, pianist, and sound artist, Avi Amon is based in Brooklyn, and his works include The White City with Julia Gytri (Yale Institute, O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, Richard Rogers Award Finalist), Lulu Is Hungry with Claire Kiechel (Ars Nova), The Children with Phillip Howze (Yale, BRIC), and a sound installation in a 100-year-old grain silo in Buffalo, N.Y. His work has been developed or presented by the Actors Theatre of Louisville (2017 Humana Opera Commission), Spoleto Festival USA (with tap dancer, Ayodele Casel), Prospect Theater, BAM, Lincoln Center, La Mama, and HERE Arts, among others. Residencies and awards include: Exploring the Metropolis at JCAL, Judson, Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant, Target Margin Theater, New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, and Weston Playhouse. Mr. Amon is resident composer at the 52nd Street Project. He received his MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he currently teaches. (aviamon.com)

Mabel Byrne (18.1: The Winter’s Tale)

Mabel Byrne is in the third grade at Muscota New School in New York City. Her stage credits include the Acting Company’s A Christmas Carol (with David Hyde Pierce and directed by Joe Dowling) and the Juilliard Drama Division’s Waiting for Godot (directed by Moni Yakim), Everybody (directed by Danya Taymor), Appropriate (directed by Lila Neugebauer), and Macbeth (directed by Erica Schmidt).

Helen Cespedes (18.1: Double Stars)

Helen Cespedes is an actor, writer, and director living in New York City. Recent New York credits include The School for Scandal (Red Bull Theater), The Cripple of Inishmaan (on Broadway with Daniel Radcliffe), The Rose Tattoo (with Patti LuPone and Bobby Cannavale for a benefit reading for The Acting Company), A Picture of Autumn (The Mint), and Couriers and Contrabands (Barrow Group Theatre). Regional credits include Taking Steps (Barrington Stage), the world premiere of José Rivera’s Another Word for Beauty (Goodman Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by David Hyde Pierce for the Williamstown Theatre Festival), world premiere of Beth Henley’s LAUGH and Tribes (Studio Theatre), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Chautauqua). Film and TV credits include The Way I Remember It (with Christine Ebersole) and The Knick (Cinemax). Ms. Cespedes received her BA in comparative Literature from Barnard College and is a Juilliard Drama Division graduate and recipient of the school’s John Houseman Prize.

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Ethan Colangelo (18.1: House of Ones)

A native of Toronto, Ethan Colangelo is in his third year in Juilliard’s Dance Division. In 2016, three of his pieces were performed in the school’s Choreographic Honors Showcase. Also in 2016, he was selected for a choreographic residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance Gaga Summer Intensive, where he created a work; and later had one of his works presented at New York’s Reverb Dance Festival. Last summer Guillaume Cote, associate choreographer of the National Ballet of Canada, invited him to create works for the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur in Montreal. He will present a new piece for at the Peridance 2018 APAP Showcases.

Zachary Detrick (18.2: et sequentur astra)

Composer Zachary Detrick had his first premiere at Merkin Concert Hall at age 4. He studied composition for several years with Daniel Ott at Juilliard and later, when he was in the fifth grade, was mentored by Brad Balliett while creating his Divertimento on “A Mad Tea Party,” which was performed by the Metropolis Ensemble led by Andrew Cyr while Detrick. His pieces have received premieres in performances by Carnegie Hall’s ACJW Ensemble, DZ4, Yarn/Wire, Face the Music, Gutbucket, PubliQuartet, New York Youth Symphony, and American Composer’s Orchestra, among others. Recent premieres include performances given at Merkin Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Symphony Space, the Queens Museum, WTC Memorial Plaza, and Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium.

Danaya Esperanza (18.1: The Winter’s Tale)

Off-Broadway credits for Danaya Esperanza include Mary Jane (NYTW), Othello (NYTW), Twelfth Night (The Public), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb), Washeteria (Soho Rep), Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature), and School Girls (MCC Playlabs). Regional credits include Another Word for Beauty (Goodman) and film and television credits include After Party, The Blacklist, and Elementary. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s Drama Division.

• Edward John Noble Foundation Scholarship

• Richard Rodgers Scholarship in Composition

• Gitta Steiner Scholarship

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Meet the Artists (Continued)

Jack Frerer (18.1: Role of Reason)

Jack Frerer is an Australian composer of music for concert and film, as well as an instrumentalist, producer, and filmmaker based in Manhattan. At Juilliard he is studying composition with Robert Beaser with the help of the Adrian Weller Scholarship and the Steuermann Memorial Prize. Mr. Frerer has written pieces and created arrangements for a variety of ensembles and performers and has had works performed in Australia, Europe, and the U.S.

Kambi Gathesha (18.1: Double Stars, The Winter’s Tale)

Harlem-based actor and dancer Kambi Gathesha is an alumnus of the Juilliard Drama Division (Group 34). Since completing his training here, he has worked primarily in New York with Naganuma Dance, Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Dance, and David Parker’s the Bang Group. His choreography has been seen at New York Live Arts, the Merce Cunningham Studio, Downtown Dance Festival, and City Center’s APAP. As an actor, he has appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Signature Theatre Center, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Pearl Theatre Company.

Jacob Gelber (18.1: Role of Reason)

Jacob Gelber is a first-year student in choral conducting at the Yale School of Music. He previously studied music and composition in the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard Exchange. In New York Mr. Gelber sang and conducted with C4, the Choral Composer-Conductor Collective, and led performances at the DiMenna Center, Baruch Performing Arts Center, and Church of St. Luke in the Fields, among others. From 2015 to 2017 Mr. Gelber led the Vivace Chamber Singers of Columbia University. He is also a countertenor and sings with the Yale Schola Cantorum.

