Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre (LMIPC) is a non-governmental and non-profit public institution devoted to the promotion of Lithuanian music culture at home and abroad. In carrying out its role LMIPC catalogues, collects, publishes, provides access to, and actively promotes music by the Lithuanian composers, songwriters, improvisers, performers and sound artists who enter in a list of LMIPC from diverse genres. However LMIPC mainly focuses on contemporary art music and 20th-century classics.
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History
Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre was established in 1996, as an information and publishing unit under the auspices of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. LMIPC has been a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres since 1998. Since 2001, it has been working as a non-government, non-profit public institution, founded by the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. Since 2006, the LMIPC has been also running the Music Lithuania export project that aims to maintain close contacts with all relevant parties in the Lithuanian music industry and facilitate the export of Lithuanian music productions ranging from pop, folk, jazz and electronic to post/modern art music.
Mission
For nearly two decades, LMIPC have sought to make the music created by Lithuanian artists more accessible, to get it more often performed and heard. Through the ever-expanding national and international cooperation with individual artists, contributors and institutions, the LMIPC seeks to cover and promote a wide diversity of musical genres, currently including classical/contemporary, jazz/improvised, folk/world/country, pop/rock/urban, electronic music and oldies. LMIPC serves the needs of people, professionally involved in different genres of music.
Database
Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre facilities available for public use:
- manuscript archive, containing scores and parts by Lithuanian classical and contemporary composers (original manuscripts, hard and digital copies of almost 7.000 works);
- sound archive of Lithuanian classical and contemporary music (over 10.000 unreleased recordings);
- library of published scores (almost 3.000 musical works), periodicals, books and commercially released recordings (more than 1.300 publications and releases);
- on-line database on Lithuanian music and musicians at www.mic.lt / www.mxl.lt (almost 400 profiles with catalogue of works and/or discography).
Lithuanian music manuscripts started to be collected at 1946 by the USSR Lithuanian Music Fund and in 1996 this function was given to newly established LMIPC. The collection of Lithuanian composers’ scores is the main and the biggest archive of this kind in the country.
LMIPC on-line database is one of the oldest Lithuanian electronic information resources devoted to culture (it was launched in 1997). It has been expanding across a broad variety of musical genres since 2006, currently including information about Lithuanian music and musicians of six diverse genres.
Publishing
To make the most valuable part of the Lithuanian contemporary art music and 20th-century classics repertoire available, the LMIPC has launched the publishing of scores and recordings in 1997. Since then, LMIPC publishing activity has covered quite broad range of genres varying from Lithuanian Classical Series for the most prominent scores by Lithuanian composers to the promotional CDs Note Lithuania for pop/rock/electronic, folk and jazz music selections. To date our catalogue numbers 111 printed editions and 77 CD releases.
Promotion and marketing
The LMIPC pursues active promotion of Lithuanian classical and contemporary music among performers, organisers of music events, broadcasters, journalists, by sending and giving out the packages of CDs, scores, catalogues, brochures, and other material. The LMIPC also co-organises performances of Lithuanian music at international events.
As a publisher, the LMIPC collaborates with the international recording companies (such as Naxos, Finlandia Records - at present, a division of the Warner Classics label, Ondine, Avie Records, Megadisc, Toccata Classics, Profil Medien, etc.), licencing the recordings for release in various markets worldwide.
As a subdivision of the LMIPC, the Music Lithuania export project organises the representation of Lithuanian music industry at the international music trade fairs (such as MIDEM, WOMEX, Classical:NEXT, Popkomm, Musikmesse Frankfurt). It also collects and distributes export-related information about the industry to Lithuanian music professionals and vice versa – keeps international music industry professionals up to date on the new developments in the Lithuanian music industry.
Leadership
1996-1997 – Eglė Sausanavičiūtė
1997-2000 – Daiva Parulskienė
2000-2001 – Linas Paulauskis
2001-2007 – Daiva Parulskienė
2007-2014 – Linas Paulauskis
2014–present Asta Pakarklytė