Curtis Institute of Music - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Many of its alumni have gone on to notable careers including:

A–L

  • James Adler, composer
  • Milton Adolphus, composer, arranger, pianist
  • Joseph Alessi, principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic
  • Adrian Anantawan, violinist
  • Reid Anderson, bassist of The Bad Plus
  • Shmuel Ashkenasi, first violinist of the Vermeer Quartet
  • Rose Bampton, principal singer at the Metropolitan Opera during the 1930s and 1940s
  • Samuel Barber, composer
  • Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor
  • Jonathan Biss, pianist
  • Natalie Bodanya, opera singer
  • Jorge Bolet, pianist
  • David Brooks, Broadway actor, stage director and producer
  • Yefim Bronfman, piano
  • Anshel Brusilow, violinist, conductor
  • Norman Carol, concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Keith Chapman, concert organist
  • Shura Cherkassky, pianist
  • Pearl Chertok, harpist and composer
  • Young-Chang Cho, cellist
  • Jasmine Choi, flautist
  • Nicolas Chumachenco, violinist
  • Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano
  • Timothy Cobb, current principal bassist with the Metropolitan Opera
  • Vinson Cole, operatic tenor
  • Ken Cowan, organist, assistant professor of organ at the Westminster Choir College
  • Miles B. Davis, double bassist, class of 1974 and secretary of the Curtis Alumni Council
  • John de Lancie, Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra, faculty at Curtis and Director of the school 1977-1985
  • Stanley Drucker, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic
  • Julius Eastman, pianist, conductor, singer, composer
  • Christopher Falzone, pianist
  • Juan Diego Flórez, tenor
  • Lukas Foss, composer, conductor and pianist
  • Frank Guarrera, baritone
  • Anthony Gigliotti, clarinetist, former principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Alan Gilbert, conductor, music director of the New York Philharmonic
  • Richard Goode, pianist
  • Olga Gorelli, composer and pianist
  • Daron Hagen, composer, conductor, pianist, and stage director
  • Hilary Hahn, violinist
  • Burt Hara, clarinetist, principal of the Minnesota Orchestra
  • Lynn Harrell, cello soloist
  • Margaret Harshaw, opera singer
  • David Hayes, Music Director of The Philadelphia Singers and Director of Orchestral and Conducting Studies at Mannes College The New School for Music
  • Michael Hennagin, composer
  • Shuler Hensley, singer and actor
  • Jennifer Higdon, composer
  • Lee Hoiby, composer
  • Stanley Hollingsworth, composer
  • David Horne, composer and pianist
  • Eugene Istomin, pianist
  • David N. Johnson, composer, organist and professor
  • Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and influential teacher of brass pedagogy (deceased)
  • Paul Jacobs (organist), organ professor at the Juilliard School
  • Stephanie Jeong, Assistant Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
  • Leila Josefowicz, violinist
  • Judy Kang, violinist
  • Sean Kennard, pianist
  • Chin Kim, violinist, soloist, faculty at the Mannes College of Music and Queens College, City University of New York
  • Jennifer Koh, violinist
  • Lang Lang, pianist
  • Mark Lawrence, principal trombonist of the San Francisco Symphony
  • Cecile Licad, pianist
  • Joan Lippincott, concert organist, former head of the organ department at the Westminster Choir College
  • Peter Lloyd, former principal bassist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Professor of Double Bass at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music
  • David Ludwig, composer

M–Z

  • John Mack, oboist
  • Virginia MacWatters, soprano
  • Bobby Martin, pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, most notably with Frank Zappa
  • Leon McCawley, pianist
  • Jeremy McCoy, current assistant principal bassist with the Metropolitan Opera
  • Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist with the Metropolitan Opera
  • Gian Carlo Menotti, composer, librettist, and stage director, teacher at the institute
  • Frank Miller, cellist
  • Anna Moffo, soprano
  • Alan Morrison, organist, faculty, The Curtis Institute of Music
  • Lorne Munroe, cellist, former principal of the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Nokuthula Ngwenyama, solo violist, Indiana University faculty
  • Sean Osborn, clarinet soloist, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera
  • Eric Owens, bass-baritone
  • Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, violist Listen to Milena on Instant Encore The Old City String Quartet
  • Rob Patterson, Clarinet, University of Virginia, Lyrique-en-Mer, VERGE Ensemble
  • Janet Perry, soprano
  • Vincent Persichetti, composer
  • André Raphel, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
  • Gianna Rolandi, soprano, director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Opera Center
  • Ned Rorem, composer, pianist, and writer
  • Aaron Rosand, violinist
  • Leonard Rose, cellist and teacher at The Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School
  • Matthew Rose, bass vocalist
  • Nino Rota, composer and film composer
  • Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violinist
  • Andre-Michel Schub, pianist
  • Kathryn Selby, pianist
  • Peter Serkin, pianist
  • Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano
  • David Shifrin, clarinet soloist, professor at the Yale School of Music
  • Benjamin Shwartz, conductor
  • Jacques Singer, conductor
  • Muriel Smith, mezzo-soprano
  • Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Former music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
  • Leslie Spotz, pianist
  • Susan Starr, pianist
  • Arnold Steinhardt, violinist
  • Michael Stern, music director and lead conductor of the Kansas City Symphony
  • Michael Strauss, violist
  • Jennifer Stumm, violist
  • Kay Swift, composer
  • Henri Temianka, violinist, conductor
  • Benita Valente, soprano
  • Yuja Wang, pianist
  • Wendy Warner, cellist
  • Peter Wiley, cellist with Beaux Arts Trio and Guarneri Quartet, Curtis faculty
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