Music students learn through personal interactions with faculty and guest musicians. Musicians who have visited Carthage include opera singers Nicole Cabell and Dean Peterson 75 voice specialist Donald Miller Steinway Artist Stephen Swedish Lion King actor Tonoccus McClain voice pedagogist Keith Bozeman violinist Frank Almond and composers Rollo Dilworth, Jocelyn Hagen, Libby Larsen, Jonathan Newman, Alex Shaprio, Frank Ticheli and Eric Whitacre, as well as the Aspen Ensemble, Fifth House Ensemble, Manhattan Brass, Ying Quartet and Zemlinsky Quartet.