Alumni
Pulitzer Prize for Music recipients
- 1946 — Leo Sowerby (1895–1968), pianist & composer, Master of Music 1918
- 1952 — Gail Kubik (1914–1984), Master of Music 1936
- 1976 — Ned Rorem (born 1923), studied with Leo Sowerby 1938–1939
- 1979 — Joseph Schwantner (born 1943), Bachelor of Music 1964
- 1986 — George Perle (1915–2009), Master of Music 1942
Other notable alumni
- Victor Arden
- Eden Atwood
- Thurman Barker
- Walter Barnes
- Wishart Bryan Bell (born 1948), pianist, conductor
- Edward Bland
- Mwata Bowden
- Edith Borroff
- Storm Bull
- Paul Callaway
- Edo Castro
- Edward Joseph Collins
- William Levi Dawson
- Jack DeJohnette (piano)
- Richard Dufallo
- Robert Fizdale
- Zelma Watson George
- Floyd Freeman Graham
- Billie Barrett Greenbey
- E. Lary Grossman (born 1953)
- Kirby Grant Hoon, Jr.
- Kurt Kaiser
- Edwin Keeton, composer
- Donald M. Kendrick
- Robert E. Kreutz
- Harry Dixon Loes
- Myrna Loy
- Norman Luboff
- Maurice McAdow
- Barbara McNair
- Dennis Morgan
- John W. Peterson
- Florence Price
- Joseph John Richards
- Brad Richter
- Reginald Robinson
- Kenn Smith, guitarist, bassist, composer
- Francisco Santiago
- Ray Sapko
- Daniel Saunders, opera conductor
- Lucy Ardans Scarbrough (born 1927), pianist, composer, conductor
- Ruth Crawford Seeger, composer and musicologist
- Leon Stein, composer
- Thomas Thompson, clarinetist
- Lennie Tristano
- Valerie Wellington
- Eldee Young, jazz double-bassist
Recipients of honorary doctorates
- 1938 — Earl Vincent Moore (1890–1987)
- 1950 — Tauno Hannikainen (1896–1968)
- 1951 — MusD, Wilfred Conwell Bain (1908–1997), Dean of University of North Texas College of Music & Jacobs School of Music
- 1987 — George Perle (1915–2009), 1986 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, received his honorary doctorate at the Conservatory's 100th anniversary commencement
- 1990 — Vernon R. Nelson, President, American Conservatory of Music
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