The Hellenic Conservatory () is an educational institution for the

performing arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. P ...

in modern

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. It was founded in Athens in 1919 by the

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

Manolis Kalomiris Manolis Kalomiris (; December 14, 1883, Smyrna – April 3, 1962, Athens) was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music. Biography Born in Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), he attended school in Constanti ...

. Kalomoiris was the

conservatoire A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

's director until 1926, when he left to found the National Conservatoire. The conservatoire early on opened a number of branches throughout Athens, in a number of cities in

, and in

Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...

. The conservatoire's location is Didotou 53 and its

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ...

is Alkis Baltas.

Theodore Antoniou Theodore Antoniou (, ''Theódoros Andoníou''; February 10, 1935 – December 26, 2018), was a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In ad ...

Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos (; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. He has won several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation sc ...

and

Dimitri Terzakis Dimitris Terzakis (; born March 12, 1938) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. Biography Terzakis was born on March 12, 1938 in Athens. From 1959 to 1964, Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the A ...

were students of the Hellenic Conservatory.

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The Hellenic Conservatory web site
1919 establishments in Greece Music in Athens Music schools in Greece Educational institutions established in 1919 {{Athens-struct-stub

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