She moved to New York City to attend the famous Juilliard School of Music.

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The maestro James De Preist is drilling a student conductor at the Juilliard School of Music.

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Lauded as a child prodigy, Hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted into Manhattan's prestigious Juilliard School of Music at the age of 7.

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He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Columbia and the Juilliard School of Music in New York where his mentors included the late Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, who is still composing and will celebrate his 100th birthday next month.

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