The Music Matters! Youth Orchestra, Youth Choir, Percussion and Bell Choir groups play Christmas music in the First Lutheran Church on Wednesday at 6 pm. No tickets are needed for this concert. Suggested donation of $10 per family may be donated at the door.
Happy Holidays to all!
The Music Conservatory’s Bel Canto annual Christmas Concert will include Amahl and The Night Visitors from Menotti, a Children’s Opera. First Presbyterian Church, 521 E. Lakeside Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Donations welcome.
The Music Conservatory’s Bel Canto annual Christmas Concert will include Amahl and The Night Visitors from Menotti, a Children’s Opera. First Lutheran Church, 526 Olive Avenue. Donations welcome.
Tea Time Serenade is an opportunity to listen together to the warmth of classical music within Little Carnegie. Featuring the extraordinary talent of MCS faculty, with all proceeds benefiting the youth of our community who wish to learn to sing or play an instrument. Tickets $25 Adults, $10 Students.
This year’s North Idaho Flute Festival will be held Friday and Saturday with the flute competition and performance on Saturday, and the master class on Friday. All ages are welcome for this open format competition. Find all the details and festival activities on the registration page, online here.
Join us for our first-ever GLOBAL Concert for a Cause, featuring MCS, regional, and international artists. All ticket sales and donations support Music Matters!, our Conservatory outreach which bring year-long classes and performing groups to the youth of our town.
The program opens with the young and talented Daniel Beal, returning to Sandpoint to perform Grieg’s iconic piano concerto alongside the North Idaho Philharmonia, conducted by visiting Artistic Director, Jan Pellant. A portion of the night’s performance will also celebrate composer Anton Bruckner's 200-year anniversary, with his Symphony No. 7, followed by soprano Karin Wedemeyer singing the Four Last Songs by Strauss.
Bring the whole family and hear the magical sounds from our Music Matters! Summer Academy Orchestra and Choir.
4:30pm Friday, August 16 at North Summit Church, 201 N Division Ave, Sandpoint
2:30 pm Sunday, August 18 in Farmin Park, 3rd St & Main St, Sandpoint (weather permitting)
Concert is free, donations welcome!
Summer Academy 2024 has two, two-week sessions with different majors offered in each session. Session 2 features our Orchestra camp with guest conductor Jan Pellant, Artistic Director of North Idaho Philharmonia. Other majors in Session 2 include: Choir and Instrument Art Factory. Click here for more information or call our registrar, Heidi at 208-265-4444.
You are invited to listen to the final performances of Summer Academy Session 1 groups, including Percussion, Piano, Harp, Musical Theater and Woodwind.
Summer Academy Session 1 includes Percussion, Piano, Harp, Musical Theater and Woodwind.
Music Matters! Musical Theater presents The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, directed by Liz Iha. This musical is based on Beatrix Potter’s classic tales. This timeless favorite takes shape in musical form in a fun performance. Three shows:
2:30 PM Saturday, June 8
6:30 PM Saturday, June 8
2:30 PM Sunday, June 9
MCS’s beloved Summer Serenade fundraiser, showcasing the incredible talents of conservatory faculty in an intimate classical music setting. The firehouse doors will be closed for this 5 p.m. event. Adult tickets are $25 and youth are $10. Tickets available now, click here.
2024 Rising Stars Showcase presents top MCS students at the top of their game. Singers, flutists, pianists, and violinists will take the stage, their music resounding through Little Carnegie. The concert begins at 7 p.m.. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and available online or at the door. Tickets available here: Rising Stars Student Showcase
North Idaho Chamber Ensembles Piano Quartet featuring guest artist, Daniel Beal, will perform Mozart's E-flat Major Piano Quartet and Beethoven's C Major Piano Quartet No. 3. Tickets available now, click here.
7pm Saturday, May 25
5pm Sunday, May 26
In collaboration with POAC, the Music Conservatory is thrilled to host this esteemed visiting artist for a master class in Little Carnegie. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event !
Visit Tien’s webpage to learn more about this wonderful pianist.
The Music Conservatory is thrilled to host this esteemed visiting artist. Concert pianist and piano professor Peggy Reich began her piano studies at age 5 at The Hoff Barthelson Music School in New York, and continued through her teens with Baruch Arnon of the Juilliard School of Music. With increasing dedication to her music, she enrolled in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and studied under Menahem Pressler (The Beaux Arts Trio) and Dr. Joseph Rezits, where she earned a degree in piano performance. Tickets available now online - click here.
Peggy Reich presents Ostranenie Musicale, a recital that explores the mystery of 5 fingers performing as 10! Peggy will perform with the artistic technique of Ostranenie as she sends melodic tones, intertwined voices and rhythmic flow reverberating through Little Carnegie.
