Curtis Institute/ David Bilger/Frank Kaderabek

[quincytrumpet]

Hi all!
Has anyone attended Curtis for undergrad study? What is the competition like? How many are accepted into the studio? What are your opinions of David Bilger, and Frank Kaderabek? Do they turn out good students?

Thanks so much!

[alexwill]

It looks like they only take 1 or (possibly) 2 trumpets a year. (However, there were 3 graduates in 2009.)

click on TRUMPET. You'll see some names that will be familiar to you.

http://www.curtis.edu/about-curtis/history/full-alumni-listing/view-by-instrument.html

Curtis has the LOWEST acceptance rate of any school in the US. It is only 5.8%. (there might be another but I don't know of it.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-11-02-collegerates_x.htm

Some caveats: Data are from 2004, the latest year available, and because they're self-reported they are incomplete and subject to entry error. Filtering out colleges that accept fewer than 1,000 students cuts out not only scores of colleges with 100% acceptance rates, some with just one student, but also a number of highly selective schools, including conservatories and all-scholarship schools. The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, which is both, accepted 19 out of 330 applicants for a 5.8% acceptance rate.

[Brian Moon]

Frank hasn't been at Curtis for 3 years.

Generally there are 4 trumpet players at Curtis per year. I have never heard of there ever being more. We worked strictly on the seniority system when I was first there but when Frank arrived he started to change that. You need a more current attendee or grad to tell you what goes on now.

Class of 1978