MUSIC UP CLOSE NETWORK - connecting orchestral music with young audiences, is a multiannual project of European orchestras and international organisations for artistic mobility. It is designed to launch a long-term European cooperation network that will provide concrete answers to current challenges in the field of orchestral music. The project involves world-class orchestras, some of which have a strong reputation for delivering projects for young audiences and nurturing a new generation of talented musicians, and other orchestral partners who need to improve their activities in reaching out to young people, while at the same time fostering the creation of new orchestral works.
The project partners see MUSIC UP CLOSE NETWORK as a start-up organisation. Firstly, they would like to experiment within it and share new approaches and strategies for connecting orchestral music with young audiences, and then expand the network to new orchestra partners and other international organisations. To this end, the project will implement actions to address the following priorities: 1. Transnational mobility: promoting transnational circulation of artists and professionals in 12 European countries; commissioning and internationalising new orchestral works by living composers to promote intercultural dialogue, co-productions and concert tours in innovative formats with young orchestral ensembles and choirs. 2. Audience development: experimentation and dissemination of development strategies, in particular in cooperation with Balkan countries; production of concerts in innovative formats for young people, using cross-media tools to reach young and under-represented audiences. 3. Capacity building: training and education: strengthening of professionals with the competences and skills to work transnationally, in particular the promotion of a programme of exchange of work experience and the promotion of music residencies for orchestral training for young professional musicians.
