Masterclass (TV series)

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]

For other uses, see Master class (disambiguation).

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.

Episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	9		April 18, 2010 (2010-04-18)	June 27, 2010 (2010-06-27)
2	7		May 28, 2012 (2012-05-28)	May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22)
3	5		September 9, 2013 (2013-09-09)	October 14, 2014 (2014-10-14)

Season 1 (2010)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
1	1	Plácido Domingo	April 18, 2010 (2010-04-18)
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 (2010-04-25)
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 (2010-05-02)
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 (2010-05-09)
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 (2010-05-16)
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 (2010-06-09)
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 (2010-06-13)
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 (2010-06-18)
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 (2010-06-27)
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.

Season 2 (2012–13)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
10	1	Renée Fleming	May 28, 2012 (2012-05-28)
11	2	Bobby McFerrin	February 12, 2013 (2013-02-12)
12	3	John Guare	March 4, 2013 (2013-03-04)
13	4	Patti LuPone	April 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
14	5	James Rosenquist	May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22)
15	6	Bruce Weber	May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22)
16	7	Kathleen Turner	May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22)

Season 3 (2013–14)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
17	1	Wynton Marsalis	September 9, 2013 (2013-09-09)
18	2	Josh Groban	January 21, 2014 (2014-01-21)
19	3	Anna Deavere Smith	February 17, 2014 (2014-02-17)
20	4	Alan Alda	September 16, 2014 (2014-09-16)
21	5	Joshua Bell	October 14, 2014 (2014-10-14)

Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

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	[5]
2013	Outstanding Children's Program	Sheila Nevins, Lin Arison, Jackie Glover, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon	N/A	Nominated	[6]
2014	Outstanding Children's Program	Sheila Nevins, Lin Arison, Jackie Glover, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon	Wynton Marsalis	Nominated	[7]
2015	Outstanding Children's Program	Sheila Nevins, Lin Arison, Jacqueline Glover, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon	Alan Alda	Won	[8]