Draft:List of Curtis Institute People

This list of Curtis Institute of Music alumni contains links to Wikipedia articles about notable alumni and teachers of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

A–L

 * Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra
 * 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
 * Jenny Oaks Baker, first violinist of the National Symphony Orchestra
 * Rose Bampton, principal singer at the Metropolitan Opera during the 1930s and 1940s
 * Samuel Barber, composer Leonard Bernstein - 1950s.JPG, composer and conductor]]
 * Michael Alden Bayard, percussionist and founder/owner of Rhythm Magic
 * Diane Meredith Belcher, organist
 * Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor
 * Jonathan Biss, pianist
 * Judith Blegen, soprano
 * Natalie Bodanya, opera singer
 * Jorge Bolet, pianist and erstwhile Head of Piano at the Curtis Institute
 * Gwendolyn Bradley, opera singer
 * David Brooks, Broadway actor, stage director and producer
 * Yefim Bronfman, piano
 * Anshel Brusilow, violinist, conductor
 * Alyson Cambridge (born 1980), operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer
 * Karina Canellakis, conductor
 * Jenny Q. Chai, piano
 * Keith Chapman, concert organist
 * Ray Chen, violinist
 * Cheng Wai, pianist
 * Shura Cherkassky, pianist
 * Pearl Chertok, harpist and composer
 * Young-Chang Cho, cellist
 * Jasmine Choi, flutist
 * Nikki Chooi, violinist
 * Nicolas Chumachenco, violinist
 * Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano
 * Layla Claire, soprano
 * Tim Cobb, current principal bassist with the Metropolitan Opera
 * Vinson Cole, operatic tenor
 * Ken Cowan, organist, assistant professor of organ at the Westminster Choir College (Rice University)
 * John Dalley, violinist, Oberlin String Quartet 1957–59, one of four founding members of Guarneri Quartet 1964–2009; faculty
 * Di Wu, pianist
 * John de Lancie, principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra, faculty at Curtis and Director of the school 1977–85
 * Joseph de Pasquale, violist, faculty at Curtis 1964-2015
 * Stanley Drucker, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic
 * Julius Eastman, pianist, conductor, singer, composer
 * Mohammed Fairouz, composer
 * Juan Diego Flórez, tenor
 * Lukas Foss, composer, conductor and pianist
 * Bianca Garcia, flute, politician
 * Frank Guarrera, baritone
 * Anthony Gigliotti, clarinetist, former principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra
 * Alan Gilbert, conductor, music director of the New York Philharmonic
 * Max Goberman, conductor
 * Richard Goode, pianist
 * Valerie Muzzolini Gordon, harpist, principal of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra
 * 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 Rosezarian Harris, conductor
 * 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
 * Daniel Heifetz, violinist; founder of the Heifetz International Music Institute
 * Michael Hennagin, composer
 * Shuler Hensley, singer and actor
 * Sarah Hicks, conductor
 * Jennifer Higdon, composer
 * Lee Hoiby, composer
 * Stanley Hollingsworth, composer
 * David Horne, composer and pianist
 * Michael Houstoun (born 1952), concert pianist
 * Claire Huangci, pianist
 * Eugene Istomin, pianist
 * David N. Johnson, composer, organist and professor
 * Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and teacher of brass pedagogy (deceased)
 * Paul Jacobs, organist, organ professor at the Juilliard School
 * Paavo Järvi (conductor), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra previously, Deutchekammerphilharmonie Bremen
 * Leila Josefowicz, violinist
 * Judy Kang, violinist
 * Leonard Kastle, composer, screenwriter, and film director
 * Sean Kennard, pianist
 * Nina Kennedy, pianist, conductor, and filmmaker
 * Chin Kim, violinist, soloist, faculty at the Mannes College of Music and Queens College, City University of New York
 * Jonah Kim, cellist, conductor, composer
 * Jennifer Koh, violinist
 * Paul Kowert, bassist for Punch Brothers
 * Lang Lang, pianist
 * Mark Lawrence, principal trombonist of the San Francisco Symphony
 * Theodore Lettvin, pianist
 * Brenda Lewis, soprano
 * Ang Li, pianist
 * Cecile Licad, pianist
 * Marc Lifschey, oboist
 * Joan Lippincott, concert organist, former head of the organ department at the Westminster Choir College
 * David Ludwig, composer

