Experience. June 2018

The launch of the first music camp in Ural. The organizers expand January project and invite 50 students from different Russian cities.

50 musicians

From 12 Russian cities

6 tutors

From Germany, Austria, the Netherland, and Denmark

7 days

To present the tracks on the Ural Music Night festival

The project participants were separated into 3 working groups

Band, electronic producers and music business.

Every day bands were rehearsing their creative material, electronic musicians and producers were creating new tracks, and music business students were attending workshops and preparing to present their projects.

Moreover, every participant of the camp could jam, make up new tunes, rehearse new lyrics during common events.

The students created several bands, which were directed by songwriters. Together with electronic producers they presented their tracks on the venue, and music business representatives "signed contracts" with the musicians for further work.

There were everyday workshops in the camp, where speakers were talking about creating hits, promoting them in social media, booking and touring, DJs' lives, vocal skills, organization of music festivals.

The musicians presented their tracks on the Ural Music Camp venue during the program of the Ural Music Night festival. The headliner of the stage was the tutors' band – SUiT.
The concert was attended by more than 3000 people.

The musicians presented their tracks on the Ural Music Camp venue during the program of the Ural Music Night festival. The headliner of the stage was the tutors' band – SUiT.
The concert was attended by more than 3000 people.

Participants feedback

The event is totally unique for Russia, I guess there's never been anything like that, dedicated to the music, before. Unfortunately, "camps" like that are quite common in all the branches of education, including art, so I'm grateful to people who organized it here.

Alexander Nikolaev

Direction band

It is a wonderful international educational project, and I'm grateful to live in a time when something like that is possible. Ural musicians are isolated, which is bad, but a project like UMC is created to break those barriers, and I'm sure everything is going to be fine.

Dmitry Malinovskiy

Ural Music Camp isn't a musicians-оnly project, it is also for managers, marketing experts, art directors from the musical industry. There are no similar projects in Russia. While being in different cities and countries, we are not so willing to share the "backstage" of organizing concerts and promotion. Here we managed to discuss everything, from track creation to tour planning.

Yuliana Kalaitanova

It's a practice of everything that can and should do a musician, who wants to succeed. In addition, the organizers are amazing, their job is, in fact, just one more lecture telling us that great things are made by ordinary people, who are not afraid of hard-working, experimenting, and believing the best in people.

Bella Riass

It is the most remarkable event of this summer. Guys, that was incredible! Great program, that brings the musicians together, strong emotional charge, a complete reboot and upgrade of knowledge, a whole lot of new acquaintances and inspiration. The week went by unnoticed.

Svetlana Gruzdeva

My team managed to create 4 songs in only 4 days (and to record 2 of them) and to play them on the Ural Music Night festival. That is amazing! How have we managed to do everything in such a short time? It was difficult, but I'm satisfied now. We all were in it together, working like horses, spending in the studio 8 hours per day, it was extremely interesting.

Irina Nikulina

Workshops and lectures for musicians on Russian are rare. An opportunity to learn relevant material and develop it practically, while sharing experience, is like a dream for any musician. And marvelous Ural nature helps to keep inner harmony and relax your mind after hard work.

Maria Yeremenko

I think that an opportunity to participate in such project is a chance for every musician to reconsider their own art, improve their self-esteem as an artist. You start to understand something that you couldn't get in just a week. I strongly recommend everyone to take a part in the program!

Roman Varaksin

Ural Music Camp is a paradise for musicians. It is a place where you can distract from everything and give yourself over music. Everybody speaks the same language and everyone is in the loop. The organizers are nice and skilled, and tutors are just brilliant, it seems like they come from some kind of a perfect planet (Europe).

Roman Zapolskiy

Ural Music Camp is incredibly interesting and controversial. There's nothing like that in Russia. I recommend everyone to take a part in the project, because it is truly inspiring. Where else can you live among people who have a passion for music and dedicated their lives to it?

Arseniy Braginskiy

We found out how the show business industry works in Europe and learnt about such field of expertise as Artist Development. Just to clear things up, Tom's private consultation centre in Germany costs 50-100 euro per hour for groups. That means I saved approximately 2500 euro while being taught by him in the camp! By the way, in the camp he was availible for 24 hours per day, and later he even gave us his e-mail, phone number and social media accounts and said «feel free to ask questions, guys».

Ilya Maltsev

Ural Music Camp is a project which has no substitutions. And it's the best thing that has happened to me in the last few years. Full immersion into the atmosphere of creative economy, experienced tutors, individual approach, busy, but not tedious schedule – that's what gives you a push in the right direction, makes you more confident and opens your eyes to a lot of things. The most precious thing is, undoubtedly, people. Creative, kind atmosphere, exchange of energy and emotions make you the feel like you are capable of everything.

Kseniya Shmeleva

After the end of the project participants of the Ural Music Camp organized a tour of the German-Dutch Disco Dicks band.