The Story of Encore
"It's time for the world to experience the arts from a fresh perspective: immersively hands-on, down-to-earth, and truly exceptional. Starting with our own community, people need a safe place to come where it's normal to be amazing."
-Danika Starrharrt, Encore founder/director
-Danika Starrharrt, Encore founder/director
S Meridian, ID campus
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Danika Starrharrt
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Eagle, ID campus
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Encore Creative Center exists in order to bring quality creative education in many fields all under one roof (or two roofs now!). Encore first opened its doors in 2021, founded by Danika Starrharrt, a successful musician and educator who had already been recording, performing and teaching music full time for almost two decades. Having outgrown her personal home studio (True Song Studio) in Meridian at 220 students strong, it was time to serve thousands more and impact the whole Treasure Valley. So in that summer of 2021, Danika went to work gathering local artists, performers, and musicians to become fellow instructors at Encore. It was important that each instructor be masters of their work and also masters of communicating their joy to others. Guided by Danika's attention to high quality, today the Encore team consists of more than 25 professional, positive instructors who, respectively, teach nearly all musical instruments, visual arts mediums, and performing arts.
Our vision is to keep expanding and ultra-fine tuning our programs, listening to every student we work with and providing all the steps to make their creative dreams come true and scale up beyond their expectations. In time we aspire ourselves to grow beyond our current facilities and also open a large theater space, an art gallery, recording studio, and retreat accommodations.
We believe creating is not just a luxury. It's a necessity. It brings every part of us into harmony inside and calms some of the chaos in the world around us.
As Danika says, "It's not enough to have fun, and it's not enough to be amazing. Joy and Excellence have to meet." Come experience that joy and excellence in harmony at Encore, where creative goals become reality.
