To ensure balanced decisions for the Fund and examination of applications, we have created a Board that evaluates submitted applications and approves the provision of support.

The board consists of the following musicians:

• Oleg Bezborodko (Ukraine), composer, associate professor at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine

• Yurii Chekan (Ukraine), musicologist, professor at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine

• Francisco Morais Franco (Portugal), guitarist, co-founder of KCMD

• Darko Horvatic (Croatia-Austria), clarinetist, co-founder of KCMD

• Junya Makino (Japan), violinist, co-founder of KCMD, founder of Mishima Contemporary Music Days

• Nazarii Stets (Ukraine), double bassist, soloist of the National Ensemble of Soloists "Kyiv Camerata" 

During the first year of the Fund's existence, we dealt with, among other things, the following:

• Ensuring the legal aspects that enable KCMD NGO to accept and make donations.

• Setting up mechanisms for receiving contributions in three systems — SWIFT payments, WayForPay (payment by Visa and Mastercard), and PayPal.

• Communication with donors.

• Developing and deploying a system for receiving, sorting, evaluating and archiving applications.

• Developing and deploying a communication system with musicians whose applications have passed the evaluation process.

• Deploying the financial accounting system.

• Strengthening the Foundation's team, involving individuals in subprograms and other areas of activity.

• Deploying a channel of communication with the board.

• Establishing public communication of the Fund and forming its strategy.

• The layout of pages with information for applicants on the KCMD website.

• Creating a workspace in Slack and teamwork in Asana, systematizing working processes.

• Organizing weekly calls and statuses, monitoring subprogram progress, and making fund transfers to the applicants.

• Monthly analysis of professional portrait, geography, and categories of applicants' needs.

• Developing the software that automates the application processing system.

We are constantly looking for opportunities to improve the Fund. In particular, we did the following:

• Strengthening the Foundation's communication component: working with recipients, donors and the board.

• Development of the integral visual identity for the Fund's subprograms and activities.

• Launching the "Opportunities" Subprogram: We created a KCMD_community channel on Telegram that informs the subscribers on work, education, grants and other professional opportunities for the Ukrainian classical music community.

• We've started a weekly mailing list with opportunities for Ukrainian musicians.

• We're developing the "Instruments" subprogram. We've been analyzing the applicants' needs, forming the concept, budget, and criteria for the selection and evaluation of applications, forming a council, and developing a public communication strategy.

• Developing the Fund's identity for the subprograms and all other activities.

• Lowering the grade point average from 2.17 to 2.0, thus making it possible to support a more significant number of applicants.

Partners: Unplayed concert

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KCMD, together with the team of the Unplayed Concert project, organized an online charity concert featuring Ukrainian musicians who left their homes due to the war. 

The concert was broadcasted simultaneously on the resources of KCMD and broadcast partners: ​​Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Art Education, Donemus Publishing, Edition Peters Group, EUYO — The European Union Youth Orchestra, Forest Collective, Module Exchange, Moldovan National Youth Orchestra, Music Biennale Zagreb, musikprotokoll, New Symphony Orchestra, Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik, UA: Culture, Ukraine UA, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Ukrainian Institute.

Partners: initiative neue musik berlin e.V.

Online meeting of Ukrainian and German new music communities.

Together with initiative neue musik berlin e.V. we organized Web-Talk: Meeting with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Community — an open panel discussion, at which we presented the Fund, and the members of the Ukrainian music community offered their vision of the context in which Ukrainian music has been existing for the last ten years and the last two months (since the beginning of a full-scale invasion).

The event, moderated by Hanna Grzeskiewicz, was joined by the following speakers:

• Iryna Tukova, PhD, Dr Habil, associate professor at the Music Theory Department of the Ukrainian National Academy of Music (Kyiv).

• Alla Zagaykevych, composer curator of international electroacoustic music projects EM-visia, Electroacoustics, President of Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music.

• Oleksandr Vynogradov, former Head of Visual Art at the Ukrainian Institute.

• Daria Vdovina — creative producer at Kyiv Contemporary Music Days.

• Albert Saprykin, composer, co-founder of the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, lead specialist at the State Agency of Ukraine on Arts and Artistic Education, Ukraine.

Read about the discussion:

• When we are talking about music and art, however, we are talking about the people — initiative neue musik berlin e.V.

• Meeting with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Community: what is the role of art in the war? — The Claquers, in English.

• Web-talk з музичною спільнотою України: культурна дипломатія під час війни — The Claquers, in Ukrainian.

Partners: Synaesthesis

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A panel discussion was organized together with the Lithuanian contemporary music ensemble Synaesthesis.

At the discussion, we presented the Fund, and the speakers shed light on the following topics:

• System and actors of the Ukrainian music scene over the last 10 years;

• The issue of Russia's approach to the culture and heritage of neighbouring countries;

• The situation in which the new music community in Ukraine found itself when the full-scale invasion started;

• Ways of supporting Ukrainian musicians during the war.

Speakers:

• Iryna Tukova, PhD, Dr Habil, associate professor at the Music Theory Department of the Ukrainian National Academy of Music (Kyiv)

• Oleksandr Vynogradov, former Head of Visual Art at the Ukrainian Institute

• Edvardas Šumila, philosopher, musicologist and curator, doctoral candidate at The New School for Social Research;

• Kateryna Alimova, cultural manager, and artistic director of Jauna Muzika Festival

• Albert Saprykin, composer, co-founder of the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, lead specialist at the State Agency of Ukraine on Arts and Artistic Education, Ukraine.

