Based in Chicago, Merit School of Music provides music education to the youth since 1979. It offers private lessons and community outreach programs through a school-based music instructions system. The music school s programs reach to more than 6,500 students of all ages and abilities at various sites throughout Chicago. Its campus houses various classrooms, rehearsal halls, a recording studio, Clavinova piano laboratory, music library, a dedicated instrument storage room and a concert hall with more than 372 seating arrangement. It offers music lessons and programs for a wide range of instruments, such as brass, guitar, strings, band and wind ensemble, woodwinds, percussion, piano, chamber music, and orchestra and string ensemble. Merit School of Music also organizes various music festival and scripts and produces musical shows as well.