Pre-College Division Programs, 1934-2021

Pre-College/Preparatory Division programs from the 1933/34 academic year to 2020/21. Please see volumes of Institute of Musical Art Lectures, Recitals, and General Occasions (1905-1930) for earlier programs. The Preparatory Center opened in 1916, offering special training to talented young musicians by faculty of the Institute of Musical Art, Juilliard’s predecessor institution, at locations throughout the city. Eight students entered the program in the fall of 1916, and by the end of the year enrollment had nearly doubled. The following year forty-five students were enrolled, and in 1919 about a hundred. Students received two lessons a week in their principal subject (piano or violin) and instruction in the rudiments of notation and sight-singing; later, a major in dance was offered. With Juilliard’s move to Lincoln Center in 1969, the Pre-College Division was established to educate musically talented children and adolescents. Digitization was supported by the Leon Levy Foundation.