Music Arts School
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Music Arts School is a community music school in Highland Park, Illinois. It offers private lessons on guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboard, drums, world percussion, violin, viola, cello, saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder, and voice. It also has a curriculum of group classes including programs for both adults and early childhood.
Music Arts School began as a private music school in 1952. Pianist Mortimer Scheff founded the school and continued to head it until retiring in 2005. Since 2001, the school has functioned as a non-profit. Today, it continues to serve the North Shore of Chicago with individual music lessons and group music classes.
In the years since becoming a non-profit organization, Music Arts School has grown upon its base of individual instruction by creating a curriculum of group music classes. Current subjects include Adult Group Guitar, Jazz History, and Drum Circle. The school also continues its commitment to early childhood music education with programs including Music Together and Little Drummers.
