Encore Creative Center
  • Welcome
  • About
    • Testimonials
    • Instructors
    • Our Story
    • Our Founder-Director
    • FAQ's
    • Franchise Opportunities
  • Private Lessons
  • Class Types
    • Winter-Spring 2025
    • Theatre/Improv/Acting
    • Piano Alive / Uke Alive
    • Other Music / Bands
    • All Visual Arts
    • All Tech / Film
    • All Other/Hands-On Learning
  • Summer 2025
    • Summer 2025 Weekly
    • Summer Variety Camps (ages 5-10) at Meridian
    • Summer Special Topic Intensives at Eagle
    • Summer Youth Symphony 2025
    • Piano Alive / Uke Alive
  • Micro School
  • Broadway at Encore
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Community Arts Rave - June 14 2025
    • Teen Nights
    • Innovative Science Program
    • Recent Past Events >
      • Free Open Mics
      • Spring Day Camps
      • Spring Bouquet Workshop
      • Branch Weaving Workshops
      • Collage & Mixed Media Workshops
      • Musical Production Workshops
      • Fall 2024 Showcase
      • Gift Making Workshops
      • Cinematography and Editing Course
      • Date Nights (Creative Kids' Care)
      • Free Aspiring Authors Group
      • Rug Painting Workshop
      • Petals and Pumpkins
      • Pour Painting Workshop
      • Mary Poppins 2024
      • Purely Danika: Immersive Solo Concert
      • Rock Painting Workshop
      • Spring 2024 Showcase
      • Teen Glow Night
      • Valentine's Craft Night
      • Tony Segale Brush Lettering Immersive Workshop
  • Students / Signups
    • New Student Registration
    • Student Resources >
      • Current Student Portal
      • Spring 2025 Recital Signups
      • Policies + FAQ
      • Financial Help
      • Emerging Creatives Scholarship Application
      • Withdrawal Form
      • Merch
      • Promo Partners
      • Certifications
      • Musical Learning Styles
      • Songs that teach music
      • Shine Again
  • Services
    • Encore the Magazine
    • Recording Studio
    • Starrharrt Symphonic
    • Private Parties
    • Field Trips
    • Rental Instruments
    • Advertise with Us
  • Franchise
  • Contact
  • Spring 2025 Showcase

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


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Book a Personal Discovery Day to tour Encore with our founder-director
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S Meridian, ID campus
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Danika Starrharrt
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Eagle, ID campus


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's first Eagle location. 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 40 professional, positive instructors who, respectively, teach nearly all musical instruments, visual arts mediums, and performing arts.


In 2022, our second location in Meridian opened. In spring of 2024 Danika and crew built our own recording studio (www.encorerecording.studio). In November of 2024, after packaging our best curriculums and proven operations we became legal for franchising and expanding the excellence of Encore around the country. Read more about franchising opportunities at www.ownanencore.com.


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, 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.


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​Join the Joy - Live the Excellence
We are one community and one mission, but two Treasure Valley locations for your convenience.
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FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE: Open an Encore near you

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NORTH TREASURE VALLEY CENTER 
1045 S Ancona Ave #140, Eagle, ID 83616
Desk Hours:
​​Mon-Fri 11:00am-7:00pm
208-570-9674

(The center is also open for students during any other scheduled lessons or classes.)
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SOUTH TREASURE VALLEY CENTER
3017 S Meridian Rd, Meridian, ID 83642
Desk Hours:
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​Mon-Fri 11:00am-7:00pm
208-570-9622

(The center is also open for students during any other scheduled lessons or classes.)


Apply to Work at Encore
  • Welcome
  • About
    • Testimonials
    • Instructors
    • Our Story
    • Our Founder-Director
    • FAQ's
    • Franchise Opportunities
  • Private Lessons
  • Class Types
    • Winter-Spring 2025
    • Theatre/Improv/Acting
    • Piano Alive / Uke Alive
    • Other Music / Bands
    • All Visual Arts
    • All Tech / Film
    • All Other/Hands-On Learning
  • Summer 2025
    • Summer 2025 Weekly
    • Summer Variety Camps (ages 5-10) at Meridian
    • Summer Special Topic Intensives at Eagle
    • Summer Youth Symphony 2025
    • Piano Alive / Uke Alive
  • Micro School
  • Broadway at Encore
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Community Arts Rave - June 14 2025
    • Teen Nights
    • Innovative Science Program
    • Recent Past Events >
      • Free Open Mics
      • Spring Day Camps
      • Spring Bouquet Workshop
      • Branch Weaving Workshops
      • Collage & Mixed Media Workshops
      • Musical Production Workshops
      • Fall 2024 Showcase
      • Gift Making Workshops
      • Cinematography and Editing Course
      • Date Nights (Creative Kids' Care)
      • Free Aspiring Authors Group
      • Rug Painting Workshop
      • Petals and Pumpkins
      • Pour Painting Workshop
      • Mary Poppins 2024
      • Purely Danika: Immersive Solo Concert
      • Rock Painting Workshop
      • Spring 2024 Showcase
      • Teen Glow Night
      • Valentine's Craft Night
      • Tony Segale Brush Lettering Immersive Workshop
  • Students / Signups
    • New Student Registration
    • Student Resources >
      • Current Student Portal
      • Spring 2025 Recital Signups
      • Policies + FAQ
      • Financial Help
      • Emerging Creatives Scholarship Application
      • Withdrawal Form
      • Merch
      • Promo Partners
      • Certifications
      • Musical Learning Styles
      • Songs that teach music
      • Shine Again
  • Services
    • Encore the Magazine
    • Recording Studio
    • Starrharrt Symphonic
    • Private Parties
    • Field Trips
    • Rental Instruments
    • Advertise with Us
  • Franchise
  • Contact
  • Spring 2025 Showcase