CMM Youth Music Center is an independent project aimed at supporting young musicians working in the field of new music. Its priorities include educational projects in the field of new music and its promotion in the cultural life of Ukraine. CMM began its work in March 2023.

Among CMM’s implemented projects are workshops for new music performers, in which students of music academies learn from the experience of senior colleagues, acclaimed interpreters of contemporary music (in cooperation with the Vere Music Fund, October 2023 and May 2024). Other projects are composer workshops to create a piece based on a given concept in collaboration with performers and more experienced young composers (“Liminal Spaces,” April–May 2023, “Transhumanism,” November–December 2023). 

Shifting Images. Concert of Michel Maran (clarinet, The Netherlands)

20 May 2024, Small Opera House, Kyiv 

Supported by the Peace for Art Foundation

Michel Maran's experimental project aimed to explore ways of combining two media — music and photography. By what principle should they be combined? How does our perception work and how does one medium interact with another?

https://kyivdaily.com.ua/mishel-maran/ 

Crossing Points. Contemporary music conducting workshop with Etienne Haan

3–10 December 2023, Kyiv

In cooperation with the National Presidential Orchestra, Octopus Student Scientific And Creative Society, and the National Philharmonic of Ukraine

The goal of the project was to create a platform for sharing the experience of seasoned musicians and beginners in the field of performing new symphonic music. The workshop featured three formats: active participation in creating a new symphonic work (four selected young conductors studied one score each under the mentorship of the French conductor Etienne Haan); passive participation (young musicians of any specialty had the opportunity to freely attend orchestra rehearsals and gain the experience of working with a team from the mentor and active participants); discussions (open to all, the discussions with leading artists and experts in the field touched on the ways of effective cooperation between a conductor and a composer in working on the premiere of a piece, about the (in)sufficient presence of new music in the leading Ukrainian symphony orchestras, and ways of improving the cooperation of collectives with composers). The event culminated in a final concert at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine where five works by contemporary composers were performed under the baton of active participants and the workshop mentor.

cmm.org.ua/2024/07/30/точки-перетину-майстер-клас-диригент/ 

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-h7H62GLRGQDNmWwgb5MNu_omhr8ghtf&si=Xo_7PJ7HEUqgrr4l

https://theclaquers.com/posts/12614 

https://theclaquers.com/posts/12455 

Practicum for new music performers: 2nd Edition

27 April – 21 May 2024, Vere Music Hub, Kyiv 

In collaboration with the Vere Music Fund

The Practicum for new music performers is an educational project for young musicians designed to help them master works written from the 1950s to the present day. The format consists of online and offline classes with mentors, lectures, and ensemble rehearsals. All the Practicum students studied one piece each, solo or ensemble, and presented them at the final concert on 21 May 2024 at the Vere Music Hub.

The Practicum included lectures by Viktoriia Vitrenko (“How to stop being afraid and sing contemporary music?”), Tetiana Novytska (“New music: texture, space, time and a little irony”), and Ihor Zavhorodnii (“How do I analyze and learn musical works?”). The Practicum program included works by Kurtag, Aperghis, Berberian, Nobuto, Sciarrino, Markeas, Shmurak, and Muhly.

https://cmm.org.ua/2024/07/29/praktikum2/ 

https://theclaquers.com/posts/13447 

https://theclaquers.com/posts/13064 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ksHSQjrx08 

The first Practicum for new music performers took place on 2–6 October 2023 in Kyiv, in cooperation with Vere Music Fund. At that time, the Practicum included individual and ensemble rehearsals, during which young musicians mastered the works of Aperghis, Carter, Harvey, Donatoni, Sciarrino, and Lara. The Practicum ended with a final concert at the Vere Music Hub.

Liminal Spaces. Composer project 

2 April – 22 May 2023, National Union of Composers of Ukraine (Kyiv organization), Les Kurbas Center, Kyiv

The project aimed to activate composer creativity in the field of contemporary classical music. During 6 weeks, selected young composers created ensemble pieces based on a defined concept — liminal spaces — improving the score thanks to the advice of the project mentor Alexey Shmurak and during a reading session with the performers. At the final concert, their works were performed for the general public. As part of the project, Alexey Shmurak gave an open lecture “Creating Acoustic Composed Music,” which was broadcast live and later published as a text.

https://theclaquers.com/posts/11807 

youtube.com/watch?v=jg9NEHq6hOI&t=32s 

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb3B4quwjdxN3LilMc44F57IEvxgyd53_&si=SXKkIjIi5uuSiUmt 

https://cmm.org.ua/2024/07/29/liminalspaces/ 

A composer project of a similar structure took place in November–December 2023. Its mentor was Etienne Haan and the main concept was the idea of ​​transhumanism. As part of the project, 8 premieres of works by young composers from Kyiv, Dnipro, and Lviv took place. The final concert was held at the Small Opera House, Kyiv.

https://cmm.org.ua/2024/07/29/transhumanism/