With the aim of encouraging and reviving arts, discovering talents and providing means for the advancement of its professionals, the “Musical Incubator” project was launched at the Ministry of Culture. This project is considered a strategic project directed to musicians to form bands and support the inactive bands with the aim of transforming them into permanent musical bands that bolster the Syrian artistic movement.
A special organizing committee was formed for the project that included a selected group of experienced and specialized musicians to implement the objectives of this incubator, which are manifested in securing the technical environment and appropriate logistical support to form teams based on a specific project.
Technical director of the musical project, Charbel Isfahan said in a statement to SANA that the work on the incubator project will be carried out in two phases. He said that the individuals who are entitled to participate in the incubator programs must be resident in Syria.
Isfahan states that the incubator project for the current year was devoted to the basic classical chamber music and to many non-classical musical formations, either eastern or international.
The incubator, which is the first of its kind in Syria, will also provide the participating teams with instruments, musical materials, training places, performances, training workshops and media, advertising and financial support. A technical supervisor will be assigned to each music band whose task is to prepare a technical plan that includes musical programs, training, and performance monitoring.
It is noteworthy that the programs of the incubator are also directed to all Syrian governorates with the aim of forming musical bands and supporting active bands and authors and music distributors in order to write special works for the incubator groups. So that each incubated band has its own musical program and the author or the distributor has written works for more than one musical formation.
Inas Abdulkareem