List of Juilliard School people

This list of Juilliard School people contains links to Wikipedia articles about notable alumni and teachers of the Juilliard School in New York City.

Notable alumni

Dance division

The dance division was established in 1951. It offers a four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree or a diploma. In prior years it also awarded B.S. and M.S. degrees.

Robert Battle – choreographer
Phoebe Cates – actress, singer, entrepreneur
Brennan Clost – dancer, actor
Carla DeSola – pioneer of liturgical dance
Robert Garland – choreographer
Marcia Jean Kurtz – actress, director
Daniel Lewis dancer, choreographer, teacher
Lar Lubovitch – choreographer
Robert LuPone – actor
Bradon McDonald – dancer, choreographer, fashion designer
Ohad Naharin – dancer, choreographer
Bebe Neuwirth – actress, singer, dancer
Henning Rübsam – choreographer
Rina Schenfeld – choreographer, dancer
Adam Shankman – dancer, director
Elizabeth Sung – actress
Paul Taylor – choreographer
Lea Ved – choreographer and contemporary dancer

Director of Dance

Drama division

The drama division was founded in 1968. Those who complete the four-year program receive either a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, or a diploma. Each year's class is identified by a group number: Group 1 started in 1968 and graduated in 1972; Group 54 includes students completing their fourth year in
All Juilliard Drama groups from 1 to 50 and alumni of the Playwrights and Directors programs were catalogued for its anniversary in 2017 . Notable students are reflected below with their group number and graduation year.

Playwrights program

The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program is a one-year graduate level program in Juilliard's drama division. Selected playwrights invited to complete a second year may earn an Artist Diploma in Playwriting.
The program began as a residency rather than a course of study until it took its current form in 1993. It was directed by John Guare and Terrence McNally for the first year, followed by Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang until Durang's retirement in 2016. He was succeeded by David Lindsay-Abaire, and Tanya Barfield succeeded Norman in 2020.

Directors program

The Andrew W. Mellon Artist Diploma Program for Theatre Directors was a two-year graduate fellowship that began in 1995 and was discontinued from autumn 2006.

Sam Gold

Music division

The music division offers a four-year Bachelor of Music degree, a Master of Music degree, a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, an Artist Diploma, or a diploma. In earlier years it also awarded B.S. and M.S. degrees.

