MIC History

In this year came the first initiative of the Platform of Yugoslav Musical Work for the foundation of a Music information centre.

Stemming from this operational character of the Platform in 1969 was an initiative for the foundation of a music information centre, the first of its kind in Yugoslavia, which became independent in 1971 and now successfully operates under the aegis of the Zagreb Concert Management, but still in collaboration with the Platform. This publication is another outcome of this same cooperative activity.

Vuljević, Ivo: Foreword. In: Krpan, Erika, ed.
20 Tribina muzičkog stvaralaštva Jugoslavije. 1963 – 1983.
Zagreb: Croatian Music Infromation Centre
– Platform of Yugoslav Musical Work, 1983, p. 6.

It is particularly noteworthy that the Music Information Centre (MIC) was founded [1971], which was in its development to provide incalculably valuable services for the development of Croatian musical culture. The basic goal of the MIC was to promote the works of Croatian composers. The founder and first director was Branimir Sakač.

Kovačević, Krešimir: Društvo skladatelja Hrvatske, 1945 – 1985.
Zagreb:  Croatian Composers’ Society, 1985, p. 20

Also back in 1971 MIC mooted the issue of royalties for the use of orchestral and other performance materials. This activity, which falls within the domain of authors’ rights, is carried out in concert with ZAMP of Zagreb. This activity should in the future too be carried out in the same way, that is, together with ZAMP, Zagreb. To protect their rights to performance materials, author, publisher and owner of materials sign a joint contract with ZAMP and MIC. Practice has shown that a clause stipulating the ability of authors to confide their work to some other publishing firm according to the practice of this publishing firm needs adding to the existing clauses, in the future and reactively (sic!) to existing contracts. Perhaps it will be sufficient just to enlarge item 2 of the contract. The list of works protected by MIC and ZAMP can be inspected in MIC, as can charges made to date for performance materials in ZAMP.

Sakač, Branimir: Letter sent to Zagreb Concert Management (ZCM),
December 1972, on the eve of MIC being incorporated into the ZCM.

On January 11, 1972, the Croatian Composers’ Society adopted a DECISION on the founding of the institution Zagreb Music Information Centre as independent and self-managing organisation of labour.

The interim director of the Music Information Centre writes an application for the Decision about the foundation of the institution Zagreb Music Information Centre on January 13, 1972, to be entered into the Register of the District Economic Court, with the following data:

1. 1. Name of institution: MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE Zagreb
      2. Principal place of business in Zagreb, Trnjanska cesta b.b.
      3. The fundamental goals of the institution is:
      – to work on and affect the endorsement and promotion of Croatian musical art and also of the musical art of other peoples and ethnicities of the SFRY in our country and abroad
      – to publish for this purpose expert publications, disks and other documentation material
      – to organise or to execute certain services in the production of permanent or occasional musical events such as festivals and the like, in which a prominent place is taken by domestic musical art, and to engage domestic and foreign artists and artistic ensembles for these events and inter-festival activities
      – together with ZAMP Zagreb to organise and to take care of the rights of musical artists as holders of authors’ rights to performance musical materials that are used for the purpose of performing their works
      – for the sake of all other matters related to the achievement of the goal of the basic activity of the Zagreb Music Information Centre.
      4. The interim director is Branimir Sakač.
      5. The founder of the institution is the Croatian Composers’ Society

RULING OF THE DISTRICT ECONOMIC COURT IN ZAGREB

On January 18, 1971, a letter went from Branimir Sakač to the City Fund for the Advancement of Cultural Activities, Zagreb. In the appendix to the letter he explains the work of the Music Information Centre. Among other things he points out the establishment of useful connections

with many similar music information centres, publishing firms, artistic performance institutions in the world. During last year, extensive consultations were held with André Jurres, president of the International Association of Music Information Centres in the world, and at last year’s Platform of Yugoslav Musical Work, which he attended at the invitation of the Music Information Centre, the modalities of further collaboration between MIC and the International Association with other music information centres in the world were agreed upon.

This started the many-years-long international collaboration with and membership in the association that today is known as the IAMIC – International Association of Music Information Centres.

Narodne novine, or Official Gazette, announced the founding of the institution Music Information Centre on March 13, 1972, Official Gazette no, 10, XXV.

