Juilliard School of Performing Arts
The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City. Now located at Lincoln Center, the school instructs about 700 undergraduates and graduate students in music, dance, and drama.
The school was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art, located at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. Already in its first year, the institute enrolled 500 students. It moved in 1910 to Claremont Avenue. In 1920, the Juilliard Foundation (named after a textile merchant) was created; it's purpose was "the advancement of music". The foundation's own Juilliard Graduate School merged with the Institute of Musical Art in 1926. As of 1946, the combined schools were named The Juilliard School of Music. The president of the school at that time was William Schuman, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music.
The school gradually branched out, first adding a dance division and later one for drama, and since 1969, when it moved to the Lincoln Center, it carries its present name. In 2001, the school established a jazz performance training program.
Noted students
- Morena Baccarin, actress
- John Barth, novelist, studied only briefly at Juilliard
- Leo Brouwer, guitarist and composer
- Robert Craft, conductor
- Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter
- Philip Glass, composer
- B.H. Haggin, music critic, studied piano at Juilliard
- William Hurt, actor
- Michael Kamen, composer and oboist
- Kevin Kline, actor
- Margaret Leng Tan, pianist
- Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
- Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter
- Elizabeth McGovern, actress
- Robert Duncan McNeill, actor
- Alexander Mishnaevski, violinist
- Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist
- Charlotte Moorman, cellist
- Itzhak Perlman, violinist
- Christopher Plummer, actor, received a honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Juilliard
- Leontyne Price, singer (soprano)
- Steve Reich, composer
- Jordan Rudess, keyboarder
- Peter Schickele, composer
- Hazel Scott, pianist and singer
- Nina Simone, singer and pianist
- Leonard Slatkin, conductor
- Paul Taylor, choreographer
- Rosalyn Tureck, pianist and harpsichordist
- Robert Ward, composer
Notable teachers
- Joe Alessi, trombonist
- Julius Baker, flutist
- Luciano Berio, composer, founded the Juilliard Ensemble
- Henry Brant, composer
- Elliott Carter, composer
- Christopher Durang, playwright
- Sharon Isbin, guitarist
- Tony Kushner, playwright
- Josef Lhévinne, pianist
- Vincent Persichetti, composer
- William Schuman, composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, founder of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Léon Theremin
- Teddy Wilson, pianist
- Stefan Wolpe, composer
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