Notable Attendees
- Tori Amos — (Prep.) American-born pianist who has sold over 12 million records.
- Dominick Argento — A leading composer of lyric opera and choral music.
- Alicia Berneche -- International Opera singer
- Carter Brey - Principal cellist, New York Philharmonic.
- Richard Cassilly — Leading interpreter of Wagnerian Tenor repertoire
- Angelin Chang — Grammy-award winning classical pianist
- Martha Clarke — (Prep.) Choreographer and dance director.
- Richard Wayne Dirksen — Graduated magna cum laude in June 1942, later organist-choirmaster at the Washington National Cathedral
- Joshua Fineberg - American composer.
- Virgil Fox — Concert organist and recording artist.
- Philip Glass — (Prep.) Composer of opera and contemporary music.
- Hilary Hahn - (Prep.) Violinist.
- Ronn McFarlane - Lutenist, Baroque and Renaissance music interpreter
- Michael Hedges - Composer, Grammy Award-winning (1998) guitarist.
- Michael Hersch — American composer.
- Kevin Kenner — American-born pianist, winner of top prize in International Chopin Competition, bronze in International Tchaikovsky Competition.
- Custer LaRue - American soprano, specialist in music of the Renaissance and vocal soloist of the Baltimore Consort
- Ellis Larkins — First African-American to attend the conservatory.
- James Morris — Wagnerian baritone, Grammy winner and Metropolitan Opera star.
- Mem Nahadr — (Prep.) African American Performance Artist, pianist and singer-songwriter. Attended from age ten to fourteen.
- Tommy Newsom — Saxophonist for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Awadagin Pratt — Concert pianist, violinist and conductor, winner of Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Competition.
- Lillian Smith (1897–1966) — Author and social critic (two enrollments, no degree)
- David Spelman – Founder and Artistic Director of New York Guitar Festival, music supervisor in the film industry.
- John Charles Thomas - Opera and concert baritone and member of the Metropolitan Opera company in the 1930s and '40s.
- André Watts — Concert pianist, Grammy winner and professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
- Paul Wells, concert pianist
- Hugh Wolff - Conductor, currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.
- Charles A. Zimmerman (1861–1916) - Bandmaster at US Naval Academy 1887 to 1916, composer of Anchors Aweigh.
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