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Joshua Abraham Getman (18.1: The Winter’s Tale)

Joshua Abraham Getman is a New York based composer, producer, and sound designer. His career began at age 13 when he signed up for middle school concert band having never before picked up an instrument. Within a week he bought his first bass and began teaching himself how to play and compose. Four years later he was studying composition, working as a freelance bassist, and regularly performing in every style in over 10 ensembles—both in and out of school. At the age of 18 he was accepted into Juilliard’s composition program, where he graduated in 2016 with scholastic and artistic distinction. He has since created multiple large orchestral works, chamber pieces, and projects written for the recording studio. Recent work includes collaboration on a scene from an opera, Oedipus in the District.

Chason Goldschmitz (18.2: What Will Be Remembered)

Chason Goldschmitz is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Juilliard Opera-Composer Collaborative Project and former co-artistic director of the SPEAKmusic Ensemble. Mr. Goldschmitz’s music has been performed by leading artists and ensembles in the U.S., Poland, and Italy, including the Juilliard Orchestra, Daedalus String Quartet, and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He is currently pursuing a master’s in music composition at Juilliard, where he studies with Robert Beaser and is a 2018 winner of the Juilliard Orchestra Composer’s Competition.

Jack Gulielmetti (18.1: Role of Reason)

Composer and guitar player Jack Gulielmetti’s works have been performed by groups including the New York Philharmonic, JACK Quartet, bass Matt Boehler, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Synchronicity, and Shouthouse. As a guitarist growing up in New York City, he worked with many groups performing different genres, from jazz and classical to electronic, hip-hop, funk, and everything in between. He studied guitar with Julian Lage, Nels Cline, Mike Moreno, and Greg Howe. Mr. Gulielmetti is working on several interdisciplinary projects to be presented this spring including a collaboration with poet Srikanth Reddy, and others incorporating live music, dance, and projection art. He is in his fourth year of the accelerated five-year bachelor's/master's program at Juilliard studying composition with Robert Beaser and guitar with Mark Delpriora.

• Adrian Weller Scholarship

• Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship

• Edward Steuermann Scholarship

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Meet the Artists (Continued)

Paul Holmes (18.1: Role of Reason)

Bass Paul Holmes, a professional choral singer based in New York, sings with the Marble Collegiate Sanctuary Choir, St. Vincent Ferrer Schola Cantorum, and the Bard Festival and Opera choruses. Since earning a BA in Music from Yale University in 2013, he has competed with the electronic a cappella group a.squared on NBC’s The Sing-Off, sung with a quartet on Bravo’s Odd Mom Out, and recorded Misa De Teresa De Ávila 500 Años, commissioned by the Carmelites. (paulandrewholmes.com)

Christopher Janson (18.1: House of Ones)

Christopher Janson, a resident of Boston, is pursuing an MM at Boston Conservatory in bass performance. He was a classmate of Juilliard student Sato Matsui at Williams College, where he graduated with honors as a Japanese major. He is currently a freelance music teacher and online English instructor. The video clips seen in House of Ones were shot by Will DeRocco, a high school classmate of Mr. Janson’s, who is currently pursuing a PhD in physics at Stanford University.

Christina Kay (18.1: Role of Reason)

New York-based soprano Christina Kay has appeared with the Salvatones, American Classical Orchestra, C4 Ensemble, and as a soloist in many of of the city’s churches. In 2017 she was the soprano vocal fellow in the Carmel Bach Festival’s Virginia Best Adams master class, and was the second-place winner in the 2016 Handel Aria Competition. On the operatic stage she has collaborated on several occasions with Wisconsin’s Fresco Opera Theatre. In 2016 she created the role of Young Clara in a new production there about Clara Schumann, featuring the music of the Schumann’s and Brahms and based on the book, Trio, by Boman Desai. Other roles there include Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and as a Mermaid-Alien in a Star Wars-themed Rinaldo. Other roles include Dalinda in Ariodante, Second Woman and First Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and Mrs. Segstrom in A Little Night Music.

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Donnie Kost (18.1: House of Ones)

Donnie Kost is an instructor of mathematics at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Before becoming a teacher through Teach for America, in Rhode Island, he attended Williams College, where he majored in mathematics and comparative literature. He will graduate from Brown University this spring with a master’s in urban educational policy.

Harriet Langley (18.2: A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian Mode)

Born in Sydney, Australia, Harriet Langley began violin studies in Korea at age 4. She continued studies in Tokyo with Asako Iwasawa at the Toho Gakuin Music School and then in New York with Patinka Kopec and Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music. She then studied with Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe Hochschule für Musik in Germany and with Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth of Belgium. She completed her bachelor’s at the New England Conservatory as a student of Miriam Fried and Lucy Chapman and is completing her master’s at Juilliard where she is a student of Catherine Cho and Daniel Phillips.

Michael Markham (18.1: The Winter's Tale)

Michael Markham is a SAG-AFTRA, AEA actor based out of New York City. Favorite New York roles include Platonov in The Spectacular Demise of Platonov (Shapiro Theater), Frizer in Christopher Marlowe’s Chloroform Dreams at The Red Room (Lunar Energy), Giant in Giants (HERE), and the Singing Soldier in Mother Courage and Her Children (New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.) Film and television work includes Law and Order, The Decades of Mason Carroll, When Things Fall Apart, Home Office, Fumes; Lies, Unearthed, Game Theory, and Blind Date. Regionally he has performed in A Little Night Music, Hamlet, the title role in Julius Caesar, and The Ibsen Project: A Lonely Light. He is also a filmmaker and owns KiteMonkey Productions. A graduate of Juilliard, he has a BA in acting from Washington University in St. Louis.

