For which money went to Berlin Kiev musicians?

It could not happen awaited tour of Youth Orchestra of the National Music Academy named after P. Tchaikovsky to Berlin for the International Festival Young Euro Classic. But Germany has helped Ukrainian musicians.

For a long time the orchestra, which employs about 80 people, preparing for this event. Speak at Young Euro Classic dreams almost every young artist, it’s known in the whole world of international festival of classical music. When students were invited to the German capital, learned that the trip may fall due to lack of funding. Instead, help musicians arrived from Germany, through organized kraudfandynhoviy students received campaign donations.

“The Ukrainian government announced its readiness to allocate our trip to Germany 20,000 euros. But a few months have passed since the political and economic situation is much worse, and funding of such trips stopped. So part in Berlin festival appeared in jeopardy. Of course, we reacted to this issue with understanding, but also much dropped their spirit – because each of us dreamed of since the Berlin scene, “- says Oleg Pakhomov bandsman playing the drums.

Not glad such news and leadership Festival Young Euro Classic. Festival Director Gabriele Mintz (Gabriele Minz) told me that this year the focus is Eastern Europe, and especially the immediate neighbors of the European Union. But Ukraine and so attracts the attention of the whole world, so they have enough arguments to invite to Berlin this is the team. So organizers, without wasting time, began search for sponsors. Get money was extremely difficult, because the message came just six weeks before the Young Euro Classic. So came the idea of creating crowd funding platform that could help raise funds for this project. For this purpose, the organizers asked the band to remove a small video about your team, and added to the site. The leadership appealed for help to the partners and friends of the festival.

At once responded about 100 people, which immediately transferred funds. amount transferred was EUR 3tys from a small private company in Berlin. And in 10 days campaign collected more than 10,500 euros. And this amount is already enough, because Ukrainian musicians can save on everything. For example, to get to Berlin, they can train or bus, not plane. Although it will be much longer. And come and stay much smaller amount, as many hotels provide substantial discounts to the participants of the festival. Festival Young Euro Classic takes place in Berlin from 2000. The program works mainly nineteenth XXcen. Also interesting condition is that participants must perform works by composers of their country, or those who worked in their countries. This is the only festival in the world that offers such a program. This year the festival was held from 6 to 23 August, which was more than 1.5 thousand musicians from 40 countries. Ukrainian Youth Orchestra made on August 14 under the trampoline Igor Palkin. The program consisted of Ukrainian students of the Second Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Eugene Stankovic (known contemporary Ukrainian composer) plays symphonic young Ukrainian Andriy Merhelya Second Symphony and Tchaikovsky, which was written during a visit to Ukraine by the composer.