David Adler Cultural Center
Libertyville IL 60048The David Adler Music and Arts Center is dedicated to promoting music and the arts as an integral part of everyday life. Its year-round activities are designed to foster critical thinking and interpr more…
Augustana College
Rock Island IL 61201-2296Augustana College has a reputation for preparing outstanding music educators. Students participating in this vibrant program are drawn to the small class size and the individual attention they receive more…
Bradley University
Peoria IL 61625The Department of Music at Bradley University offers Bachelor of Music degrees in Performance, Music Education, and Composition. There is also a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Music and a Bac more…
Chicago College of Performing Arts, The Music Conservatory
Chicago IL 60605Chicago College of Performing Arts brings together its professional degree programs in The Music Conservatory and The Theatre Conservatory. CCPA provides professional training for actors, musicians, a more…
Conservatory of Central Illinois
Champaign IL 61820The Conservatory is organized to provide opportunities for quality music education and experiences in East Central Illinois. The Conservatory promotes a lifelong appreciation of and interest in music more…
DePaul University School of Music
Chicago IL 60614-3296The DePaul University School of Music is committed to preparing its students to excel in a variety of professional careers. Through the study and performance of music, we foster the development of our more…
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst IL 60126Elmhurst’s music programs lead to careers in all aspects of the industry, including music business, teaching, and performance. more…
Harper College
Palatine IL 60067The Department of Music at Harper College is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost music programs among two-year institutions of higher learning. It has offered and maintained a distinguished more…
Illinois State University
Normal IL 61790-2200Our mission is to nurture and develop the talent and potential of each of our students, engaging them in rigorous training, to produce the best possible musicians, educators and individuals possible. more…
Illinois Wesleyan Universiity
Bloomington IL 61702-2900The School of Music at Illinois Wesleyan offers an intensive program of study based on a tradition of excellence and, at the same time, forward-looking and flexible curricula geared to the needs of th more…
Lake Forest Symphony Music School
Lake Forest IL 60045Our mission is to develop a life-long appreciation of music through the training and nurturing of future musicians and music audiences. The Music School is a certified member of the National Guild of more…
McHenry County Music Center
Crystal Lake IL 60014-6101The McHenry County Music Center (MCMC) offers private instruction in orchestral instruments, piano, guitar, voice and musicianship at our facility in Crystal Lake. Seven private studios and one larger more…
Merit School of Music
Chicago IL 60607Merit School of Music provides high-quality music education to students in metropolitan Chicago. Its primary goals are to help young people achieve their full musical potential, to remove economic bar more…
Millikin University School of Music
Decatur IL 62522Our mission statement is clear, to develop the whole musician – artistically, intellectually, and technically through the integration of theory and practice. To that end, our faculty is dedicated to e more…
Music Academy of Rockford College
Rockford IL 61108-2393The Rockford College Music Academy is a not-for-profit community school of music dedicated to providing high quality, affordable instruction, and performance opportunities to academy students, regardl more…
Music Arts School
Highland Park IL 60035The mission of Music Arts School is to provide outstanding music instruction, helping students develop their artistic skills, foster their cognitive and creative growth, and experience the joy and enr more…
Music Institute of Chicago
Winnetka IL 60093We’re the Music Institute of Chicago, established in 1931, the only independent community music school in Illinois, and one of just ten in the country to be accredited by the National Association of S more…
North Park University School of Music
Chicago IL 60631North Park University has a long history beginning in Minneapolis in 1891. Largely because the Swedish immigrants who founded the school were a singing community, music immediately became an important more…
Northern Illinois University Community School of Music
DeKalb IL 60115The mission of the NIU Community School of the Arts is to promote artisitic growth among all people in the community. The school encourages lifelong involvement in the arts and to this end provides a more…
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Evanston IL 60208-1200A life devoted to music can follow many different paths — performer, scholar, teacher, arts administrator, critic. Each requires talent, dedication, and commitment as well as a belief in the imp more…
Northwestern University Music Academy
Evanston IL 60208For more than 70 years, Northwestern University’s Music Academy has provided community music instruction to children and adults from Evanston and the surrounding North Shore. The Academy serves as a l more…
Old Town School of Folk Music
Chicago IL 60625The Old Town School of Folk Music teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse American and global communities. As we begin our 50th year in 2007, enrol more…
Sherwood Conservatory of Music
Chicago IL 60605Sherwood Conservatory of Music is an urban center for comprehensive community music education. A member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, the Conservatory trains gifted young mus more…
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Edwardsville IL 62026-1600For 50 years, SIUE has been preparing music majors for satisfying careers. With a distinguished and caring faculty and successful alumni, we offer the finest music degree program in the St. Louis area more…
Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians
Chicago IL 60622For 25 years, the Suzuki-Orff School of Music has built a tradition of music in the lives of our students and their families. We provide an engaging, relaxed approach to music education that helps chi more…