Pursuant to Article 92 of the Constitution of the SFRY, Article 117 of the Constitution of the SR of Croatia, Article 40 of the Basic Law on Institutions (Official Gazette of SFRY no 5/65, 50/68 and 55/69, Article 14 on the Law of Theatres and Other Stage Arts Institutions (Official Gazette no. 31/65, the Labour Community of the Music Information Centre in Zagreb, in session on March 20, 1972, adopted the Articles of Incorporation of the Music Information Centre, Zagreb.

At a session of the labour community of the Music Information Centre, composed of “Merkez, Marija-Željka, president, Nenad Turkalj, associate, and Branimir Sakač, interim director”, held on September 15, 1972, the issue of the further outlook for the work and development of MIC was considered and it was concluded that

the work of MIC would from technical and a financial point of view unfold much better if it were integrated with another similar and existing labour organization, such as for example the Zagreb Concert Management, the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall or with some artistic association, i.e., with the Croatian Composers’ Society. At this time the labour community holds that the most suitable integration is with the Zagreb Concert Management, which represents the interests of reproductive music artists in a similar way as the Music Information Centre represents the interest of music creatives…. Conclusion: Integration between the Zagreb Concert Management and the Music Information Centre, Zagreb, will be proposed to the labour organisation Zagreb Concert Management, and the consent of the Croatian Composers’ Society, the founder of the Zagreb Music Information Centre, will be sought for this integration.

Letter to the Labour organisation Zagreb Concert Management of October 27, Branimir Sakač, asking for the consideration of the idea of the integration of MIC, points out the need:

within the framework of the implemented integration, for MIC to retain all its activity in achieving its goals, defined by the previous Articles of Incorporation of MIC, and to contain its own name, headed notepaper and the like. From a financial point of view the MIC activity, material and personal expenses will be covered by grants from the City and Republic fund(s) for the advancement of cultural activities, from the Croatian Composers’ Society, by income from its own operations and from other sources.

(MIC, archival documentation, October 27, 1972.)

The managing board of the Zagreb Concert Management a meeting on December 7, 1972, adopts a Conclusion on announcing a Referendum on annexing the labour organisation of the Music Information Centre Zagreb to the labour organisation Zagreb Concert Management. The referendum to be held during office hours on December 12, 1972. The referendum implementation commission is appointed and is composed of Slavko Kranjčec, Maja Burić and Vladimir Šavorić.

On November 3, 1972, the managing committee of Zagreb Concert Agency at a session held on December 25, 1972 considered the letter of September 18 and agreed with the proposed integration of the Music Information Centre and the Zagreb Concert Management.

A letter of Branimir Sakač, interim director of MIC (no. KDZ 8703/December 28, 1972) to the Zagreb Concert Management, occasioned by the imminent annexation of the Music Information Centre with information about the previous work and planned operations of MIC in 1972 and 1973.

As we went on, we arrived at new ideas and the needs for them to be implemented, and so we started developing other production functions in the domain of music. We took it over from the composer Branko Sakač, who had founded the Music Information Centre, but did not provide the material premises for its work, and at that moment it was on its death bed. What MIC represents today in our music culture, someone else may say. I shall only recall that in the first two years of MIC as part of ZCM it issued the first in history two series of LPs of Croatian composers and Croatian reproductive artists. The never sufficiently mourned music information monthly OD-DO is also the work of our hands.

Poljanec, Miroslav: Sjećanja.
In: Koncertna direkcija Zagreb. 50 godina,
ed. Jagoda Martinčević, Zagreb 2002, p. 33.

From January 1, 1973, for the greater economy and efficiency of operations, the MIC operated as an independent sector of ZCM.

Now started an ample record release activity and a long-term collaboration with the recording company Jugoton

Marko Ruždak, composer, and previous editor of the publications of Zagreb Concert Management (1969-1973) was appointed manager of the Music Information Centre. He remained in post until 1976.