• Jerome L. Greene Fellowship

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Thapelo Masita (18.2: A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian Mode)

Thapelo Masita uses his music to help further the arts in his home country of South Africa. Last spring he received his BM in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music and began the MM degree program at Juilliard in the fall. Mr. Masita started playing the cello at age 12 and studied with John Minnaar, Tilla Henkins, and Anmari van der Westhuizen as a member of the Mangaung String Program in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy where he studied with Crispin Campbell. While at Interlochen, he collaborated with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on a production based on Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night.” He was a student of Steven Doane at Eastman. He plays on a cello made by Oded Kishony and loaned to him by the Virtu Foundation in 2015.

Sato Matsui (18.1: House of Ones)

Born in Chitose, Japan, composer and violinist Sato Matsui is a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at Juilliard, where she also earned her master’s in composition. As a new tonalist, her compositional style unites Japanese lyricism, urban American individualism, and baroque counterpoint. Her music encompasses concert, opera, dance, film, and mixed media/technology, and has been heard in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She earned BA from Williams College, where she received the Highest Honors in Music Award and was the 2014 Hubbard Hutchinson Fellow in Music. She participated in the 2016 NYU ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop, and is a teaching fellow in Music Theory at Juilliard.

Jack McGuire (18.1: Rear Window; 18.2: Working Title, A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian Mode)

Jack McGuire is an electroacoustic composer and performer. His inspiration comes from a reverence for the environment, and the relationship between its natural sounds and the structured sounds of metropolitan life. His music comes from classical training juxtaposing elements of strict counterpoint, chance, field recordings, and experimental rock. (jackmcguirenyc.com)

• Susan W. Rose Graduate Fellowship

• Celia Ascher Doctoral Fellowship

• Homer and Constance Mensch Scholarship in Double Bass

• Kenneth Bohn Memorial Scholarship

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Manami Mizumoto (18.2: Working Title, A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian Mode)

Manami Mizumoto began to play the violin at age 3, and at age 16 was accepted into Juilliard Pre-College while attending Hunter College High School. Since her first exposure to chamber music with the New York Youth Symphony, she has performed in venues including Weill Recital Hall and Symphony Space, premiering chamber works by Jude Vaclavik and Andrew McManus, among others. She has also been featured on NPR’s From the Top program and at the Adventures of the Mind summit. She has participated in music festivals including Fontainebleau Schools, Kneisel Hall, the Heifetz Institute, Yellow Barn YAP, and Music@Menlo. At Juilliard, she studies with Catherine Cho, Joel Smirnoff, and Cynthia Roberts.

Maximilian Morel (18.2: Metallics)

Trumpet soloist and Parisian native Maximilian Morel has performed regularly in venues throughout New York City. He started playing trumpet at age 6 and took his first trumpet lessons with Serge Delmas. Four years later he attended the Conservatory of Paris, where he was taught by Maurice Andre. At 15 he started studying with Raymond Mase in Juilliard Pre-College and later pursued his bachelor’s degree in the college division. He is studying for his master’s at Juilliard with Louis Hanzlik and recently became a member of the Apex Brass Quintet. Mr. Morel is a prize winner of the National Trumpet Competition in France, Ile-sur-la-Sorgue, the 8th International Competition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the 12th Jeju International Brass Competition, and the Roger Voisin International Competition.

Madeline Olson (18.2: 48 Testigos o musica transitoria)

New York-based harpist Madeline Olson is an award-winning soloist with a diverse performance history. She has premiered works by composers including Marco-Adrián Ramos, Anne Qian Wang, and Yao Chen, and hopes to add many more in the future. In November she was the first American to be awarded first prize in the professional division of the 29th Nippon International Harp Competition in Soka, Japan. She has also taken prizes at the Aspen Music Festival Harp Competition, American Harp Society National Competition, and the Young Artist’s Harp Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras, most recently performing the Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp with the Merced Symphony. Ms. Olson received a BM from Juilliard in 2017, and is continuing her studies here with Nancy Allen.

• Johnny Muller Scholarship

• Hanna Rubens Scholarship

• Irwin and Sonia Wysocki Block Scholarship

• Nina Carasso Scholarship

• Georges Lurcy Graduate Music Scholarship

• Hobin Harp Scholarship

• Edward John Noble Foundation Scholarship

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Marco-Adrián Ramos (18.2: 48 Testigos o música transitoria)

Marco-Adrián Ramos is a Mexican-American composer and arranger who has written for a variety of media including works for voice, instrumental ensembles, incidental music, and dance. He has attended the New York Summer Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, European-American Musical Alliance, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Next Festival of Emerging Artists. He has also worked with composers including Christopher Lacy, Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Arturo Márquez and is the recipient of a 2016 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. In 2018, he received an artist grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures in conjunction with composer-mentor Gabriela Lena Frank. At Juilliard, he is a teaching fellow in the Ear Training department and studies with Christopher Rouse.

Katharine Lorraine Robinson (18.1: The Winter’s Tale)

Katharine Lorraine Robinson has worked as a writer and director on Kiosk Series @kioskseries (an original Instagram series) and Hold (a short film currently in post-production). She has been an assistant director of The Visitation (Witness); as an actor, New York theater credits include: Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), The Gray Man (Pipeline Theatre Company), and The Bad Years (JEM Theatricals, original workshop). She is a graduate of Juilliard’s Drama Division (Group 42). (katharinelorraine.com)

Mark Rossnagel (18.1: Role of Reason)Mark Rossnagel holds degrees from Binghamton University and the University of Southern Maine in organ and piano performance. His primary teachers were Jonathan Biggers and Laura Kargul, but he has also been fortunate to take lessons and master classes in organ, piano, and conducting with artists including William Weinert, Kent Tritle, David Higgs, Carla Edwards, and Bruce Neswick. He is music director at Trinity Lutheran Church in Staten Island and concertizes as a pianist in New York and New England. He also has sung in various choirs in the New York area.

