Alumni Spotlight

Jeffrey Kahane: Music and the Struggle for the Humane

Benjamin Laude

"Over the years, I have tried my best to bring that sense of moral and ethical purpose to...more

Marjorie Landsmark-DeLewis: Playing for Pliés

Lisa B. Robinson

More than five decades since receiving becoming one of Juilliard’s first African-American graduates, Marjorie Landsmark-DeLewis occupies a special...more

Louise Behrend: The Art of Teaching

Kathryn Carissimi

Louise Behrend (Diploma ’43, violin) visited her neighborhood’s music teacher in her hometown of Washington, D.C., at the...more

Harold Haff: Performing in the Kitchen

Molly Yeh

Eating three massive meals a day, all with dessert, was how a young Harold Haff spent his summers...more

Paulus Berensohn: Dancing With Clay

Amelia Pedlow

Paulus Berensohn began pestering his parents about dance lessons at the age of 4. “Boys don’t dance,” was...more

Spotlight on Paul Oncley

Benjamin Laude

Oncley (’37, voice) may be the only human ever to sing the title role in Mendelssohn’s "Elijiah" from...more

Richard Kogan: Music and the Mind

Melissa Odens

Dr. Richard Kogan has unique advantage when speaking of the relationship between music and the mind. more

Spotlight on Harold Hagopian

Conrad Winslow

No one could have predicted Harold Hagopian’s career path. more

Spotlight on Jerome Wigler

Kathryn Carissimi

Prior to WWII service, Jerome Wigler followed a fairly normal course for a career musician. After a fruitless...more

Abby Gerdts: Taking an Alternate Route

Mahira Kakkar

"When I look back at my life I want to be able to say, ‘I think I was...more

Charles Wadsworth: Making Connections

ToniMarie Marchioni

Eddie Snyder: Still Songwriting After All These Years

Kathryn Carissimi

Lorna Burdsall: Dancing From Connecticut to Cuba

Jane Rubinsky

Douglas McLennan: Confessions of a Newspaper Fanatic

Kathryn Carissimi

Leigh McCloskey: Riding the Waves of Possibility

Mahira Kakkar

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: The Goose-Bump Test

Jane Rubinsky

Moshe Cotel: A Rabbi at the Piano

Jane Rubinsky

Julie Jaffee Nagel: Music, Mind, and Mystery

Jane Rubinsky

Matt Herskowitz: The Frontiers of Fusion

Melissa Odens

William Schimmel: A Bellows-Pleated World

Jane Rubinsky

Eunice Wong: A Multiplicity of Perspectives

Mahira Kakkar

To capture the essence of a person is a difficult thing. What is arresting about Eunice Wong (Drama,...more

George Quincy: Finding a Native Voice

Heike Currie

One of George Quincy’s boyhood pastimes was to stretch out in a bed of grass and lose himself...more

Julia Cho: A Playwright Drawn to the 'What Ifs'

Mahira Kakkar

Julia Cho is a complex writer—in the best way possible.more

Alumni Spotlight