The special emphasis of MIC work was on testing the possibility of marketing the works of domestic authors in the country and outside, collecting information about works and authors, scores and performance materials, addresses and conditions for leasing, possible performers, existing tape recordings and similar. MIC, apart from gathering all the necessary documentation, keeps professional records and a card index system. Together with ZAMP (Institute for the protection of authors’ music rights) in Zagreb, MIC organises a special service for leasing musical scores and performance sheet music for works of domestic authors and is working vigorously on testing out the market in other countries and finding business partners in these countries that as subsidiary publishers (Subverlag) can represent the interests of individual works of composers with whom MIC has contracts (according to the archival documentation of MIC, undated, probably 1973/74, a document in which the work of MIC is explained and information about the protection of performance materials of musical works in the MIC is given.

The beginning of cooperation with Jugoton on the publication of the first series of LPs entitled Contemporary Croatian Composer, but also other thematic discographic releases.

The Vatroslav Lisinski Prize of the Croatian Composers’ Society went to the Music Information Centre for continued work on the promotion of Croatian music.

Erika Krpan was appointed manager of MIC and remained in post until she was appointed manager of the Zagreb Concert Management in 1994.

MIC put a strong emphasis on the promotion of Croatian music through its publishing activity (recordings and books about Croatian music and musicians in Croatian and in other languages – Croatian and English, Croatian and German). In this period the exhibitions activity of MIC was stepped up at home and abroad, accompanying occasional publications and catalogues. MIC became a strong link in the accomplishment of the events of the Croatian Composers’ Society, particularly the Music Biennial Zagreb. The Zagreb Concert Management, at first known as Croatian Concert Office, and later as Zagreb Concert Management, was responsible for the organisation of Festivals (from 1961 to 1991), while Erika Krpan was both manager of MIC and programme director of MBZ for the festival years 1975 and 1977.

MIC stepped up its book publication arm, which bore fruit in a series of titles about Croatian music the authors (and editors) of which were numerous prominent Croatian musicologists and authors, the basic goal of this activity being to promote Croatian music both at home and abroad.

Under the aegis of the Music Biennial Zagreb, in the Culture and Information Centre of Zagreb, MIC put on the exhibition Musical Art of Yugoslavia.

Ten Years of Croatian Music Days is the title of an exhibition that MIC put on in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall.

The exhibition Life and Works of Josip Hatze was put on in the History Museum of Croatia by Vladimir Straža.

The exhibition Life and Works of Josip Hatze was shown in the Museum of Archaeological Monuments in Split. After that came a string of presentations of the exhibition Musical Art of Yugoslavia, in Cologne, Stuttgart, Belgrade, Opatija, Prishtina and Sarajevo.

I have to hand it to the Music Information Centre, Jugoton and all who have recently massively recorded disks, and the artistic performers and composers. In today’s times, exclusively printed propaganda means next to nothing. I think that it is mostly though the people who run it that are the most to be credited with these disks. For the fact is t hat in other Yugoslav centres such disks are not printed in this kind of quantity or with this degree of systematisation.

Gračan, Giga i Jurica Muraj: Više sustavnosti i dogovora,
Od-do, (3) 1980, p. 5.

What are we doing and why?

For years now the crisis point of our musical culture has been the processing and promotion as well as protection of sheet music. If this is the point of origin from which a work of music can make its way in the world, then after it come printing the same score, recording, disk, book. All these major publishing actions are devised in a series of different forms of advertising materials, from the individual piece of information to periodicals, from continuous work on the processing of data for regular concert seasons to assistance to festivals, all of it from the period from the first beginnings of music notation in this country to talented contemporary composers.

In this huge space in which the greatest efforts have to be invested into the fundamental systematisation of the material, in this untilled ground, little by little the criteria are being created, as well as what are called the standards for those forms of information that are appropriate for the needs of our musical culture.

(ek) Osobna karta: Muzički informativni centar,
Od-do, (10) 1980, p. 7

Exhibitions are an activity that continues to be dynamic. MIC exhibits in Cannes, presenting Croatian Musical Art on Disks, while the Musical Art of the Peoples and Ethnicities of Yugoslavia is the topic of exhibitions in Berlin, Struga and Skopje.

Two exhibitions were put on in the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall: Dora Pejačević – Life and Work and Ivan Zajc – Life and Work. Both exhibitions are accompanied by information catalogues about the composers.

In Belgrade, MIC presented Croatian Music in Printed Editions.