Meet the Artists (Continued)

• Georgia Shreve Scholarship in Composition

• Abraham Ellstein Memorial Scholarship in Composition

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Evan Saddler (18.2: Stop Speaking)

Percussionist Evan Saddler was the winner of the 2016 Black Swamp Competition and the 2014 Kerope Zildjian Competition, and has performed at the Bang on a Can Festival, South Africa’s Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, Princeton Festival of the Arts, and in venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and here at Lincoln Center. Mr. Saddler is co-artistic director of the chamber ensemble, Conduit, and was recently a fellow at the inaugural Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab in Ojai, Calif. He can be heard on the album Poetics (Equilibrium Label, 2016) as a featured soloist with Grammy Award-winning soprano, Hila Plitmann. A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and University of Michigan, he is completing his master’s at Juilliard where he studies with Greg Zuber, Joseph Gramley, and Glen Velez.

Matilda Sakamoto (18.1: Role of Reason)

Matilda Sakamoto, born and raised in Los Angeles, received her BFA from Juilliard and is a New York-based dancer and choreographer. She is also a visual artist and enjoys bringing the worlds of dance and visual arts together in her work.

Magdalyn Segale (18.1: Role of Reason)

Magdalyn Segale is a New York City based dancer, artist, and teacher with a focus on performing and creating interdisciplinary, collaborative work. Born in New Jersey, she is a graduate of Juilliard and a company member of Helen Simoneau Danse. She has also worked with Bryan Arias and installation artist Cally Spooner, most recently in Leuven, Belgium. She has collaborated with A24 Films, Roya Carreras in the upcoming Pussy Riot music video, composer Zubin Hensler, and Matilda Sakamoto. She was a 2016 artist in residence at the New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble.

• Carl Cloe and Rhea Cloe Scholarship

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Meet the Artists (Continued)

Arsh Sharma (18.1: House of Ones)

Arsh Sharma is a singer, guitarist, and electronic music composer from Mumbai. In the last 10 years he has performed over 750 shows in India and across the globe with his bands The Circus, Fuzzculture, and Point of View. He has played at many major Asian music festivals including Music Matters, Nh7 Weekender, Sunburn, Vh1 Supersonic, and Red Bull Tour Bus and has opened for major acts including Guns n’Roses, Incubus, and Megadeth. With Fuzzculture he was signed to Universal Music India for two recordings. He recently scored the film MCream along with his partners at Studio Fuzz which is now available on Netflix. He has also scored and made soundtracks for Indian and international brands including Airtel, Coca Cola, Discovery Channel, and Micromax.

Lauren Siess (18.2: A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian Mode)

Lauren Siess, 21, began viola studies at age 11, after starting her musical studies on guitar and violin. An undergraduate at Juilliard, she studies viola with Carol Rodland. Born in Portland, Ore., her teachers include Brian Quincey, Helen Callus, and Paul Neubauer. She has studied chamber music works with artists including Merry Peckham, Kim Kashkashian, Vivian Weilerstein, and Itzhak Perlman.

Christopher Staknys (18.2: Working Title)

Pianist and composer Christopher Staknys is in his fourth year at Juilliard studying with Hung-Kuan Chen. He has appeared as a performer and composer in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Paris, and won competitions including first prize in the Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition and the Rivers School Concerto Competition. Artists he has studied with include Sergei Babayan, Robert Levin, Peter Serkin, David Finckel, Joseph Kalichstein, and Fred Sherry. In 2009, his work Congo was premiered and given two performances by the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He has performed music by Thomas Ades and Steve Reich and frequently appears with both of Juilliard’s contemporary ensembles: AXIOM and the New Juilliard Ensemble. Last summer his work for electronics, Gulf, was presented at the 2017 Atlantic Music Festival.

• Kovner Fellowship

• Josef and Rosina Lhevinne Scholarship

• Abraham and Ruth Turkenich Scholarship

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Philip Stoddard (18.1: Role of Reason)

Philip Stoddard is an actor, singer, and director based in New York City who will earn his MFA in acting from Juilliard’s Drama Division in May. He recently graduated with a BM in music from the school’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts. Last season he created and produced OperaComp, the first interdivisional new opera development laboratory at Juilliard. It culminated in the world premieres of six operas and returns for its second season this month. Mr. Stoddard has directed artists from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program and has devised original works for the stage including La Rocchetta (The Little Fortress), Er und Sie: The Schumann Project, and Youth and Love. In September he will direct the world premiere of Echo and Narcissus at BAM with the Satellite Collective.

Macy Sullivan (18.1: Double Stars)

Camas, Wash., native Macy Sullivan dances with Dance Heginbotham, Caleb Teicher and Company, and the Chase Brock Experience. Since 2013 she has performed annually at the Guggenheim Museum as Peter in the Peter and the Wolf directed by Isaac Mizrahi. She originated Marie in Chase Brock’s The Nutcracker, was a featured tap dancer in Tyne Rafaeli's The Poor of New York, and her own work has been performed at Judson Memorial Church, the 92nd Street Y, and the Tank. She is a collaborator on Sarah Outhwaite’s The Rendezvous, a multimedia space for memories of death. As a teaching artist, she works with Juilliard Global Ventures, Together in Dance, and Dance for PD®. Ms. Sullivan holds a BFA from Juilliard, where she was the recipient of the Martha Hill Prize, John Erskine Prize, and Choreographic Honors, and trained with Oregon Ballet Theatre and Karen Cannon.

