Leon Fleisher is one of the legendary pianists and musicians of our time. He began piano at age 4, gave his first recital at age 8, and commenced studies with Artur Schnabel at 9. At 16, he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic. But at age 37, with a booming career, he was suddenly struck silent when two fingers of his right hand became immobile due to focal dystonia. This curtailed his concert career for nearly forty years. But he never gave up the hope of playing with two hands, and recently, almost miraculously, regained the use of his right hand and has enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and a vibrant performing career as he approaches his 80th birthday.

Liz Diller is a principal and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Their work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print. DS+R is currently working on various projects for Lincoln Center such as the Julliard School, Alice Tully Hall, and the School of American Ballet; The High Line, a park situated on the obsolete railway running through Chelsea; and the Kopp Townhouse, a private residence. DS+R’s new building for the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art opened in December 2006. DS+R has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the first in the field of architecture; the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian; the Brunner Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from MIT; an Obie Award for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for their multi-media theater work, "Jet Lag”; and a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the "Blur Building," a building made of fog for the Swiss Expo 2002.

Pulitzer Prize Winner, MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Genius grantee, recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Dickson Prize in Science, and many other awards, Jared is a professor at UCLA and author of the acclaimed Guns, Germs and Steel.

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.

Jim Citrin is one of the world’s leading executive search advisors. He is a Senior Director and member of the worldwide Board of Directors of Spencer Stuart. A best-selling author, his books on leadership have brought an analytic and disciplined clarity to the understanding of the potentials and qualities of great leaders: how they arise and why they blossom. His latest book, The Dynamic Path, studies the patterns of great champions and extraordinary leaders in a multitude of domains, and garnered him an adjunct professorship from the United States Olympic Committee at their newly created Olympic University.

Caleb Chung has been an actor, writer, comedian, street mime, producer, special effects designer and toy inventor. His entertainment credits include Coppola’s One From The Heart, the TV series The Jeffersons, and mechanical effects for Total Recall and Darkman, among others. But he may be most known for a toy: Caleb was the co-inventor of Furby which generated more than $1.2B in worldwide sales. His latest creation is Pleo, an animatronic dinosaur coming to life this year.

Angelin Chang won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Performance with Orchestra. She is recognized for her poetry and technical brilliance and has performed in major concert halls on five continents. She has studied at Peabody, the Paris Conservatoire, Ball State University and Interlochen under teachers including Michel B?roff, Marie-Francoise Bucquet, Veda Kaplinsky, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Menahem Pressler, Dorothy Taubman and others. Angelin currently is head of keyboard studies and professor of piano at Cleveland State University.

Keith Black chairs the Department of Neurosurgery and is Director of the Dunitz Neurological Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He served on the UCLA faculty for 10 years as Professor of Neurosurgery. Dr. Black has pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly into tumors without surgery. His work has been profiled on PBS in The New Explorers, and in TIME’s special edition of Heroes In Medicine. He serves on editorial boards for several journals and on numerous commitees for NIH and professional academies. Since 1987, he has performed more than 5,000 operations for resection of brain tumors. At age 17, he published his first scientific paper (winning a Westinghouse Science Award) and completed all his undergraduate and medical degrees in just 6 years.

Yves Béhar is the founder of fuseproject, an integrated design agency dedicated to the development of the emotional experience of brands through story-telling. His designs have contributed to fields of technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion for clients as diverse as Herman Miller, MINI, Nike, Cassina, Microsoft, J&J, Swarovski, Birkenstock, Toshiba, Sony, Target and Coca-Cola. Time named him as one of 25 visionaries for 2007. He is a recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award, and has been featured in solo shows at SF MoMA and at the Musée de design et d’arts contemporains in Lausanne. His career has included posts at frogdesign and Lunar design in Silicon Valley. Yves is also chair of the Industrial Design Department at California College of the Arts.

Philanthropist and explorer, John recently rediscovered his Dad's submarine, The Grunion, which was lost in WWII.

John Abele is Cofounder and a Director of Boston Scientific Corporation. His Dad’s submarine, The Grunion, was lost in WWII and recently found. We’ll learn more about that. His major interests are science literacy for children, education, and the process by which new technology is invented, developed, and introduced to society. He’s Chair of the First Foundation which works with high school kids to make being science-literate cool and fun; and oversees The Kingbridge Centre whose mission is to research, develop, and teach improved methods for interactive conferencing: problem solving, conflict resolution, strategic planning, new methods for learning and generally helping groups to become “collectively intelligent.” He lives with his wife, two dogs and a cat on a neat farm in Vermont.