1927: The first college courses are offered.

1934: The college and junior divisions are incorporated as the Julius Hartt Musical Foundation.

1942: Music education courses are approved.

1943: Hartt presents the first, complete opera on television, Hansel and Gretel, (General Electric TV station, WRGB in Schenectady, New York) directed by Moshe Paranov.


1948: Hartt is granted the authority to give the Master of Music degree.

1950: Hartt is voted a full member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

1951: The State Board approves the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music Education degrees.

1951: State Legislature passes an act creating the Hartt College of Music, while the Julius Hartt School of Music continues as a school of music on the non-professional level.

1993: The Hartt School of Music is renamed The Hartt School with the additions of dance and theatre programs.

1997: Mary Primrose Fuller bequeaths $19 million to The Hartt School.

1999: The van Rooys donate $500,000 to The Hartt School and create the van Rooy Fund for Musical Excellence to set up funds for undergraduate students, graduate students, or alumni who are studying piano or violin to compete in national and international music competitions.

1999: The Hartt School Theatre Division presents the first annual New Plays Festival giving students the opportunity to work on several new plays and collaborate with the playwright, helping give shape to a new production.

2000: The Hartt School renames the Department of African American Music The Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz.

2001: The Hartt School in collaboration with the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies becomes the first NASM-accredited School to offer a Bachelor of Music in pre-cantorial studies.