Natasha Warner (18.1: Double Stars)

Natasha Warner is an actor, director, and teaching artist based in New York where she has appeared in new and developing work at HERE Art Space, MCC, PS 122, and New York Stage and Film. Regional work includes appearances at the Geva Theatre, Cape Cod Playhouse, Gulfshore Playhouse, and Boston Court. Television credits include Ground Floor (TBS) and Betas (Amazon) and film credits include Farah Goes Bang (TriBeCa Film Festival) and Odyssea (Slamdance). Ms. Warner works as a teaching artist at organizations including Hunt’s Point Alliance for Children and the 52nd Street Project and frequently contributes as an assistant director at Juilliard. (natashabwarner.com)

• Steinberg Fellowship

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Meet the Artists (Continued)

Maya Webne-Behrman (18.1: Role of Reason)

A vocalist and violinist, Maya Webne-Behrman has collaborated with many ensembles throughout her musical journey: from improvisatory folk bands to internationally touring orchestras. She received a BM in violin performance with an additional emphasis in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied with Paul Rowe (voice) and David Perry (violin). For many years she was cantor for the Sha’arei Shamayim Synagogue and has appeared as a soloist and chorister with the Madison Early Music Festival, Madison Opera, and Madison Savoyards. She is co-founder of the Mendota Consort, a five-voice ensemble specializing in renaissance polyphony, and is working with the early music ensemble ARTEK to develop their new program, Madrigal Madness. Ms. Webne-Behrman studies violin with Burton Kaplan, voice with Deborah Birnbaum, and teaches at Silver Music on the Upper West Side.

Stephen Whimple (18.2: et sequentur astra)

Trombone player Stephen Whimple is from Clifton Park, N.Y., and is in his first year of the master’s program at Juilliard as a student of Joseph Alessi, principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic. He recently graduated summa cum laude from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, where he was awarded an honor in performance. Mr. Whimple is a finalist in the ITA 2018 Robert Marsteller Solo Competition and was recently awarded second place in the 2017 TTU Big 12 Tenor Trombone Solo Competition. He is an alumnus of the Third Coast Trombone Retreat, Hot Springs Music Festival, and Texas Music Festival.

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J.Q. Whitcomb (18.2: A Special Thanks to the Godhead, in the Lydian Mode)

J.Q. Whitcomb, originally from Santa Fe, N.M., has been playing the trumpet since the age of 10. He went to Oberlin for undergraduate degrees in Jazz and Chinese language, then moved to Shanghai where he lived for eight years working on the jazz scene there. After returning to the U.S., he lived in Santa Fe for five years before moving to New York City to attend Juilliard for a master’s degree in jazz, which he completed in May 2017. He now continues to pursue creative projects of various kinds in and around the city.

Vivian Yau (18.1: House of Ones)

Soprano Vivian Yau, from Hong Kong, is in her fourth year at Juilliard where she studies with Edith Bers. At the age of 14, she won her first international award at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Wales. In 2011 she was selected My Favorite Young Music Maker by Radio Television Hong Kong and now appears regularly on television and radio there. She made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2012 after winning the Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition. She made her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Mediterranean Opera Festival last summer, a role she returns to this summer at the Aspen Opera Center. Earlier this season she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, with the Cecilia Chorus of New York.

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Artistic and Production Team

Edward Bilous (Director of the Center for Innovation in the Arts and Artistic Director of Beyond the Machine)

Edward Bilous is the founding director of the Center for Innovation in the Arts and artistic director of Beyond the Machine. He has been a Juilliard faculty member since 1984 and has developed many of the school’s most innovative programs. He is artistic director of the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Armistice. Mr. Bilous has served on the National Endowment for the Arts panel for Learning in the Arts and on the Lincoln Center Institute. In 2012 he was awarded the William Schuman Scholar’s Chair for his contributions to Arts Education. His creative works include Basetrack Live, Night of the Dark Moon (Pilobolus Dance Company), Lucid Dreams (American Composers Orchestra), and the scores for films including Sacred (PBS), Scottsboro, Portraits of Grief, and The Emperor of All Maladies. He holds an MM and DMA from Juilliard where he studied with Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He also studied privately with Krzysztof Penderecki.

Collin Chudwick (Audiovisual and Interaction Engineer)

Raised near Hartford, Conn., Colin Chudwick, who has English and Irish Catholic roots, holds a BA in music from the University of Notre Dame and an MM in music technology from New York University. By trade, he is an audio engineer with recording and mixing experience in a variety of artistic environments throughout New York, including performance venues, public spaces, film sets, and recording studios. Besides having on-site technical expertise, he is an adept musician and programmer who has performed a wide range of music while being skilled in digital audio synthesis and processing.

