Thomas teaches and was the chairman of the Composition Department at the Pre-College Division at Juilliard from 1969 to 1994.

In 1994, the Juilliard School appointed him the Director of the Pre-College Division.

The bride's father is the chairman of the history and composition departments in the Pre-College Division of Juilliard.

In 2011 he joined the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory's Pre-College Division in Boston.

In 2007, she joined Juilliard as a member of the faculty of the school's Music and Pre-College Divisions.

The Pre-College Division teaches students enrolled in elementary, junior high, and high school.

The Pre-College Division began as the "Preparatory Department", part of the Institute for Musical Art.

It is now named the Pre-College Division, with Olegna Fuschi as its first director.

The students of Juilliard School's Pre-College Division get less attention than the closer-to-stardom college students, but it is worth keeping tabs on the next generation as well.

She also studied at the Juilliard School, beginning in its Pre-College Division and continuing while a student at Columbia.