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.
ILMEA Audition Etude Commission Project Update
Remix "Failed Relationships" for 2024-2025 Contest!
Commercial Music - Soundtrack Composition Workshop
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!
New Blog Post: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
“I loved enjoying all the music. The Jazz and Student Composition Concerts were incredible. It was so fun to watch people just as passionate for music as I am.”
I was so thrilled to read this quote from one of our participating All State Students, upon reviewing our 2022 Student Surveys. It evokes exactly the type of experience we are intending to bring to all our state’s most dedicated music students: collaboration, community and a shared love for music performance.
2022 Illinois Arts in Education Week
IMEC 2023 Clinic & Performance Applications Open
2022 All-State Merchandise
Illinois Music Honors Society & Illinois Collegiate Music Education Association Chapter Information
Calls for Research for Publication and Presentation!
ILMEA seeks to promote and celebrate research through the inclusion of a regularly-occurring research feature in the journal as well as the poster and paper presentations as part of the Illinois Music Education Conference.
ISBE & Aerosol Studies: Key Takeaways for Music Education
Plans for returning to in-person learning this fall are ongoing, as we all know. As music educators work with school administration to build the best plan for music students, ILMEA is providing a one-sheet with key takeaways from the most recent ISBE guidance and the updated aerosol study reporting. This way, music educators and administrators have a quick reference sheet as they collaborate on plans fo the fall.