Karin Wedemeyer of Bel Canto Opera & The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint

This week we're sitting down with Karin Wedemeyer, founder and executive director of both the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint and Sandpoint's Bel Canto Opera.Since its founding in 2009, the Sandpoint Conservatory has grown to the point where it has an accredited, professional staff of around 20 and teaches several hundred students every year.The conservatory also hosts and organizes events like the North Idaho Flute Festival, the Music Matters! after-school program, concerts by the North Idaho Philharmonia  as well as Bel Canto's vocal performances and light operas.Karin sheds some light on how this very European model of music education found its way to Sandpoint, why humor is one of opera's best ambassadors and some of the things she misses about German Weihnachtsmärkte.Thanks to the the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture for sponsoring this episode.