(Photo: Samantha Hankey) Ariel Horowitz — Music — From Bloomington, Indiana — “I am proud to be a Juilliard student. I am honored to be part of a community of human beings who not only strive for excellence, but who strive to use that excellence to do wonderful things in the world. At Juilliard, art is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. This is why we work hard every day as a community: to do good in the world.”