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.
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?
Learn about the 2024 ILMEA Large Group Festival Series for middle school and high school ensembles. This non-competitive adjudicated festival series is open to bands, choirs and orchestras, and new for this year - instrumental jazz ensembles!
Learn more about the individuals running for the ILMEA Board of Directors on the Fall 2024 ballot! Voting in the Fall 2024 ILMEA elections will take place online starting November 1.
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!
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.
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!
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!
Look back at the highlights of the 2024 Illinois Music Education Conference in our IMEC photo gallery! Join us as we revisit the moments of collaboration, learning, and musical excellence from this past January in Peoria.
Open to students spanning grades 6 through 12, the ILMEA Remix Contest challenge invites student musicians and creators to bring their own point-of-view into Hamelka's emotive composition.
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.