Graduate Resident String Quartet Program

Essential to the artistic growth of a pre-professional quartet is the study of style and repertoire with members of a more seasoned ensemble. The Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet program provides that opportunity. This graduate-level program brings a qualified string quartet to be in residence at Juilliard and work with the Juilliard String Quartet. Members of the Juilliard String Quartet, which was established in 1946, have been the premier coaches for student string quartets at Juilliard for more than 50 years. The Juilliard String Quartet now consists of violinists Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes, violist Samuel Rhodes, and cellist Joel Krosnick.

The members of the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet, named Lisa Arnhold Fellows, are admitted to the School's Artist Diploma program, receive stipends and free tuition, coach regularly with the Juilliard String Quartet, participate in the annual Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, and perform an annual New York recital in Alice Tully Hall. As teaching assistants to the Juilliard String Quartet, the resident quartet coaches other student ensembles and assists in the freshman-year String Quartet Survey class. The quartet has exclusive use of a rehearsal studio and full access to all other Juilliard facilities. While this is a two-year residency, quartets must be invited to return for the second year.

While at Juilliard, the resident quartet is encouraged and expected to pursue its own performing schedule. The quartets that have participated in this program, established in 1986, are the Afiara, Attacca, Avalon, Biava, Calder, Cassatt, Colorado, Corigliano, Essex, Lark, Maia, Magellan, Mirò, Shanghai, and St. Lawrence Quartets.

Please note that we are not accepting applications for the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet program this year. However, if you would like to apply for the 2013 - 2014 academic year, applications will be available September 2012.

Application procedure:

• The completed application, application fee ($50.00 check or money order, payable to "The Juilliard School"), and a standard music CD (consisting of three complete works, one each from the Classical, Romantic, and contemporary periods), must be received by the Admissions Office by the appropriate deadline in 2013.
• Applications and pre-screening CDs will be reviewed by the Juilliard String Quartet; selected quartets will be invited to audition in person.
• The live audition will be held in 2013 at The Juilliard School.  Quartets should not make any travel or lodging arrangements until they receive their pre-screening results. The audition repertoire will consist again of three complete works, one each from the Classical, Romantic and contemporary periods.  Repertoire may be repeated from the pre-screening CD.

For further information, please contact:
Monia C. Estima, Associate Director of Admissions
The Juilliard School
60 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, New York 10023
(212) 799-5000, ext. 223
mestima@juilliard.edu