Instruments
Juilliard offers the highest quality instruction by an outstanding faculty in all orchestral instruments, piano and organ, guitar, and collaborative piano.
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Core Experiences
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Performance Opportunities
Performing before a live audience is an essential part of the Juilliard experience. Whether you are an instrumentalist, singer, or composer, you will have frequent opportunities to share your art with the public. Most performances take place in one of Juilliard's superb auditoriums, but you will also have occasion to appear elsewhere at Lincoln Center, including David Geffen and Alice Tully halls, homes of the New York Philharmonic and the Chamber Music Society; at other venues in New York City, such as Carnegie Hall, where the Juilliard Orchestra performs annually, the Blue Note Jazz Club, where Jazz students enjoy regular gigs, and the Museum of Modern Art, where the New Juilliard Ensemble appears in the Summergarden series; or on national and international tours.
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Classroom Studies
The Music Division’s main areas of classroom instruction—Ear Training, Music Theory and Analysis, Music History, and Keyboard Studies—complement your private lessons and performance experiences to broaden your understanding of the foundations of music and to provide a context for the music literature you study and perform. Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts equips students with skills to compose and perform music using new technology, and offers hands-on experience with state of the art equipment.
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Liberal Arts
Whatever your discipline, your development as an artist will be deepened by a foundation in the liberal arts, which provides the humanistic, ethical, social, critical, and aesthetic background essential to personal development and professional excellence. All undergraduate degree students take classes in literature, philosophy, history, social sciences, arts, and languages – studies that will help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and the complex world in which you live. Through your coursework in liberal arts, you will refine your skills in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking, and learn to communicate with greater clarity and effectiveness.
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Entrepreneurship
In the changing cultural landscape, performers must think more creatively about their careers than ever. While some pursue positions in traditional settings, others are exploring new ways to create opportunities that are both creatively satisfying and financially sustainable. The Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship encourages leadership, initiative, and entrepreneurial thinking, enabling young performing artists to develop a more expansive view of success in the 21st century. It teaches students the skills essential for success in today’s entrepreneurial environment, with workshops in public speaking and business planning, panel discussions with industry leaders, and entrepreneurship residencies. It also facilitates more than 450 freelance performance opportunities for Juilliard students.
Orchestra Orientation
First-year orchestra students participate in a unique orientation program.
The Artist as Citizen
A life in the arts is about more than perfecting a single art form. Whatever you study at Juilliard, you will find a shared belief that to be a successful artist in the 21st century you must be not only a superb performer, but also an energetic arts advocate, an informed citizen who understands the context of the arts in society, and a communicator who can illuminate their value with people from all backgrounds.
As a Juilliard student you will be encouraged to use your talents to reach out to underserved communities, to bring the joy of dance, drama, and music to public school children, residents of health care facilities, and others without access to traditional performing arts venues, and to develop skills that will make you a leader in whatever environment you choose. As a Juilliard graduate, you will use these skill to help the arts flourish for years to come.
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