The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. Now located at Lincoln Center, the school instructs about 700 undergraduates and graduate students in music, dance, and drama. It is USA's leading music conservatory and drama school.

The school was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art, located at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. 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; its 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
• Van Cliburn, pianist
• Robert Craft, conductor
• Marcia Cross, actress
• Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter
• Philip Glass, composer
• Eddie Gomez, jazz bassist
• Midori Goto, violinist
• Henry Grimes, double bassist.
• B.H. Haggin, music critic, studied piano at Juilliard
• William Hurt, actor
• Michael Kamen, composer and oboist
• Kevin Kline, actor
• Patti LuPone, actress and singer
• Margaret Leng Tan, pianist
• Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
• Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter
• Clifton Matthews , pianist
• Robert McDuffie, violinist
• Elizabeth McGovern, actress
• Robert Duncan McNeill, actor
• Alexander Mishnaevski, violinist
• Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist
• Charlotte Moorman, cellist
• Itzhak Perlman, violinist
• Leontyne Price, singer (soprano)
• Christopher Reeve, actor
• Steve Reich, composer
• Jordan Rudess, keyboardist and pianist
• Gerard Schwarz, conductor
• Hazel Scott, pianist and singer
• Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and inventor
• Nina Simone, singer and pianist
• Leonard Slatkin, conductor
• Paul Taylor, choreographer
• Rosalyn Tureck, pianist and harpsichordist
• Robert Ward, composer
• Robin Williams, comedian

Notable teachers

• Joe Alessi, trombonist
• Julius Baker, flutist
• Luciano Berio, composer, founded the Juilliard Ensemble
• Henry Brant, composer
• Elliott Carter, composer
• Christopher Durang, playwright
• John Houseman, actor, producer
• Sharon Isbin, guitarist
• Joel Krosnick , cellist
• Tony Kushner, playwright
• Josef Lhévinne, pianist
• Vincent Persichetti, composer
• Christopher Rouse , composer
• Peter Schickele, composer, humorist, best known for his P. D. Q. Bach character
• William Schuman, composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, founder of the Juilliard String Quartet
• Léon Theremin
• Karen Tuttle , violist
• Teddy Wilson, pianist
• Kiki Wislon , singer-dancer
• Stefan Wolpe, composer

External links

• The official website of the Juilliard School.