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The Juilliard School, located on the Upper West Side
Upper West Side

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 in New York City
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, is a performing arts
Performing arts

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 conservatory. It is informally identified as simply Juilliard, and trains in dance
Dance

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, drama
Drama

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, and music
Music

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. Now at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in New York City....
, the school instructs about 800 undergraduates and graduate students.

Juilliard is consistently ranked among the top 2 or 3 most selective institutions of higher learning in North America, nearly twice as selective as Ivy League
Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of university in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group....
 institutions such as Harvard and Yale
YALE

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The Juilliard School, located on the Upper West Side
Upper West Side

The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River above 59th Street ....
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, is a performing arts
Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical work of art....
 conservatory. It is informally identified as simply Juilliard, and trains in dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
, drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
, and music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
. Now at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in New York City....
, the school instructs about 800 undergraduates and graduate students.

Juilliard is consistently ranked among the top 2 or 3 most selective institutions of higher learning in North America, nearly twice as selective as Ivy League
Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of university in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group....
 institutions such as Harvard and Yale
YALE

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. In 2005, it received 2534 applications for admission, of which only 137 were admitted for a 5% acceptance rate.

History

The school was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art. It was formed on the premise that the United States did not have a premier music school and too many students were going to Europe to study music. At its formation, the Institute was located at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. In its first year, the institute enrolled 500 students. It moved in 1910 to Claremont Avenue in Morningside Heights, to a new classical revival building now occupied by the Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a world-renowned music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers Academic degrees on the Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and doctoral levels in the areas of european classical music and jazz performance and composition....
.

In 1920, the Juilliard Foundation was created, named after textile merchant Augustus Juilliard who bequeathed a substantial amount for the advancement of music in the United States. In 1924 the foundation purchased the Vanderbilt family
Vanderbilt family

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 guesthouse at 49 East 52nd to start the Juilliard Graduate School. In 1926 it merged with the Institute of Musical Art under a common president the Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 professor John Erskine
John Erskine (educator)

John Erskine was a United States educator and author, born in City of New York. He graduated from Columbia University .Professor Erskine was employed at Columbia and Amherst College....
. The schools had separate deans and identities. The conductor and music-educator Frank Damrosch continued as the Institute's dean, and the Australia
Australia

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n pianist and composer Ernest Hutcheson
Ernest Hutcheson

Ernest Hutcheson was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher.Hutcheson was born in Melbourne, and toured there as a child prodigy. He later travelled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatorium at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke and Bernhard Stavenhagen, a pupil of Franz Liszt....
 was appointed dean of the Graduate School. In 1937, Hutcheson succeeded Erskine as president of the combined institutions, a position he held until 1945. As of 1946, the combined schools were named The Juilliard School of Music. The president of the school at that time was William Schuman
William Schuman

William Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator....
, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
 for music
Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year....
. In 1951, the school added a dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
 division.

William Schuman graduated from Columbia's Teachers College
Teachers College, Columbia University

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 (BS-1935, MA-1937) and attended the Juilliard Summer School in 1932, 1933 and 1936. While attending Juilliard Summer School, he developed a personal distaste for traditional music theory and ear training curricula, finding little value in counterpoint and dictation. Shortly after being selected as President of The Juilliard School in 1945, William Schuman created a new curriculum called "The Literature and Materials of Music" (L&M) designed to be taught by composers. L&M was Schuman's reaction against more formal theory and ear training, and as a result did not contain a formal structure. The broad mandate was "to give the student an awareness of the dynamic nature of the materials of music." The quality and depth of each student's education in harmony, music history or ear training was dependent on how each composer-teacher decided to interpret this mandate. Many questioned the quality of L&M as an approach to teach the fundamentals of music theory, ear training and history.

William Schuman resigned his position as President of The Juilliard School after being elected President of Lincoln Center in 1962. Peter Mennin
Peter Mennin

Peter Mennin was an United States composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the The Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role....
, another composer with directorial experience at the Peabody Conservatory, was elected as his successor. Mennin made significant changes to the L&M program--pulling out ear training and music history and hiring the well known pedagogue Renée Longy to teach Solfege
Solfege

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. Mennin hired John Houseman
John Houseman

John Houseman was an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning United States actor and film producer....
 to lead a new Drama Division and oversaw Juilliard move from Claremont Avenue to Lincoln Center, effectively dealing with financial setbacks and delays.

