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Apogee Academy is more than just a collection of cutting-edge training programs; it’s a holistic and comprehensive initiative designed to empower gifted artists from diverse cultures to achieve their fullest potential throughout all phases of their career cycle.
Through collaboration with the world’s leading specialists, Apogee Academy programs integrate successful educational methodologies from both the East and West to create optimized environments that foster excellence in all aspects of artistic expression. Apogee Awards Laureates from around the world are always welcome to participate together in these programs on a fully sponsored basis, and thus make Apogee Academy the hub and central component of meaningful transformation and evolution in our Foundation’s virtuous circle of excellence.
In the coming years, the Foundation will embark on an exciting journey to enrich the world of artistic excellence by establishing permanent institutions to support emerging artists in achieving their most extraordinary potential. Through this endeavor, Apogee plans to revolutionize how the world experiences creative excellence and to inspire a new generation of elite creative artists who will move far beyond the present boundaries of the human imagination and expressive potential.
From the time our founders began their mission, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, The Apogee Foundation has sought to enable and empower the world’s most gifted emerging artists to realize their fullest potential on the world stage.
Apogee is a living testimony of the power of the arts to bring about progress at the highest levels in human and world affairs. Born in the wake of the Cold War, the Foundation served to bridge the gaps that separated peoples with troubled and antagonistic systems to pave the way to a brighter and more understanding future for all.
This fundamental aspect of Apogee’s mission continues to be a vital force in international affairs, as the Foundation enthusiastically embraces innovative intercultural programs uniting individuals across borders, faiths, and traditions.
Apogee believes in treasuring the world’s cultural diversity to inspire us toward a more harmonious, interconnected, and meaningful future. Apogee, therefore, aims to serve as a beacon of hope to unite the world through its commitment to this powerful vision of both humankind’s past and its future.
By 2006, Apogee Academy’s progress reached a seminal point when our efforts to bring together the most effective performing arts educational methodologies merged into the Foundation’s holistic Fusion Program. Designed to unite artists from a variety of cultural and training backgrounds, the Fusion Program empowers them all to break free from traditional modes of thought and performance in achieving unprecedented confluences and culminations of human artistic potential.
This trailblazing project has come to represent the ultimate multicultural and multidisciplinary training opportunity, enabling emerging artists to expand their creative awareness and skills of expression in ways no one (including them) could ever have thought possible. Today and always, we will remain committed to unlocking the world’s highest and greatest artistic potential, inspiring new forms of both creativity and performance in the process.
At Apogee, we believe that great creativity is generated from the fusion of best practices across cultures and disciplines: East and West, art and science. That’s why our patented Fusion Program merges these into systems that empower performing artists not just to achieve world-best standards, but to create entirely new ones. The creative integration of these diverse components in key ways at crucial junctures in emerging artists’ careers produces results far exceeding any sum of its parts.
The Fusion Program’s Artistic Development Division builds on our long history of collaboration with leading institutions, providing our beneficiaries with access to a globally integrated spectrum of educational, experiential, and promotional opportunities.
The Fusion Program’s Peak Performance sector serves as a set of goals and methodologies designed to elevate artists and individuals alike to the highest levels of success. By partnering with top leaders in the medical, therapeutic, and professional realms, we deliver an unparalleled range of technologies to empower our beneficiaries and help them thrive.
Through Apogee’s Synergy Programs, talented artists from diverse cultural backgrounds can join forces and generate creative electric energy unlike before. By leveraging their differences and relishing in their shared artistry and humanity, these gifted individuals bring about a collective power that far surpasses the magnificence of each part.
For emerging artists striving for their career breakthroughs, the cost of the equipment needed to perform on the highest international levels can be completely beyond their reach. Many aspiring talents come from countries that lack the resources to provide them with the necessities for creating the performance and creative art they are capable of.
In many cases, Apogee can serve as the beacon of hope for these individuals, providing them with the support they need to achieve their full potential despite their modest means. Our Foundation monitors needs and systematically acquires and maintains an inventory of the types of instruments and other equipment required for elite performing artists to succeed in their chosen professions, which we make available to our Apogee Awards, Apogee Academy, and Apogee Artists beneficiaries when needed.
When this need has passed, we offer the option to acquire the instruments for their use or to return them so that we can pass them on to another aspiring artist in need, perpetuating the virtuous circle of excellence that the Foundation continually seeks to keep in motion. Our collective aim is to ensure that nothing stands in the way of gifted artists fulfilling their greatest human potential on the world stage.
With Apogee’s unwavering commitment to excellence and its programs to make this possible for all on a strict merit basis, the highest achievements of the creative world are now within reach for gifted artists from all walks of life from all around the globe.