Bruce Adolphe – composer, author
Edie Adams – singer, actress
Sophia Agranovich – pianist
Hanan Alattar – soprano
Charlie Albright – pianist, composer
John Aler – lyric tenor
Susan Alexander-Max – fortepianist
Greg Anderson – pianist, composer
Helen Armstrong – violinist
Şahan Arzruni – pianist
Lera Auerbach – pianist, composer
Nathaniel Ayers – bassist
Christian Badea – conductor
Jenny Oaks Baker – violinist
Chase Baird – saxophonist
Huáscar Barradas – flautist
Jon Batiste – pianist
Enrique Batiz – pianist
Jon "Bowzer" Bauman – Sha Na Na bass vocalist, classical pianist
Larry Thomas Bell – composer
Paul-André Bempéchat - pianist and musicologist
Bob Berg – saxophonist
Harold Blair – tenor
Serge Blanc – violinist, conductor, academic
Mike Block – cellist, singer, composer
Theodore Bloomfield – conductor
Bugs Bower – songwriter, record producer
Ronald Braunstein – conductor
Anne Wiggins Brown – soprano
Elizabeth Brown – composer and performer
The 5 Browns: Deondra, Desirae, Gregory, Melody, Ryan – pianists
Sheila Browne – violist
Leo Brouwer – guitarist, composer
Bruce Brubaker – pianist, composer
David Bryan – keyboardist of Bon Jovi
Steven Bryant – composer
Kenji Bunch – violist, composer
Sara Davis Buechner – pianist, recording artist
Igor Buketoff – conductor
Cosmo Buono – pianist, founder of The Alexander and Buono Competitions
Kevin Burdette – bass
George Byrd – conductor
Michel Camilo – jazz pianist
John-Michael Caprio – conductor, organist
Barry Carl – a cappella bass singer, bassist, voice-over artist
Jonathan Carney – violinist, violist, conductor
Cameron Carpenter – organist, composer
Bryan Carter – drummer, vocalist, composer
Jesse Ceci – violinist
John Cerminaro – hornist
David Chan – violinist
Sarah Chang – violinist
Jiafeng Chen – violinist
Robert Chen – violinist
Dan Chmielinski – jazz bassist
Jennifer Choi – composer, violinist, member of Ethel string quartet
Timothy Chooi – violinist
Kyung-wha Chung – violinist
Myung-whun Chung – conductor, pianist
Van Cliburn – pianist
Pamela Coburn – soprano
Dan Coleman – composer
James Conlon – conductor
Bill Conti – composer
Chick Corea – jazz pianist
Robert Craft – conductor, music writer
John Creswell – jazz musician
Nan Ogburn Cullman – singer
Vera Curtis – soprano
Miles Davis – jazz trumpeter
Netania Davrath – soprano
Rani Vijaya Devi – pianist
Annamary Dickey – soprano
Glenn Dicterow – violinist
Alfredo Diez Nieto – Cuban composer, conductor and professor
Orlando DiGirolamo – jazz accordionist, composer
David Dubal – pianist, teacher, author, broadcaster, painter
Alexandra du Bois – composer
Lawrence Dutton – violist
James Ehnes – violinist
Warren Ellsworth, operatic tenor
Ruby Elzy – soprano
Michael Endres – pianist
Damien Escobar – Violinist
Faith Esham – soprano
Jonathan Estabrooks – baritone
Eric Ewazen – composer
JoAnn Falletta – conductor, guitarist
Ying Fang – soprano
Ralph Farris – composer, conductor, violist, violinist, co-founder of Ethel string quartet
Alan Feinberg – pianist
Wilhelmenia Fernandez – soprano, actress
Arthur Ferrante – pianist
Brian T. Field – composer
Renée Fleming – soprano
Mario Frangoulis – tenor
Gerald Fried – composer
Lucas Vidal – composer
David Friedkin – writer, director, producer
Kenneth Fuchs – composer
Kevin R. Gallagher – guitarist
Domingo Garcia Flores – violinist and lawyer. Former president of Venezuela Symphony Orchestra
David Garrett – violinist
Eliza Garth – pianist
David Garvey – pianist
Tim Genis – timpanist
Ariana Ghez – oboist
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. – actor
Ola Gjeilo – composer, pianist, arranger
Michael Giacchino – composer
Alan Gilbert – conductor
Herschel Burke Gilbert – composer
Wallis Giunta – mezzo-soprano
Philip Glass – composer
David Golub – pianist
Eddie Gómez – jazz bassist
Matt Good – tubist
Midori Goto – violinist
Jason Grant – singer
Alan Greenspan – clarinetist, former chair of the Federal Reserve Board
Henry Grimes – double bassist
Paul Groves – tenor
Yang Guang – mezzo-soprano
