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14 unusual facts about Juilliard School


Alfred M. Robertson

His grandson, Mark Robertson, is a graduate of the Juilliard School and a noted musician, producer and concertmaster.

Claudia Dell

She studied acting in New York City at the Academy and singing at the Juilliard School.

College of Marin

College of Marin is well known for its theatre department with the highest transfer acceptance to Juilliard for any two-year college in the nation.

Eugenie Anderson

She concentrated in music as a student, and attended the Juilliard School in New York; her original hope was to become a concert pianist.

High School of Music and Art

Juilliard School, prestigious performing arts conservatory in New York, established in 1905

Ivy Dickens

A few weeks later, concerned by Charlie's long absence, Lily hires a private investigator to find her, but the private investigator instead finds the real Charlie Rhodes, who is attending school at Juilliard.

Kölner Akademie

They are led by the American conductor Michael Alexander Willens who studied at the Juilliard School in New York.

Leonid Hambro

He studied at the Juilliard School, and won First Prize at the National Naumburg Competition in 1946.

St. Lawrence Quartet

It was founded in 1989 and has served residencies at the Juilliard School, Yale University, the University of Toronto, the Hartt School, and Stanford University.

The Academy of Music

Along with other famed conservatories such as The Juilliard School, The Jacobs School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, the Academy of Music had achieved some level of international prominence through its commitment to the highest standards of musical leadership and excellence.

Thornridge High School

Nelsan Ellis is a Juilliard trained actor, best known for his roles on the television series The Inside and True Blood.

Triple Sensation

Over $250,000 in scholarship prizes are available, with an ultimate prize of a $150,000 scholarship award to attend the theatrical training institution of the first prize winner's choice: a school such as Juilliard, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, or Canada's National Theatre School.

Vanderpump Rules

Laura-Leigh (Season 1), Laura-Leigh is a server at SUR; she is a Juilliard graduate and aspiring actress as well as a recovering addict; she is shown as Jax's new girlfriend after his break-up with Stassi.

Woody Mann

Meanwhile, Mann received formal instruction at the Juilliard School’s pre-college program, then earned a Bachelor of Arts at Empire State College in 1974, and finally returned to Juilliard to pursue post-baccalaureate studies in music performance and composition from 1975-76.


Alexander Smallens

He studied at the New York Institute of Musical Art until 1909, when he traveled to France to study at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Brenda Miller Cooper

She studied voice at Case Western Reserve University earning a bachelor's degree in music, after which she pursued graduate studies at the Juilliard School where she earned a Masters in vocal performance.

Edna White

At 11, after an invitation from Frank Damrosch, she entered the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School) in New York City, where, under the instruction of Adolphe Dubois, she switched from the cornet to the trumpet.

Franklyn Seales

Born on the island of St. Vincent, Seales attended Juilliard before appearing in various television productions of Shakespearean plays including Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew where he played the role of Petruchio.

Fred Mustard Stewart

He originally planned to be a concert pianist, and studied with Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School.

George Jaffin

According to The New York Times, he was best known "as a contributor to and fund-raiser for Columbia University, the Hospital for Joint Diseases, the Juilliard School and the Museum of Modern Art".

Henning Rübsam

While a student at the Juilliard School, he took Classical Spanish Dance, studied Indian dance with Indrani Rahman, took a summer intensive at the School of American Ballet, performed as the Faun in the Nijinsky/Debussy ballet, starred in a dance film at the Sundance Institute, where he worked with Diane Coburn-Bruning, Michael Kidd and Stanley Donen, and toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company.

Ida Kavafian

Her teachers included Ara Zerounian, Mischa Mischakoff, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian, the last two of which she studied under while attending the Juilliard School from 1969 to 1975.

Jenny Oaks Baker

Baker earned a bachelor’s degree in violin from Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and later received a Master of Music degree from Juilliard School in New York City.

Joel Fan

He began studying piano seriously at the Juilliard School and has received both a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Institute.

