- Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. Born in Urbana, Illinois, he moved to Israel at the age of 2 with his parents, both scientists, Jacob Shaham and Meira Diskin. At age 10, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with the famed Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Both he and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, attended Columbia University. - Peter Mennin
Peter Mennin (born Mennini) (May 17 1923, Erie, Pennsylvania - June 17 1983, New York City) was an American composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role. He began composing at an early age, and wrote nine symphonies, several concertos, and numerous works for wind band, chorus, and other ensembles. - Joann Falletta
Ms. Falletta has been invited to guest conduct many of the world's finest symphony orchestras. Highlights of her guest conducting appearances this season include her debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, featuring a world premiere of Talbot's Trumpet Concerto with Alison Balsom . - Eric Ewazen
Eric Ewazen (b. 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and teacher. Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School (where he received numerous composition awards, prizes, and fellowships). Currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School and lecturer for the New York Philharmonic's Musical Encounters Series, … - Paul Jacobs
Paul Jacobs (born February 1, 1977 in Washington, Pennsylvania) is an American organist. Jacobs studied both organ and harpsichord at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, performing the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach several times during his final semester as an undergraduate student, including once in an 18-hour non-stop marathon concert in Pittsburgh on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, July 28, 2000. - Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He established himself early as a Juilliard-trained stage actor before portraying Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films, from 1978 to 1987. In the 1980s, he starred in several films, including "Somewhere in Time" (1980), "Deathtrap" (1982), "The Bostonians" (1984), and "Street Smart" (1987). - Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is a composer born in Vermont in 1981 and currently living in Chinatown in New York City. A graduate of Columbia University and The Juilliard School with undergraduate degrees in English and Music Composition, Muhly studied under John Corigliano and Christopher Rouse. He has also worked alongside Björk in collaboration in the DVD single Oceania in 2004 and Philip Glass as an editor, conductor, and keyboardist. - William Primrose
William Primrose was a Scottish violist and teacher, probably the best known viola player of his time. Primrose was born in Glasgow and studied violin there and, later, at the then Guildhall School of Music in London. From there he moved to Belgium to study under Eugène Ysaÿe who encouraged him to take up the viola instead. In 1930, he joined Warwick Evans, John Pennington, and Thomas Petre as the violist in the London String Quartet. - Jahja Ling
Jahja Ling is an orchestra conductor. He is of Chinese descent and is now an American citizen. He began to play the piano at age 4 and studied at the Yayasan Pendidikan Musik School of Music. At age 17, he won the Jakarta Piano Competition and, one year later, was awarded a Rockefeller grant to attend The Juilliard School. There he completed a master's degree and studied piano with Mieczyslaw Munz and conducting with John Nelson. - Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood is one of the greatest proponents of the early music movement, as well as a renowned conductor of twentieth century works. This season he became Emeritus Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, the orchestra he founded in 1973, and begins a series of Handel operas in concert with the rarely performed Amadigi . - Phil Woods
Philip Wells Woods (born November 2 1931) is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. He also performed in other jazz mediums, such a Progressive jazz, post bop and hard bop. Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and studied music with Lennie Tristano, who influenced him greatly, at the Manhattan School of Music and at The Juilliard School. - Paul Kantor
Paul Kantor is one of the leading violin pedagogues and one of the most in-demand teacher in the United States today. Appointed Eleanor H. Biggs Memorial Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2002, he received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers include Margaret Graves, Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann. - Jon Kimura Parker
Jon Kimura Parker is a Canadian pianist. He was born in Vancouver, Canada. He appeared with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra when he was five. He later studied at The Juilliard School of music under Adele Marcus. He's been the recipient of many international awards including being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999. He has performed worldwide and has recorded works by Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. - Christopher Theofanidis
Christopher Theofanidis (b. December 18, 1967) is an American composer. Theofanidis holds degrees from the University of Houston, Eastman School of Music, and Yale University, and has been a hailed as one of the leading composers of his generation. Theofanidis was a recent winner of the 2004 Masterprize for "Rainbow Body", and has quickly become one of the most performed composers in the world, with more than 40 orchestral performances in 2004 alone. - Meredith Willson
Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer and playwright. He is best known for writing the libretto, the music, and the lyrics of "The Music Man". Born Robert Meredith Reiniger in Mason City, Iowa, Willson attended Frank Damrosch's Institute of Musical Art (later The Juilliard School) in New York City. - Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. - Jeffrey Khaner
Jeffrey Khaner is the principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also served as principal flutist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Mr. Khaner teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. - Jan Degaetani
Jan (Janice) DeGaetani (b. Massillon, Ohio, July 10, 1933; d. Rochester, New York, September 15, 1989) was an American mezzo-soprano known for her performances of contemporary classical vocal compositions. Educated at The Juilliard School, DeGaetani was best known for her wide range, precise pitch, clear tone, and command of extended techniques that made her voice perfectly suited to the demanding style of modern and avant-garde vocal composition. - Andrew Thomas
Andrew William Thomas (born October 8, 1939 in Ithaca, NY) is an American composer. He studied with Karel Husa at Cornell University, with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and earned his M.M. and D.M.A. Degrees in Composition at The Juilliard School. At Juilliard he studied with Luciano Berio, Elliot Carter, and Otto Luening. He teaches and was the chairman of the Composition Department at the Pre-College Division at Juilliard from 1969 to 1994. - Richard Aaron
Richard Lee Aaron is a well-known American cello teacher. He was born in West Hartford, Connecticut to Ronald and Marianne Aaron, and married sculptor Yuni (née Rorie) in 1994. He currently teaches at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and The Juilliard School. Prior to his appointment at the University of Michigan, he taught at Encore School for Strings and the Cleveland Institute of Music for fourteen years. - Eddie Gomez
