about Kyiv Contemporary Music Days
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Who are we
Kyiv Contemporary Music Days is an educational and concert platform for classical contemporary music.
What do we do
festivals, concerts of chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music
public lectures, master-classes and workshops: both for a professional and a wider audience
Our mission
The mission of the KCMD team stands on the idea of forming a community around contemporary music, developing its ecosystem, creating new formats and opportunities for education, professional interaction and professional realization of artists in Ukraine and around the world.
We believe, KCMD is, foremost, about the people, and shortly after it's about the music
History
Throughout 2015-2022 we did around 150 events in Ukraine, Portugal and Japan with musicians from 20+ countries (Ukraine, Austria, Portugal, Germany, USA, Italy, Australia, Japan, Georgia, Poland, Spain, Philippines, China, etc), such as for example, Nina Janssen-Deinzer (clarinettist, Ensemble Modern 2007-2017), Gerald Preinfalk (saxophonist from Klangforum Wien), KONTRA Trio (Switzerland), soprano Sarah Maria Sun (Germany), pianists Antonii Baryshevskyi (UA), Yevhen Gromov (UA), Ozgür Aydin (USA), musicians from IEMA — violinist Junya Makino (Japan), flutist Yuri Matsuzaki (Japan-Germany), cellist Milosz Drogowski (Poland).
As for composers, we worked with, among others, Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Jaime Reis (Portugal), Michael Quell (Germany), Sergej Newski (Russia-Germany), Mehmet Can Özer (Turkey), Alla Zagaykevych (Ukraine).
Kyiv Contemporary Music Days was founded by guitarist Francisco Morais Franco (Portugal), clarinetist Darko Horvatic (Serbia-Croatia), composer Albert Saprykin (Ukraine) and violinist Junya Makino (Japan).
How to get in touch with us?
kcmd [at] kcmd.eu
OUR PARTNERS, 2015-2022
Goethe Institut Ukraine
Institut Français
Italian Institute of Culture In Ukraine
Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Embassy Of Switzerland In Ukraine
Austrian Cultural Forum
Embassy Of Hungary In Ukraine
Greek Cultural Foundation
Kyiv Mohyla Business School
Muzikalke
Naked Room
Docudays UA
Austrian Agency For International Cooperation In Education And Research
Embassy of Portugal in Ukraine
Balassi Institut
Intertransservice
Cultural-art And Museum Complex "Art Arsenal"
National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre
Art Ukraine Gallery
Port Creative Hub
Module EXCHANGE
Education And Culture House "Master Class"
Ukrainian National Composers' Union
National Music Academy Of Ukraine
Collegium Musicum Lviv
Centre "Word And Voice"
Platform For Cultural Initiatives "Izolyatsia"
Mishima Contemporary Music Days
Dias de musica electroacoustica
Mezzanine
Closer
OSTAR Music Network
Mizhvukhany