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The Juilliard School (/ ˈ dʒ uː l i. ɑːr d / JOO-lee-ard) [4] is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City.Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became the Juilliard School, named after its principal benefactor Augustus D. Juilliard.
Those who complete the four-year program receive either a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree (starting Fall 2012), or a diploma. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Each year's class is identified by a group number: Group 1 started in 1968 and graduated in 1972; [ 15 ] Group 46 includes students completing their fourth year in 2017.
In 1926, the Institute of Musical Art merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form what is today Juilliard School. Damrosch's pupils included William Howland, long-time head of the music department at the University of Michigan, [5] and the prodigy pianist Hazel Scott. [6] Damrosch died in New York City on October 22, 1937, aged 78. [7]
He eventually left Juilliard in 1963 to serve as Dean of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; [14] he received a Doctorate of Music from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music the same year. [6] In 1965, he left Oberlin to create the Rockefeller Foundation's arts program, [15] [16] serving there as Director of Arts Programming until 1972 ...
He began as a violinist under the tutelage of his mother Antonietta Briglia; he would go on to study violin and composition at the Milan Conservatory on scholarship, and then to take his graduate degree at the Juilliard School. He returned to Juilliard to teach, moving on to the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, and the ...
Milarsky received his bachelor and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding leadership and achievement in the arts. He regularly conducts the Juilliard Orchestra, with which he has premiered over 70 works by Juilliard student composers.
Alex Webber went viral on TikTok posting about his dream of going to Juilliard. After he said he was rejected, followers flocked to his defense.
Falletta was raised in the borough of Queens in an Italian-American household. She was educated at the Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School in New York City. She began her musical career as a guitar and mandolin player, and in her twenties was often called to perform with the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic when a work called for a mandolin or guitar obbligato.