ABOUT ST. FRANCIS MUSIC CENTER
St. Francis Music Center is a Sally Ordway Irvine Award winning community music school for the performing arts located in central Minnesota. The Music Center also received the 2019 Out-Standing Arts Organization from the Five Wings Art Council.
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We believe that music and the arts are a key to nonviolence, to celebrating our many cultures, and to finding the good in humanity. Music brings pleasure and achievement into our lives. Everyone is welcome at St. Francis Music Center!
Please call, stop in or send an email if you have any questions about our classes, events, scholarships or general information: (320) 632-0637 and info@sfmusiccenter.org.
BACKGROUND
St. Francis Music Center opened its doors in the Fall of 1979 with four teachers offering private and group lessons in piano, strings, winds and dance. The Music Center now has a staff of 17 professional teachers. Sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, St. Francis Music Center is located on the second floor of St. Francis Center on the Franciscan Campus. Also located in this building is St. Francis Health and Wellness Center.
The Music Center offers private and group lessons for students of all ages in piano, guitar, orchestral strings, voice, band instruments, preschool piano, and percussion. We offer classes in dance, preschool music, theory and composition.
FINANCIAL AID
Financial Aid is offered to families with low incomes or special circumstances through grants from the Laura Jane Musser Fund; Minnesota State Arts Board; Pine Country Bank; Mille Lac Band of Ojibwe; Central Minnesota Community Foundation; and many private donations. Financial Aid pays half of the tuition costs. For more information, please call the Music Center Office at (320) 632-0637 or email rgray@fslf.org.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Five Wings Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.