Lithuanian Music Information Centre

The Music Information and Publishing Centre was set up in February 1996 as the information and publishing branch of the of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. In 1998 it became a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres, uniting about 40 organisations of this type. From 2001 the centre has been functioning as a public body (its founder being the Lithuanian Composers’ Union). In July 2006 with the official beginning of the Lithuanian Music Export project Music Lithuania, the activities of the institution were expanded: besides releasing recordings of Lithuanian composers and publishing the scores of their work, accumulating and updating information on them in a database, cataloguing and archiving their compositions, the organisation of Lithuania’s national stands at international music industry expos was begun, as was the dissemination and promotion of compilations of music, the coordination of concerts of music by Lithuanian composers and performers abroad, as well as the presentation of information on various musical genres on its new website. In order to formally reinforce the national aspect of the institution’s activities, in February 2015 its name was changed to Music Information Centre Lithuania.