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Celebrate National Book Lovers Day with these Interlochen alumni authors.

Last spring, Peter Sparling returned to the place where he first discovered dance to share his passion with a new generation of dancers.

Visual Arts Division looks to a future in fashion design with new program

Coming to Interlochen Arts Academy was a "lifesaving experience" for Jonnah Speidel (aka Our Lady J) on both artistic and personal levels.

The gift will create a new waterfront park on Green Lake, at the core of Interlochen’s historic campus. 

Kleeman—who gave a public reading during her visit as part of the Interlochen Arts Festival—encouraged students to embrace and explore the “unknowns” in their writing that so often cause writer’s block.

Not even the heat could deter the crowd that began forming on the Mall hours before “Collage” began.

$100 million comprehensive fundraising campaign gives opportunity to unite through the power of the arts.

Free college fair to be held in Kresge Auditorium on Monday, July 25 from 2-4 p.m.

Ross Karre (IAA 00-01, IAC 98, 00) is percussionist and director of production for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) based in New York City.

The 2015 Interlochen Shakespeare Festival production of As You Like It garners four nominations from EncoreMichigan.com.

From The New Yorker: In his final year at the New York Philharmonic, the musical director produced a tour-de-force survey of contemporary classical music.

Interlochen leads consortium of national universities to produce first viola concerto by acclaimed composer James Syler.

Three Interlochen alumni are among those participating in the Seventh Cliburn International Piano Competition June 19-25, 2016.

Interlochen Arts Academy has announced its theatre titles for the 2016-17 academic year, bringing a selection of stage staples and a "lost work" of Shakespeare to the Interlochen campus.

From Musical America: "In an inspiring afternoon titled “Young Americans” at David Geffen Hall, the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra presented four works written since 2003—three of them by women—as part of the New York Philharmonic Biennial."

From the AFP story in the Daily Mail: "In a first, the New York Philharmonic tasked a high school orchestra to premiere works, bringing teenagers' fresh-eyed enthusiasm to contemporary music."

From BroadwayWorld.com: "Muhly's So Far So Good also featured the world premiere of The Good So Far, a dance piece choreographed by Christopher Williams and ably performed by the Interlochen Arts Academy Dance Company. The technique and expressive power of the dancers was at a level beyond their years."

From the New York Times: "On Sunday afternoon, high school students of the venerable Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, drawn from around the nation and abroad, took the stage of David Geffen Hall with the 'Young Americans' program."

The Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and Dance Co. made their debut as part of the 2016 NY Phil Biennial.

Dr. David Montee, Instructor of Theatre at Interlochen Arts Academy, recently was selected as an honorable mention recipient of the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University's Excellence in Theatre Education Award.

From IPR's Meg Gruits, an interview with NY Phil Biennial composer Nico Muhly.