text: Directors program The Andrew W. Mellon Artist Diploma Program for Theatre Directors was a two-year graduate fellowship that began in 1995 (expanded to three years in 1997) and was discontinued from autumn 2006.
  Sam Gold (Directors 2006)
  Music division
  The music division offers a four-year Bachelor of Music (BM) degree, a Master of Music (MM) degree, a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree, an Artist Diploma (AD), or a diploma. In prior years it also awarded B.S. and M.S. degrees.
  Bruce Adolphe – composer, author
  Edie Adams – singer, actress
  Sophia Agranovich (Pre-college 1973, BM  1978, MM 1979) – pianist
  Hanan Alattar – soprano
  Charlie Albright – pianist, composer
  John Aler – lyric tenor
  Susan Alexander-Max (BS 1965, MS 1966, piano) – fortepianist
  Greg Anderson (BM 2004, MM 2006, piano) – pianist, composer
  Helen Armstrong – violinist
  Şahan Arzruni (Diploma 1965, BS 1967, MS 1968, piano) – pianist
  Lera Auerbach (BM 1996, piano; MM 1999, composition) – pianist, composer
  Nathaniel Ayers (1972, double bass) – bassist
  Christian Badea - conductor
  Jenny Oaks Baker – violinist
  Chase Baird – saxophonist
  Huáscar Barradas – flautist
  Jon Batiste – pianist
  Enrique Batiz – pianist
  Jon "Bowzer" Bauman – Sha Na Na bass vocalist, classical pianist
  Larry Thomas Bell – composer
  Bob Berg – saxophonist
  Harold Blair – tenor
  Serge Blanc – violinist, conductor, academic