Llewellyn sanchez werner biography of william shakespeare
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In the wake of their spring repertory program, the dancers prep for the Choreographic Honors showcase, wind up their schoolwork, and wait to hear about summer programs. The Drama Division endured a difficult beginning to its year with the death of its director, James Houghton, but the Playwrights program also welcomed a new co-director when alum David Lindsay-Abaire joined Marsha Norman. As The Journal went to press, the third-years actors were busy preparing their Shakespeare rep cycle.
For both Jazz Studies and Historical Performance, international travel was a hallmark of the year. At press time jazz students are in Australia winding up an exchange that began here. Juilliard415 recently got back from its first India tour, a trip that Benjamin Sosland, the program's administrative director, wrote about. He summed up what such trips—which on the face of it might not seem to have a lot to do with a Juilliard education—can do. “If you believe that artist-citizenship requires us to
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Grand Rapids Symphony welcomes Gilmore Young Artist who's played for President Obama, U.S. troops in Iraq
Grand Rapids Symphony
What: Great Eras Series
When: 8 p.m. Friday, April 25
Where: St. Cecilia Music Center, 24 Ransom Ave. NE.
Tickets: $26, $30 and $34
Also: Coffee Classics Series
When: 10 a.m. Friday, April 25
Tickets: $12
Call: Ticketmaster at 800-982-2787
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner performed at President Barack Obama’s re-election inaugural at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in 2013.
One year later, the newly minted Gilmore Young Artist, the youngest pianist ever admitted to The Juilliard School as a full-time student, shows his stuff in West Michigan.
Sanchez-Werner, 17, joins the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids this week as part of the 2014 Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.
He’s one of two 2014 Gilmore Young Artists making their debuts for the biennial festival opening April 24 and continui
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May-August 2017, vol. 32, no. 8
Philip Gossett 1941–2017
Pre-College alumnus Philip Gossett, an esteemed musicologist and Juilliard benefactor, died June 12. More
Improvisation Opens Worlds
Juilliard's improvisation curriculum combines classroom skills with the thrills, risk-taking, and audience communication we get onstage.More
Making History With Bach
Juilliard’s Kyung Wha Chung on coming back from injury to make history playing all six of Bach’s solo ...More