Horacio Gutiérrez – pianist
Bruce Haack – pioneer in electronic music
Andreas Haefliger – pianist
Daron Hagen – composer, pianist, conductor, stage director
B. H. Haggin – music critic
Cecelia Hall – mezzo-soprano
Tamar Halperin – pianist, harpsichordist
Anna Handler – pianist, conductor
Marvin Hamlisch – composer, pianist
Amanda Harberg – composer
Lynn Harrell – cellist
Edward W. Hardy – violinist, violist, composer
Margaret Rosezarian Harris – conductor, composer
Miguel Harth-Bedoya – conductor
Eugene Haynes – pianist, composer
Julius Hegyi – violinist, conductor
Luther Henderson – arranger, composer, orchestrator
Freddie Herko – musician, dancer
Bernard Herrmann – composer
Natalie Hinderas – pianist, composer
Yoshihisa Hirano – composer
Moses Hogan – composer, conductor, arranger of choral music and spirituals
Stephen Hough – pianist
Ching-Yun Hu – pianist
Helen Huang – pianist
Frank Huang – violinist
Hao Huang – pianist
Monica Huggett – baroque violinist
Nobuko Imai – violist
Mattias Jacobsson – guitarist
Morgan James – singer, actress
Joseph Kalichstein – pianist
Sharon Kam – clarinetist
Michael Kamen – composer, oboist
Hyo Kang – violinist
Paul Kantor – violinist
Jozef Kapustka – pianist
Laura Karpman – composer
Louis Kaufman – violinist
Martin Kennedy – composer, pianist
Matthew Kennedy – pianist
Nigel Kennedy – violinist
Nina Kennedy – pianist
Jeffrey Khaner – flutist
Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick – music educator
Benny Kim – violinist
Bomsori Kim – violinist
Chin Kim – violinist
David Kim – violinist
Coya Knutson – Minnesota U.S. representative
Wladimir Jan Kochanski – pianist
Catherine Ransom Karoly – flutist
Rosemary Kuhlmann – mezzo-soprano
Fredell Lack – violinist
Kenneth Lampl – composer
Kay Lande – composer and singer
Manny Laureano – trumpet
Paul Lavalle – conductor, arranger, radio show personality
Dorothy Lawson – cellist, composer, co-founder of Ethel
Trey Chui-yee Lee – cellist
Adele Leigh – English operatic soprano
Isabel Leonard – mezzo-soprano
Pete Levin – keyboards, horn
Gilbert Levine – conductor
James Levine – conductor
Cho-Liang Lin – violinist
Lowell Liebermann – composer, conductor, pianist
Jens Lindemann – trumpet
Mats Lidström – solo cellist, chamber musician, composer, teacher, publisher
Robert Lipsett – violinist
Andrew Litton – pianist, conductor
Ricardo Llorca – composer
Nicola Loud – violinist
Kevin Kwan Loucks – pianist, arts entrepreneur
Josephine Harreld Love– piano, musicologist, educator
David Ludwig – composer, Juilliard dean of music
Leviticus Lyon – tenor vocalist
Yo-Yo Ma – cellist
Teo Macero – jazz composer, producer
Tod Machover – composer
John Mackey – composer
Henry Mancini – composer, conductor
Jon Manasse – clarinetist
Eugenia Manolidou – composer, conductor
Catherine Manoukian – violinist
Barry Manilow – singer & songwriter
Edvin Marton – violinist
Wynton Marsalis – trumpeter
Ana María Martínez – opera singer
Gulnara Mashurova – harpist
Joyce Mathis – soprano
Audra McDonald – singer and actress
Christian McBride – jazz bassist
Susann McDonald – harpist
Robert McDuffie – violinist
Steven Mercurio – composer, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers – violinist
Stefan Milenković – violinist
Jeffery Miller – trombonist
Meagan Miller – opera singer
Stephanie Mills – singer
Eric Milnes – harpsichordist, organist and conductor
Leon Milo – composer, percussionist and sound artist
Alexander Mishnaevski – violinist
Beata Moon – composer, pianist
Charlotte Moorman – cellist
Alan Morrison – organist
Mark Morton – bassist
Nico Muhly – composer, pianist
Simon Nabatov – pianist, composer
Hiroko Nakamura – pianist
Christina Naughton – pianist
Michelle Naughton – pianist
Paul Neebe – trumpeter
Pascal Nemirovski – pianist
Jessica Niles – soprano
Takako Nishizaki – violinist
Linda November – singer
Julia Nussenbaum – violinist, also known as Tania Lubova
Constantine Orbelian – conductor, pianist
Noriko Ogawa – pianist
Santos Ojeda – pianist
