Join us for a dynamic performance showcasing the extraordinary talents of the inaugural cohort of Juilliard Summer Music students. 

Over three transformative weeks in July, high school–aged instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists from around the world gather on Juilliard’s Lincoln Center campus for an immersive conservatory experience, filled with live performance, intensive study, and artistic exploration. Guided by world-renowned Juilliard faculty and distinguished guest artists, these young musicians come to refine their craft, expand their creative voices, and build lasting connections with peers and mentors from around the globe.

We invite you to celebrate the culmination of a joyful summer with these remarkable emerging artists

Faculty recital by the American Brass Quintet, group in residency during Juilliard Summer Music

First orchestra performance of Juilliard Summer Music

Molly Turner, Conductor

Molly TURNER Open Doors
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 

First orchestra performance of Juilliard Summer Music

Molly Turner, Conductor

Molly TURNER Open Doors
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 

Presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Doomscroll is a podcast that explores online culture and politics in the 21st century. This live podcast will feature political scientist Francis Fukuyama. Previous episodes can be found here.

Collaborators
Executive Producers: Riel Roch-Decter & Clark Filio
Producer: David Fowlkes
Editor: LJ Frezza
Cinematography: Nellie Kluz
Wardrobe: Cory Kennedy
Color Grade: Samuel Gursky
Music: DJ Umberto Ecco 2K
Guests will be announced closer to the event date.

Doomscroll is a Memory Production.

Duration
Approximately two hours.

Recommended for people 13 years of age and up.

Joshua Citarella is an artist and writer. He is the host of Doomscroll, a talk show that explores online culture and politics in the 21st century. He is the founder of Do Not Research.

Finalists of the inaugural Juilliard Summer Music Piano Concerto Competition will perform the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271.

Presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, a forklift, built for cargo, for weight, for work, becomes Ruiz’s partner, lifting her into the air with a slow, deliberate tenderness that feels both perilous and reverent. Her body rises, not as a spectacle of fragility, but as a figure of power, suspended, carried, guided through space by a dance of steel, air, and breath. 

The performance shifts between sharp mechanical precision and moments of ecstatic release, where menial labor turns luminous and gravity becomes negotiable. There is an echo of the quinceañera, of ceremonial elevation, of being lifted into visibility, yet here the ritual is rewritten.

Duration
Approximately 30 minutes

Gabriela Ruiz (b. San Fernando Valley, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multimedia artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and digital media. Ruiz has presented solo exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2023); Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs (2022); Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2026); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2025); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2025, 2024, 2021); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024); The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside Art Museum (2023); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2018); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2018); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2022); and CASTTL and Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (2019).

Ruiz has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2019); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2018); Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia (2018); and USC Roski School of Art and Design as part of Pacific Standard Time: Live Art LA/LA (2018). She has delivered lectures and participated in panels at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2023); The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside (2023); University of California, Santa Barbara (2022); California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2022); University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2019); and California State University, Northridge (2018). Ruiz has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works, New York (2026); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2025); the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan (2023); and the Outburst Program at Palm Springs Art Museum (2022). She is a recipient of the Fountainhead Arts Forum Award (2025) and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2024).

Ruiz’s work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Palm Springs Art Museum.

Recital featuring various faculty and guest artists at Juilliard Summer Music

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students, along with a selection of Children’s Division students, participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances, including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck, and SAB’s own Zita Ezpeleta Artistic Director and Chair of Faculty Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students, along with a selection of Children’s Division students, participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances, including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck, and SAB’s own Zita Ezpeleta Artistic Director and Chair of Faculty Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students, along with a selection of Children’s Division students, participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances, including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck, and SAB’s own Zita Ezpeleta Artistic Director and Chair of Faculty Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

For the third year in a row, get ready to experience the vibrant heart of queer pride at the Whitney Museum of American Art! Our Joy is a Protest: A Choral Installation of Song brings together the NYCGMC, Tonewall, Youth Pride Chorus, the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus, and the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus for an all-day celebration. 

This event fills the museum with the transformative power of song, featuring choral pieces that embody the spirit of Pride, joy, and community. Prepare to be moved and inspired by performances that surprise, uplift, and challenge, echoing through the halls of the Whitney, all culminating in a large group performance on the steps at the end of the night.

Performances

Floor 3, Theater
5:15–5:35 pm, Tonewall
6:10–6:40 pm, New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus
7:20–7:55 pm, Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
8:40–9:15 pm, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus

Floor 5, Whitney Biennial 2026

5:10, 6:50, 7:50 pm, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
5:50, 8:50 pm, Youth Pride Chorus
8:20 pm, Tonewall

Floor 6, Whitney Biennial 2026

5:20, 6:40, 7:40 pm, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
6 pm, Youth Pride Chorus
8 pm, Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
8:30 pm, Tonewall
9 pm, Youth Pride Chorus

Floor 6, Outdoor Terrace
5:30, 7, 8 pm, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
6:10 pm, Youth Pride Chorus
8:40 pm, Tonewall

Floor 7, “Untitled” (America)

6:30, 7:30pm, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
8:10 pm, Tonewall
8:40, Youth Pride Chorus

Join the Whitney for performances by Wendy Eisenberg at Free Friday Nights, co-presented by Brooklyn-based performance venue and community space Public Records. 

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. 

Admission is free to all visitors every Friday evening from 5–10 pm. In addition to music, join us for world-class exhibitions of contemporary American art, cocktails with views at Studio Bar, and more.

Juilliard’s 121st commencement ceremony, celebrating the class of 2026, will take place on Friday, May 22 at 11:30am ET. The ceremony will include remarks by school leadership, the conferral of degrees and honorary doctorates, and artistic interludes.

In recognition of extraordinary contributions to the performing arts and to society, this year Juilliard will confer honorary doctorates upon four remarkable artists: Misty Copeland, Distinguished Visiting Faculty Denyce Graves, alum Oscar Isaac, and Paul Simon. Read more about the honorary doctorate recipients here.

All are invited to watch this year’s commencement livestream at juilliard.edu and celebrate this milestone virtually.

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.