- Masterclass on HBO (official website)
- Masterclass on Simon & Goodman Picture Company (official website)
- Masterclass (2010) at IMDb
Masterclass is an American documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience of a small group of young artists working with a famous mentor. The series premiered on HBO on April 18, 2010, with opera star Plácido Domingo working with three aspiring young singers.[1][2]
The students in the program are chosen from participants in the Miami-based organization, YoungArts, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which supports emerging artists.[3] The series is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of the Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The Executive Producer is Lin Arison.
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 9 | April 18, 2010 | June 27, 2010 | |
| 2 | 7 | May 28, 2012 | May 22, 2013 | |
| 3 | 5 | September 9, 2013 | October 14, 2014 | |
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Guest | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Plácido Domingo | April 18, 2010 | |
| Spanish opera star Plácido Domingo works with three young singers focusing not on technique but on how to convey feeling and emotion in their performances. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | Liv Ullmann | April 25, 2010 | |
| Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann works with a group of young actors on scenes from A Streetcar Named Desire. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | Edward Albee | May 2, 2010 | |
| American playwright Edward Albee, whose works include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Zoo Story, and A Delicate Balance, works with four budding playwrights to share his analysis of their work. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | Jacques d'Amboise | May 9, 2010 | |
| American ballet dancer and choreographer Jacques d'Amboise helps a group of young dancers to create a dance in five hours and then takes the show to the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | Olafur Eliasson | May 16, 2010 | |
| Danish installation artist Olafur Eliasson, whose works include New York City Waterfalls and The Weather Project at London's Tate Modern museum, invites 5 young artists to his studio in Berlin and works with them on an environmental art project.[4] | ||||
| 6 | 6 | Frank Gehry | June 9, 2010 | |
| Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, whose buildings include Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, works with aspiring architects on a city-planning project. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | Bill T. Jones | June 13, 2010 | |
| American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, who founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and has choreographed for film, Broadway, and opera, works with seven young people (a writer/actress, Alix Briggs, a choreographer, Kacey Hauk, and a supporting cast of three dancers and two actors) to create an original work in three days.[3] | ||||
| 8 | 8 | Michael Tilson Thomas | June 18, 2010 | |
| Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and the New World Symphony Orchestra, works with three young virtuoso musicians. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | Julian Schnabel | June 27, 2010 | |
| American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel invites a group of young photographers, painters and sculptors into his studio for a critique of their work and a discussion of how he approaches his own work. | ||||
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Guest | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | Renée Fleming | May 28, 2012 |
| 11 | 2 | Bobby McFerrin | February 12, 2013 |
| 12 | 3 | John Guare | March 4, 2013 |
| 13 | 4 | Patti LuPone | April 1, 2013 |
| 14 | 5 | James Rosenquist | May 22, 2013 |
| 15 | 6 | Bruce Weber | May 22, 2013 |
| 16 | 7 | Kathleen Turner | May 22, 2013 |
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Guest | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | Wynton Marsalis | September 9, 2013 |
| 18 | 2 | Josh Groban | January 21, 2014 |
| 19 | 3 | Anna Deavere Smith | February 17, 2014 |
| 20 | 4 | Alan Alda | September 16, 2014 |
| 21 | 5 | Joshua Bell | October 14, 2014 |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Episode | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program | Lin Arison, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon | N/A | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Outstanding Children's Program | Sheila Nevins, Lin Arison, Jackie Glover, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon | N/A | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Children's Program | Sheila Nevins, Lin Arison, Jackie Glover, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon | Wynton Marsalis | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Children's Program | Sheila Nevins, Lin Arison, Jacqueline Glover, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon | Alan Alda | Won |