America Olivo – mezzo-soprano, actor
Jakub Józef Orliński – countertenor
Margaret Saunders Ott – pianist
Peter Oundjian – violinist, conductor
Alex Panamá – composer
Dorothy Papadakos – MM, organ
Anthony & Joseph Paratore – piano duo
Juliette Passer – music director
Margaret Pardee – violinist
Rene Paulo – pianist
Nick Perito – composer, arranger, music director, performer
Marina Piccinini – flutist
Miguel Franz Pinto – vocal coach, conductor, pianist
Hila Plitmann – opera singer, soprano
Itzhak Perlman – violinist
Susanna Phillips – opera singer, soprano
Christina Petrowska-Quilico – pianist
Ashan Pillai – violist
Daniel Pollack – pianist
Leontyne Price – soprano
Tito Puente – Latin jazz and mambo musician
Michael Rabin – violinist
Valentin Radu – pianist/organist, conductor
André Raphel – conductor
Behzad Ranjbaran – composer
Einojuhani Rautavaara – composer
Vivian Reed – actress, singer, and dancer
Steve Reich – composer
Carole Dawn Reinhart – trumpet, professor in Vienna
Madelyn Renee – soprano
Gerardo Ribeiro – violinist
Fernando Rivas – composer
Graciela Rivera – soprano
Jennifer Rivera – mezzo-soprano
Marco Rizo – composer, pianist
Julius Rodriguez – pianist, drummer
Neil Rosenshein – tenor
Mary Rowell – composer, violinist, co-founder of Ethel
Alan Rubin – trumpeter
John Rubinstein – composer, actor
Jordan Rudess – pianist, Dream Theater
Joel Ryce-Menuhin – pianist, psychologist
Rohan Joseph de Saram – conductor
Ezra Schabas – clarinet, saxophone, educator
Staffan Scheja – pianist
Peter Schickele – composer, satirist
William Schimmel – composer, accordionist
Charles Schlueter – trumpeter
Stephen Schwartz
Gerard Schwarz – conductor
Hazel Scott – pianist, singer
Judson Scott – actor, pianist
Raymond Scott – composer, bandleader, inventor
Tony Scott – Bebop clarinetist, arranger, New World music innovator
Alex Seaver – singer-songwriter and DJ known as Mako
Kathryn Selby – pianist
Gil Shaham – violinist
Theodore Shapiro
Natalie Ni Shi – operatic soprano
Alan Shulman – composer, cellist
Tracy Silverman – violinist, composer
Jacques Singer – conductor
Lori Singer – cellist, actress
Nina Simone – musician, civil rights activist
Leonard Slatkin – conductor
Brian Slawson – composer
Vilem Sokol – violinist
Lew Soloff – composer, trumpeter
Wim Statius Muller – composer, pianist
Mark Steinberg – violinist
Albert Stern – violinist
Paul Stetsenko – organist
Bob Stillman
Liz Story – pianist
William Bradley Strickland – composer, music publisher, and music educator
Hai-Kyung Suh – pianist
Kathleen Supové – pianist
Akiko Suwanai – violinist
Jeffrey Swann – pianist
Walter Taieb – composer, conductor
Margaret Leng Tan – pianist
Louis Teicher – pianist
Alfred Teltschik – pianist
Ralph de Toledano – journalist, music critic
Marioara Trifan – pianist, conductor
Ahn Trio – chamber music trio
Francesco Tristano – pianist
Jonathan Tunick – orchestrator
Rosalyn Tureck – pianist, harpsichordist
Hideko Udagawa – violinist
Leslie Uggams – actress, singer
Roland and Almita Vamos – violinist, violist
Jaap van Zweden – violinist, conductor
Robert Vernon – violist
F. Dudleigh Vernor – organist, composer
Shirley Verrett – mezzo-soprano/soprano
Frédérique Vézina – soprano
Joseph Villa – piano
Verónica Villarroel – soprano
Ezequiel Viñao – composer
Andrew von Oeyen – pianist
Paul Waggoner – guitarist, Between the Buried and Me
Xun Wang – pianist
Robert Ward – composer
Katharine Mulky Warne – composer, founder of Milhaud Society
Alexis Weissenberg – pianist
June Weybright – composer, pianist
Eric Whitacre – composer, conductor
John Williams – composer, conductor
Albert Cano Smit – pianist
Meredith Willson – composer
Ransom Wilson – flutist, conductor
Mark Wood – electric violinist
Phil Woods – clarinetist, saxophonist
Joyce Yang – pianist
Yung Wook Yoo – pianist
Rolande Maxwell Young – composer, pianist
Terence Yung – pianist
Camille Zamora – soprano
Charlotte Lois Zelka – pianist
Bernard Zinck – violinist
Eva Maria Zuk – pianist
Pinchas Zukerman – violinist