The festival activity of the MIC became even more vigorous and was expressed in a number of ways; as well as providing help in the accomplishment of the promotional materials of festivals and events organised by the Zagreb Concert Agency, it did the whole of the technical organisation of the 12^th Music Biennial Zagreb in 1983; and after that came Zagreb ‘83, a festival of light music.

Keeping up with our music life and reading OD-DO, you have probably noticed that the ZCM’s MIC is among other things the producer of promotional materials for several of our festivals, which in the accomplishment of their programmes are related either more or less to our firm. But you almost certainly don’t know that festivals have become a MIC activity in a new manner. The first assessment of its ability to produce a festival as a whole was the 12^th Music Biennial Zagreb. After that came a new assignment The Light Music Festival, Zagreb ’83.

Od-do, (6) 1983, str. 7

In Bucharest the exhibition Musical Art of the Peoples and Ethnicities of Yugoslavia and in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall Franjo Ksaver Kuhač – Life and Work marking the 150^th anniversary of his birth.

The exhibition Ivo Malec – Composer in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall.

Krsto Odak / 1888-1965 – marking the centenary of his birth is the title of an exhibition put on in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall.

Now started some much more vigorous engagement with the publication of sheet music of Croatian composers. Great attention was paid to the works of Dora Pejačević, but also to those of other Croatian composers, historical and contemporary

MIC put on two exhibitions: in the Museum-Gallery Centre, Klovićevi dvori, an exhibition entitled Croatian Museum from the Beginning to the Middle of the 20^th Century, and in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall the exhibition – Jakov Gotovac, commemorating the 10^th anniversary of his death.

Jagoda Martinčević was appointed MIC manager; she stayed in post until she departed to be adviser to the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Croatia in 1996.

Ivan Živanović becomes the new manager of MIC, a position he retains until 2003. His leadership results in MIC forging powerfully ahead and accomplishing numerous projects in the field of computerisation, establishing the reputations of Croatian composers and publications, including:

– the construction of Quercus, the Central Information System of Croatian Musical Life

– the announcement of the first Internet site dedicated to Croatian music and musicians, www. mic.hr

– MICnet – the musical reporting service (collecting information and distributing it electronically to users)

– the international Dora Pejačević Project in association with the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst of Vienna

– the Répertoire sheet music series

– music distribution

In this year came the launching of Hereditas musicae, a series of reprints of top works of the Croatian musical heritage, the objective of which is to reprint the original edition of a given composition for the needs of historically informed performances of early music. This is an idea that resulted in the 1996 edition of the collection Sacrae cantiones singulis, binis, ternis, quaternis, quinisque vocibus concinendae of Ivan Lukačić.

The making of a database that acquires the name Quercus, Central Information System of Croatian Musical Life begins to be accomplished. It is the outcome of several years of endeavours for all data relevant to Croatian musical life to be stored in a single place. The data are correlated in such a way as to show events in real musical life truthfully. The authors of the data base are Ivan Živanović, Jelena Vuković and Maja Šojat-Bikić, programmer and programme designer.

An exhibition is mounted in Klovićevi dvori enitled Musical Gleanings of the Hruškovec Collection.

Work is started on the international Dora Pejačević Project, a Hochschule für Musik u darstellende Kunst Vienna and Music Information Centre collaborative venture.

The objective of the project is very clear, to enhance the international reputation of the works of Dora Pejačević. We want to achieve this first of all by issuing and distributing her selected works on recordings and in sheet music publication, as well as musical events and similar programmes.

Komanov, Dodi: Vječna Dora.
Razgovor: Ivan Živanović, muzikolog,
Vijenac 159, April 6, 2000

The Internet site www.mic.hr comes to life; this is the first Croatian site aimed at promoting Croatian music. It contained a directory (a list of institutions, events and musicians), a catalogue (of Croatian music editions), a calendar (a review of events in Croatia, a music exchange (instruments, journals, sheet music), novelties from Croatian musical life and MIC Club (friends and links). All the contents were presented bilingually

The Vatroslav Lisinski Prize of the Croatian Composers’ Society goes to the Music Information Centre for its contribution to Croatian musical art.

The celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the Zagreb Concert Agency and the 30^th anniversary of the Music Information Centre. A special session was put on in the lobby of Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, a grand concert and an exhibition for the occasion produced by the Music Information Centre.

This year saw the publication of the Catalogue of Croatian Musical Editions with details about editions of Croatian music published in the last fifty years, generated from Quercus, the Central Information System.

