The Philharmonic School of Kefallinia is a historical non-profit club founded in 1838 and one of the oldest in the country. It participated in the opening ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

Conductor of the school among others, was Dionysios Lavragas, father of the Greek melodrama, while the famous Greek music composer Mikis Theodorakis, who spent his childhood in Kefalonia, attributed to her his first musical sounds.

The Philharmonic School of Kefalοnia owns the “Rokkos Vergotis” music school, which was founded in 1988 and offers piano, violin, guitar, flute, accordion, mandolin, percussion and vocal classes. The music school emphasizes on children’s contact with music from an early age, so there are even classes for children aged 4-6 years old. In the school numerous professors of all specialties are teaching and hundreds of students attend.

The school was initially housed in several buildings, until a building was constructed from a donation, which collapsed because of the earthquakes in 1953, and in 1958 the building was rebuilt in a neoclassical style. This building has been listed as a protected building and renovated in 2003. It has a concert and lecture hall, as well as venues for the music school classes, the wind instrument and the string orchestra.

The Music School gives numerous concerts and performances every year with the participation of its students and participates in competitions with many distinctions, while the Philharmonic is present in the majority of the events of the city. The long tradition of the Ionian Islands is more than alive today in Kefalonia, which is evidenced by the successful course of the students and the graduates of the school and the music school, and even in many types of music.