Juilliard School

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.

Noted students

• Alexander Mishnaevski, violinist
• B.H. Haggin, music critic, studied piano at Juilliard
• Bebe Neuwirth, actress and singer
• Bernard Herrmann, composer
• Charlotte Moorman, cellist
• Christopher Reeve, actor
• Clifton Matthews, pianist
• Cornelia Heard, violinist
• Eddie Gomez, jazz bassist
• Elizabeth McGovern, actress
• Eric Whitacre, composer
• Ezequiel Viñao, composer
• Gerard Schwarz, conductor
• Gigi Drums, composer
• Hazel Scott, pianist and singer
• Henry Grimes, double bassist.
• Itzhak Perlman, violinist
• James Marsters, actor
• John Barth, novelist, studied only briefly at Juilliard
• Jordan Rudess, keyboardist and pianist
• Kevin Conroy, actor
• Kevin Kline, actor
• Kevin Spacey, actor
• Laura Linney, actress
• Lawrence Dutton, violist
• Leo Brouwer, guitarist and composer
• Leonard Slatkin, conductor
• Leontyne Price, singer (soprano)
• Lera Auerbach, pianist and composer
• Marcia Cross, actress
• Margaret Leng Tan, pianist
• Masao Kawasaki, violinist
• Maxine Kuo, violinist
• Michael Kamen, composer and oboist
• Midori Goto, violinist
• Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter (dropped out)
• Morena Baccarin, actress
• Nina Simone, singer and pianist
• Patti LuPone, actress and singer
• Paul Taylor, choreographer
• Philip Glass, composer
• Pinchas Zukerman, violinist
• Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and inventor
• Renée Fleming, opera singer
• Robert Becker, violist
• Robert Craft, conductor
• Robert Duncan McNeill, actor
• Robert McDuffie, violinist
• Robert Ward, composer
• Robin Williams, actor, comedian
• Rosalyn Tureck, pianist and harpsichordist
• Sara Ramírez, actress
• Stephen Hough, pianist
• Steve Reich, composer
• Takako Nishizaki, violinist
• Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist
• Val Kilmer, actor
• Van Cliburn, pianist
• Ving Rhames, actor
• William Fitzpatrick, violinist
• William Hurt, actor
• Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter
• Yo-Yo Ma, cellist