21, PAVLOU MELA STR, GR-54622
THESSALONIKI
Greece
- Arts
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
En Chordais’ actions focus on researching, documenting, studying and promoting the musical traditions of Greece and their creative contemporary manifestations. Special emphasis is given to the common musical experiences that are the hallmark of all the traditions of the eastern Mediterranean and on developing cross-cultural collaborations that promote this common heritage.
Focusing on Byzantine ecclesiastical music, Greek traditional music and eastern Mediterranean classical music, the program of the organisation’s activities covers five areas:
1. A School of Music
2. CD Productions
3. Publication of Books
4. The Organisation of Concerts and Cultural Events
5. Music Archive
The Music Ensemble of the same name operates within the framework of En Chordais.
For the last three and a half years, En Chordais has been the coordinator and project leader of the MediMuses project, a network of institutions from around the Mediterranean that organised 11 International meetings, 7 concerts, 3 symposia, 75 educational exchanges, prepared a major two-volume book on Mediterranean music and 6 corpora of Great Composers for publications, and produced a total of 12 CDs. MediMuses was part of the Euromed Heritage II program, funded by the European Union.