Israel

The Israel Music Institute (IMI) is the only publicly owned publishing house in Israel. It is a non-profit organization supported by the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture and Sport.

The institute was established in 1961 by the Israel Council for Culture and Arts with the aim to publish and promote serious Israeli music. Since its establishment, IMI has acquired the rights to more than 2300 compositions by some 185 Israeli composers. About 85% of the works under IMI copyright have already appeared in print. The IMI catalogue contains a great variety of music: orchestral, choral, chamber and educational as well as listing a number of musicological works.

Both on its own label and in cooperation with several other non-profit musical institutions in Israel, IMI is active in producing CDs of Israeli art music to promote Israeli composers' works at home and abroad.

The Israel Council for Art and Culture and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Arts Administration, decided to establish a central library of Israeli music, and has appointed the Israel Music Institute (IMI) – in its role as the Israel Music Information Centre (IMIC) – to carry out this vital project.

The aims of the library will be to collect information about Israeli music, and to house the majority of works by Israeli composers, published and unpublished alike, making them accessible to the public in Israel and abroad.