Our students are going places

After just 10 years of graduates matriculating into the professional ranks of classical music, Center students have won top prizes at the Hong Kong Generation Next Arts International Competition, the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Tokyo, the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and have been laureates in the Tchaikovsky and Queen Elizabeth competitions. Many have gone on to join top symphony orchestras around the world, including first violin with the Berlin Philharmonic, principal bass with the Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester in Sweden, and principal violin with the San Francisco Symphony, as well as positions with the St. Louis, Houston, Nashville, Charlotte, North Carolina and Phoenix symphonies. Center alumni are performing exciting new music with up-and-coming chamber groups (Collectif9, Ivala Quartet, Invoke), while others have used their entrepreneurial training to create their own music nonprofits (Hawaii Chamber Music Festival, Nashville Chamber Music Society, Concert Music Outreach Collective) and promote themselves on social media.

Many of our graduates pursue advanced degrees at prestigious graduate schools, including:

• Curtis Institute of Music

• Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 

• Cleveland Institute of Music 

• Indiana University 

• The Juilliard School 

• Manhattan School of Music 

• McGill University (Canada)

• New England Conservatory 

• Northwestern University 

• Peabody Conservatory 

• Rice University

• San Francisco Conservatory of Music 

• Southern Methodist University 

• University of Michigan  

• University of Southern California 

• Yale