Media Alert: Juilliard Presents Tenor Miles Mykkanen in the Alice Tully Vocal Recital With Pianist Adam Rothenberg

 January 7, 2026 

 

MEDIA ALERT: 

JUILLIARD PRESENTS TENOR MILES MYKKANEN IN THE ALICE TULLY VOCAL RECITAL  

WITH PIANIST ADAM ROTHENBERG 

 

Works by Sibelius, Kilpinen, Rachmaninov, Britten, and Schubert at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall 

 

 

ABOUT: 

Juilliard is proud to present the Alice Tully Vocal Recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on Friday, January 30 at 7:30pm, featuring Finnish-American tenor Miles Mykkanen (BM ’13, MM ’15, Voice; Artist Diploma ’17, opera studies) with pianist Adam Rothenberg (MM ’18, collaborative piano). Originally established with a gift from the Alice Tully Foundation, the annual event offers an accomplished Vocal Arts alum the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as a major milestone in their burgeoning professional career. Mykkanen will perform a range of powerful works by Sibelius, Kilpinen, Rachmaninov, Britten, and Schubert, together with music director, conductor, and collaborative artist Rothenberg. 

Mykkanen appears amid an exciting season, which has brought his performances to major houses across the United States. In September, he starred as Sam Clay in the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere run of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He will return in April to perform in the first Met production of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. He makes company and role debuts as Leukippos in Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera in January and as Tamino in Barrie Kosky’s production of The Magic Flute at LA Opera this spring.  

 

CALENDAR DETAILS: 

 

The Alice Tully Vocal Recital | Miles Mykkanen 

Friday, January 30 | 7:30pm 

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 

Tickets $30 | Members $15 

For a complete list of Juilliard performances, click here. 

 

About Miles Mykkanen 

 

The career of exuberant young Finnish-American tenor Miles Mykkanen was launched with a national win of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2019. He has since impressed with a series of important debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden. 

In a pivotal 2025-26 season, Mykkanen stars as Sam Clay in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala and house premiere run, conducted by the Met’s music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Mykkanen returns to the house later this season as the Groom in the first Met production of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Elsewhere, he makes two dual house and role debuts: as Leukippos in the Strauss rarity Daphne at Seattle Opera, and as Tamino in Barrie Kosky’s silent film-inspired production of The Magic Flute at LA Opera. He also brings his flexible tenor to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Cleveland Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst, and to Handel’s Messiah with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, conducted by Jane Glover, University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He also marks his first appearance at the Maastricht Festival in the Netherlands as soloist in a unique Carmina Burana with piano duo Lucas and Arthur Jussen. 

 

About Adam Rothenberg 

 

Pianist, conductor, and music director Adam Rothenberg is a versatile collaborative artist who has performed throughout North America and Europe in a wide array of projects, including chamber music, orchestral concerts, opera, and musical theater. He conducted the recent Broadway revivals of Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, and Company, and he was the music director of Watch Night, the inaugural opera to be presented at the Perelman Arts Center at the World Trade Center. This season, he is serving as the music director for the Broadway-bound revival of Damn Yankees at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and Giulia, a new musical by Jennifer Nettles premiering at PAC NYC, for which he is also the arranger. His arrangements and orchestrations for Beautiful Little Fool can be heard on a recently released concept album starring Jessie Mueller, with a production slated for London’s Southwark Playhouse this winter. 

 

Rothenberg is passionate about pushing the boundaries of classical music and bridging the gap with other genres and art forms. Equally at home in a Broadway pit as he is in a recital hall or on the cabaret stage, he has served as pianist/music director for such luminaries as Patti LuPone, Josh Groban, Bernadette Peters, Annaleigh Ashford, Ruthie Anne Miles, and Matt Doyle. Rothenberg has performed as an orchestral musician with the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, and the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra in addition to art song recitals at Caramoor and Tanglewood, where he was a two-time Vocal Piano Fellow. He recently performed at Alice Tully Hall with soprano Mikaela Bennett in a recital that included classical art song, jazz standards, and a world premiere by singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane. Other recital highlights include a program with violinist Chelsea Starbuck Smith as part of the Charles Ives Music Festival in Danbury, Connecticut, that explored the relationship between folk music and classical works, including several original arrangements. As a recording artist, Rothenberg can be heard on the cast albums of Sweeney Todd (2023 Broadway revival) and Baby (2021 off-Broadway revival, co-producer) as well as the soundtrack of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. 

 

A native of Syracuse, New York, Rothenberg holds a bachelor’s in piano performance and mathematics from Northwestern University and a master’s in collaborative piano from Juilliard, where he was the proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. 

 

Contacts 

Brendan Padgett 

Madeleine Jennings 

news@juilliard.edu