Notable Alumni/ae
- Cory Arcangel, computer artist
- Eric Bogosian, writer, actor, performer
- Sibbi Bernhardsson, violinist, Pacifica Quartet
- MaVynee Betsch, piano and voice
- Brian Chase, drummer Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Will Chase, Broadway actor
- James David Christie, organist and pedagogue
- Stanley Cowell, jazz pianist
- Jeremy Denk, pianist
- R. Nathaniel Dett, conductor, pianist, composer, arranger
- eighth blackbird (all members), contemporary music sextet
- Moppa Elliott, bassist and leader of Mostly Other People Do the Killing
- Peter Evans, trumpeter
- James Feddeck, conductor
- Simin Ganatra, violinist, Pacifica Quartet
- Kyle Gann, composer
- Rhiannon Giddens, soprano, banjo player
- James Giles, pianist
- Judith Gordon, pianist
- Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
- Anne Gross, soprano
- Natalie Hinderas, professor, pianist and composer
- Moses Hogan, conductor, composer, and arranger
- Paul Horn, flute, saxophones
- Matt Hubbard (musician), Willie Nelson producer and member of 7 Walkers
- Cristin J Hubbard, actor/singer, Madame Giry in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
- International Contemporary Ensemble, contemporary music ensemble
- Steven Isserlis, cellist
- John Kennedy, composer and conductor
- Carla Kihlstedt, violinist/singer
- Alex Klein, oboist
- Jennifer Koh, violinist
- Judy Kuhn, actress/singer
- Scott Lawton, conductor
- Sylvia Olden Lee, vocal coach and accompanist
- Rex Lee, actor on HBO series Entourage
- Rhoda Pinsley Levin, pianist
- Michael Maguire, actor/singer, best known for playing Enjolras in the original Broadway production of Les Misérables
- David Maslanka, composer
- James McBride, saxophonist, composer, and author of the New York Times best-seller, The Color of Water
- Charles Edward McGuire, musicologist and author of Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement and Epic Narration: The Oratorios of Edward Elgar
- Kevin McHugh, pianist
- David Miller, tenor, member of the multi-platinum operatic pop quartet Il Divo
- Amy X Neuburg, composer/singer/electronic artist
- Kassa Overall, jazz drummer
- James Paul, conductor
- William Porter, organist and pedagogue
- Marni Raab, alternate Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera.
- Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor
- Lenore Rosenberg, Associate Artistic Administrator of the Metropolitan Opera
- Thomas Rosenkranz, pianist
- Ned Rothenberg, woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer
- Christopher Rouse, Pulitzer Prize winning composer
- Lisa Saffer, soprano
- Greg Saunier, drummer for Deerhoof
- Jenny Scheinman, jazz violinist
- Andrew Shapiro, composer/songwriter
- Robert Sims
- Robert Spano, conductor
- Robert Shannon, pianist, director of the keyboard department at the Oberlin Conservatory
- William Grant Still, composer (did not graduate)
- Jon Theodore, drummer The Mars Volta
- David Zinman, conductor
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