Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Support music education, research, and artistic development in Sweden and beyond. A commitment to the future.
A COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE
Support music education, research, and artistic development in Sweden and beyond.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien) is a central and autonomous force within Swedish musical life. Through a great number of scholarship funds, musicians, composers, researchers and others who are active within musical spheres are inspired, encouraged and brought to the fore.
Your contribution can, for example, support musical life in the following areas:
Young musicians
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music arranges competitions and awards a large number of scholarships to young music students and young musicians at the beginning of their careers.
Children Singing
A nationwide movement initiated by the Academy showing the importance of verbal music in preschools and schools, with the goal to give all children opportunities to grow up with their voice as a natural resource.
The Swedish Musical Heritage
This database makes the hidden Swedish musical treasure accessible and an obvious part of the concert repertoire, in Sweden and world wide.
The Alfvén Estate
In accordance with the will of Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén, the Academy administers The Alfvén Estate and works to offer an inspiring and living artist environment.
The OrganisationThe academy is one of the most influential consultative bodies in music politics and is deeply engaged in discussions about the future of Swedish musical life. The academy today comprises ca 170 Swedish members chosen from diverse areas of musical life. This includes musicians, conductors, composers, educators, researchers, administrators and others who have made outstanding contributions to Swedish music. An additional sixty-some international members have been chosen from among the most prestigious musical personalities of our time, among about a dozen are from the US, such as Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma and Keith Jarrett.
The Academy is represented by a board, its President and two Vice presidents. A Permanent Secretary leads the office staff in carrying out the daily work of the Academy.
Fundraisers
Official fundraiser
Children Singing
The role of music in school teaching and syllabuses has declined, and many people are worried that children no longer have true access to their voices. The Academy's entirely new national platform "Children Singing" (Sjungande barn, in Swedish) is a multi-year developmental project that is international in scope, where everyone involved in contexts of children singing can help accentuate the value of creating space for singing in preschools and schools. Music is both a salutary and an educational force. With Children Singing , the Royal Academy of Music hopes to secure conditions for all children to grow up with their voices as a self-evident resource for greater self-confidence, mental health, inclusion, and learning. The program is directed to children in preschools and schools, as well as individuals who work with children's singing, either professionally or as volunteers. Children who are alienated, are vulnerable, or have special needs will receive particular attention in the program, as will children suffering from disease or receiving care in a hospital or at home. Collaboration is anticipated with similar programs in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Nordic countries. Donation target: USD 350,000 (Costs for part-time project director and communications director, web costs, incl. newsletter, image rights, video features, social media platforms, seminars, international travel and international conferences, external project grants, educational curricula and development of educational tools—songbooks, teaching materials, video) For more info, visit: http://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/ and http:// www.sjungandebarn.se
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- Goal
- $350,000
Official fundraiser
Swedish Musical Heritage
There is a significant amount of excellent Swedish music from the past that remains little known and is seldom heard. The aim of the Swedish Musical Heritage project is to enhance our knowledge of this music and to promote its performance. A major share of older Swedish music is notoriously difficult to perform, simply because the existing sources are either inaccessible to musicians, are in the form of illegible manuscripts, or are not practical to use for other reasons. Surprisingly, this even applies to some music by a number of Sweden's most internationally renowned composers (Wilhelm Stenhammar, Joseph Martin Kraus, Johan Helmich Roman, Hugo Alfvén, to name a few). Swedish Musical Heritage makes music from several centuries available to musicians free of charge, both in Sweden and abroad. The pillars of the project are: -A database containing comprehensive information about the composers and their music -Critical editions of musical scores available free of charge on the website -Authoritative texts about Swedish musical history -Recordings (full-length and samplers) (Costs for project director, executive editors, research director, communications director, editors, web development and design, notation compositors, digital editions)
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- Goal
- $830,000
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