Dr. Joseph Polisi
Joseph W. Polisi

Joseph Polisi is the president of the Juilliard School, a position he has held since 1984 which he assumed upon the death of his predecessor, Peter Mennin....
 became President of Juilliard in 1984 after Peter Mennin died. Polisi's many accomplishments include philanthropic successes, broadening of the curriculum and establishment of dormitories for Juilliard's students. In 2001, the school established a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 performance training program. In September 2005, Colin Davis
Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is an England Conducting. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano....
 conducted an orchestra which combined students from the Juilliard and London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
 at the BBC Proms
The Proms

The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral european classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London....
, and in 2008 the Juilliard Orchestra embarked on a highly successful tour of China, performing concerts as part of the Cultural Olympiad
Olympiad

An Olympiad is a period of four years, associated with the Ancient Olympic Games of Classical Greece. In the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, Olympiads were used as Epoch ....
 in Beijing
Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
, Suzhou
Suzhou

Suzhou is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its beautiful stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed Chinese garden which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction....
, and Shanghai
Shanghai

Shanghai is the List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population in China and one of the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world, with over 20 million people....
 under the expert leadership of Maestro Xian Zhang
Xian Zhang

Xian Zhang , born in 1973 in Dandong, China) is a Chinese American Conducting. She was appointed Associate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic in July 2005 by Music Director Lorin Maazel....
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Divisions

  • Drama Division
  • Music Division
  • Dance Division
  • Pre-College Division
  • Evening Division
  • College Division
  • MAP Program


Juilliard Manuscript Collection

In 2006 Juilliard received a trove
Treasure trove

A treasure trove may broadly be defined as an amount of gold, silver, gemstones, money, jewellery, or any valuable collection found hidden underground or in places such as cellars or attics, where the treasure seems old enough for it to be presumed that the true owner is dead and the heirs undiscoverable....
 of precious music manuscripts from the billionaire collector and financier Bruce Kovner
Bruce Kovner

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. The collection includes autograph scores, sketches, composer-emended proofs and first editions of major works by Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
, Schumann
Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
, Chopin
Frédéric Chopin

Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
, Schubert
Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
, Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
, Ravel
Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
, Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
, Copland
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
 and other masters of the classical music canon. Many of the manuscripts had been unavailable for generations. Among the items are the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Opus number 125 "Choral" is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the choral symphony Ninth Symphony is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire, considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music, and one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces....
, complete with Beethoven's hand-written amendments, that was used for the first performance in Vienna in 1824; Mozart's autograph of the wind parts of the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro

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; Beethoven's arrangement of his monumental Grosse Fuge for piano four hands; Schumann's working draft of his Symphony Number 2
Symphony No. 2 (Schumann)

The Symphony in C major by Germany composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No. 2, Op. 61, although it was the third symphony he had completed, counting the B-flat major symphony published as Symphony No....
; and manuscripts of Brahms's Symphony Number 2
Symphony No. 2 (Brahms)

The Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877 during a visit to the Austrian Alps. Its gestation was brief in comparison with the fifteen years which Brahms took to complete his Symphony No....
 and Piano Concerto Number 2
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Opus number 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's Piano Concerto No....
. The entire collection has since been digitized and can be viewed online.

Performing ensembles at Juilliard

The Juilliard School provides significant performing experience to its students in a variety of ensembles, including chamber music
Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber....
, jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
s, and vocal
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
/choral
Choir

A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral Music, in turn, is the music written specifically for a choir to perform....
 groups. Juilliard's orchestras include the Juilliard Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Juilliard Theater Orchestra and the Conductors' Orchestra. The Axiom Ensemble is a student run and managed group dedicated to larger 20th century works.

