Kelly Dylla

Kelly Dylla is the vice president of education and community engagement at the Seattle Symphony. Prior to this post, she led the Pacific Symphony’s audience engagement program to deepen and broaden audiences’ experiences with orchestral repertoire. In this role, Kelly initiated and produced a county-wide public art project and awareness campaign, OC Can You Play?, leading to over 80 community performances throughout Orange County via online crowdsourcing tools. Kelly was also a teaching artist for major arts institutions including the Lincoln Center Institute and New York Philharmonic. A graduate of The Juilliard School with a Master of Music in viola performance, Kelly also holds a Bachelor of Music from Rice University and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she founded Arts Enterprise, a national chapter-based organization that creates communities of arts and business students to develop new ideas for a triple-bottom line of social, cultural, and economic growth.