All-State results are now live in director accounts! Congratulations to all of the Band, Chorus, Orchestra, Jazz, FMES and Composition students who will be joining us for All-State student programs in Peoria in January!
Registration Now Open for IMEC 2025!
Registration is now open for the 2025 Illinois Music Education Conference! Join us for three days filled with inspiring sessions, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. This is your chance to connect with fellow music educators, share ideas, and discover new strategies to enhance your teaching.
ILMEA Orff Instrumentarium Loan Application
Are you looking to incorporate more Orff into your music classes? Are you excited to begin but need the instruments? Now is the time to apply for the EGM Instrument loan program from ILMEA! With this program, you can apply to use the 13 piece ILMEA Orff Instrumentarium to be housed and used at your school for the second half of this school year. What better way can there be to enrich your students’ music education and demonstrate to your administrator how important these instruments can be to your program?
Registration Open for 2025 Large Group Festivals
Meet the Candidates
What's New in JSGM?
If you want to see where some of the biggest and most varied growth has been happening within ILMEA over the past few years, you’d need to take a look at the Junior/Senior General Music (JSGM) division! With new festivals, album streaming releases and an expanded Composition Contest there’s lots to catch up on to see how you and your students can get involved!
Junior High All-State Chorus FAQ
ILMEA is excited for the inaugural Junior High All-State Chorus in January 2025 in conjunction with the 2025 All-State Student Programs and Illinois Music Education Conference! As with any new program, we know that educators, administrators and parents will have many questions. This FAQ will help to address these questions so that everyone is as prepared as possible for this outstanding experience.
Announcing 2025 Large Group Festival Dates & Sites
Join us for the 2025 ILMEA Large Ensemble Festival series! We invite all middle and high school band, orchestra, and chorus programs to participate in this event, designed to deliver outstanding educational experiences in high-quality performance venues with valuable feedback and clinics from renowned adjudicators. And new for 2025 - a Large Group Festival site for Instrumental Jazz!
End-Of-Year Resources for Chapters
If your junior high or high school is home to an Illinois Music Honors Society chapter, you’ll want to check out the resources at www.ilmea.org/chapters! You’ll find graduation cords, pins, and certificates along with a sample script that can be used for induction and recognition ceremonies. These are great ways to recognize and celebrate your student musicians!
IMEC 2024 Highlights *New Photos Added!*
Remix "Failed Relationships" for 2024-2025 Contest!
Recordings + Merchandise from All-State 2024
Composition Contest Honorees Announced
Student Chapter Information & Resources
IMEC 2023 Revisited in Webinars
IMEC 2023 Revisited! If you were unable to attend IMEC, or if you attended but could not make it to all the sessions you wanted this is your chance to gain some of that valuable information that you may have missed! These are LIVE webinars, so you will be able to interact directly with the presenters and some of the content as presented at IMEC may be new and updated. Webinars are free for current ILMEA members ($30 each for nonmembers).
2023 Illinois Arts in Education Week!
IMEC 2024 Clinic & Performance Applications
22-23 Composition Contest Honorees Announced
Congratulations to this year’s honorees in the ILMEA Student Composition Contest! This was a record-setting year for entries across the various categories - thank you to all students who submitted their work! Each piece entered will receive written feedback from our panel of professional composers, producers, songwriters and artists who adjudicate this contest.
EGM & Junior High Webinar Series
*UPDATED* 2023 Large Group Festival Series
ILMEA is thrilled to announce the launch of the Large Ensemble Adjudication Festival taking place in 2023! We invite all participating middle and high school band, orchestra, and chorus programs to join us in this unique event designed to bring our musical community together for world-class performance venues, invaluable feedback from renowned adjudicators, inspiring performances, and the opportunity to support fellow educators and students from around the state!