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Our Mission
Carmichael Piano Studio is a performing arts center committed to excellence in music education. It is our goal to provide each student with a secure understanding of music fundamentals, to develop performance abilities, and to teach the skills necessary to enjoy music for a lifetime.
Our Goals
As a studio, we offer a comprehensive and challenging program of performances, both judged and non-judged. The calendar year provides opportunities of involvement from the demanding to the non-threatening. Not all students take piano lessons for the same reasons. It is important that each student has a sense of participation and belonging regardless of ability and time. We provide all ranges of conditions so that each student can fit in.
Meet the Owner
Jim Carmichael
Jim has an extensive background in sacred music having played in churches since the age of eight. He is the nephew of Ralph Carmichael, one of the leading sacred music composers of the 1960s and 1970s. Jim has written and arranged sacred music for many years, produced four albums featuring young aspiring vocalists and bands.
Currently Jim is the principal organist at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall and Director of the Music Rockwall piano studio, now in it’s 30th year.
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Education
Studied piano and organ with Mrs. Elma Rankin Beeson for twelve years in Johnson City, Tennessee Received the Bachelor of Arts in Music Education in 1970 from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Masters of Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in May, 1982.
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Career
Jim Carmichael is a past President of the Rockwall Music Teachers Association and a member of the Music Teachers National Association. He has served on various committees of the Texas Music Teachers Association, most recently, the Music Theory Committee.
Jim is the Director of the Carmichael Piano Studio, one of the largest studios in the city, now in its 30th year of operation.