Kevin DeYoe (Interactive Technology Designer)

A multidisciplinary technologist, troubleshooter, and musician, Kevin DeYoe has a broad range of experience throughout the theatrical, installation, manufacturing, studio, and corporate event industries. He has worked in venues ranging from small churches to Radio City Music Hall, recording or working on the crew for artists including John Oates, Pete Seeger, Paul McCartney, Ne-Yo, and John Legend. Mr. DeYoe is a senior audio visual technician for Park Boulevard Productions, providing audio visual services for corporate and creative clientele in New York and Los Angeles. He is also a composer whose music can be heard in the Xbox Indie game Zombie Estate. (park-boulevard.com and audeyoe.com)

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William David Fastenow (Director of Performance Technology)

William David Fastenow’s projects include performance technology design for Basetrack Live; a reimagination of Radio Music by John Cage for internet radio and Twitter; designing audio and visual systems for playing air guitar in the Airband; creating 3D sound design for Royal Soundscapes; and record/mix engineering for film and music including Monica and David (documentary by Alexandra Codina), Graceland (feature film by Ron Morales), and Baby Beau Blue (album by A.J. Shanti). He is principal and owner of Park Boulevard Productions and adjunct professor in the Tonmeister Honors Track at NYU Abu Dhabi. He holds an MM degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

Paul Hudson (Lighting Designer)

Paul Hudson is returning to work with Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, having lit the Beyond the Machine programs since 2010. A selection of his notable works includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love’s Labours Lost for the Juilliard Drama Division; Basetrack, Live for BAM Next Wave; Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Classical Theater of Harlem; Gibraltar for Irish Rep; and Veritas and Private Manning Goes to Washington for The Representatives. Upcoming works include Henry V and Cymbeline next season for Juilliard Drama, Lucky Stiff for Bristol Valley, and Ink for Camille Brown. He holds a master’s from NYU and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

Hilary McHone (Producer/Manager of Performance Activities)

Hilary McHone holds a BA in English literature from NYU and an MBA in management from Fordham. Her background includes theater, film, and television production. She has worked on productions for Classic Stage Company, Joe’s Pub in the Park, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Boston Court Performing Arts Center. Her documentary film credits include work on Shepard and Dark, Point and Shoot, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Newtown, From the Ashes, and May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers. Most recently, she produced the documentary feature Killer Bees, which premiered last fall at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Hilary is also a photographer and her portrait of Nora Ephron can now be seen on the cover of She Made Me Laugh: My Best Friend, a biography of Ephron by Richard Cohen.

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Artistic and Production Team (Continued)

Sarah Outhwaite (Video Designer)

Sarah Outhwaite is a spatial media artist and experience designer, pursuing the master’s in HCI+Design at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her works have been shown at venues including Juilliard, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, National World War I Museum and Memorial, and New York Creative Technology Week, and she developed Webby-nominated app features for the Guggenheim Museum. Current research areas include embodied cognition and spatial interface design.

Nathan Prillaman (Department Coordinator and Signal Processing Designer)

Nathan Prillaman is a New York City-based composer working in film, dance, musical theater, and electronic music. He recently earned a master’s degree in composition at Juilliard studying with John Corigliano. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale with composition studies with Kathryn Alexander and Michael Klingbeil. Recent work includes the score for the Student Academy Award winning musical film Opera of Cruelty, an award winning original score for Canadian independent feature Flora, and collaborations with choreographers including Norbert De La Cruz III, Emery LeCrone, and Quilan Arnold. (nathanprillaman.com)

Caleb Wertenbaker (Scenic Designer)

Last season Caleb Wertenbaker designed scenery at Juilliard for Cracked Orlando with the Center for Innovation in the Arts. He has also designed scenery for many theater and opera companies including Chautauqua Opera, Long Beach Opera, Central City Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Opera Boston, Spoleto Festival USA, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, NYU Experimental Theater Wing, Concord Academy, Under the Radar Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, Against the Grain Festival, New York Music Theater Festival, Dixon Place, Two River Theater, Beckett Theater, GEVA Theater Center, Center Stage, the West Side Theater, Weston Playhouse, National Sawdust, La MaMa, The Kitchen, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.

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Juilliard Production Department

Kent McKay, Associate Vice President for ProductionJean Berek, Business and Operations ManagerThom Widmann, Production ManagerDavid Strobbe, Production ManagerPhil Gutierrez, Associate Production ManagerSallyann Turnbull, Production Office Administrator

Costume Shop SupervisorLuke Simcock

Assistant Costume Shop SupervisorNicola Gardiner

Costume Shop Office ManagerEdda Baruch

Wardrobe SupervisorMárion Talán

Assistant Wardrobe SupervisorVictoria Bek

Design CoordinatorOlivia Trees

Head DraperBarbara Brust

DrapersKimberly Buetzow Tomoko Naka

First HandsNaoko Arcari Katie Miles Faye Richards

Costume Shop StaffEmily Bono* Laura Borys* Maggie McGrann* Lilly Shell*

Wigs and Makeup Shop SupervisorSarah Cimino

Wig and Hair SupervisorTroy Beard

Wig and Makeup StaffHeath Bryant-Huppert* Bryan Gonzalez*

Electrics Shop SupervisorJennifer Linn Wilcox

Electrics Shop SupervisorJoel Turnham

Master Electrician/Video TechnicianDylan Amick

Assistant Master Electrician/Light Board OperatorRy Burke*

Video Operator/TechnicianNicole Wilke

Production ElectricianTony Reed

ElectriciansKenzie Carpenter* David d’Olimpio*

Audio SupervisorMarc Waithe

Audio TechnicianChristopher Schardin

A2Gary O’Keefe

Properties Shop SupervisorKate Dale

Assistant Properties Shop SupervisorJosh Hackett

Stock Manager/ ArtisanJessica Nelson

Properties Carpenter/ArtisanAshley Lawler

Properties ArtisansMackenzie Cunningham* Katie McGeorge*

Technical DirectorRichard Girtain

Associate Technical DirectorJustin Elie

Stage SupervisorByron Hunt

Assistant Stage SupervisorsColly Carver Jessica Sloan Hunter

Scene Shop ManagerJosh Sturman

Lead CarpentersAaron Martin Keegan Wilson

CarpentersNate Angrick Jill Salisbury John Simone

Technical Direction ApprenticeFrancesca DeCicco*

Scenic Charge ArtistJenny Stanjeski

Assistant Scenic Charge ArtistLiza Handziak

Scenic ArtistsJessica Carlson* Courtney Finck*

* Member, Professional Apprentice Program

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A Window Into Collaboration

First I spoke with Jack McGuire, a fourth-year bassist by day and techno music wizard by night; his project is called Rear Window.