In addition, several ensembles of Juilliard Faculty, called Resident Ensembles, perform frequently at the school. These groups include the Juilliard String Quartet
Juilliard String Quartet

The Juilliard String Quartet is a european classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York. The original members were Robert Mann and Robert Koff on violin, Raphael Hillyer on viola, and Arthur Winograd on cello; Current members are Joel Smirnoff and Ronald Copes on violin, Samuel Rhodes on viola, and Joe...
, the American Brass Quintet
American Brass Quintet

When the American Brass Quintet gave its first public performance on December 11, 1960, brass chamber music was still relatively unknown to concert audiences....
 and the New York Woodwind Quintet.

The Pre-College Division

The Pre-College Division teaches students enrolled in elementary
Elementary school

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, junior high, and high school
High school

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. The Pre-College Division is held on every Saturday from September to May in The Juilliard Building at Lincoln Center.

All students study solfege
Solfege

In music, solf?ge is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solf?ge syllable ....
 and music theory
Music theory

Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composer techniques....
 in addition to their primary instrument. Vocal majors also must study diction and performance. Similarly, pianists must study piano performance. String, brass and woodwind players as well as percussionists also partake in orchestra. The Pre-College has three orchestras. Placement is by age. Those in eighth grade and below participate in the Pre-College Chamber Orchestra. Those in 9th and 10th grade participate in the Pre-College Symphony. 11th and 12th graders participate in the Pre-College Orchestra. Students may study conducting, chorus, and chamber music.

The Pre-College Division began as the "Preparatory Department" within the Institute for Musical Art. Lincoln Center forced Juilliard to abandon the Preparatory Department as a condition of joining the Lincoln Center Campus, because it created the impression of sub-professional quality. The then-current President of Juilliard, Peter Mennin, resurrected the Preparatory Department as the Pre-College Division, with Olegna Fuschi as its Director. The Fuschi/Mennin partnership allowed the Pre-College Division to thrive, affording its graduates training at the highest artistic level (with many of the same teachers as the college division), as well as their own commencement ceremony and diplomas. Following Fuschi, directors of Juilliard's Pre-College Division included Linda Granito and composer Dr. Andrew Thomas. The current Artistic Director of Juilliard's Pre-College Division is pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky
Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School. She is a frequent performer of chamber and orchestral music on American and Israeli radio and television....
.

The Pre-College Division gives Juilliard an important role in training the most talented young musicians at the highest musical standards. Juilliard Pre-College's graduates are counted amongst professional musicians, educated concert goers and financial supporters of classical music.

Fundraising

The Juilliard Second Century Fund aims to raise $300 million to enable The Juilliard School to sustain its leadership position in performing arts education well into the school’s next century. Expanded and renamed on the Juilliard’s 100th anniversary, the fund supports six key components that will help Juilliard continue to recruit the world’s best young artists and faculty, offer educational programs that uphold the quality of a Juilliard education, and increase the size and functionality of Juilliard's physical plant.

Fund raising specifically targeted to the Pre-College Division began in 2004 with a benefit concert given by The The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony is cultural and philanthropic organization based in New York City. At the heart of the organization is a symphony orchestra that performs benefit concerts for educational and artistic organizations....
. The event raised $90,000 to establish a Pre-College Parents' Association Scholarship Fund. In 2005, Juilliard produced its own benefit concert for the Pre-College Division featuring its own students led by faculty member Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-United States of America violin virtuoso, conducting, and teacher....
 and hosted by Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
 to add to this fund.

Notable alumni

Drama & Dance
  • Anthony Bryant
    Anthony Bryant

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    , dancer, So You Think You Can Dance
    So You Think You Can Dance (Season 1)

    So You Think You Can Dance is an United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network....
     contestant
  • Jennifer Carpenter
    Jennifer Carpenter

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    , actress, Quarantine
    Quarantine

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    , Dexter
    Dexter

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    , The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The Exorcism of Emily Rose

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  • Marcia Cross
    Marcia Cross

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    , actress, Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Viola Davis
    Viola Davis

    Viola Davis is an American actress of theatre and film.Davis is known primarily as a stage actress, and won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II ....
    , actress, Doubt
    Doubt

    Doubt, a status between belief and wikt:disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision....
  • Dan Green
    Dan Green

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    , voice actor
  • Nelsan Ellis
    Nelsan Ellis

    Nelsan Ellis is an award-winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood....
    , actor,     True Blood
    True Blood

