Miguel Angel Corzo became President & CEO of The Colburn School this July. L.A.’s Colburn School is one of the leading performing arts educational institutions in the nation. From 2000 he served as President and CEO of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he led an increased enrollment; a significant expansion of the physical plant; an overall technology-based campus; a 375 percent growth of the endowment; and received a gift of $50 million, the biggest in the University’s history. He has been the Director of the Getty Conservation Institute in L.A., and Under Secretary of State for the Mexican Ministry of Tourism, among other positions. An undergraduate at UCLA, Migel Angel did his doctoral work in Munich and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard. He received Unesco’s distinguished Medal of Patron of the Arts along with Vaclav Havel, Yehudi Menuhin and King Carlos of Spain. Miguel Angel has authored 21 books, produced 15 television documentaries on the arts and culture, and organized sixteen major museum exhibits around the world. He was twice appointed by President Clinton to serve on special advisory committees.
