The Music Centre is responsible for all matters relating to music within the remit of the Danish Arts Agency. The Centre's tasks include:

• Providing secretariat services for the Danish Arts Council and its Committee for Music
• Providing secretariat services for two Danish Arts Foundation committees:
  - the Committee for Classical  Music
  - the Committee for Popular Music
• Administration and advice in connection with arts subsidy schemes within the area of music
• Responsibility for international cultural co-operation within the area of music
• Information tasks relating to music
• Providing information and advice on music schools (the music school consultant)

International tasks
The Centre works to support, consolidate and raise the profile of Danish musical life internationally, e.g. as co-ordinator and medium for a number of musical activities abroad. The international tasks of the Music Centre include:

• Projects in the area of music, in which the Danish Arts Agency functions as a medium for the Danish Arts Council and the Danish Arts Council's Committee for Music, e.g. in connection with Danish participation at trade fairs and festivals abroad
• Projects in which the Danish Arts Agency functions on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Culture and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, e.g. the ’SuperDanish’ festival in Toronto
• Co-ordination of state involvement in Danish music exports
• Visiting programmes for journalists, concert organisers, etc.
• Handling inquiries from international partners
• Maintenance and construction of networks in international musical life
• Collaboration with Danish musical organisations and institutions, particularly genre organisations
• Co-operation with embassies, cultural institutes, etc.
• Providing information on Danish musical life