The purpose of this edition of the catalogue and of future editions is to make Croatian musical editions accessible to all who need them, On the other hand, another goal is to enable all our musicians to be equally involved in the organism that we call Croatian musical life and to create a still better climate for learning, performing and creating music.

Živanović, Ivan: Foreword,
Katalog hrvatskih glazbenih izdanja,
Croatian Music Information Centre, 2001.

At the annual general assembly of IAMIC, the International Association of Music Information Centres, held from September 13 to 18 in Norway, MIC editor Jelena Vuković was elected coordinator of the project IAMIC – Annual List of Works. This project, whose goal is to promote the music of the member states and to foster linkages, resulted in the publication of three annual catalogues, with one part each for a given ensemble created in a ten-year period. She led the project up to 2005

In the framework of the 24^th Days of Croatian Music of the Croatian Composers’ Society, the artistic director of which was Ivan Živanović, MIC, in association with the Student Centre, organised the First Croatian Music Fair (May 15 to May 18, 2002). The technical running of the event was confided to Jelena Vuković, editor at MIC. Twenty six exhibitors from Croatia exhibited in the lobby of the Student Centre Cinema in Zagreb (they were music organisations, societies, instrument builders, music schools, festivals, agencies, record companies, publishers, sheet music sellers, radio stations) and a number of accompanying events and presentations were held during the course of the fair.

Launching of the Répertoire series. This was imagined as a series of small-scale sheet music publications featuring successful compositions by Croatian composers, with visually attractive front covers and big print orders, aimed at being distributed world-wide. Ten sheet music editions were issued in his series, including the Dance for Violin of Miroslav Miletić, which the distinguished Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulović put on his solo CD Bach-Miletić-Paganini-Ysaÿe released by the label Transart Live in 2006. Thanks to this series too, Parać’s Quartet for Clarinet, Violin Cello and Piano was performed in the USA, while the collection Forse vien fuor l’Aurora by Franscesco Sponga Usper made its way onto the concert platform in Croatia, and is gradually breaking into the European market.

The Internet Page www.mic.hr was awarded at “the most important Croatian Internet Compeition VIDI WEB TOP 100” and is placed in the list of the hundred best Croatian Websites for 2003, and in the list of the 10 best Croatian web sites in the State Organisations category.

Davor Merkaš becomes the new manager of MIC, remaining in this position until 2017. In this period, as leader, alongside the existing publishing activity (records, books and notation) he focused attention powerfully on:

– the preservation of the Croatian musical heritage through the following projects:

Noah’s Ark – search for, protection of and timely archiving of autographs of Croatian composers of prime importance for the Croatian musical and cultural heritage

Hrčak (“hamster”) – locating manuscripts and autographs of scores of compositions of Croatian composers in private estates, owned by private persons, and their transfer to and archiving in music libraries that have the best conditions for their keeping.

Live composers – care for the oeuvres of living composers and their estates so that they are stored in the safest places for their preservation (music libraries, archives and so on)

– the digitisation of musical material

– the promotion of Croatian music abroad, particularly thorough the organisation of the Festival of Croatian Music in Vienna (2005-2018) and in Berlin (2008), in association with the Society for the Promotion of Croatian Music. Founder and artistic director of the Festival: Davor Merkaš.

– successfully achieved international collaboration with the German publishing firm cpo the goal of which is the release of recordings with the works of Croatian composers Dora Pejačević and Boris Papandopulo.

In addition to the Festival of Croatian Music in Vienna, MIC organises the Festival of Croatian Music in Berlin.

The beginning of the systematic collection of material and its digitisation: manuscripts of Croatian composers, with in time programme booklets and catalogues of the leading organisers of concert.

Croatian MIC from 2012 to 2015 took part in the fulfilment of the The Minstrel Project (MusIc Network Supporting Transnational exchange and dissemination of music Resources at European Level ) financed by the European Union (a programme of the European Commission for culture and education, Culture 2007-2013). Eleven member countries were involved in the project: Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Cyprus, Belgium, Slovenia, Czechia, Portugal, Croatia and Latvia).

