The Museum of Modern Art established Summergarden in 1971. In keeping with MoMA’s history of presenting jazz and classical music in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, this year’s concert series once again welcomes the participation of The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Entitled New Music for New York, the series comprises four evenings of adventurous contemporary music, with premieres each night.

Juilliard concerts are performed by members of The New Juilliard Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Joel Sachs, who has assembled two distinctive programs of contemporary compositions, all of which are enjoying their New York or Western Hemisphere premieres. Jazz at Lincoln Center has selected two leading jazz groups whose concerts emphasize original works, each with one world premiere.

The Garden Bar sells gelati and seasonal sorbetti from Il Laboratorio del Gelato, homemade cookies, and Café 2's signature ice cream sandwich. Wine, champagne, American craft beer, specialty coffees, and bottled water are also available for purchase. In the event of rain, refreshments are not available.

Juilliard Concert I: New Music For Ensembles
Members of New Juilliard Ensemble: Nadia Kyne, flute; Sean Rice, clarinet; Sean Riley, violin; Alexander Tasopoulos, viola; Mimi Yu, cello; Paul Nemeth, double bass; David Stevens, percussion; Jennifer Chu, piano; Joel Sachs, conductor

Eric Tanguy (France, b. 1968)
Duo for Flute and Clarinet (1994)
Western Hemisphere premiere

Andy Vores (United Kingdom [Wales]/United States, b. 1956)
Often (2003)
New York premiere

Dorothy Chang (United States, b. 1970)
Falling Sky (2000)
New York premiere

Alti Heimir Sveinsson (Iceland, b. 1938)
Swedish Rapp: Rondo Fantastico II (1999)
Western Hemisphere premiere

Robert Xavier Rodríguez (United States, b. 1946)
Música, por un tiempo (2008)
New York premiere

Summergarden is free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The Sculpture Garden may close if attendance reaches maximum capacity. Entrance to Summergarden is through the Sculpture Garden gate on West Fifty-fourth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m., and concerts start at 8:00 p.m. and run approximately one hour to ninety minutes. The Sculpture Garden closes at 10:00 p.m. In the event of rain, concerts will be held in The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby, and the Museum’s Fifty-fourth Street entrance will open at 7:30 p.m. The exhibition galleries are closed during Summergarden.

Major annual support for Summergarden is provided by The Ethel P. Shein Fund for Music at MoMA, which is generously funded by Agnes Gund. Additional support is provided by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Paul D. Shein, and Elizabeth Pozen.

For more live music at MoMA this summer, visit during MoMA Nights.