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 Organisation  
The 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. 

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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

Children Singing

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)

Swedish Musical Heritage

Hugo Alfvén, regarded by many to be Sweden's foremost composer from the period of romantic nationalism, lived in the idyllic village of Tibble outside Leksand in scenic Dalecarlia. He paid many visits to the United States as a composer and conductor, including many with his great choir from the Lake Siljan region, Silanskören. 

Alfvén’s internationally best-known orchestral works are the Suite from the ballet-pantomime  The Mountain King , with its fantastic "Dance of the Shepherd Girl," Swedish Rhapsody No. 1  Midsummer Vigil , Swedish Rhapsody No.3 Dala Rhapsody, and his Festival Overture, which is always played at the annual Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. Many choirs in the  United States are also quite familiar with his choral arrangements of "Out in our meadow" and the beautiful "King Lily of the Valley". 

Alfvén's unique home was built with a generous donation from the Swedish people in honor of his 70 th birthday. It was completed in 1945. In accordance with Hugo Alfvén's testament, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music manages the home and grounds and works to provide an inspiring and vibrant artistic environment for the benefit of composers and painters of coming generations. This important cultural site is open to visitors in the summertime, and, in the winter, visits are welcome, though only by appointment, all with an eye to disseminating and preserving the contributions of Hugo Alfvén to Swedish cultural heritage and music. 

Activities consist of guided tours, unique chamber music concerts, innovative music workshops for children and youth, events highlighting art songs and vocal recitals as well as choral singing, along with in-depth lectures. Financial donations enable the preservation and upkeep of the Alfvén Home and Grounds as well as support for young musicians and singers, both from the region and from all over Sweden. 

Unfortunately, public access to the house is hampered by poorly adapted visiting spaces. Indoor concerts can seat only about 35, which is insufficient to cover honorariums. Outdoor concerts do not function well owing to the lack of a stage and reasonable seating. The yield from the funds that Alfvén left to the Academy is also inadequate to cover personnel costs, renovations, etc. Unless the Academy can make substantial investments to improve accessibility, concert and program settings, seminars, etc., the Home and Grounds will ultimately face a financial situation where it will no longer be able to be preserved. 

The Academy is eager to greatly reinforce educational activities for children and youth at the Home and Grounds, not least in the form of choral singing and summer courses in art song performance, etc. The Academy would like to replace the decrepit dock down by the water with a stage and do landscaping work to enable seating by the water. With these minor improvements the Alfvén Home and Grounds would be able to arrange outdoor concerts for a seated audience of at least 200. This alone would make it possible to carry out concert activities that can generate a modicum of profit that could accrue to activities and operations, in anticipation of a new building (if such an edifice could be funded in the future). This would also render the grounds and public conveniences  accessible to people with disabilities  for the first time. 


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