The Juilliard School – A Premier Music School

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Located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the State of New York, is one of the schools in the world of music creation – at the Juilliard School. The school estimated load of 700 undergraduate students and students in various areas of the scene such as music, dance and theater. Entry into the Julliard School is difficult. In 2007 the school received a total of 2138 applications and only 162 were admitted. The acceptance rate for this year, 7.58%.

The Juilliard School (formerly known as the Institute of Musical Art known) was founded in 1905. It was created because of the need for a music school, the Prime Minister of the United States. Meanwhile, most Americans go to Europe to study for them to music. In the first year the school has registered 500 people.

In 1910 the school moved to Claremont Avenue. The year 1920 marked the birth of the Juilliard Foundation to advance the music. Held by the Foundation Juilliard Graduate School. In 1926, the merger of the Juilliard School and Graduate Institute of Musical Art led the Juilliard School of Music. It was under the management of the Julliard Schuman, President William, the first man, the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for music received.

A few years later, branched and has the school has other programs more efficient. First, it expanded by a unit of dance and theater. In 2001, the Juilliard School, the training program of jazz.

The Juilliard School has produced world-class talents as composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer, Margaret Leng Tan pianist, actress Morena Baccarin, soprano Leontyne Price, American actor Kevin Kline, oboist and composer Michael Kamen.

The Juilliard School is indeed a music school, Mr. Prime Minister, a school, the flags of the New York advocates.

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