Joseph Bertolozzi

He went on to receive his B.A. in music from Vassar College, and did further study at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana (with Xenakis and Donatoni), Westminster Choir College, and The Juilliard School, as well as numerous professional workshops with ASCAP, The American Music Center, and Carnegie Hall (including contemporary conducting techniques with Boulez).

Lee Bracegirdle

After studies in French horn at the Philadelphia Musical Academy with Joseph DeAngelis, he studied at the Juilliard School with James Chambers and John Cerminaro, and privately with Carmine Caruso and Roy Stevens.

Lillian Fuchs

Lillian Fuchs began her musical studies as a pianist, later studying violin with her father and afterwards with Franz Kneisel (former concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the Kneisel Quartet) at the Institute of Musical Art, now the Juilliard School.

Madelyn Renee

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, soprano Madelyn Renee attended the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts and Cornell University and received her Bachelor's Degree from the Juilliard School in New York.

Mark Stringer

Stringer used to take music lessons at the Juilliard School, Tanglewood Music Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute at which he was under guidance from such teachers as Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Michael Tilson Thomas and Leonard Bernstein.

McDonald family

Isabelle’s privileged upbringing included private East Coast schooling and several years of residence in Tuxedo Park, New York with her wealthy uncle Augustus D. Juilliard, who was the founder of the Juilliard School of Music.

Mephisto Waltzes

The pieces are referenced as the title of the 1969 novel, The Mephisto Waltz by American author and Juilliard-trained pianist Fred Mustard Stewart.

Michael Endres

He was born 1961 in Sonthofen in the Oberallgäu region of the Bavarian Alps and studied with Klaus Schilde and Karl Hermann Mrongovius in Munich, then with Jacob Lateiner at the Juilliard School New York, where he received his Masters Degree - and later with Peter Feuchtwanger in London.

Michael Tilson Thomas

The Orchestra, as well as such soloists as Mason Bates, Measha Brueggergosman, Joshua Roman, Gil Shaham, Yuja Wang, Anna Larsen, Charlie Lui, and Derek Wang, participated in a classical music summit in New York City at the Juilliard School over three days.

National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art

The School closely cooperates with many schools of similar type; among them are Juilliard (USA), Detmold, Viernheim, Weimar and Vasario 16-osios (Germany), Łódź and Kraków (Poland).

Orion String Quartet

Members of the quartet teach at the Curtis Institute of Music, Mannes, Juilliard, Queens College, and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Ralph Farris

As the principal violist of The Juilliard Orchestra, Farris performed at Carnegie Hall in Roger Daltrey's 1994 A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who and became the Musical Director for the tour of the same name.

Sabina Rakcheyeva

Rakcheyeva auditioned for a jury at Juilliard School, performing the pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georges Bizet, Niccolò Paganini and Dmitri Shostakovich and became the first Azerbaijani to be admitted there.

Sarah Ioannides

Ioannides earned a Master of Music degree in conducting at the Juilliard School, where she received the Bruno Walter Scholarship and was assistant conductor to Otto-Werner Mueller.

The 5 Browns

From 2001 to 2006 the 5 Browns attended New York’s Juilliard School, where they studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky.

United States Armed Forces School of Music

In 1911, Frank Damrosch, director of the Institute of Musical Art (later renamed The Juilliard School), and Arthur A. Clappe, a graduate of the Royal Military School of Music, began a formal school for Army bandmasters at Fort Jay.

Vocal pedagogy

A few American voice teachers began to study the science, anatomy, and physiology of singing, especially Ralph Appelman at Indiana University, Oren Brown at the Washington University School of Medicine and later the Juilliard School, and William Vennard at the University of Southern California.

Wallingford Riegger

A gifted cellist, he was a member of the first graduating class of the Institute of Musical Art, later known as the Juilliard School, in 1907, after studying under Percy Goetschius.