Music Lessons


Smiling Strings

Smiling Strings

Providing high quality music instruction for Chicago’s North Side and surrounding communities for 22 years! The program currently operates out of 12 schools as well as the Elston Ave. studio location (one block north of Foster.) Major concerts are held at least twice a year, even for our newcomers! The tuition is comparable, often lower, than other options in Chicago.   Forest Glen 5249-B N Elston...

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String Academy of Chicago

String Academy of Chicago

The String Academy of Chicago is dedicated to providing the highest level of music education for students of all ages who wish to study the violin, viola, cello, guitar, or piano. The curriculum includes private lessons, chamber music, recitals and other performance opportunities. Instruction is based upon the methods and philosophies of Mimi Zwieg, Paul Rolland and Shinichi Suzuki.


Musical Arts Institute

Musical Arts Institute

Working together with co-founder and Co-Executive Director, Lana Manson, the couple has organized an amazing team of professional musicians/educators to provide outstanding music instruction in Chicago’s under served areas.  Both Mike and Lana are graduates of Northwestern University (Bienen School of Music) and have a cumulative total of more than 30 years of experience in Music Education. The team established the school’s home office on...

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CAPE Chicago

CAPE Chicago

CAPE inspires students to be passionate about their education by weaving visual and performing arts into their classroom lessons. To bring academic subjects to life through art, we partner teaching artists with Chicago Public School teachers to develop original, creative lesson plans. These lessons integrate music, dance, drama, digital art, video and photography into classrooms; and, they also expand learning beyond school walls into community...

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Sherwood Community School of Music

Sherwood Community School of Music

Sherwood, the Community Music School at Columbia College Chicago, is a gateway for anyone who wants to be engaged in the arts. We offer high-quality and accessible music, dance and performance classes that are as social, vibrant and diverse as our growing South Loop neighborhood. Early Childhood music and movement classes, Kids music classes, Adult classes in music, dance and theatre. Individual lessons for ages 4...

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Urban Getaways

Urban Getaways

Urban Gateways delivers high-quality arts programs led by trained and experienced professional artists in music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts, and digital media to engage youth in grades pre-K through 12, their teachers, families, and communities. Urban Gateways teaching artists collaborate with school teachers, administrators, and art specialists to develop and deliver engaging, integrated curricula for all types of learners.   The Loop 205...

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Bella Angel Music

Bella Angel Music

Bella Angel Music is a leader in the music business and is where to go for Chicago and suburb music lessons! We have been providing music lessons to all ages since 1986. We offer our students the highest quality of music education, including music reading, theory, and performance coaching. Our faculty is made up of professional music educators and musicians who are trained and have...

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Bucktown Music

Bucktown Music

Our child-centered play-based Kindermusik classes take you on a musical journey with your child from birth, all the way into music lessons.  We educate parents along the way with music, games, information about your child’s musical development, and teach you what skills your child needs to master before starting private instrument study. We proudly offer classes for students of all ages.  Whether you are looking...

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Chicago School of Guitar Making

Chicago School of Guitar Making

Chicago has a rich tradition in guitar making – it used to be the Guitar Making Capital of the World! But with the growing inclination of big US companies manufacturing their instruments outside the US using CNC machines instead of traditional building techniques, and nearly all electronics vocational programs being withdrawn from our schools, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for the budding student interested...

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