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music
Urbana IL 61801The mission of the School of Music is to advance the art of music and its related disciplines. It seeks to educate students in the various fields of the profession and to promote an understanding of m more…
VanderCook College of Music
Chicago IL 60616VanderCook College of Music is the only college in the country solely devoted to the preparation of music educators. For over 90 years, VanderCook graduates have been inspiring others through a love more…
Western Illinois University
Macomb IL 61455-1390The School of Music at Western Illinois University is commited to a dual mission within the university: Helping each undergraduate and graduate music major and music minor to be the best musician s more…
Wheaton College Community School of the Arts
Wheaton IL 60187Founded in 1970, Wheaton College’s Community School of the Arts (CSA) currently enrolls 1500 students from over 50 communities throughout the greater Chicago area. Since its inception, the school has more…
Wheaton College Conservatory of Music
Wheaton IL 60187-5593The Conservatory of Music functions both as a professional school with courses leading to the Bachelor of Music and the Bachelor of Music Education degrees, and as a department of the College, offerin more…
DePaul Community Music Division Adult Chamber Music Workshop
Chicago IL 60614The DePaul University School of Music is committed to preparing its students to excel in a variety of professional careers. Through the study and performance of music, we foster the development of our more…
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music
Urbana IL 60614The mission of the School of Music is to advance the art of music and its related disciplines. It seeks to educate students in the various fields of the profession and to promote an understanding of m more…
Midwest Young Artists Chamber-Music Camp in Lake Forest, IL
Highwood IL 60040Midwest Young Artists (MYA) is the largest and most comprehensive youth ensemble music program in the Midwest. Founded in 1993 with one orchestra, MYA currently reaches over 600 students from 74 citie more…
National High School Music Institute
Evanston IL 60025An integral part of Northwestern University’s acclaimed School of Music, the National High School Music Institute offers an intimate look at collegiate-level music study and music as a career. With a more…
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale’s Summer Music Festival
Carbondale IL 62901SIUC offers summer programs for all ages. more…
The People’s Music School
Chicago IL 60640The Peoples Music School creates a world of harmony, creativity, and passion by fostering the universal language through free music instruction and performance. more…
Benedictine University
Lisle IL 60532The music program and its courses are designed to: 1. Provide opportunities to better understand and appreciate various kinds of music and their relationships to culture, education and history; more…
Chicago IL 60605Students in Columbia’s Music Department have the unique opportunity to expand their musical goals by interacting with virtually every department on campus Film/Video, Audio Arts & Acoustics, Theater more…
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston IL 61920The nationally accredited Department of Music takes pride in its tradition of providing exceptional training for music educators, performers, and composers. Our highly-qualified faculty is deeply comm more…
Kennedy-King College
Chicago IL 60612Study of basic music theory, composition and performance for the student who intends to transfer to a four-year college or university. This specialization can lead to employment as professional music more…
Millikin University
Decauter IL 62522Our mission statement is clear, to develop the whole musician – artistically, intellectually, and technically through the integration of theory and practice. To that end, our faculty is dedicated to e more…
North Central College
Naperville IL 60540The Department of Music at North Central College equips you with the skills, knowledge and experience to be a successful musician or music educator who stands out from the crowd. Regardless of your ac more…
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb IL 60115The School of Music offers a B.M. degree with a variety of areas of study, a B.A. degree, an M.M. degree with a full complement of majors, and the Performer’s Certificate. We have individualized degre more…
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale IL 62901SIUC School of Music has completed our move back into Altgeld Hall, our historic home that recently underwent an $11 million renovation. We now have a state of the art facility for the study of music more…
University of Illinois
Urbana IL 61801The mission of the School of Music is to advance the art of music and its related disciplines. It seeks to educate students in the various fields of the profession and to promote an understanding of m more…
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago IL 60607-7130The Department of Performing Arts (DPA), a unit of the College of Architecture and the Arts, offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music or Theatre and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. DPA’s mi more…
Ravinia Festival
Highland Park IL 60035The Steans Institute for Young Artists is the Ravinia Festival’s professional studies program for young musicians. Four programs comprise the Institute’s summer season: the program for jazz; the class more…
Roosevelt University
Chicago IL 60655-1390Founded in 1867 as Chicago Musical College, and long recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding schools for the intensive and rigorous training of professional musicians, this premier institution b more…
University of St. Francis
Joliet IL 60435The Music program at the University of St. Francis is focused primarily on Choral-Vocal music; students can choose which program is right for them, including the Bachelor of Arts in Music, non-teachin more…
Chicago University
Chicago IL 60637
Founded in 1933, the Department of Music at the University of Chicago came to prominence in the 1960’s as a major ce more…