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| Mannes School of Music at The New School | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mannes School of Music at The New School |
| Established | 1916 |
| Type | Conservatory |
| Parent | The New School |
| Location | New York City, New York, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
Mannes School of Music at The New School is a conservatory located within The New School in New York City, offering degree programs in classical and contemporary music performance, composition, and music theory. Founded as an independent institution in 1916, the school became part of The New School in 1989 and later integrated with the College of Performing Arts and other units, maintaining strong ties to Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and numerous ensembles and cultural institutions across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and beyond. Mannes combines a legacy connected to figures such as Leopold Stokowski, Serge Koussevitzky, and Béla Bartók with contemporary collaborations involving artists from John Cage to Yo-Yo Ma.
Mannes traces origins to the 1916 founding by Clara and David Mannes, connecting early curricula to pedagogues like Sergiu Celibidache, Artur Schnabel, Heinrich Schenker, and associates of Arnold Schoenberg, while engaging with institutions such as Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Royal College of Music. During the interwar and postwar eras, Mannes interacted with performers and conductors including Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Marian Anderson, Eugene Ormandy, and Arturo Toscanini, reflecting shifts in repertoire toward works by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Antonín Dvořák, and Gustav Mahler. The 1960s and 1970s saw faculty exchanges with avant-garde figures like Philippe Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Morton Feldman, and partnerships with venues including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Metropolitan Opera House. After formal affiliation with The New School in 1989, Mannes expanded programs and joined collaborative initiatives with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Museum of Modern Art, New York Philharmonic, and WQXR.
Mannes operates under the governance of The New School leadership, reporting to the President of The New School and coordinating with the Provost of The New School, the College of Performing Arts, and the Mannes dean and board. Administrative structure includes divisions for Jerome L. Greene Science Center-style research initiatives, departmental chairs for composition, performance, and music theory, and committees liaising with external bodies such as American Symphony Orchestra League, League of American Orchestras, National Association of Schools of Music, and cultural partners like Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. Financial and development activities engage with donors and foundations connected to names including Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation.
Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degrees including Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Artist Diploma programs, with curricula emphasizing repertoire from Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and 20th- and 21st-century composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, Benjamin Britten, György Ligeti, and John Cage. Programs include performance, composition, conducting, collaborative piano, and music theory and musicology tracks engaging with scholarship traditions from Heinrich Schenker and Charles Seeger while fostering contemporary techniques associated with Electronic Music, Music Technology, and practitioners like Morton Subotnick, Paul Lansky, and Dan Trueman. Mannes curricula incorporate chamber music, orchestral studies, opera collaborations with entities like Metropolitan Opera, and cross-disciplinary projects with Parsons School of Design, School of Drama (The New School), and departments linked to New School for Social Research initiatives.
Faculty and visiting artists have included performers and teachers such as Isaac Stern, Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Kurt Masur, and composers like Elliott Carter, Frederic Rzewski, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Joan Tower. Alumni and affiliates span diverse careers: performers and composers including Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Levon Helm, Felix Mendelssohn-related lineage performers, Ned Rorem, John Adams, Gustavo Dudamel-associated trainees, and collaborative artists who have worked with institutions such as New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Opera House, Berlin Philharmonic, and festivals like Tanglewood Music Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA.
Located in Greenwich Village and adjacent neighborhoods, Mannes shares facilities with The New School and maintains performance spaces near Alice Tully Hall, Zankel Hall, and rehearsal studios integrated with Judson Memorial Church-linked venues. The school leverages practice rooms, recording studios influenced by technologies from Berklee College of Music partnerships, and libraries collaborating with collections at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Library (The New School), and archives connected to figures like Aaron Copland and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Proximity to Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Metropolitan Museum of Art supports student engagement with large-scale productions, residencies, and masterclasses.
Admissions involve auditions, portfolio review, and interviews with panels of faculty and guest artists drawn from New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, and Royal Academy of Music. Student life includes participation in ensembles, chamber series, and collaborations with organizations such as New Music USA, Bang on a Can, American Composers Orchestra, and student groups connected to neighborhoods like SoHo and Chelsea. Financial aid, scholarships, and fellowships are administered in coordination with offices that manage grants from Fulbright Program, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and private benefactors.
Mannes maintains partnerships with cultural institutions including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Museum of Modern Art, Apollo Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, WQXR, New Music USA, Bang on a Can, and international conservatories such as Royal College of Music, Conservatoire de Paris, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Moscow Conservatory, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. These collaborations support exchanges, joint performances, residencies, and commissioning projects involving composers and performers like John Adams, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and ensembles including Juilliard String Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Category:Music schools in New York City Category:The New School