Originally posted by Heretic:
Someone said Curtis is the most prestigious in the world even beyond Juilliard but from my experience I have known of several people transferring from Curtis to Juilliard but never the opposite way around. This seemed to suggest to me that Juilliard is #1 but I don't know, maybe it just has that reputation from being in NYC.

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Originally posted by lol_nl:
Do you also have to learn other subject at conservatory, such as English, Maths, History, etc.? Wouldn't that be a lot and very difficult to combine?
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Originally posted by Prophetic:
How is Sarah Lawrence? Wesleyean? (2 on the top of my list right now)

Thanks for compiling this list. [/b]

Marilyn Neeley (B.M., M.A., University of Southern California), professor of piano and faculty adviser in chamber music and vocal accompanying. Prize winner in the Van Cliburn, Leventritt, Michaels, and Geneva International Competitions with solo appearances with over one hundred symphony orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Recipient of the Outstanding Alumna of the School of Music and Distinguished Alumna of the University awards from the University of Southern California. Recent Convention Artist for the Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Georgia, Oregon, and Alabama State Music Teachers Associations. Recent lectures for Cleveland, Savannah, West Virginia, California, and Philadelphia Music Teachers Associations, Georgia Music Educators, and The Juilliard School. Recorded the complete Beethoven violin and piano sonatas with Robert Gerle and received an Emmy award for their videotape of these for Public Television. Released a compact disc of solo piano music of Brahms, Mozart, Debussy, and Liszt. Teaches on the summer faculty of Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.

Ivo Kaltchev (D.M.A. Rutgers University; M.M. Yale University; B.M., Sofia State Academy of Music; additional study at F. Liszt Hochschule für Musik, Weimar, Germany), assistant professor of piano. Adviser for the M.M. in Piano Performance degree program. Faculty member of the World Piano Pedagogy Conference. Visiting piano professor, China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. Bösendorfer artist. Prizewinner of international piano competitions in Italy, United States, and Bulgaria. Critically acclaimed recital and solo concerto appearances in leading musical centers throughout the world, including Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Hall, Beijing China Conservatory of Music, St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, Tel Aviv Museum Recanati Auditorium, Mendelssohn Hochschule für Musik (Germany), Teatro di Verdi (Italy), Bulgaria Great Hall, Cooper Union Great Hall, and Richardson Auditorium of Princeton University. Performances at the Sofia Music Weeks International Festival, Toledo International Music Festival (Spain), First Mozart International Music Festival (Frankfurt, Germany), French Music Festival at Lincoln Center, and Rutgers SummerFest, and others. Has been a featured artist at New York’s WNYC and WQXR radio stations, Radio Free Europe, Radio Moscow, Bulgarian National TV and Radio, among many others. Has collaborated as a chamber musician with pianist Ilana Vered, tenor Frederick Urrey, Essex Quartet, and members of the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw. Recording artist for the Bulgarian label GEGA NEW. Discography includes an all-Charles Griffes compact disc (hailed by the French magazine Diapason as “the most accomplished interpretation known until now”) and a compact disc with the world premiere of piano works by Florent Schmitt, in addition to other recordings for Yamaha Disklavier, MSF Records, and World Music Marimba labels. Recipient of pedagogy awards for teaching excellence from the Piano Teachers Society of America and the Princeton Steinway Society. Active as an adjudicator and has presented lectures, workshops, and master classes in Europe, China, Virgin Islands, and the United States. Has served on the faculties of Westminster Choir College, Sofia State Academy of Music, and Sofia State University (Bulgaria).

Originally posted by computerpro3:
how about the Benjamin T. Rome School of music? One of their professors, Marilyn Neeley was a Cliburn and Geneva medalist.....I will be visiting there tomorrow

http://music.cua.edu/

Neeley:

And their Assistant Piano Professor

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Originally posted by JOEJAZZ:
I am so surprised that the very best school is not part of any of your lists. The one that should have been the first Berklee College of Music. The very Best in the whole world [/b]