Juilliard School Features
Tito Puente is Still “The King of Latin Music”
HARLEM, Manhattan ~ April 20, 1923 🇵🇷
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Elio Villafranca Tells Stories of the African Diaspora on His Piano
BELMONT, THE BRONX, Sun, Jan 27, 2019 ~ The jazz composer of the African diaspora joins Mary Ann Sweeney & Bronx Arts Ensemble to play one of the jazz greats, Charles Mingus. African Cuban jazz live music. FREE
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Juilliard School News
January 2023
The ChamberFest festival of chamber music is at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center, Monday-Wednesday, January 9-11, 2023. $10. juilliard.edu
Famous Alumni
- Carlos Henríquez jazz bassist 🇵🇷
- Eliane Elias jazz pianist 🇧🇷
- Elio Villafranca jazz pianist 🇨🇺
- Isabel Leonard opera singer 🇦🇷
- Tito Puente Latin jazz & salsa 🇵🇷
- Tito Rodríguez mambo & salsa 🇵🇷
- Wynton Marsalis jazz 🇺🇸
One of New York’s Best Music Schools
The Juilliard’s predecessor, the Institute of Musical Art, was founded in 1905 because performers were going to Europe for an education, since the United States did not have any great music schools. The school was originally in Morningside Heights in Upper Manhattan.
In 1920, French American textile merchant Augustus D. Juilliard established the Juilliard Foundation and the Juilliard Graduate School. He has an interesting story in that he was born on a steamship in the Atlantic as his parents emigrated to New York from France.
Juilliard was founded in 1926 by merging the Institute of Musical Art and the Juilliard Graduate School. It moved to the Juilliard Building in 1969.
Today, Juilliard is one of the world’s preeminent dance, music, and theatre schools.
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