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  • Bradley Whitford
    Bradley Whitford

    Bradley Whitford is an Emmy Award-winning American actor....
    , actor,     The West Wing
  • Kelsey Grammer
    Kelsey Grammer

    Allen Kelsey Grammer is a five-time Emmy Award and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning United States actor best known for his two-decade portrayal of Psychiatry Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcoms Cheers and Frasier ....
    , actor,     Cheers
    Cheers

    Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
    , Frasier
    Frasier

    Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
  • Gregory Jbara
    Gregory Jbara

    Gregory Jbara is an American film, television and stage actor....
    , actor,     Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical)

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a Broadway theatre musical theatre, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane; it is based on the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ....
    , A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The film sets the play in the fictional Monte Athena in the late nineteenth century....
    , Grounded for Life
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    Grounded for Life was an United States television Situation comedy that debuted on January 10, 2001 in television as a mid-season replacement on the Fox Broadcasting Company....
  • Laura Linney
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    Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. Throughout her career in film, television, and theatre, Linney has won three Emmy Award Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award Award and has also been nominated for three Oscars and a BAFTA Award....
    , actress,     The Truman Show
    The Truman Show

    The Truman Show is a 1998 dystopia comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone....
    , Man of the Year
    Man of the Year

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  • Patti Lupone
    Patti LuPone

    Patti LuPone is an United States singer and actress, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Eva Per?n in the 1979 musical Evita ....
    , Broadway actress,     Evita, Gypsy
  • Luke MacFarlane
    Luke MacFarlane

    Luke Macfarlane is a Canada actor....
    , actor,     Brothers and Sisters
  • Bebe Neuwirth
    Bebe Neuwirth

    Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is an American actress, singer and dancer....
    , actress,     Cheers
    Cheers

    Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
  • Clancy O'Connor
    Clancy O'Connor

    Clancy O'Connor is an American actor who played Edward Rutledge in the John Adams miniseries....
    , actor,     John Adams
    John Adams

    John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
  • Lee Pace
    Lee Pace

    Lee Grinner Pace is an Emmy Award-nominated and two-time Golden Globe-nominated American actor. Pace has been featured in film, stage and television....
    , actor,     Pushing Daisies
    Pushing Daisies

    Pushing Daisies is an United States television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller. Fuller also serves as the show's executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy, Peter Ocko, and Barry Sonnenfeld....
  • Mandy Patinkin
    Mandy Patinkin

    Mandel Bruce ?Mandy? Patinkin is an American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. Patinkin is known for his roles in television series such as: Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me and the first two seasons of Criminal Minds....
    , actor
  • Wes Ramsey
    Wes Ramsey

    Wesley A. Ramsey is an American actor.He is perhaps best known for his performance in the romantic drama "Latter Days" and for his multiple appearances in WB's "Charmed" as Wyatt Halliwell....
    , actor
  • Christopher Reeve
    Christopher Reeve

    Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He established himself early as a The Juilliard School-trained stage actor before portraying Superman in four films, from 1978 to 1987....
    , actor,     Superman
  • Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey

    Kevin Spacey is an American character actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television....
    , actor, many films, including:     American Beauty
    American Beauty (film)

    American Beauty is a 1999 in film dramedy film set in modern United States suburbia. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening, it was the feature film debut for writer Alan Ball and director Sam Mendes, all of whom won Academy Awards....
  • Jack Stehlin
    Jack Stehlin

    Jack Stehlin is an American television and theater actor best known for his television role as Drug Enforcement Agency Captain Roy Till on Weeds ....
    , actor,     Weeds
  • Tracie Thoms
    Tracie Thoms

    Tracie Nicole Thoms is an United States television, film, and Stage actress. She perhaps is best known for her roles in Rent , Cold Case and Death Proof....
    , actress,     Rent
    Rent (film)

    Rent is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the Broadway theatre Rent . It details the struggles of a group of young friends in the East Village, Manhattan area of New York City in the late-1980s, early-1990s....
    , Cold Case
    Cold Case

    Cold Case is an United States police procedural television series revolving around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division in Pennsylvania that specializes in investigating cold cases....
  • Tom Todoroff, actor, Hollywood Homicide
    Hollywood Homicide