M–Z

 * John Mack, oboist
 * Amanda Majeski, soprano Chicago Lyric Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Semperoper
 * Virginia MacWatters, soprano
 * Robert "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, Curtis Institute of Music, Westminster Choir College
 * Lorne Munroe, cellist, former principal of the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra
 * Christina Naughton, pianist
 * Michelle Naughton, pianist
 * Erik Nielsen, conductor Frankfurt Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Rome Opera, Semperoper
 * Nokuthula Ngwenyama, solo violist, Indiana University faculty
 * Lambert Orkis, pianist, Temple University faculty
 * Sean Osborn, clarinet soloist, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera
 * Eric Owens, bass-baritone
 * Rob Patterson, Clarinet, University of Virginia, Lyrique-en-Mer, VERGE Ensemble
 * Janet Perry, soprano
 * Vincent Persichetti, composer
 * Eytan Pessen, accompanist and opera director.
 * Richard Purvis, composer and organist, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
 * 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 and Director of the Curtis Institute
 * 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
 * Josef Špaček, violinist, concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic and renowned soloist
 * Robert Spano, conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
 * Leslie Spotz, pianist
 * Susan Starr, pianist
 * Benjamin Steinberg, violinist and conductor
 * Arnold Steinhardt, violinist
 * Michael Stern, music director and lead conductor of the Kansas City Symphony
 * Mimi Stillman, flutist
 * Laila Storch oboist, Marcel Tabuteau's biographer
 * Jennifer Stumm, violist
 * Kay Swift, composer
 * Henri Temianka, violinist, conductor
 * Michael Tree (née Applebaum), violist, violinist, founding member of the Guarneri Quartet
 * Yu-Chien Tseng, violinist
 * Benita Valente, soprano
 * Yuja Wang, pianist
 * Wendy Warner, cellist
 * Peter Wiley, cellist with Beaux Arts Trio and Guarneri Quartet, Curtis faculty
 * Haochen Zhang, pianist, Gold Medalist/First Prize winner of the 2009 Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Faculty and administrators

 * Betty Allen
 * Anton Horner
 * Julius Baker
 * Samuel Barber
 * Henry Bellamann
 * Ralph Berkowitz
 * Alberto Bimboni
 * Jorge Bolet
 * Richard Bonelli
 * George Frederick Boyle
 * Carter Brey
 * Vera Brodsky Lawrence
 * Jascha Brodsky
 * Sara Cahier
 * Abram Chasins
 * John de Lancie (oboist)
 * Joseph de Pasquale
 * Roberto Díaz (violist)
 * David Effron
 * Franco Ferrara
 * Pamela Frank
 * Isadore Freed
 * Marion Freschl
 * Ivan Galamian
 * Vittorio Giannini
 * Yehuda Gilad (musician)
 * Gary Graffman
 * Nitzan Haroz
 * Margaret Harshaw
 * Frank Kaderabek
 * William Kincaid (flutist)
 * John C. Krell
 * Charles Kullman
 * Alexander Lambert
 * Ralph Leopold
 * Robert Levin (musicologist)
 * Sylvan Levin
 * Rhoda Levine
 * Estelle Liebling
 * Seymour Lipkin
 * Lea Luboshutz
 * David Ludwig (composer)
 * Paul Makanowitzky
 * Spiro Malas
 * Queena Mario
 * Alexander McCurdy
 * Otto-Werner Mueller
 * Aaron Rosand
 * Felix Salmond
 * David Saperton
 * Marcella Sembrich
 * Rosario Scalero
 * Elisabeth Schumann
 * Peter Serkin
 * Eleanor Sokoloff
 * Vladimir Sokoloff (pianist)
 * Grace Harriet Spofford
 * David Starobin
 * Leopold Stokowski
 * Richard Stöhr
 * Louis Svećenski
 * Marcel Tabuteau
 * Anton Torello
 * Michael Tree
 * Karen Tuttle
 * Charles Vernon
 * Florence Wightman
 * Marion Zarzeczna

Past directors
Past directors of the institute have included:
 * Josef Hofmann (1926–38) – pianist
 * Randall Thompson (1938–40) – composer
 * Efrem Zimbalist (1941–68) – violinist
 * Rudolf Serkin (1968–76) – pianist
 * John de Lancie (1977–85) – principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years
 * Gary Graffman (1986–2006) – pianist, continues on the piano faculty

Current administrators
Roberto Díaz is president and director of the institute. Díaz is also a Curtis alumnus and faculty member. He was principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1996 to 2006 and is a member of the Diaz Trio.