About

Holly Stewart Franz is a professional piano teacher in the Lehi/Highland area of Utah. She has been working with students for over 35 years, teaching private and group piano lessons, organ lessons, AP Music Theory, and general music classes in California, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Spain. Her studio includes beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of all ages who are studying the piano for personal enjoyment in addition to preparing for festivals, competitions, recitals, exams, and other performances. Her students have been accepted into music programs at colleges throughout the country including the University of California Irvine, California State University Long Beach, California State University Fullerton, Gonzaga University, University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University Idaho, University of Utah, Graceland University, and St. Olaf College.

Mrs. Franz is an active member of the Music Teachers’ National Association, Utah Music Teachers’ Association, Encore Piano Teachers Association, Music Teachers’ Association of California, National Federation of Music Clubs, and the American Guild of Organists and she has served on the boards of many of those organizations. The daughter of musician parents, she began playing the piano at age 3 and soon after began performing and competing. As a teenager she studied with Dottie Ogle Nix and Susan Bana. She studied with Dr. Jeffrey Shumway at Brigham Young University where she majored in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy. 

Mrs. Franz uses her musical skills to serve and create music in the community. She sings and volunteers with the Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, she directed elementary school choirs for several years, church choirs and orchestras, and she has been a church organist for 25 years.

Mrs. Franz is married with 4 children and a new son-in-law, who all sing and play musical instruments. Over the years the Franz home has been filled with the sounds of the oboe, cello, violin, guitar, ukulele, and of course, the piano.

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