The Institute of Greek Music Heritage (IΕΜΚ) is a dynamic and innovative scientific institute, that researches, archives, catalogues, digitizes musical documents, and collaborates with institutions, aiming at the overall recording, projection, and promotion of the Greek Music Heritage, both past and contemporary, at the level of creators, researchers, and institutions hosting and managing it. The main tool for achieving this overall recording is the creation of an online international platform, that presents and absorbs material from Greece and abroad related to Greek music.
The Institute aspires to become the largest database and electronic register of archives in Greece, hosting information and documentation material on all genres of music from antiquity to the present day.
As a civil non-profit company, it has a public benefit character and aims at collecting, archiving and cataloguing information material from institutions, universities, research centres, museums, public and private archives, public and private collections, physical and electronic libraries, special platforms, which have documents of any form, concerning music as art and science: scores (printed or in electronic form), digitized archives, books, e-books, albums, biographies of composers/performers/lyricists, worklists, discographies, photographic material, daily and periodical press, audio-visual material from concerts/recordings, doctoral theses, treatises, articles, primary and secondary musical material from ethnographic research, etc.
Our goals
One of the main objectives of the Institute is to become a recognized institution in Greece and abroad that collects and indexes in a user-friendly database of free access all recorded information on music creation, music research, music education, and the history of music, in Greece and abroad, with descriptions, keywords, links, photographic and audiovisual material.
In this way, the Institute becomes a valuable tool for researchers of all levels, including university professors, doctoral candidates, postgraduate and undergraduate students, who will have full overview of the sources and archives, their contents, their physical and electronic location, for all genres of music, all orchestral ensembles and artists.
At the same time, as a repository of our musical heritage, it highlights the institutions, archives, museums and any other institution that possesses documents on our musical culture, while also promoting the musical heritage of Greece nationally and internationally, inviting and challenging young composers and researchers/ scholars to engage with Greek music.
The actions of the Institute extend to the promotion of research in an active way, by funding projects by internal or external collaborators, by publishing publications of special interest, and by organising relevant conferences/symposiums/workshops. (see "Treatises")
Innovation
The greatest innovation of the Institute is the combination of all these sources, archives, collections and institutions in ONE UNIFIED ELECTRONIC REGISTER, in combination with the wide range of topics of musical creation, concerning all genres of music, all genres of orchestral ensembles and all periods of time from antiquity to the present day.
The design and content criteria of the Institute were set by renowned university professors and researchers, and their implementation is carried out by a team of professors and experienced scientists.