The Greek Society for Music Education (G.S.M.E.) was founded in March 1997. It is a non-profit, scientific organization, with the main purpose of promoting music education in Greece and of developing music education as a field of scientific study. It implements research projects concerning the place of music in social life, in the mass media and especially in education. G.S.M.E. also collaborates and exchanges data with universities, music pedagogical foundations, social unions, and governmental institutions, especially with international societies that work on the same purpose in Europe and in the other continents. G.S.M.E., among other things, organizes seminars, lectures and conferences on various areas of music education. Since 1998 G.S.M.E. is an ISME National Affiliate Organization. G.S.M.E. shares the basic principles, function and goals of ISME. G.S.M.E.’s work is based only on the voluntary and generous offers of its members.
The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” was created by the Friends of Music Society to meet the needs of all Greek music lovers. It makes available – for the first time in Greece – a large collection of information and study material on music to visitors, but also to distant users. The collections of the library focus on these areas: Western Music, Greek art music from antiquity and the Byzantine period to the present, Greek folk music, including the Rebetika, traditional music from all parts of the world, and jazz.
