[citation needed] “The Association is an international, non-profit, non-sectarian, politically neutral organization dedicated to the promotion of excellence at all levels of music education.

AMIS' member schools mainly lie in Europe and Asia, although there have been festivals added in both Africa and Latin America in the past five years and those regions are thriving.

Founded in London, AMIS slowly grew across Western Europe and now has many festivals reserved only for Asian schools.

Festivals are conducted in English, though due to the participants coming from within international school populations, most students (and many teachers) speak multiple languages.

(For example: The 2014 European Middle School Honor Girls’ Choir, hosted in Stavanger, Norway, had concert services conducted in Norwegian as well as English.)