“I love the work that I’ve done as a dance educator isn’t only focused on training tomorrow’s future artists, but also sharing this art form with a broad student body for the simple value of how it touches and transforms our lives.”

Sibelius Academy students visit Colburn from the pre-collegiate student exchange program with Colburn’s Music Academy.

One of the world’s most esteemed violinists, Colburn School alumna Anne Akiko Meyers regularly performs around the world as soloist with leading orchestras, in recital, and as a prolific recording artist with more than 40 releases.

Maestro James Conlon recounts his lifelong fascination with Debussy, in particular the landmark 20th-century opera Pelléas et Mélisande.

“Dancers have to look at everything that has ever been made: buildings, paintings, this Earth, the planets, the universes…observing everything [and] explore and challenge mainstream notions…. People have to find out who they really are. That’s the first quest.”—Alonzo King