Pursue your music passion with FLC's Music Program

Become prepared to succeed as a performer, educator, promoter, or producer in today's musical world. Our small classes, never taught by graduate assistants, provide you with individualized attention. The Music Program faculty is unequaled by any comparable institution in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Accredited by NASM

We are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Your future employers and graduate program admission boards will know you're receiving a quality education.

Music program students will experience the following learning outcomes:

  • Musical Mastery
    • Master their instruments. If they're studying performance, they'll be really good at their main instrument.
    • Understand music and be able to use that knowledge to teach music, work in the music industry, or perform music.
  • Examining Musical Practices (Problem Solving)
    Study and talk about music from different cultures and time periods, and be able to explain their thoughts about it to help them in music careers.
  • Community Engagement (Communication and Professionalism)
    Use music to bring people together and help them learn about different cultures.
  • Professionalism
    • Make materials that show they're ready to work in music teaching, the music industry, or as a performer.
    • Show respect, be responsible, and do what they say they will do.
  • Effective Pedagogy (K-12 Education Only) (Problem Solving and Communication)
    Learn how to communicate with and teach music to elementary and high school students.

Upcoming music events

February
9

Artist in Residence - Peter Miyamoto, Piano

Recital

3:00 PM

Roshong Recital Hall

$15 for adults, K12 and FLC students admitted free of charge

Peter Miyamoto

Pianist Peter Miyamoto has enjoyed a brilliant international career, performing to great acclaim in recital and as soloist in Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, China, and Japan, and in major US cities such as Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.  In 1990, Miyamoto was named the first Gilmore Young Artist.  He won numerous other competitions, including the American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition, the D’Angelo Competition, the San Francisco Symphony Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition, and was a top-prize winner in the National Chopin Piano Competition.

Peter Miyamoto holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University School of Music, Michigan State University, and the Royal Academy of Music in London.  His teachers included Maria Curcio-Diamand, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Marek Jablonski, Aube Tzerko, and Ralph Votapek, as well as Szymon Goldberg, Felix Galimir and Lorand Fenyves for chamber music.  A dedicated chamber musician, he has collaborated with such musician as Charles Castleman, Victor Danchenko, Joel Krosnick, Lara St. John, Anthony McGill, Amit Peled, David Shifrin, Allan Vogel, singer Lucy Shelton, and members of the Juilliard, Borromeo and Pacific String Quartets.  He is the Executive Director of the Plowman Chamber Music Competition.

Currently Middlebush Chair of Piano at the University of Missouri, where he was also named 2021 Professor of the Year, Peter Miyamoto formerly taught at Michigan State University, and the California Institute of the Arts.  He has presented lectures and master classes through the Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard Festival and the Amadeus Piano Festival, at numerous music institutions including the Colburn School, Interlochen Academy of the Arts, Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan among many others, as well as internationally in Canada, Chinga, Greece, Japan and Serbia. From 2003-2015 he served as head of the piano faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival and has served on the piano faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music’s Young Artist Summer Program and the Curtis Mentor Network Program in Philadelphia. 

Miyamoto’s six solo CDs, available on the Blue-Griffin label, have received excellent reviews in periodicals such as Gramophone, International Record Review, Fanfare, and American Record Guide and were recognized by the American Prize. He has also recorded a CD with violinist Julie Rosenfeld of world-premieres of six works for violin and piano on the Albany label, produced by GRAMMY Award winner Judith Sherman.

February
11

Peter Miyamoto - Piano Master Class - Artist in Residence

1:00 PM

Roshong Recital Hall

Free Admission

Peter Miyamoto - Piano Master Class - Artist in Residence
February
25

Midday Music Student Recital

1:00 PM

Roshong Recital Hall

Free Admission

Day and Night Music