    Hollywood Homicide is a 2003 in film action comedy film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.The film also features Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Gladys Knight, Master P, and Andr? Benjamin in supporting roles, and Eric Idle makes a Cameo appearance appearance....
  • Alan Tudyk
    Alan Tudyk

    Alan Wray Tudyk is an United States actor. He is known for his roles as Simon in the black comedy Death at a Funeral and Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story....
    , actor,     Serenity
    Serenity (film)

    Serenity is a 2005 in film Space Western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is considered a continuation of the canceled Fox Broadcasting Company Science fiction on television series Firefly , taking place about two months after the events of the Objects in Space....
  • Michael Urie
    Michael Urie

    Michael Lorenzo Urie is an United States actor, television producer and television director, best known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC Comedy-drama series Ugly Betty....
    , actor,     Ugly Betty
    Ugly Betty

    Ugly Betty is an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Peabody Award winning American television program comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera in the title role, along with Eric Mabius, Vanessa L....
  • Rutina Wesley
    Rutina Wesley

    Rutina Wesley is an United States film, Stage , and television Actor.In 2008, Wesley made her film debut as the lead role of Raya Green in How She Move, from British director Ian Iqbal Rashid....
    , actress, dancer,     How She Move
    How She Move

    How She Move [sic] is 2008 in film Canadian film directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid and starring Rutina Wesley, Cl? Bennett and Romina D'Ugo. The film showcases the emerging street culture of Stepping ....
    , True Blood
    True Blood

    True Blood is an Television in the United States Drama created and Executive producer#Television by Alan Ball . It is based on the Sookie Stackhouse book series by Charlaine Harris....
  • Robin Williams
    Robin Williams

    Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
    , comedian, actor,     Good Morning Vietnam
  • Sara Ramirez
    Sara Ramírez

    Sara Ram?rez is a Mexican-American actress and singer. She won the 2005 Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as The Lady of the Lake in Monty Python's Spamalot, and is a member of the cast of Grey's Anatomy....
    , actress, Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
Music
  • Ahn Trio
    Ahn Trio

    The Ahn Trio are three Korean American sisters who make up a european classical music piano trio. Their names are Angella , Lucia and Maria . Lucia and Maria are twins....
    , chamber music trio; sisters Angella, Lucia, and Maria Ahn
  • Sahan Arzruni
    Sahan Arzruni

    Sahan Arzruni is an Armenian pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, lecturer and producer.Arzruni was born in Istanbul, Turkey on June 8, 1943....
    , pianist
  • Nathaniel Ayers
    Nathaniel Ayers

    Nathaniel Anthony Ayers is an American virtuoso musician. He is the subject of numerous newspaper columns, a book, and a forthcoming The Soloist based on the columns....
    , American musician & virtuoso, will be played by actor Jamie Foxx in the film     The Soloist
    The Soloist

    The Soloist is an forthcoming United States drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Susannah Grant. The film is based on a true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who becomes schizophrenic and homeless....
  • Huáscar Barradas
    Huáscar Barradas

    Born in Maracaibo, 1964, the Venezuelan flutist Hu?scar Barradas has deserved eulogies such as the one given by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung: ?Mr....
    , notable Venezuelan flutist
  • Jonathan Batiste
    Jonathan Batiste

    Jonathan Batiste is a pianist, composer, and bandleader from Kenner, Louisiana, United States....
    , pianist
  • Donald Braswell II
    Donald Braswell II

    Donald Braswell was the fourth place winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, placing behind Neal E. Boyd, Eli Mattson and Nuttin' But Stringz....
    , tenor
  • Sheila Browne
    Sheila Browne

    Sheila Browne is an American violist, recording artist, and professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. Browne has given solo and chamber music concerts in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia....
    , violist, professor
  • David Bryan
    David Bryan

    David Bryan is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song 'In These Arms', one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him....
    , musician, Bon Jovi
    Bon Jovi

    Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  • Sara Davis Buechner
    Sara Davis Buechner