Edgar "Eddie" Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a Puerto Rican jazz Double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977. Gomez emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States of America and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the "New York City High School of Music and Art". - Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz (born 26 September 1940, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist. Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School. He has worked with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Max Roach, and Jackie McLean, as well as performing and recording with his own groups, among them the Ntu Troop, which combined soul, funk, African folk music, hard bop, … - Ezequiel Viñao
Ezequiel Viñao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School. His compositions include "La Noche de las Noches" (1989) for string quartet and electronics, which won First Prize at UNESCO's Latin-American Rostrum of Composers in 1993; six "Études" (1993) for piano solo, … - David Auburn
David Auburn (born 1969) is an American playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago and got a degree in English literature. Following a fellowship with Amblin Entertainment, he moved to New York City and spent two years in The Juilliard School's playwriting program, studying under the noted dramatists Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. His first full-length play, "Skyscraper", ran off-Broadway in 1997. - Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor. Whitford majored in English and Theater at Wesleyan University and then went on to receive a fine arts degree from The Juilliard School. Whitford is best known for his role as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", which he began with the show's premiere in 1999. - Alex Shapiro
Alex Shapiro composes acoustic and electroacoustic chamber music favoring combinations of modal harmonies with chromatic ones, and often emphasizing strong pulse and rhythm. Published by Activist Music, her works appear on artists’ CDs for the Cambria Master Recordings, Innova Recordings, Crystal Records, Centaur Records, DC Records, and Oehms Classics labels. Educated at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music as a student of Ursula Mamlok and John Corigliano, … - Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan was born in Singapore in 1953. At 16 she won a scholarship to study at The Juilliard School and became the first woman to graduate with a Doctorate of Music from the University. Tan worked with John Cage for the last 11 years of his life. She has since been hailed as “the leading exponent of Cage’s music today” ("The New Republic") and “the most convincing interpreter of John Cage’s keyboard music” ("The New York Times"). - Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin is an American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist. He studied with Vincent Persichetti in the Music Division at the Juilliard School and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1964. He also studied with Gustave Reese at New York University (1964-1966), at the University of Göttingen (1966-1967), and later with Mendel, Lockwood, Milton Babbitt, and Oster at Princeton University where he received his M.F.A. in 1969. - Hall Johnson
Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 - April 30, 1970) was, along with Harry Burleigh, one of the two American composers who elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers. Francis Hall Johnson was born in Athens, Georgia, the son of William Decker Johnson, an A.M.E. minister who was also a college president. - Alan Schneider
Alan Schneider was a prolific theatre director and mentor responsible for over 100 productions in the American theatre. He directed the 1956 American premiere of "Waiting for Godot"; Edward Albee's "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" and "Loose Ends"; Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party", "The Dumb Waiter", and "The Collection"; and Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". - Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941. As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods. In 1961 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. - Adam Shankman
Adam M. Shankman (born November 27, 1964) is an American film director, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He directed "A Walk to Remember", "Bringing Down the House", "The Pacifier", and "Cheaper by the Dozen 2". He also danced in videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Shankman was born in Los Angeles, California to an upper middle class family. He had a "traditional Jewish upbringing" in Brentwood, … - Midori Goto
Midori Goto is a violinist born on October 25, 1971 in Osaka, Japan. She is usually referred to simply as "Midori" She was first taught the violin by her mother, Setsu Goto, who discovered her daughter's innate musicality at the age of two, when she found Midori humming a Bach theme she had rehearsed a few days earlier. Her brother, Ryu Goto, is also a concert violinist. Midori gave her first public performance at the age of seven, … - Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (born November 3, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz double bassist. After completely disappearing from the jazz music scene in 1965, he was rediscovered over 30 years later in 2002. Grimes trained at The Juilliard School, and established a reputation as a versatile bassist in the mid 1950s. He recorded or performed with Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Benny Goodman and many others. - Orin O'Brien
Orin O'Brien (born 1935) is an American double bassist. She has been a member of the New York Philharmonic since joining in 1966 under the direction of Leonard Bernstein and was the first woman to join the orchestra in its history. She currently teaches at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes College of Music. - Pierre Dulaine
Pierre Dulaine is a dance instructor who was the influence for the main character of "Take the Lead". He is also a real leading dance instructor in the inner part of New York City, and his teaching has brought his techniques all across schools in the U.S. Today, there are more than 20,000 students across the country that use and teach Pierre Dulaine's dance techniques. - Ralph Farris
Ralph Farris (born Ralph Howard Farris Jr.) is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He specializes in new music and is a founding member of the string quartet ETHEL. Farris was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, the son of musicians, Nancy DuCette Farris and Ralph Howard Farris. He began studying music at the age of 3, beginning with recorder and piano, moving on to violin at age six. - Lisa Gay Hamilton
Lisa Gay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress best known for her role as attorney "Rebecca Washington" on the ABC legal drama "The Practice". She graduated with a degree in theatre from New York University and earned her master's degree from The Juilliard School. She directed the documentary film "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks" in 2003. This film, about pioneering black actress Beah Richards, … - Charlotte Moorman
Madeline Charlotte Moorman (November 18, 1933-November 8, 1991) was an American cellist and performance artist. Moorman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centenary College (Shreveport, Louisiana) where she took her B.A. in music in 1955. She received her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and continued on to postgraduate studies at The Juilliard School in 1962. - Marcia Anne Cross
Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962 in Marlborough, Massachusetts) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. She graduated from Juilliard and earned a master's degree in psychology at Antioch University in Los Angeles. In 2005, she was nominated for her first Emmy for her work as Bree Hodge, the "Perfect" Housewife on "Desperate Housewives".
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