Meet Our Celebrated Faculty & Staff
Merit School of Music’s expert teaching artists and staff create a deep, inspiring, and motivating learning experience for music-lovers from across Chicagoland.
Get to know the faces of Merit who are dedicated to ensuring music students of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels are able to reach their full musical and personal potential.
- Faculty
- Staff
Department Chairs | Brass | Early Childhood | Ensembles | Guitar | Jazz | Percussion | Piano | Strings | Theory & Composition | Voice & Choir | Woodwind
Department Chairs
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Early Childhood & General Music
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Ensembles
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Evan Bruno
Department Chair: Voice; Choir Director: Merit Music in Communities
Piano
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Strings
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Hillary Bayley
Faculty: Violin & Viola
Voice & Choir
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Woodwind
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Kenneth Leftridge Jr.
Faculty: Saxophone