text: Nadia Reisenberg – pianist Ruggiero Ricci – violinist
  David Robertson – conductor
  Christopher Rouse – composer
  Henning Rübsam – choreographer
  Michel Saint-Denis – actor, director
  Olga Samaroff – pianist
  György Sándor – pianist
  Carl Schachter – Schenkerian analyst
  Peter Schickele – composer, humorist, best known for his P. D. Q. Bach character
  William Schimmel – composer, accordionist
  Alan Schneider – director
  William Schuman – composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, founder of the Juilliard String Quartet
  Roger Sessions – composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music
  Marian Seldes – actor
  Marcella Sembrich – voice teacher
  Orli Shaham – pianist
  Oscar Shumsky – violinist
  Abbey Simon – pianist
  Liz Smith – actor
  W. Stephen Smith – voice teacher
  Bern Nadette Stanis – actor, dancer
  Anna Sokolow – choreographer
  David Soyer – cellist
  Clifton Taylor – theatrical designer
  Léon Theremin
  Andrew Thomas – composition
  Tracie Thoms – actress
  Antony Tudor – choreographer
  William Vacchiano – trumpeter
  Melinda Wagner – composer
  Wendy Wasserstein – playwright
  Grace Welsh – pianist, composer
  Earl Wild – pianist
  Teddy Wilson – pianist
  Stefan Wolpe – composer
  Oxana Yablonskaya – pianist
  Resident ensembles
  American Brass Quintet *
  Juilliard String Quartet *
  School presidents
  Frank Damrosch (1904–1926)
  John Erskine (1926–1937)
  Ernest Hutcheson (1937–1945)
  William Schuman (1946–1961)
  Peter Mennin (1962–1984)
  Joseph W. Polisi (1984–2018)