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10 Best Music Schools Rated

top 10The Hollywood Reporter has released a ranking of America's 10 Best Music Schools based on a survey of academic and entertainment insiders – including composers, arrangers, music supervisors, editors and engineers.  In reverse order, they are:

10. Royal
College Off Music (London)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Gustav Holst, L.A. Philharmonic CEO Deborah Borda

9. CALIFORNIA
INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS (Valencia)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Ravi Coltrane, The Airborne Toxic Event's Noah Harmon

8. NEW
ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (Boston)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Cecil Taylor, Sarah Caldwell

7. CURTIS
INSTITUTE OF MUSIC (Philadelphia)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein 

6.  NYU
STEINHARDT (New York)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Elmer Bernstein, Wayne Shorter, Alan Menken

5. EASTMAN
SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Rochester, N.Y.)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Ron Carter, Jeff Beal, Renee Fleming

4. UCLA HERB
ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Los Angeles)

  • Notable
    Alumni: John Williams, Randy Newman, Angel Blue

3. THE
JUILLIARD SCHOOL (New York)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Michael Giacchino

2. USC
THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Los Angeles)

  • Notable
    Alumni: Jerry Goldsmith, Marilyn Horne, Marco Beltrami

1. BERKLEE
COLLEGE OF MUSIC (Boston)

  • Notable
    Alumni: John Mayer, Branford Marsalis, Howard Shore

Bruce Houghton on 11/04/2013 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (9)
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  1. berklee has a lot of notable “alumni,” but many are like john mayer, who went there for 1 semester and flunked most of his classes.

  3. Its a very nice topic and good information shared by you. Thanks a lot for sharing this with us.

  5. Nice list – even though I’m happy about #1, everything obviously is quite dependent on what you want to study and get out of the school. Some excel at classical, while others jazz, engineering etc…

  6. Must be based exclusively on alumni that the Hollywood Reporter thinks are significant.
    That would explain why Indiana University, Northwestern University and University of Michigan are left out. Populating America’s premier orchestras or opera halls is not considered noteworthy by the Hollywood Reporter. And if jazz artists aren’t noteworthy, then that would explain why the University of Miami, North Texas State and (again) Indiana University are excluded.

  8. You spotted that also. This is just someone coming up with a list and not even close to the reality of the last decade of known and proven top programs.

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