Name: Guest Artist Masterclass: Laura Melton
Start: 2025-10-08T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Idyllwild Arts

Idyllwild Arts students and community members are invited to join a guest artist masterclass featuring musician Laura Melton! Join us to hear young musicians work with this world-class artist in the inspiring setting of William M. Lowman Concert Hall.
Laura Melton, Professor of Piano at Bowling Green State University, has won competitions and awards including the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and a Fulbright Grant for study in Germany (Freiburg Musikhochschule). She has performed with major orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra (Kennedy Center in Washington, DC), the San Francisco Chamber Players, and the Toledo Symphony, and has been featured on Südwestfunk Radio (Germany), Kol Israel, Radio Nacional de España and National Public Radio’s Performance Today in celebration of the birthday of composers, John Corigliano and Samuel Adler. Melton received rave reviews for her Naxos American Classics Series CD, Solo Piano Works of Sebastian Currier. Gramophone hailed her as “an artist who can tame formidable technical beasts and bring colorful delineation to a multiplicity of moods and textures. The New York Times praised her playing as “expressive and with dexterous flair.” Her principal teachers included Nelita True, John Perry and Robert Levin. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and student of Michael Coonrod, Melton taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp for 12 years and the Idyllwild Arts Academy from 1993-99. Her students have won numerous competitions and awards and have continued their studies in programs such as Juilliard, Peabody, Eastman, Oberlin, New England Conservatory, and Curtis.