Student recitals give students the opportunity to perform the pieces they have been working on this semester. Sign up sheets will be in the main office, talk with your teacher about arranging a time for your student. Performances are broken into two sessions each day, beginning at 5:30pm and 7:00pm
Time is TBD for recitals, please check with the main office. Student recitals give students the opportunity to perform the pieces they have been working on this semester. Sign up sheets will be in the main office, talk with your teacher about arranging a time for your student.
Fabio Menchetti leads the workshop: Music by Living Composers. Appropriate for piano students, piano players and enthusiasts as well. No ticket is required for this workshop.
Pianist Fabio Menchetti is an active performer and teacher. Assistant Professor of Piano at Washington State University, he frequently tours the United States to share music in a variety of concert venues. He is dedicated to discovering the beauty of music with his audiences and students. Tickets available online here.
You are invited to attend this piano recital featuring Honors Alumni Aaron Wilcox and Pre-Honors student Michael Tiro. Enjoy fantastic music and encourage these students as they prepare for the Idaho Music Teachers Association State Competition. Free event in Little Carnegie, donations welcome!
Rachel Taylor Geier’s program is arranged like books on a musical shelf. Bookends: Watercolor Dreams to Vibrant Fantasies is inspired by the juxtaposition of pieces ranging from dreamy impressionist offerings by Claude Debussy to vibrant and virtuosic French works. Pieces between the bookends feature a triplet note structure, which, in essence, is also a miniature note-based bookend.
Dr. Taylor Geier’s musical journey is also a bookend. Beginning her flute studies in Sandpoint, Dr. Geier went on to receive degrees in Flute Performance from DePauw University, San Francisco State University, and a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She now returns to Sandpoint, to complete the bookend, as a guest artist for the Northern Idaho Flute Festival as well as for the MCS premier Conservatory Concert for Fall 2023. Tickets available online now or at the door the night of the concert. Adult: $30, Student $15.
You are invited to welcome Shira Samuels-Shragg to our region, and to help raise funds for the conservatory’s Music Matters! outreach. The “sip and shop” will be hosted at the Pend d'Oreille Winery, located on the corner of Third and Cedar Streets, in downtown Sandpoint. Fans of the symphony and those wishing to support the next generation of budding musicians are invited to attend.
MCS’s beloved annual Summer Serenade fundraiser, showcasing the incredible talents of conservatory faculty in an intimate classical music setting. Mingle in the Concert Hall after the performance. The firehouse doors will be closed for this 7 p.m. event. Adult tickets are $25 and youth are $10, available online here.
Summer Academy 2023 has two, two-week sessions with different majors offered in each session. Session 1 majors: piano, percussion, ukulele, marimba, musical theater and flute. Click here for more information or call our registrar, Heidi at 208-265-4444.
2023 Honors Showcase presents top MCS students at the top of their game. Singers, flutists, pianists, and violinists will take the stage, their music resounding through Little Carnegie. The concert begins at 7 p.m., with a reception immediately following. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and available online or at the door. Tickets available here: Honors Student Showcase (ticketspice.com)
Student recitals give students the opportunity to perform the pieces they have been working on this semester. Sign up sheets will be in the main office, talk with your teacher about arranging a time for your student.
MCS Musical Theater students are the stars in this adaptation of the well known and loved Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof. The play dives into the matter of tradition as it follows a Jewish man and his five daughters in Russia around the year 1905. Performances of Fiddler on the Roof Jr. are Saturday and Sunday. Adults $10, Students $5.. Tickets available online here.
MCS Musical Theater students are the stars in this adaptation of the well known and loved Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof. The play dives into the matter of tradition as it follows a Jewish man and his five daughters in Russia around the year 1905. Performances of Fiddler on the Roof Jr. are Friday and Saturday. Adults $10, Students $5. Tickets available online here.
MCS Musical Theater students are the stars in this adaptation of the well known and loved Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof. The play dives into the matter of tradition as it follows a Jewish man and his five daughters in Russia around the year 1905. Performances of Fiddler on the Roof Jr. are Saturday and Sunday. Adults $10, Students $5.. Tickets available online here.
A collaboration of Bel Canto Opera and NIPH, the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint presents Stabat Mater by Pergolesi. Join us at the First Presbyterian Church, 417 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint for a musical treat! Donations are welcome, not a ticketed concert.
Learn, Listen and Try! Come to an Early Music Sampling. This is one in a series presenting old world instruments. You can sign up in our main office for this free class. Join us as we step back in time to explore instruments you may have never heard before.
Learn, Listen and Try! Come to an Early Music Sampling. This is one in a series presenting old world instruments. You can sign up in our main office for this free class. Join us as we step back in time to explore instruments you may have never heard before.
