Colburn’s Music Academy provides pre-college training essential for exceptional young performers like you, who want to dedicate themselves to music with an eye on becoming a professional. We help you reach your full artistic potential and instill a broader awareness of how music can be beneficial to building community.
The Colburn Music Academy has allowed me to take what I've accomplished in the practice room out onto the stage. This has been a groundbreaking experience. Hannah Geisinger, viola, class of '15, now a Kovner Fellow at the Juilliard School
The Colburn Music Academy has allowed me to take what I've accomplished in the practice room out onto the stage. This has been a groundbreaking experience.
Our comprehensive curriculum includes private instruction with top faculty, studio classes and chamber music, music theory and history, and ear training, as well as enrichment studies in career development and personal presentation skills. Students perform regularly, both on campus and throughout Los Angeles, and participate in master classes. Alumni have gone on to study at top music schools, including Juilliard, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Colburn Conservatory of Music.
If you would like to be added to our database, you may complete our Music Academy Inquiry Form. Once submitted, we may notify you of special events or deadlines using the information that you provide to us on the Music Academy Inquiry Form.
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Winner of numerous awards and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Harp Society
Joan Kwuon is a critically-acclaimed soloist, described by The New York Times as “fiery, intensely musical and impassioned.”
Holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the Colburn School
One of the most important pianists and pedagogues who has won many top prizes worldwide