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From Miles Davis to Robin Williams, The Juilliard School has been the premiere institution for performing arts education since it opened in 1905. It started as the Juilliard School of Music but dropped the name in 1951 once they added dance and then drama to their already comprehensive curriculum. The Juilliard School provides significant performing experience to its students in a variety of ensembles, including Chamber Music, Jazz, Orchestras, and Vocal/Choral groups. Juilliard's orchestras include but not limited to the Juilliard Orchestra and the New Juilliard Ensemble.

The Prudent Student (October 9, 2009)

A walk through Juilliard’s modern multi-story home in Lincoln Center gives a brief introduction to what a Juilliard education is all about. Practice rooms — 84 of them, plus 22 more in the residence hall — rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and studios signal the disciplined labors Juilliard students devote to their training. Four large concert and production spaces reflect the school’s commitment to public performance. At nearly all hours of every day, the School is filled with activity. Students are using most of the 200-plus pianos available to them. In each of the 35 private teaching studios, instructors are helping students to refine a phrase, a gesture. Scenery and costume shops are producing materials for opera, dance, and drama presentations. Rehearsals and workshop productions unfold in 15 two-story studios. In the evenings, fully-staged productions open to the public move into the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, seating almost 1,000 people, or the Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater, seating about 200. The most widely-known auditorium at Juilliard is Alice Tully Hall, acclaimed for its extraordinary acoustics and its 4,192-pipe organ, built by the Swiss firm of Theodor Kuhn. Alice Tully Hall is the site of concerts by students and professionals, soloists and ensembles. It is home to the Juilliard Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The 278-seat Paul Recital Hall also plays an important role in the lives of Juilliard music students. Paul Hall is where most musicians present recitals during their training and where many master classes take place. Morse Hall, a smaller space with complete flexibility in seating configuration, is also used for recitals, master classes, meetings, and other events.

The Prudent Student (October 9, 2009)

To aspiring young performing artists around the world, the name Juilliard means one thing: the highest possible quality training in dance, drama, and music. There are approximately 800 students-undergraduate and graduate-in our three divisions: more than 600 in music (including our newest program, Jazz Studies); 90 dance, and 90 drama. A truly international school, our students come from every state and from nearly 50 foreign countries, as nearby as Canada and as far away as China and Australia. As a matter of fact, international students comprise more than a quarter of the student population. Our students belong to the most vibrant artistic community in the nation. Our neighbors at Lincoln Center include the Metropolitan Opera; New York City Opera; New York Philharmonic; Jazz at Lincoln Center; New York City Ballet; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; and Lincoln Center Theater, on whose stages our alumni appear regularly, as soloists or as members of resident orchestras and choruses. Whether you live in New York City or in far-off countries, Juilliard has many resources to help you adjust to the rigors of training at the School. Listed on this page are the most useful links for students considering Juilliard as the next step on their educational and artistic journey.

The Prudent Student (October 9, 2009)

The mission of The Juilliard School is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world, so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens. To achieve this mission, Juilliard has identified six goals: Juilliard will identify and attract the most talented young performing artists from around the world and will strive to ensure that financial considerations are not a deterrent to their enrollment. Juilliard will provide an educational environment that fosters the artistic, intellectual, and personal growth of its students and prepares them to embark on successful careers and productive lives as artists and citizens, as well as to become leaders in their professions. Juilliard will continue to elevate its educational and artistic standards, remaining responsive to changing conditions in the worldwide performing arts community. Juilliard will continue to attract and retain renowned faculty members in all disciplines, by providing a collaborative work environment and involving them fully in the artistic and educational life of the community. Juilliard will uphold its commitment to the diversity of its community by fostering an environment that is inclusive, supportive, and welcoming to all. Juilliard will take an active role in shaping the future of the performing arts by providing exemplary arts education programs to the community and encouraging its students to serve as advocates for the arts in society

The Prudent Student (October 9, 2009)

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.[2] 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 Neoclassical building now occupied by the Manhattan School of Music. In 1920, the Juilliard Foundation was created, named after textile merchant Augustus D. Juilliard, who bequeathed a substantial amount for the advancement of music in the United States. In 1924 the foundation purchased the Vanderbilt family guesthouse at 49 East 52nd to start the Juilliard Graduate School.[3] In 1926 it merged with the Institute of Musical Art under a common president the Columbia University professor John Erskine. The schools had separate deans and identities. The conductor and music-educator Frank Damrosch continued as the Institute's dean, and the Australian pianist and composer Ernest Hutcheson 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, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music. In 1951, the school added a dance division. William Schuman graduated from Columbia's Teachers College (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, 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. Mennin hired John Houseman 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 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 performance training program. In September 2005, Colin Davis conducted an orchestra which combined students from the Juilliard and London's Royal Academy of Music at the BBC Proms, and in 2008 the Juilliard Orchestra embarked on a highly successful tour of China, performing concerts as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai under the expert leadership of Maestro Xian Zhang.

The Prudent Student (October 7, 2009)

The Juilliard School offers a variety of programs geared towards public schools in order to encourage the performing arts at early ages and allow students in high school to get involved with people and productions from Juilliard. These opportunites are part of the public school outreach education programs. One of the programs for high school students is called “Shakespeare for Schools” and allows high school students to attend one of the six performances put on by Juilliard undergradutes. After the shows, prospective students get to mingle with the performers and ask questions. Another program is called “Dance Performance Program for High Schools.” This is very similar to the previous program in that students are able to attend a high quality dance performance and ask questions to the performers when it’s over. These opportunities allow high school students who are interested in attending Juilliard to talk to the students themselves and see what Juilliard has to offer. If you are interested in the performing arts and want to attend Juilliard, I would recommend getting involved now.

qdragon1337 (July 29, 2009)

Juliard's musical talent is inspiring to be around. That of the student body of course. It's almost magical.

brentney23 (March 8, 2008)

This is the place for music and arts

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