Musica Viva Australia has announced Helen Svoboda and Katie Yap as its 2023 FutureMakers.

FutureMakers is a two-year program that provides mentoring, networking opportunities and music intensives to emerging chamber musicians. It also supports the development of a musical performance project in a bid to help cultivate the future of the Australian artistic landscape.

Helen Svoboda and Katie Yap. Photo supplied.

“There are two qualities I look for in the young musicians Musica Viva mentors as part of its FutureMakers program: a certain fearlessness and widespread peer respect,” said Artistic Director Paul Kildea.

“Both Helen and Katie have these qualities in spades. It is a delight and privilege to plot and plan with them their emerging careers, conscious that these plans will have a huge impact on Australia’s cultural landscape for decades to come.”

Helen Svoboda is a double bassist, composer and vocalist who released her third solo album, I Heard the Clouds, in November. She was the 2020/2021 Australian Art Orchestra Pathfinders Associate Artist, and is currently studying for a PhD...