    Sara Davis Buechner is an United States concert pianist and educator. She has been an assistant professor of piano at the University of British Columbia since 2003, and was formerly a member of the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and New York University....
    , pianist, recording artist, Koch International
  • Jonathan Carney
    Jonathan Carney

    Jonathan Carney is a violinist, violist, and Conducting noted for his interpretations of Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, Max Bruch, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, Felix Mendelssohn, John Cage, Bruno Maderna, Pablo Sarasate, Fritz Kreisler, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paul Hindemith, Philip Glass, Toru Takemitsu, and Antonio Vivaldi....
    , violinist, violist, conductor
  • Kyung-wha Chung
    Kyung-Wha Chung

    Kyung-wha Chung is a Korean people violinist....
    , renowned musician, violinist
  • Myung-whun Chung
    Myung-Whun Chung

    Myung-whun Chung is a Korean-born piano and conducting.His sisters, violinist Kyung-wha Chung, and cello Myung-wha Chung, and he at one time performed together as the Chung Trio....
    , conductor and pianist
  • Van Cliburn
    Van Cliburn

    Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. , is an United States pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War....
    , pianist
  • Bill Conti
    Bill Conti

    Bill Conti is an Italian American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony....
    , composer of music from     Rocky
    Rocky (film series)

    Rocky is a boxing saga of popular films all written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, who plays the fictional Boxing Rocky Balboa. The films are, by order of release date: Rocky , Rocky II , Rocky III , Rocky IV , Rocky V and Rocky Balboa ....
  • Chick Corea
    Chick Corea

    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
    , musician, Jazz pianist
    Jazz piano

    Jazz piano is the use of an acoustic piano or electric piano as an improvising instrument in a jazz group or jazz fusion ensemble. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings....
  • Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
    , musician, jazz
    Jazz

    Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
     trumpeter
  • Eugene Drucker, musician, Emerson String Quartet
    Emerson String Quartet

    The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School....
  • Lawrence Dutton
    Lawrence Dutton

    Lawrence Dutton is an American violist, and is currently a member of the Emerson String Quartet. He earned a Bachelor and Master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Lillian Fuchs....
    , musician, Emerson String Quartet
    Emerson String Quartet

    The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School....
  • James Ehnes
    James Ehnes

    James Ehnes is a Canada concert violinist.The son of Alan Ehnes, a trumpeter and music teacher, James Ehnes began playing violin by the age of five....
    , violinist
  • Renée Fleming
    Renée Fleming

    File:Ren?e Fleming 2008.jpgRen?e Fleming is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses an agile full lyric soprano voice endowed with ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range....
    , soprano
  • David Garrett
    David Garrett (violinist)

    David Garrett is a classical violinist and recording artist....
    , violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist
  • Michael Giacchino
    Michael Giacchino

    Michael Giacchino is an Academy Award-80th Academy Awards United States soundtrack composer who has composed several multi-award winning scores for many popular Films, television series and video games....
    , composer,     Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
    , Ratatouille
    Ratatouille (film)

    Ratatouille is a 2007 computer-animated film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was the eighth movie produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005....
  • Herschel Burke Gilbert
    Herschel Burke Gilbert

    Herschel Burke Gilbert was a prolific composer of television and film theme songs, including the musical scores of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Robert Taylor 's The Detectives, Gene Barry's Burke's Law, and Bob Denver's Gilligan's Island....
    , composer of film and television theme songs
  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
    , minimalist
    Minimalist music

    Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental music or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonance and dissonance, steady pulse , stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrase or smaller units such as Figure , Motif , and Cell ....
     composer
  • David Finckel, musician, Emerson String Quartet
    Emerson String Quartet

    The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School....
  • Barry Jekowsky, conductor California Symphony
    California Symphony

    The California Symphony is an United States orchestra based in Walnut Creek, California, California, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area....
  • Sharon Kam
    Sharon Kam

    Sharon Kam belongs to young generation of classical clarinet virtuosos. The fundamentals for another development of her career lie in the win of the ARD International Music Competition in 1992....
    , musician, clarinet
    Clarinet

    The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
    ist
  • Nigel Kennedy
    Nigel Kennedy

    Nigel Kennedy is a violinist and violist....
    , violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist
  • Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick
    Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick

    Edith Aurelia Killgore Kirkpatrick is a retired music educator from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who served on the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education from 1977—1989, the superboard which must approve education budgets presented to the Louisiana State Legislature....
    , music
    Music

    Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
     educator
  • Manny Laureano
    Manny Laureano

    Manny Laureano is the Principal Trumpet of the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies. Laureano began his musical studies in the New York City public school system and received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in 1977....
    , principal trumpet
    Trumpet

    The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
    , Minnesota Orchestra
    Minnesota Orchestra

    The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first performance on November 5 of that year....
  • Yo Yo Ma, musician, cello
    Cello

    The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
  • Wynton Marsalis
    Wynton Marsalis

    Wynton Learson Marsalis is an United States trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in European classical music....
    , musician, trumpet
    Trumpet

    The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
    er
  • Thomas McEvoy
    Thomas "Pae-dog" McEvoy

    Thomas "Pae-dog" McEvoy was a fringe member of Funkadelic and one of the most influential jazz horn players of the 1980s. Born in Islington, Alabama, he graduated from the Juilliard School of Music with honors and taught jazz horn for several years until he received the call from renegade P-Funk member Fuzzy Haskins, asking him to lend his d...
    , jazz horn player
  • Hiroko Nakamura
    Hiroko Nakamura

    is a Japanese female pianist. She is the youngest, and the second Japanese prizewinner at the 7th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition. As her career in Europe, America, and a guest-judge of the major piano competitions, she is considered one of the most advanced and well-known players in Japan....
    , Pianist
  • Hila Plitmann
    Hila Plitmann

    Hila Plitmann is a Grammy-winning operatic soprano specializing in the performance of new works. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, composer Eric Whitacre, and their son....
    , opera singer, soprano
    Soprano

    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
  • Itzhak Perlman
    Itzhak Perlman

    Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-United States of America violin virtuoso, conducting, and teacher....
    , musician, violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
  • Tito Puente
    Tito Puente

    Tito Puente, Sr., , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was an influential Latin jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music"....
    , influential Latin jazz
    Latin jazz

    Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States....
     and mambo
    Mambo

    Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo derives from Yoruba, the language spoken by African slaves taken to Cuba....
     musician
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finland composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius....
    , composer
  • Steve Reich
    Steve Reich

    File:Steve Reich2.jpgStephen Michael Reich is an United States composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts ....
    , minimalist
    Minimalist music

    Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental music or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonance and dissonance, steady pulse , stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrase or smaller units such as Figure , Motif , and Cell ....
     composer
  • Jordan Rudess
    Jordan Rudess

    Jordan Rudess is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater....
    , musician, Dream Theater
    Dream Theater

    Dream Theater is an United States progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band....
  • Veronica Salas, violist
    Violist

    This is a list of noted viola players....
     and broadway musician     Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
  • Nina Scolnik
  • Philip Setzer, musician, Emerson String Quartet
    Emerson String Quartet

    The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School....
  • Gil Shaham
    Gil Shaham

    Gil Shaham is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. He was born in Urbana, Illinois Illinois, during a short academic visit to the University of Illinois by his parents, both Israeli scientists - the astrophysicist Jacob Shaham and the cytogeneticist Meira Diskin....
    , Israeli-American violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist and virtuoso
  • Nina Simone
    Nina Simone

    Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist....
    , musician and civil rights activist
  • Lew Soloff
    Lew Soloff

    Lew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973....
    , composer, actor, trumpeter, 1970 Grammy Award for Album of the Year
    Grammy Award for Album of the Year

    The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer....
     with     Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears (album)

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is the 1969 self-titled second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.After the critical success of the first album, bandleader Al Kooper and two other members left the group....
  • Liz Story
    Liz Story

    Liz Story is an United States pianist. She was born in San Diego, California. She attended the Juilliard School, studied under Sanford Gold and received additional education in Germany....
    , musician, pianist
  • Walter Taieb
    Walter Taieb

    Walter Taieb is a France composer and conductor. Taieb is the composer of The Alchemist's Symphony with Juilliard professor Philip Lasser RCA Red Seal USA....
    , French composer, conductor
  • Louis Teicher
    Louis Teicher