The years-long international project Minstrel was brought to a successful close. One of the outcomes of the project was the digital publication Brochure on Croatian Music

By the decision of the City Assembly to annexe the Zagreb Concert Management to Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall of March 21, 2017, the Music Information Centre became a component part of Lisinski Hall:

The Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall shall take over all the documentation and materials of Zagreb Concert Agency about Croatian musical art and the musical heritage at home and abroad, with the pertaining information systems and databases and provide them with appropriate protection and housing depending on the kind of documentation and material, in other words, the continuation of the work of the Music Information Centre, now as a special organisational unit.

Izvor: http://www1.zagreb.hr/

By merging the Zagreb Concert Management with the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, the Music Information Centre becomes part of its Multimedia and Documentation Department, headed by Ana Unkić. In addition to systematic work on the digitization of the works of Croatian composers, a new impetus in music publishing is beginning and in just two years (2017-2019) the catalog of MIC publications has been supplemented with fifty new (50) titles.

The series Tomaso Cecchini Opera omnia was launched. The aim is to publish the whole of the printed oeuvre of Tomaso Cecchini. Along with the main editors from Croatia, Professor Ennio Stipčević and the manager of the Music Information Centre, musicologist Ivan Živanović, the editorial team of the series includes distinguished musicologists specialising in the period of the musical Renaissance and Baroque and experts in musical palaeography from France, Italy and Slovenia: Vincent Besson, from the Centre for Advanced Renaissance Studies of the Francois Rabelais University in Tours; Professor Metoda Kokole, head of the Musicological Institute of the Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, the distinguished music palaeologist Marina Toffeti, professor at the Università degli Studi di Padova from Padua and Marco Di Pasquale, professor at the Conservatorio di musica di Vicenza.

This year saw the ending of the several-year-long project for publishing the first printed edition of the score and piano reduction of the opera Love and Malice of Vatroslav Lisinski, a choice work from the history of Croatian culture and music, on the eve of the second centenary of the composer’s birth. This was a major undertaking, achieved 172 years after the first performance of the work. Edition prepared by Mladen Tarbuk.

The 2018 Josip Andreis Prize of the Croatian Composers’ Society was awarded to the Music Information Centre of Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall for the edition of the score and piano reduction of the opera Love and Malice by Vatroslav Lisinski (Zagreb, CMIC, 2018)

A year of surprises, the year of Covid 19. After the initial confusion and attempts to cope in the “new normal”, the Music Information Centre started a project for the construction of a new Internet site, www.mic.hr, and for the technical upgrading of Quercus, the Central Information System. The new Website has found a special place for the distribution of sheet music through the webshop, for the music of Dora Pejačević and Boris Papandopulo, for searching the database with the basic categories (musicians, ensembles, institutions, music editions, compositions of Croatian writers, concert life) and news from musical life. In the achievement of this project, the MIC team is joined by Wannabe j.d.o.o. and Cinnamon d.o.o. The appearance of the new Website marks the 50^th anniversary of the work of MIC (1971-2021).

This year has seen the publication of the newly constructed Internet site with contemporary and functional webshop that enables interaction between the MIC and professional musicians as well as music-lovers in the virtual world.

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EMPLOYEES OF THE MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE 1973 – 2021

Marija-Željka (Merkez) Potočnik (1973 – 2009)
Marko Ruždjak (voditelj 1974 – 1976)
Blanka Šavorić (1974 – 1987)
Erika Krpan (1976 – 2003)
Srećko Lipovčan (1979 – 1982, 1990 – 1993)
Marija Božić (1981 – 1988)
Franjo Marinković (1982 – 1993)
Ivan Živanović (1984 – 2020)
Raul Knežević (1985 – 2000)
Maja Oršić (1989 – 1996)
Jagoda Martinčević (1994 – 1996)
Sonja Radovanić (1996 – 2017)
Jelena Vuković (1998 – )
Borko Špoljarić (2000 – 2004)
Davor Merkaš (2005 – )

MANAGERS OF THE MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE  1973 – 2021
Branimir Sakač (utemeljitelj i privremeni direktor 1972)
Marko Ruždjak (1974 – 1976)
Erika Krpan (1976 – 1994)
Jagoda Martinčević (1994 – 1996)
Ivan Živanović (1996 – 2004)
Davor Merkaš (2005 – 2017)
Ivan Živanović (2017 – 2020)