The Hellenic Conservatory was founded in Athens in 1919 by the composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 Manolis Kalomiris

Manolis Kalomiris

Manolis Kalomiris ), was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music.-Biography:Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov he settled in...

. Kalomoiris was the conservatoire's director until 1926, when he left to found the National Conservatoire

National Conservatoire (Greece)

The Greek National Conservatoire was founded in Athens in 1926 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris and a number of other notable artists like Charikleia Kalomoiri, Marika Kotopouli, Dionysios Lavrangas, and Sophia Spanoudi...

. The conservatoire early on opened a number of branches throughout Athens, in a number of cities in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, and in Cyprus

Cyprus

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. The conservatoire's location is Didotou 53 and its artistic director

Artistic director

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 is Alkis Mpaltas.

See also

• Athens Conservatoire
  Athens Conservatoire
  The Athens Conservatoire is the oldest conservatoire in modern Greece. It was founded in 1871 by the Athens Music and Drama Society. Initially, the musical instruments that were taught there were limited to the violin and the flute, representative of the ancient Greek Apollonian and Dionysian...
  
  
• National Conservatoire (Greece)
  National Conservatoire (Greece)
  The Greek National Conservatoire was founded in Athens in 1926 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris and a number of other notable artists like Charikleia Kalomoiri, Marika Kotopouli, Dionysios Lavrangas, and Sophia Spanoudi...
  
  
• The Hellenic Conservatory web site