Curtis Institute of Music

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institution of higher education music conservatory private conservatory

The Curtis Institute of Music is a prestigious conservatory in Philadelphia renowned for its highly selective admissions and for training many of the world’s leading classical musicians and conductors.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	institution of higher education → music conservatory → private conservatory →
country	United States →
foundedBy	Mary Louise Curtis Bok →
foundingYear	1924 →
grantsDegree	Bachelor of Music → Master of Music → Professional Studies Certificate →
hasAffiliation	Middle States Commission on Higher Education → National Association of Schools of Music →
hasCampusType	urban campus →
hasCharacteristic	focus on classical music performance → full-tuition scholarship for all admitted students → highly selective admissions → renowned for chamber music training → renowned for composition training → renowned for opera training → renowned for orchestral training → small student body → trains classical musicians → trains conductors →
hasEnsemble	Curtis 20/21 Ensemble → Curtis Chamber Orchestra → Curtis Opera Theatre → Curtis Symphony Orchestra →
hasMotto	Learn by doing →
hasNotableAlumni	Alan Gilbert → Anna Moffo → Eric Owens → Gary Graffman → George Walker → Gian Carlo Menotti → Hilary Hahn → Horacio Gutiérrez → Ida Kavafian → Ignat Solzhenitsyn → James Levine → Jascha Brodsky → Jennifer Higdon → Jonathan Biss → Juan Diego Flórez → Lang Lang → Leonard Bernstein → Leontyne Price → Marin Alsop → Menahem Pressler → Michael Tilson Thomas → Murray Perahia → Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg → Ned Rorem → Nicolai Gedda → Nino Rota → Pamela Frank → Peter Serkin → Riccardo Muti → Rudolf Serkin → Samuel Barber → Sherrill Milnes → Shura Cherkassky NERFINISHED → Thomas Hampson → Time for Three → Yuja Wang →
hasNotableFaculty	Aaron Copland → Alexander Hilsberg → Arnold Steinhardt → Artur Rodziński → Bohuslav Martinů → Bruno Walter → Carl Flesch → Carlos Chávez → David Cerone → Dimitri Mitropoulos → Efrem Zimbalist → Eleanor Sokoloff → Ernst Toch → Eugene Ormandy → Felix Galimir → Felix Salmond → Fritz Reiner → Gary Graffman → George Szell → George Walker → Gian Carlo Menotti → Ida Kavafian → Isabella Vengerova → Jascha Brodsky → Jascha Heifetz → Jennifer Higdon → Josef Hofmann → Julius Baker → Leon Fleisher → Leopold Auer → Louis Bailly → Marcel Tabuteau → Marian Anderson → Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco → Max Rudolf → Menahem Pressler → Michael Tree → Milton Babbitt → Ned Rorem → Nino Rota → Oswald Jonas → Otto Klemperer → Otto-Werner Mueller NERFINISHED → Pamela Frank → Paul Hindemith → Peter Serkin → R. Douglas Wright → Ralph Berkowitz → Ralph McLane → Riccardo Muti → Roberto Díaz → Rudolf Serkin → Samuel Barber → Serge Koussevitzky → Tabuteau school of oboe → Wilhelm Furtwängler → William Kincaid →
hasPresident	Roberto Díaz →
hasType	tuition-free conservatory →
languageOfInstruction	English →
locatedIn	Pennsylvania → Philadelphia → Rittenhouse Square →
namedAfter	Cyrus H. K. Curtis →
offersProgram	brass performance → chamber music → composition → conducting → guitar performance → harp performance → orchestral performance → organ performance → percussion performance → piano performance → string performance → voice and opera → woodwind performance →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lang Lang → Leonard Bernstein → Louis Bernstein → Nino Rota → Samuel Barber →	educatedAt
Samuel Barber →	education
Edgar Meyer →	hasTaughtAt