Juilliard School

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The Juilliard School ( english The Juilliard School ) is a music conservatory and a drama school ( performing arts conservatory ) in New York City. It is also called short " Juilliard " and is famous for the company resulting from the Institute outstanding musicians and performing artists. The school is at Lincoln Center, Manhattan native and currently has about 700 students studying music, dance and drama. It is next to the Curtis Institute, the leading Conservatory of Music and the leading acting school in the USA.

History

The school was founded in 1905 as " Institute of Musical Art " by Frank Damrosch to have with the intention of also a training center in America for musicians, which was the European conservatories equal. She was on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. In the first year the institute had 500 students. 1910 was the headquarters in Claremont Avenue.

The 1919 Augustus D. Juilliard died childless, leaving in his will in 1920 the school the incredible sum of five million U.S. dollars with the express purpose to the " progress of the music." Subsequently, the foundation " Juilliard Musical Foundation " (JMF ) was founded. The foundation's own " Juilliard Graduate School " concluded in 1926 with the Institute of Musical Art. Your first director was John Erskine of Columbia University. Erskine's successor in 1937 was Ernest Hutcheson, who held the position until 1945. In 1946 it was renamed "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.

Among Schumann, an extension to the school in 1951 by a Department of Dance under the direction of Martha Hill. In the tenure of Peter Mennin was added in 1968, the Faculty of Drama, whose first director was John Houseman. Since 1969, the move to Lincoln Center, the school bears its present name. In 2001, Juilliard also a jazz training program.

Famous people

Former Students

Acting & Dance

Musician

  • James Levine, conductor
  • Ricardo Llorca, composer
  • Yo- Yo Ma, cellist
  • Barry Manilow, singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer
  • Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter
  • Clifton Matthews, pianist
  • Robert McDuffie, violin
  • Alexander Mishnaevski, Geiger
  • Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist
  • Beata Moon, composer and pianist
  • Charlotte Moorman, a cellist
  • Buddy Morrow, jazz trombonist
  • Itzhak Perlman, violinist
  • Eytan Pessen, pianist and opera director
  • Leontyne Price, singer (soprano )
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer
  • Alfred Reed, composer
  • Steve Reich, composer
  • Aleksandra Romanić, pianist
  • Jordan Rudess, keyboardist and pianist
  • Vincent Schirrmacher, Opera Singer
  • Stephen Schwartz, composer and pianist
  • Gerard Schwarz, conductor
  • Hazel Scott, pianist and singer
  • Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader
  • Nina Simone, singer and pianist
  • Lori Singer, actress and cellist
  • Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violinist and conductor
  • Leonard Slatkin, conductor
  • Andre M. Smith, bass trombonist
  • Mark Snow, Film Music Composer
  • Simon Standage, violinist and conductor
  • Morton Stevens, composer
  • Pawel Sydor, composer
  • Rosalyn Tureck, pianist and harpsichordist
  • Ezequiel Viñao, composer
  • Robert Ward, composer
  • John Williams, composer, pianist, conductor, producer
  • Eric Whitacre, composer
  • Phil Woods, composer, saxophonist and bandleader
  • Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist and conductor
  • Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, double bassist
  • Morton Gould, composer and pianist

Teacher

  • Irving Kolodin, music critic
  • Joel Krosnick, cellist
  • Tony Kushner, playwright
  • Josef and Rosina Lhévinne, pianist
  • Karl Maihoroff, Pianist
  • Itzhak Perlman, violinist
  • Vincent Persichetti, composer
  • Christopher Rouse, composer
  • György Sándor, Pianist
  • Peter Schickele, composer, humorist, known for PDQ brook
  • William Schuman, composer, founder of the Juilliard String Quartet
  • Eduard helmsman, pianist and composer
  • Karen Tuttle, violinist
  • John Weaver, organist and composer
  • Teddy Wilson, Pianist
  • Kiki Wislon, singer and dancer
Music school Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Curtis Institute of Music John Erskine (ice hockey) Alan Gilbert (conductor) Stephen Schwartz (composer) Dmitry Sitkovetsky Wim Statius Muller Robert Ward (composer) Alexis Weissenberg Pinchas Zukerman Otto-Werner Mueller Christopher Rouse (composer) P. D. Q. Bach Eduard Steuermann
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