Notable teachers

Carolyn Adams – modern dancer, choreographer
Samuel Adler – composer
Bruce Adolphe – composer
JoAnne Akalaitis – director
Joseph Alessi – principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic
Nancy Allen – harpist
Baruch Arnon – piano, graduate studies, chamber music
René Auberjonois – actor
Emanuel Ax – pianist
Sergei Babayan – pianist
Milton Babbitt – composer
Jon Robin Baitz – playwright
Julius Baker – flutist
Adele Laeis Baldwin – voice teacher, contralto
Brian Bedford – actor
Luciano Berio – composer, founded the Juilliard Ensemble
Ron Blake – saxophonist
Eric Bogosian – playwright
George Frederick Boyle – pianist
Henry Brant – composer
William Burden – voice teacher, tenor
Kendall Durelle Briggs – music theorist, composer
Bruce Brubaker – pianist
Maria Callas – opera singer
Elliott Carter – composer
Ron Carter – double bass
Antonio Ciacca – business of jazz
Timothy Cobb – double bass
John Corigliano – composer
Alfredo Corvino – ballet master
Frank Damrosch – composer
Bella Davidovich – pianist
Giuseppe De Luca – opera singer
Dorothy DeLay – violinist
Patricia Delgado – ballet
James DePreist – conductor
David Diamond – composer
Glenn Dicterow – violinist
Ania Dorfmann – pianist
Elaine Douvas – oboe
David Dubal – pianist, teacher, author, broadcaster, painter
Lucia Dunham – soprano
Christopher Durang – playwright
Sixten Ehrling – conductor
John Erskine – pianist, composer
Simon Estes – opera singer
Eric Ewazen – composition
Daniel Felsenfeld – composition
Daniel Ferro – voice teacher
Rudolf Firkušný – pianist
Irwin Freundlich – piano
Joseph Fuchs – violinist
Lillian Fuchs – violist
Ivan Galamian – violinist
Percy Goetschius – theory and composition
Saul Goodman – timpanist
Sascha Gorodnitzki – pianist
Alicia Graf Mack – dancer, director of Dance Division
Marcel Grandjany – harpist and composer
John Guare – playwright
Gerre Hancock – organist
William Hickey – actor
Martha Hill – dancer, director of Dance Division
Hanya Holm – choreographer
John Houseman – actor, producer
Huang Ruo – composer
Monica Huggett – baroque violinist
Doris Humphrey – choreographer
Ernest Hutcheson – pianist, composer
Sharon Isbin – classical guitar
Paul Jacobs – organist
Rodney Jones – guitar
Michael Kahn – director, acting teacher
Joseph Kalichstein – pianist
Hyo Kang – violin
Lewis Kaplan – violinist
Melvin Kaplan – oboist and founder of the Vermont Mozart Festival
Yoheved Kaplinsky – pianist
Jeffrey Khaner – flutist
Florence Kimball – voice
Frank Kimbrough – pianist
Amy Beth Kirsten – composer
Simon Kovar – bassoonist
Joel Krosnick – cellist
Tony Kushner – playwright
Kenneth Lampl – composer
Michael Langham – actor, director
Albert Laszlo – bassist
Jacob Lateiner – pianist
Judith LeClair – principal bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic
Eugene Levinson – principal bass of the New York Philharmonic
Frank Lévy – pianist
Josef Lhévinne – pianist
Rosina Lhévinne – pianist
José Limón – choreographer
Romulus Linney – playwright
Gene Lockhart – actor
Arthur Lora – flautist
Jerome Lowenthal – pianist
Robert Wood Lynn – poet, winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
Jon Manasse – clarinetist
Robert Mann – violinist, founder and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet
Adele Marcus – pianist
Wynton Marsalis – improvisation and trumpet
Alberta Masiello – pianist and conductor
João Carlos Martins – pianist
William Masselos – pianist
Dakin Matthews – actor
Michael Mayer – director
Terrence McNally – playwright
Genia Melikova – ballet
Peter Mennin – composer
Homer Mensch – bassist
Jeffrey Milarsky – music director, AXIOM Ensemble
Andrew Norman – composer
Marsha Norman – playwright
Orin O'Brien – double bass
Santos Ojeda – pianist
Margaret Pardee – violinist
Itzhak Perlman – violinist
Vincent Persichetti – composer
Ashan Pillai – violist
Matthias Pintscher – composer
Joseph Polisi – bassoonist
Erik Ralske – hornist
Behzad Ranjbaran – theory
Nadia Reisenberg – pianist
Ruggiero Ricci – violinist
David Robertson – conductor
Christopher Rouse – composer
Henning Rübsam – choreographer
Michel Saint-Denis – actor, director
Olga Samaroff – pianist
György Sándor – pianist
Carl Schachter – Schenkerian analyst
Peter Schickele – composer, humorist, best known for his P. D. Q. Bach character
William Schimmel – composer, accordionist
Alan Schneider – director
William Schuman – composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, founder of the Juilliard String Quartet
Roger Sessions – composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music
Marian Seldes – actor
Marcella Sembrich – voice teacher
Orli Shaham – pianist
Harvey Shapiro – cello teacher
Oscar Shumsky – violinist
Abbey Simon – pianist
Liz Smith – actor
W. Stephen Smith – voice teacher
Bern Nadette Stanis – actor, dancer
Anna Sokolow – choreographer
David Soyer – cellist
Clifton Taylor – theatrical designer
Léon Theremin
Andrew Thomas – composition
Tracie Thoms – actress
Antony Tudor – choreographer
William Vacchiano – trumpeter
Melinda Wagner – composer
Wendy Wasserstein – playwright
Grace Welsh – pianist, composer
Earl Wild – pianist
Teddy Wilson – pianist
Stefan Wolpe – composer
Oxana Yablonskaya – pianist