A Best of State Experience
The Lyceum Youth Orchestras at American Heritage School include ten ensembles serving youth across the Wasatch Front. This inspiring brand of music education is open to all students—regardless of where they attend school—and is sponsored and hosted at our new downtown Salt Lake City campus. Combined with its sister campus in Utah County, it forms the largest and most comprehensive youth orchestra program in the state and has been recognized as one of the premier music education institutions in the country.
Lyceum ensembles have received annual recognition from the Best of State organization since 2008. The Lyceum Philharmonic has been featured on PBS, recorded for SONY Masterworks, performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, hit the top of the Classical Billboard Charts and inspired millions worldwide through its YouTube performances. In all its endeavors, these student ensembles strive to fulfill a three-fold mission:
- Inspire — nurture a love of elevated music, increased faith, and patriotism through purposeful events and media
- Instruct — develop self-discipline, skills, and character through transformational teaching and professional-level experience and interaction
- Impact — awaken individuals, families and communities to the power of music to change hearts and minds while fulfilling divine potential
Unparalleled Opportunity
Beyond the opportunity to record albums, launch YouTube videos, and perform in top-tier venues, we program opportunities for student musicians to be mentored by and perform with a wonderful array of guest artists. The Lyceum Symphony at the new Salt Lake Campus recently performed with Jenny Oaks Baker and recorded for an international broadcast by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Recent collaborations include performing and recording with Marie Osmond, Nathan Pacheco, The Piano Guys, Jenny Oaks Baker, Daniel Beck, and more!
“The Lyceum Orchestras Program is an incomparable combination of everything that music is meant to be — joy, refinement, belonging, and fun. It offers kids the kind of opportunities that make music exciting and cool. It provides an environment that isn’t blindly affixed upon purposeless perfection, but rather a more selfless pursuit of excellence. My favorite part of Lyceum is its inherent spirituality. There is a special feeling suggesting a profound development not only of the body and mind, but of the soul.”
— Steven Sharp Nelson, The Piano Guys
