The Juilliard School New York
Future Star Performances
Three of the United States’ top five music schools are in New York City: Mannes College—The New School for Music (5), Manhattan School of Music (3), and The Juilliard School (1).
Lincoln Center (65th Street and Broadway) is the home of The Juilliard School for performing artists, where more than 800 performances by dance, drama and music students are presented annually, most being free. It is also home to the world-famous Juilliard String Quartet.
It is astonishing to note that among all of its award-winning graduates, their haul has included more than 100 Grammys, 60 Tony Awards, 45 Emmys, 25 Oscars, and at least two have received all of those, nicknamed EGOTs!
These numbers aren’t meant to impress (though they might) except for the fact that the success of its students has helped the school attain a massive endowment—based on the results of its programs—that has allowed it to remain atop the (small) heap of the greatest performing arts schools for a very long time.
Admission is very competitive with acceptance rates usually ranging from 6% to 8%. Students' grade point averages, on average, are 3.96% (out of 4).
Speaking of numbers, the school provides to students more than 230 Steinway Grand Pianos, 5 pipe organs and a collection of more than 200 historically important stringed instruments, including several Stradivaris and Guarneris.
Just under one half of its approximately 800 students are female.
All this to say that the free recital program offerings are multitudinous, mostly free, and, safe to say, wonderful.
The calendar of those is here.
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