Israel Music Institute

The IMI catalogue contains a great variety of music: orchestral, choral, chamber and educational, as well as a plethora of articles and a number of musicological works.

The first chairman of the board of trustees was the late Eliezer Peri, and the first Director and editor in chief was William (Willy) Elias, who served in this role from 1961 to 1989.

He made a point of producing highly professional scores, thus raising significantly local music publishing standards common at that time.

They also emphasized digitation of archival materials, signing of young composers and expansion of the IMI's catalogue, as well as optimizing publishing processes.

It is the only local publishing house represented internationally by some ten leading European and US publishers, among them: Theodore Presser Co. (USA, Canada & Mexico), Albersen & Co B.V. (The Netherlands), Peermusic classical (Germany, Austria & Switzerland), EME (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain & Portugal), Engström & Södring Musikverlag AS (Denmark), and Český hudební fond, o. p. s. (Czechia, Slovakia & Hungary).

IMI publishes compositions by virtually all important contemporary classical Israeli composers working in Israel since 1920.

It also collaborates with TARF festival for recorder music, the Israeli conservatory's composition competition, and the Israel Contemporary Players’ concert series (in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem), among others.

During the 90s, the institute, in collaboration with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, produced two composition competitions for orchestral works.

The project had two main goals: to encourage composition of quality symphonic works, and to increase public awareness of the institute and its activities.

At IMI’s Listening Center, a collection of some 2700 scores by over 250 composers is available for perusal and the archive of recorded music holds some 1600 items.