The Centro Cultural de Música was founded in 1942 as a non profit private organization with the idea of expanding musical communication in all its forms.
The Centro Cultural de Música has presented the most famous symphonic and philharmonic orchestras, chamber orchestras, ballets, vocal and instrumental ensembles, trios, quartets, soloists, choirs, thus meeting with almost all of musical expressions.

Symphonic Orchestras: Bamberg, Halle of Manchester, New World Symphony, Frankfurt, Viena, Toulouse, Lille, NDR Hamburg, Nacional de España, Moscú, Prague, Budapest, Berlín, Pittsburgh, Dresden, RAI, BBC, Budapest Festival Orchestra, San Paulo (OSESP), National Polish Radio, Pittsburgh, West-Eastern Divan, BBC Scottish Symphony, Galicia, etc.

Philharmonic Orchestras: Dresden, St. Petersburg, London Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonie, Check Philharmonic, Varsovia, etc.

Chamber Music: I Musici, I Solisti di Zagreb, Sinfonía Varsovia, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Hesperion XX, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, Percussions de Strasbourg, Viena Chamber Orchestra, Prague, Camerata Ireland, English Concert, Camerata Berna, Il Giardino Armonico, Orchestra Della Toscana, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment, Kremerata Baltica, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Concerto Italiano, Lucerne Festival Strings, English Concert, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Capella della Pieta de’ Turchini, Europa Galante, Accentus Choir, Mantova, Moscú, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Les Musiciens du Louvre, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Britten Sinfonia,  etc.

Quartets: Hagen, Alban Berg, Tokio, Takacs, Vermeer, Juilliard, Beethoven, Zurich, Melos, Skampa, Fauré, Keller, Belcea, etc.

Trios: di Trieste, Beaux Arts, Guarneri, Roehn, Praga, di Milano, Jacques Loussier, Parma, etc.

Soloists and Conductors: Alicia de Larrocha, Wilhelm Kempf, Friedrich Gulda, Hans Richter Haaser, Paul Badura Skoda, Nelson Freire, Ralph Votapek, Bruno Gelber, Radu Lupu, Nelson Goerner, Andre Watts, Edith Wiens, Hakan Hardenberger, Horst Stein, Frübeck de Burgos, Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philippe Entremont, Jean Claude Cassadesus, Yuri Temirkanov, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Maurice Andre, Boris Pergamenshikov, Michel Corboz, Philippe Herreweghe, Jordi Savall, William Christie, Herbert Blomstedt, Frank Peter Zimermann, Steven Isserlis, Helmuth Rilling, Uto Ughi, Menahem Pressler, Michel Plasson, Enoch Zu Guttemberg, Emma Kirkby, Salvatore Accardo, Christian Zacharias, Gidon Kremer, Ivan Fischer, Pieter Wispelwey, Jan Willen de Vriend, Eliahu Inbal, Mariss Jansons, Trevor Pinnock, Heinrich Schiff, Barry Douglas, Fabio Biondi, Alex Klein, Antonio Florio, Leif Ove Andsnes, Andrew Davies, Daniel Barenboim, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Daniel Taylor, Gabriel Chmura, Boris Belkin, Giovanni Antonini, Laurence Equilbey, Eliso Virsaladze, Jonathan Gilad, Thomas Zehetmeir, Gianlucca Cascioli, Wynton Marsalis, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Cristina Dancila, Marc Minkowski, Kenneth Sillito, Roberto Cominati, Joanna MacGregor, Antoni Wit, Mei-Ting Sun, Julian Rachlin, Josep Colom, Víctor Pablo Pérez, etc.

Ballet: Ballet de Nancy with Rudolf Nureyev, Antonio Gades, Julio Bocca, Stuttgart Ballet under Marcia Haydée, Cynthia Gregory, The Ballets Jazz of Montreal, Hubbard Street Dance of Chicago, Ballet de Genève under Oscar Araiz, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Grupo Corpo, Nederlands Dans Theater II... among others.          

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
The Centro Cultural de Música has 2 other branches with 6 to 7 annual concerts each:

Punta del Este-Maldonado which was founded in 1993 and the LATU Auditorium concerts which were started in 1994 but have been discontinued in 2006 until further decision.

Since 2005 there is a new series of concerts at midday with free admission, where students from public and private schools are invited to attend –they are held at the Teatro Solís in its Foyer or Main Hall.

The Centro Cultural de Música has granted many scholarships to young and talented Uruguayan artists, to study abroad be it in Paris, Santander, Viena, Buenos Aires, etc.
Very concerned to share musical experiences, the Centro Cultural de Música invites many musicians and students to its activities.
To carry out all these activities, the Centro Cultural de Música counts with the annual fee paid by its associates and the support of both free and private enterprises.