text: Rolande Maxwell Young – composer, pianist
  Terence Yung – pianist
  Camille Zamora – soprano
  Charlotte Lois Zelka – pianist
  Bernard Zinck - violinist
  Eva Maria Zuk – pianist
  Pinchas Zukerman – violinist
  Princess Rani Vijaya Devi of Kotda Sangani & Mysore – pianist
  Notable teachers
  Samuel Adler – composer
  Bruce Adolphe – composer
  JoAnne Akalaitis – director
  Joseph Alessi – principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic
  Nancy Allen – harpist
  Baruch Arnon – piano, graduate studies, chamber music
  René Auberjonois – actor
  Emanuel Ax – pianist
  Sergei Babayan – pianist
  Milton Babbitt – composer
  Jon Robin Baitz – playwright
  Julius Baker – flutist
  Adele Laeis Baldwin - voice teacher, contralto
  Brian Bedford – actor
  Luciano Berio – composer, founded the Juilliard Ensemble
  Ron Blake – saxophonist
  Eric Bogosian – playwright
  George Frederick Boyle – pianist
  Henry Brant – composer
  William Burden – voice teacher, tenor
  Kendall Durelle Briggs – music theorist, composer
  Bruce Brubaker – pianist
  Maria Callas – opera singer
  Elliott Carter – composer
  Ron Carter – double bass
  Antonio Ciacca – business of jazz
  Timothy Cobb – double bass
  John Corigliano – composer
  Alfredo Corvino – ballet master
  Frank Damrosch – composer
  Bella Davidovich – pianist
  Giuseppe De Luca – opera singer
  Dorothy DeLay – violinist