What was your inspiration?

Jack McGuire: It started as the intro to an album I was going to make, but I was getting frustrated because I wasn’t working with a band, and it was difficult to play all the instrumental parts myself. I started using more and more electronic sounds, things I could create on my own. I also started working with faculty members Mari Kimura (DMA ’93, violin) and Ed Bilous (MM ’80, DMA ’84, composition) and was deeply influenced by the creative possibilities offered in a production studio. One night I was listening to a piece I was working on. It was raining outside. I looked out my window at a TV flashing in another apartment. It made me think of the Hitchcock movie Rear Window and in that moment, the idea for the piece came together. The video projection design is made up of shots that look through the windows in my apartment. They let you look into people’s lives and share an intimate experience without their ever knowing.

What’s next for you?

JM: Through the CIA and summer festivals I’m involved in, I want to get footage together to make a reel for more projects. I’d love to keep working as a projection designer and as an artist/performer. It’s amazing that I can do all these things and that I’m so supported by the CIA.

Each year Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts (fondly known as the CIA) presents Beyond the Machine, a festival of innovative music and interdisciplinary art that’s created and performed by advanced students and recent alumni from all divisions. Second-year flute master’s student Emily Duncan spoke with two of the students who created work for the Beyond the Machine 18.1 InterArts Workshop

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How has changing from being an actress to a writer-director making interdisciplinary work been for you, and how have you grown as an artist throughout this process?

Helen Cespedes: As an actor, I’ve had many rewarding collaborations, but I found myself hungry to tell alternate stories, particularly about women who peek out from behind famous men of history. I was also hungry to be in the seat of creative control. Through this process, I’ve been afforded a crash course in lighting, video, and projection design; interactive technology; and seminars with creative professionals in the film and immersive theater industries.

Emily Duncan holds the Helen P. Houle Scholarship and the Rhea Cloe and Carl Cloe Memorial Scholarship

Reprinted from the March 2018 issue of The Juilliard Journal

What have you learned from Beyond the Machine?

HC: It’s so gratifying to communicate my vision and witness my collaborators channel it through their own artistic medium, whether visual or sonic or rhythmic, and make the story exponentially richer. I think this richness is a testament to the generosity and skill of the staff and designers involved in Beyond the Machine and also the infectious wonder and curiosity of the Herschels.

Drama alum Helen Cespedes (Group 42) and I discussed Double Stars—her playwriting and directorial debut—which she wrote about the 18th-century brother-and-sister astronomers William and Caroline Herschel.

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Juilliard Board of Trustees and Administration

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Bruce Kovner, ChairJ. Christopher Kojima, Vice ChairKatheryn C. Patterson, Vice Chair

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND SENIOR ADMINISTRATION

TRUSTEES EMERITI

June Noble Larkin, Chair Emerita

Mary Ellin BarrettSidney R. KnafelElizabeth McCormackJohn J. Roberts

Office of the PresidentJoseph W. Polisi, PresidentJacqueline Schmidt, Chief of Staff

Office of the Provost and DeanAra Guzelimian, Provost and DeanJosé García-León, Associate Dean for Academic AffairsRobert Ross, Assistant Dean for Preparatory Education Kent McKay, Associate Vice President for Production

Dance DivisionTaryn Kaschock Russell, Acting Artistic DirectorLawrence Rhodes, Artistic Director EmeritusKatie Friis, Administrative Director

Drama DivisionRichard Feldman, Acting Director Katherine Hood, Managing Director

Music DivisionAdam Meyer, Associate Dean and DirectorBärli Nugent, Assistant Dean, Director of Chamber MusicJoseph Soucy, Assistant Dean for Orchestral StudiesStephen Carver, Chief Piano TechnicianJoanna K. Trebelhorn, Director of Orchestral

and Ensemble Operations

Historical PerformanceRobert Mealy, DirectorBenjamin D. Sosland, Administrative Director;

Assistant Dean for the Kovner Fellowships

Jazz Wynton Marsalis, Director of Juilliard JazzAaron Flagg, Chair and Associate Director

Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts Brian Zeger, Artistic DirectorKirstin Ek, Director of Curriculum and SchedulesMonica Thakkar, Director of Performance Activities

Pre-College DivisionYoheved Kaplinsky, Artistic DirectorEkaterina Lawson, Director of Admissions and Academic AffairsAnna Royzman, Director of Performance Activities

Evening DivisionDanielle La Senna, Director

Lila Acheson Wallace LibraryJane Gottlieb, Vice President for Library and

Information Resources; Director of the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellows Program

Enrollment Management and Student DevelopmentJoan D. Warren, Vice PresidentKathleen Tesar, Associate Dean for Enrollment ManagementBarrett Hipes, Associate Dean for Student Development Sabrina Tanbara, Assistant Dean of Student AffairsCory Owen, Assistant Dean for International Advisement

and Diversity InitiativesWilliam Buse, Director of Counseling ServicesKatherine Gertson, RegistrarTina Gonzalez, Director of Financial AidTeresa McKinney, Director of Community EngagementCamille Pajor, Title IX CoordinatorTodd Porter, Director of Residence LifeHoward Rosenberg MD, Medical DirectorBeth Techow, Administrative Director of Health

and Counseling ServicesHolly Tedder, Director of Disability Services

and Associate Registrar

FinanceChristine Todd, Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerIrina Shteyn, Director of Financial Planning and Analysis Nicholas Mazzurco, Director of Student Accounts/Bursar