Organizers: Ulysses Network

Ulysses Network organized an online event dedicated to self-presentations of Ukrainian musicians. KCMD was honoured to be invited to participate in the event and present the Fund.

This event is part of the solidarity project with Ukraine ULYSSES FOR UKRAINE. Click here to find more information about this event and other opportunities for Ukrainian musicians.

Organizers: CelloBello

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On the Independence Day of Ukraine, part of the KCMD team met for a public online conversation with Robert Rand — the director of the CelloBello. 

We talked about the new direction of activity of KCMD — the Fund for the Support of the Ukrainian classical music community, about the importance of giving a platform to Ukrainian music, and also shared our reflections on the changes that the war brings to the life and work of musicologists, media artists, and composers.

Partners: Musika Jauna

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Panel discussion within Festivalis Jauna Muzika 2022 in Vilnius, organized by KCMD and the Lithuanian Composers Union.

The discussion provided a platform for institutional actors in the sphere of culture, music in particular (contemporary, experimental, electroacoustic, etc.), who are developing formal and informal cultural centres that contribute to building sustainable professional communities. Covering the previous path and current situation within the music communities in Lithuania and Ukraine, we also focused on the practical aspects of possible collaborations.

The discussion addressed common goals and plans for the post-war period to prepare ground for new centres to emerge and to find ways in which Ukrainian and Lithuanian actors in contemporary/ experimental/ electroacoustic music can work together to bring about new opportunities and enhance each other's efforts.

Speakers: 

• Daina Urbanavičienė (LT) - Vice-minister of Culture of Lithuania

• Galyna Grygorenko (UA) — Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine

• Albert Saprykin (UA) — composer, co-founder and head of the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days

• Alla Zagaykevych  (UA) — composer, President of Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music in CIME/ICEM  founder of EM-visia,

• Ostap Manulyak (UA) — PhD, composer, co-founder of the Vox Electronica  and Tetramatyka Festivals

• Mykolas Natalevičius (LT) — composer, head of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union,

• Marta Finkelštein (LT) - pianist, curator, artistic director of ,,Synaesthesis" ensemble.

• Kateryna Alymova (UA)  —  cultural manager, artistic director of the Jauna Muzika Festival

• Mantautas Krukauskas (LT)  —  composer, Head of LMTA Music Innovation Studies Centre

Moderator: Rasa Murauskaitė (LT) — music critic and senior editor of LRT KLASIKA

Partners: IMPULS Festival, Art Music Denmark, Baltic Contemporary Music Network, Festival Alliance for Contemporary Music in Europe (F.A.C.E.). 

During the three-day festival in Halle and Dessau, KCMD was honoured to be invited to present the activities of the Fund and to announce the upcoming project, "Portfolio of key actors in contemporary classical music in Ukraine", to deliver a key-note speech about the role of arts and culture in politics and the importance of supporting the Ukrainian music sector on the international stage in times of war and after.

We also invited a composer Yana Shliabans'ka to perform in Sonic showcases concert within the festival.

Partners: initiative neue musik Berlin / field notes, Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik, Donemus Publishing, MBZ / Music Biennale Zagreb, Musikprotokoll, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Lviv National Philharmonic

The presentation consisted of three parts. In the first, the KCMD team presented Portfolio — an English-language online portal that allows professionals in the field of new music from all over the world to search for partners from Ukraine for collaborative projects, commissions of new works, etc.

It was followed by a panel discussion devoted to the activities of Ukrainian specialists in new music in the times of a full-scale war. The conversation was moderated by Lisa Benjes, director of Initiative Neue Musik Berlin / field notes. Among the discussion participants were Sasha Andrusyk — curator, founder of the Ukho music agency; Adrian Mocanu — composer; Yana Shliabanska — composer, co-founder of the electro-acoustic duo GUMA; and Albert Saprykin — co-founder of KCMD.

The final part of the presentation was an online concert, that showcased works of Ukrainian composers presented in the Portfolio: Zoltan Almashi , Anna Arkushyna, Roman Grygoriv & Illia Razumeiko, Maxim Kolomiiets, Anna Korsun, Boris Loginov, Svyatoslav Lunyov, Adrian Mocanu, Maxim Shalygin, Yana Shliabanska, Alexey Shmurak, Serhii Vilka, Olexij Vojtenko (Alex Voytenko), Ludmila Yurina, Alla Zagaykevych.

Partners: initiative neue musik Berlin / field notes, Acker Stadt Palast, MIFRUSH Production

The Mixer featured a panel discussion with festival curators from Kyiv – Albert Saprykin, Berlin – Julian Rieken and New York – Leah Batstone, a Q&A session, and an electroacoustic set by composer Yana Shliabanska. 

The discussion was addressing the influence of current political and social reality on artistic curators' methods and decisions. It unpacked the principles and practices of the organizations which are taking care of Ukrainian new music in times of war, and touched on the problematic issues of supporting artists who are going through the difficult experience of social and political unrest in their homeland.