The Juilliard School

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Mission Statement

Since its earliest years, the mission of The Juilliard School has been to educate performing artists. Nearly a century after the School?s founding, however, the role of the performing artist has evolved as the world in which artists function has undergone dramatic transformations and as challenges to the social fabric of our nation have threatened support for the presentation and study of the performing arts. Recognizing the increasing obstacles that our young people will face as they pursue careers as performing artists, the School has refined and expanded its statement of mission to include four goals: 1. Juilliard?s central mission is to educate talented performing musicians, dancers and actors so that they may achieve the highest artistic standards, as well as becoming leaders in their professions. Through this process we will also help them to become thoughtful, confident and responsible adults. 2. Juilliard should make every effort to provide students with the emotional, social, professional and educational foundation necessary for them to embark on successful careers and productive lives as artists, leaders and citizens. 3. The Juilliard education should continue to elevate its high educational and artistic standards, while also inculcating in students a sense of their own professional responsibilities for enhancing the classical arts and for enabling those arts to serve society more effectively. 4. Juilliard should take an active, not passive, role in shaping the future of the classical arts, both by intensifying its internal commitment to artistic education and by reaching beyond its doors to help the classical arts thrive anew.