Celebrating the past – and the future
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A year ago, on Aug. 12, the staff at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint took the first step of many toward establishing itself as an …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A year ago, on Aug. 12, the staff at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint took the first step of many toward establishing itself as an …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Passersby at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s building at 110 Main St. may have noticed the two public pianos on the sidewalk have received an …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s been an exciting year for the Sandpoint Music Conservatory. In September 2019, MCS announced it had completed the purchase of the downtown Sandpoint building …
By Katherine Greenland
Reader Contributor
The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint recently completed the purchase of the building at 110 Main St. After 10 years of occupying the nearly 12,000-square-foot building …
By Kathi Samuels
Reader Contributor
For the past seven summers, the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint has invited students from different countries to create a collaborative youth orchestra featuring talented students …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
In William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part I,” the young nobleman Hotspur has an existential moment as he considers the brevity of life.
“The time of …
By Katherine Greenland
Reader Contributor
Five local students from the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint brought home distinguished medals from MusicFest Northwest on May 17. Jacinta Howard earned a gold medal …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Two Music Conservatory of Sandpoint students will play a Mother’s Day Tea Time piano concert on Sunday, May 11, at 1 p.m. at the Heartwood …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An orchestra is all about creating something bigger than the sum of its parts, and that’s a perfect metaphor for El Sistema.
The international orchestral …
By Reader Staff
They say that opportunity doesn’t ring twice, but that isn’t true about having the opportunity to play alongside premiere cellist Zuill Bailey in concert. If you heard …
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