Academy students are invited to perform as soloists or in small ensembles at venues across the Chicagoland area on a regular basis.
All Academy Merit Scholarship Fellows are required to perform at a number of private, philanthropic, civic, and cultural events, as well as community outreach events in schools and libraries. Over the past few years, Academy students have performed background music, recitals, and concerts for the following organizations, and at a host of private fundraisers, cultural happenings in Chicago, and outreach events.
- Botanic Gardens Women's Club Annual Meeting
- Brookdale Senior Residence, Vernon Hills
- Chicago Botanic Garden Annual Tent Dinner
- Chicago Botanic Garden Thursday Morning Music Concert Series
- Chicago Cultural Center
- CSO Chicago Youth in Music Festival
- Consortium of Community Music Schools Concerts
- CSO Family Kraft Series
- Evanston Community Foundation
- Evanston Library
- Evanston Mashup
- Evanston Rotary
- Field Museum Women's Club Annual Gala
- Fortnightly of Chicago
- Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Annual Ball
- Gail Borden Community Library, Elgin
- Grant Park Summer Festival
- Hadley School for the Blind
- Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- Harris Theater Gala at the Art Institute
- Highland Park Sunset Park 4th of July Memorial Event
- Highland Park Rotary Club Annual Benefit
- Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards
- Korean American Women in Need (KAN-WIN) Annual Dinner Benefit
- Lake Forest Place
- Lake Forest Symphony Music in the Garden at Mettawa Manor
- Lake Forest Symphony Tea
- Lake Forest/ Lake Bluff Senior Centers
- Levy Senior Center
- Lincoln Center Chamber Music Master Classes
- Make It Better Anniversary Event @ William Blair
- Mather Lifeways, Westminster Place, and The Merion Senior Residences
- Millennium Park
- Misericordia Home
- National Leukemia Foundation Fundraiser
- North Shore Senior Center
- Presbyterian Homes
- Parkway Foundations
- Pilgrim Players' Rising Stars Concert, Highland Park
- Skokie Library Steinway Piano Concert Series
- William H. Lee Instrument Store, Wilmette and Chicago (Wilmette Sizzle)
- Winnetka Historical Society
- Winnetka Music Festival