For a better and brighter future through music

In the artistic and fundraising project Music for the Future, on 11 May, under the baton of conductor Živa Ploj Peršuh talented young musicians from Ukraine joined forces with young musicians from Slovenia in the Gallus Hall of Cankarjev dom under the auspices of of the Slovenian Youth Orchestra in the symphony orchestra Musič for the Future. They were joined by the world-renowned Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, founder of the Kremerata Baltica ensemble, who performed Schumann’s Concerto in A minor, originally written for cello. The programme’s artistic director carefully included in the concert programme – the proceeds of which went to help children and families from Ukraine – a work by the young Ukrainian composer Miroslav Skorik and the Festive Overture by Lucijan M. Škerjanc, in which we recognise a Slovenian folk song. The young musicians demonstrated their mastery in Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. Under the baton of Živa Ploj Peršuh , the Musič for the Future symphony orchestra took to the stage again on 7 June, joined by Masayah and numerous guests from various artistic fields; or, as the organisers wrote in the announcements, the programme sought to combine the seemingly incompatible: classical music, rap, original beats, their arrangements, poetry and texts set to music. The arrangements for symphony orchestra were written by Matija Krečič, the staging was by Matej Filipčič, the violin soloist was Maja Horvat and the host was Ivan Lotrič. With Odpri oči in spregovori, interpreting poems by the Slovenian classics of poetry France Prešeren, Oton Župančič, Dane Zajc, Tomaž Šalamun and others, collected in a book of Slovenian poetry of resistance and a new album H2S04 (selected with the participation of Igor Saksida and Masayah), the young rappers Masayah, Emkej, Drill, Slick, Vazz, N3, Matter, Dacho, Tunja, Žena, La Bagra, Smirbe, Chiro and Ghet issued their call. Gidon Kremer and the Musič for the Future symphony orchestra