Administration and LawMaurice F. Edelson, Vice President for Administration

and General CounselJoseph Mastrangelo, Vice President for Facilities ManagementMyung Kang-Huneke, Deputy General Counsel Carl Young, Chief Information Officer Steve Doty, Chief Operations OfficerDmitriy Aminov, Director of IT EngineeringCaryn Doktor, Director of Human Resources Adam Gagan, Director of SecurityScott A. Holden, Director of Office ServicesJeremy Pinquist, Director of Client Services, ITHelen Taynton, Director of Apprentice Program

Development and Public AffairsAlexandra Day, Associate Vice President for Marketing

and CommunicationsKatie Murtha, Acting Director of DevelopmentBenedict Campbell, Website DirectorAmanita Heird, Director of Special EventsSusan Jackson, Editorial DirectorSam Larson, Design DirectorLori Padua, Director of Planned GivingEd Piniazek, Director of Development OperationsNicholas Saunders, Director of Concert OperationsEdward Sien, Director of Foundation and Corporate RelationsAdrienne Stortz, Director of SalesTina Matin, Director of MerchandisingRebecca Vaccarelli, Director of Alumni Relations

Juilliard Global VenturesChristopher Mossey, Senior Managing DirectorCourtney Blackwell Burton, Managing Director for Operations Betsie Becker, Managing Director of Global K–12 ProgramsGena Chavez, Managing Director, The Tianjin Juilliard SchoolNicolas Moessner, Managing Director of Finance

and Risk Management

Pierre T. BastidJulie Anne ChoiKent A. ClarkKenneth S. DavidsonBarbara G. FleischmanKeith R. GollustMary GrahamJoan W. HarrisMatt JacobsonEdward E. Johnson Jr.Karen M. LevyTeresa E. LindsayLaura LinneyMichael Loeb

Greg MargoliesVincent A. MaiEllen MarcusNancy A. MarksStephanie Palmer McClellandChristina McInerneyLester S. Morse Jr.Stephen A. NovickJoseph W. PolisiSusan W. RoseDeborah SimonSarah Billinghurst SolomonWilliam E. “Wes” Stricker, MD

JUILLIARD COUNCIL

Mitchell Nelson, Chair

Michelle Demus AuerbachBarbara BrandtBrian J. HeidtkeGordon D. HendersonPeter L. KendYounghee Kim-WaitPaul E. Kwak, MDMin Kyung KwonSophie Laffont

Jean-Hugues MonierTerry MorgenthalerPamela J. NewmanHoward S. Paley John G. PoppGrace E. RichardsonJeremy T. SmithAlexander I. TachmesAnita Volpe

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Attend a Spring Performance at Juilliard

TUESDAY, MARCH 207:30pm • Paul HallJuilliard Jazz EnsemblesWhat We Hear: Student CompositionsTickets: $20

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 THROUGH SATURDAY, MARCH 24Peter Jay Sharp TheaterSpring Dances 2018Juilliard’s dancers present three masterworks by

Merce Cunningham (Sounddance), Crystal Pite

(Grace Engine), and Twyla Tharp (Deuce Coupe)

Tickets: $30

THURSDAY, MARCH 227:30pm • Alice Tully Hall Vocal Arts Honors RecitalSoprano Felicia Moore and mezzo-soprano

Natalia Kutateladze, accompanied by pianist

Chris Reynolds, sing works by Schumann,

Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, De Falla, Sibelius,

Wagner, and Copland

Free

MONDAY, APRIL 28:00pm • Carnegie HallDavid Robertson Conducts the Juilliard OrchestraThe orchestra’s only Carnegie Hall appearance

of the season features Ives’ Three Places in

New England, Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3

and Dvorák’s beloved “New World” Symphony

Tomer Gewirtzman, Piano Soloist

Tickets: $15 and $30

TUESDAY, APRIL 37:30pm • Alice Tully HallJuilliard Jazz Orchestra: Blue Note RecordsWynton Marsalis, ConductorTickets: $30

THURSDAY, APRIL 57:30pm • Alice Tully HallAlice Tully Vocal Arts RecitalJohn Brancy, BaritonePeter Dugan, PianoInspired by the 100th anniversary of the end of

WWI, Armistice: The Journey Home explores

timeless themes of longing, loss, love, and the

search for peace in the wake of catastrophe.

Musical selections range from Schubert's Der

Wanderer and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel,

to Ives’ They Are There as well as lesser-known

works including two songs by German composer

Rudi Stephan, who was killed in the war

Tickets: $20

THURSDAY, APRIL 127:30pm • Alice Tully HallJuilliard String QuartetFeaturing Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Major,

Op. 18, No. 5 and String Quartet in E-flat Major,

Op. 127; and MacMillan’s Quartet No. 2, “Why Is

This Night Different?”

Tickets: $30

MONDAY, APRIL 167:30pm • David Geffen HallAlan Gilbert Conducts the Juilliard OrchestraIn its only David Geffen Hall appearance this

season, the orchestra plays Barber’s Essay No. 1,

Rouse’s Flute Concerto, and Brahms’ Symphony

No. 1 in C Minor

Tickets: $15 and $30

For tickets or more information visit juilliard.edu/calendar

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