    Louis Milton Teicher was an American piano player, half of the duo Ferrante & Teicher.Teicher died of heart failure at his summer home. He was 83....
     (1924-2008), piano player and half of the duo Ferrante & Teicher
    Ferrante & Teicher

    Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes....
    .
  • The 5 Browns
    The 5 Browns

    The 5 Browns are a European classical music piano Musical ensemble consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King....
    , group of siblings, all pianists
  • Katherine Thomas, musician, The Great Kat
    The Great Kat

    The Great Kat is the stage name of Katherine Thomas , an English-born, Long Island NY raised, musician best known for her thrash metal interpretations of well-known pieces of European classical music....
  • Ahmir Thompson, musician, drummer for hip hop band The Roots
    The Roots

    The Roots is a Grammy award-winning United States hip hop music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals....
  • Robert Vernon
    Robert Vernon

    Robert Vernon is a Classical music violist and teacher.Robert Vernon has served as the Principal Violist of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1976....
    , principal violist
    Violist

    This is a list of noted viola players....
     Cleveland Orchestra
    Cleveland Orchestra

    The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
    , Viola Department Head Cleveland Institute of Music
    Cleveland Institute of Music

    The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president Joel Smirnoff and Catherine Jarjisian, interim dean....
    , and faculty member Juilliard School
  • Joseph Villa, musician pianist
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Eric Whitacre
    Eric Whitacre

    Eric Whitacre is an United States composer of Choir, Concert band and electronic music. He has also served as a guest Conducting for ensembles throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas....
    , composer
  • John Williams
    John Williams

    John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
    , composer,     Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
    , Jurassic Park
    Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its philosophical implications to explain the collapse of an amusement park showcasin...
    , first three Harry Potter films
    Harry Potter (film series)

    The Harry Potter films are a fantasy film series based on the Harry Potter novels by United Kingdom writer J. K. Rowling.At the time of release, the five films currently released became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipt...
  • Ransom Wilson
    Ransom Wilson

    Ransom Wilson is an American flutist and conductor. Studying at the Juilliard School in New York City, he formed a close friendship with Jean-Pierre Rampal....
    , flutist, conductor, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Yale School of Music
    Yale School of Music

    The Yale School of Music is one of the twelve Professional Schools at Yale University.In November 2005, an anonymous donation of $100 Million allowed students in the school of music to study for free....
    , Metropolitan Opera
    Metropolitan Opera

    The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
  • Mark Wood
    Mark Wood (violinist)

    Mark Wood is an electric violinist and string master of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, as well as the founder of Wood Violins, a company that makes high quality, unique electric violins....
    , electric violinist, string master of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
    Trans-Siberian Orchestra

    Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a Rock music orchestra founded by Paul O'Neill , Robert Kinkel, and Jon Oliva in 1996. The band's musical style incorporates progressive rock, symphonic metal, and heavy metal music, with influences from classical music....

See also

  • List of Juilliard School people
    List of Juilliard School people

    Notable alumni* Aaron Diehl, pianist, arranger, and composer *Brian Matthew Owen Tuba, Composer, and Arranger*Adam Rapp, playwright and author....


Further reading

  • Ten Years of American Opera Design at the Juilliard School of Music, Published by New York Public Library, 1941.
  • The Juilliard Report on Teaching the Literature and Materials of Music, by Juilliard School of Music. Published by Norton, 1953.
  • The Juilliard Review, by Richard Franko Goldman, Published by Juilliard School of Music, 1954.
  • The Juilliard Journal, Published by The Juilliard School, 1985.
  • Nothing But the Best: The Struggle for Perfection at the Juilliard School, by Judith Kogan. Published by Random House, 1987. ISBN 0394555147.
  • Guide to the Juilliard School Archives, by Juilliard School Archives, Jane Gottlieb, Stephen E. Novak, Taras Pavlovsky. Published by The School, 1992.
  • , by Andrea Olmstead. Published by University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 0252071069.
  • A Living Legacy: Historic Stringed Instruments at the Juilliard School, by Lisa Brooks Robinson, Itzhak Perlman. Amadeus Press, 2006. ISBN 574671464.


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