Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (KCMD), an educational and concert platform for new music, invites concert and festival organizers, musicologists, curators, music journalists, and musicians in Berlin for a special event. Using the launch of a new edition of KCMD’s Contemporary Classical Music Portfolio UA as a pretext, »Find and Relate« will be switching between informal networking, a live conversation, and a solo concert.

Coming from Kyiv for a conversation is Liza Sirenko, co-founder of The Claquers (https://theclaquers.com/en/), Ukraine’s first independent media about classical music. She will be talking with Jeffrey Arlo Brown, editor at VAN Magazine, about the current situation in Ukraine and Germany and ways for musicians from both countries to collaborate.

Following the conversation, Mathis Mayr of ensemble mosaik will play a program for solo cello by Ukrainian contemporary composers featured in the Portfolio.

Contemporary Classical Music Portfolio UA (https://www.kcmd.eu/portfolio) is a curated selection of organizations and professionals that best represent the field of new music in Ukraine today. It was designed by KCMD to be an easy-to-use tool for music professionals around the world to find and engage with their Ukrainian counterparts. »Find and Relate« is a format aimed at actualizing the Portfolio for the Berlin professional audiences and starting new creative collaborations.

Free entry but you need to register: https://forms.gle/Ay1PtnRwGi6GCUzo8.

»Find and Relate« – ermöglicht im Rahmen des Stipendienprogramms »Weltoffenes Berlin« von der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.