When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.
Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there.
She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
Institutes should be named after these legendary artistes. Some institute should be named after Lata Mangeshkar.
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
I applied to a few conservatories. I was sure that I wouldn't get in, and I didn't plan to go to N.Y. But then I got into Juilliard.
I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
I went to school for singing, middle school at LaGuardia High School. Followed by Berkeley College of Music and afterwards I went to acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse for Theater.
I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.
