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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
MCS Summer Academy 2022 culminates in two performances. Orchestra , conducted by Sylvia Nannette, Choir and Instrument Art Factory will perform at the Panida Theater on Friday, August 12 at 5pm and Orchestra and Choir will perform in Little Carnegie on Sunday, August 14 at 2:30pm. Suggested donation $5 (not a ticketed event).
Check our Summer Academy tab on our website for further details.
You have 3 chances to win one of 3 Samick/Greg Bennett Acoustic guitars. Prize value: $300, includes one guitar with its Gator soft case, and complimentary 45-minute lesson. Drawings on September 16, 23, and 30. You do not need to be present to win, we will contact you if your ticket is drawn. The first winner gets to choose which guitar they take home out of the 3, the second winner chooses from the remaining 2, and the final winner takes home the remaining guitar..
Summer Academy 2022 has two, two-week sessions with different majors offered in each session.
Session 1: July 11-22
Session 2: August 1-12
See our Summer Academy 2022 page for details
This event will be at the Music Conservatory, located at 110 Main St. in Sandpoint. Proceeds will support Levi’s tuition and travel expenses to attend Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Piano Program. Suggested donation: $10 adults, $20 family, donations accepted at the door.
Adjudication and evaluations for MCS students.
3-7pm Monday, March 28: Voice
3-7pm Thursday March 31: Strings&Woodwinds
Friday, April 1: Piano
Students may sign up for a time and day with Heidi. Recitals have two sessions each day beginning at 5pm and 6:30pm.
MCS Summer Academy 2021 featuring Jan Pellant as our Guest Conductor for Orchestra Camp!! Two 2-week sessions: July 19-30 and August 2-13. Check our Summer Academy tab for further details.
Enjoy works of the masters performed by our staff in our newly refreshed recital hall.
Sign up in the office. Recital session begin at 6pm and 7pm each day. Please contact us if you have questions about the format or would like to sign up! 208-265-4444
Adjudication and evaluations for MCS students, location TBD. April 12-16 from 3:30-7:00pm
Sylvia Ranette will lead a violin Studio Class. Attendance at this class will be limited due to current district health restrictions.
Claudia Funk will lead a violin Studio Class. Attendance at this class will be limited due to current district health restrictions.
