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Mission
Objectives
A Curtis Education
Degrees
Faculty
Performance
Alumni
Charter and Accreditation
 Mission
To educate and train exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists on the highest professional level.
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Objectives
 To enlist the highest quality faculty in all areas of instruction
To admit exceptionally gifted students, accepted for study exclusively on the basis of artistic talent and promise
To create and administer the most effective programs for training professional performing artists, including the highest-caliber instruction in musical studies and the liberal arts
To provide and maintain the best possible physical facilities in support of the above objectives
To offer support services attending to the physical and emotional health and to support students' curricular and noncurricular interests
To improve Curtis's infrastructure to ensure the success of all objectives and annual goals
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A Curtis Education
The
Curtis Institute of Music is widely considered one of the world's
leading conservatories. When Mary Louise Curtis Bok first opened
the doors in 1924, her mission was to train exceptionally gifted
young musicians for careers as performing artists on the highest
professional level. Today Curtis follows many of the same principles
set forth by Mrs. Bok: the school provides full-tuition
scholarships to all of its students, ensuring that admissions
are based solely on artistic promise. A Curtis education is uniquely
tailored to the individual student, with personalized attention
from a celebrated faculty and unusually frequent performance opportunities.
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Degrees
Students may pursue a Diploma
or Bachelor of Music degree. Vocal
students may also pursue a Master
of Music degree or Professional
Studies Certificate.
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Faculty
Currently over 160 students from the United
States and sixteen foreign countries study with Curtis's celebrated
faculty, which includes Richard Danielpour, Roberto Díaz,
Mikael Eliasen, Leon Fleisher, Pamela Frank, Gary Graffman, Jennifer
Higdon, Ida Kavafian, Seymour Lipkin, Marlena Kleinman Malas, Edgar
Meyer, Otto-Werner Mueller, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Aaron Rosand,
Joseph Silverstein, members of the Guarneri Quartet, and many of
the principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Performance
In keeping with Curtis's philosophy that students "learn most
by doing," the Institute offers over one hundred public performances
a year, including orchestra concerts,
operas, and solo
and chamber music recitals.
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Alumni
This distinctive approach to musical training has produced an impressive
number of notable artists, from such legends as Leonard Bernstein
and Samuel Barber to current stars Juan Diego Flórez, Alan
Gilbert, Hilary Hahn, Jennifer Higdon, and Lang Lang. Given the
school's small size, Curtis alumni have had a disproportionate influence
on the musical world. Seventeen percent of the principal chairs
in America's top twenty-five orchestras and four music directorships
in the top fifty are held by Curtis-trained musicians, and more
than sixty alumni have performed with the Metropolitan Opera.
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Charter and Accreditation
The Curtis Institute of Music is operated under a charter granted
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is included in the list
of Colleges and Universities in Pennsylvania Approved by the
State Council of Education for the Granting of Degrees. The
Curtis Institute of Music is accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Music.
The Curtis Institute of Music is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (267-284-5000). The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
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