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ACM School of Music
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ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
Chicago’s ACM School of Music is part of our larger non-profit organization that promotes music by living composers and, as such, we are especially interested in teaching creativity alongside traditional note reading.
We incorporate music theory into the lessons so that our students, kids and adults alike, have a solid understanding of the building blocks of music. Understanding chords and key relationships is an important part of knowing how music works.
Our teachers are highly trained, and have years of experience in communicating musical concepts to all ages and learning types.
We have schools in the following Chicago locations:
Avondale/Logan Square: 2860 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Ravenswood: 1758 W. Wilson Ave
Rogers Park: 7002 N. Western Ave.
Current Lessons
As a non-profit with the mission of bringing musical creativity to life every day, the ACM School of Music encourages our students to create their own music in addition to learning the fundamentals in all of our private lessons and classes.
- In-Person
- Virtual
- All
Piano
Composition
Guitar
Violin
Classes
As a non-profit with the mission of bringing musical creativity to life every day, the ACM School of Music encourages our students to create their own music in addition to learning the fundamentals in all of our private lessons and classes.
film scoring class
Work with a group to score a new silent film by a living director and hear it performed live to the film as part of our festival
INSTRUCTORS
Meet Our Teachers
ACM teachers have a wealth of experience teaching private lessons virtually and in person in an engaging way to all ages and all are gigging musicians.
TESTIMONIALS
ACM currently teaches 340 students in three locations and virtually. Hear what our students have to say!
Thank you for all that you’ve done for the Film Scoring Class If this class didn’t exist, I probably wouldn’t have been able to explore and pursue this thing I’m so passionate about and so enjoy.
Joanie Cox
Student
ACM is a great place to take lessons! My son Ezra has improved at the cello so much since starting there and he's even composing his own music now!
Marcia Shuminas
Parent
Love this school! I came in wanting to learn a Yann Tiersen song and my teacher got it by ear, transcribed it and taught me to play it.
Rob Ryan
StudentEXPERIENCE
Explore our upcoming festivals / concerts
The ACM School of Music is part of a larger non-profit organization with the mission of bringing musical creativity to life every day. Check out some of our upcoming events!