From today’s New York Times:
Last October the Juilliard School announced that it would establish a graduate program in historical performance, shaped in large part by the American expatriate William Christie, who spearheaded the modern early-music movement in Paris. Now Juilliard is announcing specific dates and faculty members.
Auditions for the program, which begins in the fall of 2009, will be held on Jan. 28 and 29 in Paris and on March 1 and 2 in New York.
The artistic director will be Monica Huggett, an English violinist steeped in period performance. As concertmaster and soloist, Ms. Huggett was a central figure in London in the 1970s, when it more or less led the early-music field, largely on the strength of recordings, and in Amsterdam in the 1980s, when it achieved similar prominence. She has since been active internationally. She taught in Bremen, Germany, and in The Hague, and she is the artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Oregon and the Irish Baroque Orchestra in Dublin.