Juilliard Celebrates Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary With A Chamber Music Concert on October 8 Featuring Works by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, and William Schuman

One of the last houses to open at Lincoln Center (1969), Juilliard is almost the first this season to celebrate Lincoln Center's 50^th Anniversary with chamber music by three American composers closely linked to the School: William Schuman (Juilliard President 1945 - 1961 and Lincoln Center President 1962 - 1969); Elliott Carter (Juilliard faculty 1966 - 1984); and Milton Babbitt (Juilliard faculty 1971 until his retirement last spring).

On Thursday, October 8 at 8 PM in Paul Hall, Juilliard presents a chamber music program featuring Milton Babbitt's Little Goes A Long Way with violinist David Fulmer and pianist Steven Beck; Elliott Carter's Eight Etudes and a Fantasy with oboist Jeffrey Reinhardt, flutist Emi Ferguson, clarinetist Moran Katz, and bassoonist Adrian Morejon; and William Schuman's String Quartet No. 4 with Juilliard's graduate resident quartet, the Afiara String Quartet (members Valerie Li and Yuri Cho, violins; David Samuel, viola; and Adrian Fung, cello).

FREE tickets are available at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard (155 West 65^th Street). For further information, call (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.

Juilliard offers two other events later in the season as part of Lincoln Center's yearlong 50^th anniversary celebration. In the spring, on April 12 in Alice Tully Hall, New York Philharmonic Music Director and Juilliard alumnus, Alan Gilbert leads the Juilliard Orchestra as the first holder of the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies at Juilliard, a position that also includes coaching, conducting, and performance master classes. Completing Juilliard's Lincoln Center tribute, beginning April 12, 2010 in the Lila Acheson Wallace Library at Juilliard, a special exhibit from the Juilliard archives highlights selected photographs, correspondence, and other materials documenting The Juilliard School's special relationship with Lincoln Center.

Juilliard's new graduate resident quartet, the Afiara String Quartet, will be featured on this concert. They also will give a recital later in the spring on May 5, 2010 in Alice Tully Hall. Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the Afiara String Quartet (from Canada), claimed a top prize at the prestigious Munich ARD International Music Competition in the same year. They were the Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts, and served as teaching assistants to its mentor ensemble, the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet. One of the two fellowship quartets at the 2008 Aspen Music Festival's Advanced Quartet Studies Program, the Afiara Quartet also served as artists-in-residence at Lake Tahoe Music Festival's Education and Outreach Program, and the Ensemble was an affiliate of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.