Mission & Vision
Founded in 2021, The Music and More Foundation, (MMF) has a mission to promote music and arts, and provide scholarships for music education, performance and research projects to students and artists based on merit, and to enhance international exchanges in the fields of music and various other artistic forms.
Our vision is to nurture new talent and expand creative endeavors of establishes artists with the goal to cultivate collaborations and artistic exchanges.
What is the More in The Music and More Foundation?
When we listen to music, there is always the more component. By its definition, music is more. It is an art which unites rhythm and sound, combines different melodic lines and creates harmony of two or more notes played together. The more is sharing, collaborating and inventing synergy. The more is community. The more is cultural exchange. The more is diplomacy. The more connects music to movement, words, pictures, shapes, taste and experience.
How did we get here?
The beginnings of The Music and More Foundation date to 2014. First, there was a successful Music & More Concert Series in Tribeca, NY (2014-2015) and Lincoln Center, NY (2015-2016), followed by a creation of an international music festival and academy – Music & More SummerFest (MMSF), taking place every summer in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As a founding director of MMSF, Tatjana Rankovich has often referred to the festival as her own Festival of the United Nations. Regardless of their ethnic background, race, gender or religion, students have been empowered to be creative and supportive as friends and colleagues, and to express their individuality as performers and artists. The sheer fact that the festival found its home in Bosnia & Herzegovina, a country with a difficult past, speaks volumes. Hence, MMSF’s success has taken us to this most natural step, the creation of The Music and More Foundation (MMF).
The MMF’s mission strongly supports our artistic vision - to nurture new talent and expand creative endeavors of established artists. We strongly believe in cultivating collaborations and international artistic exchanges. We strive to recognize the unique potential of each and every student, and through promotion of music and arts provide performance opportunities and scholarship for education and research projects to established artists and a new generation of talented students.
As performers, educators and art professionals, we would like to encourage all young musicians and artists to feel safe when expressing their unique voice, affinities and creative ideas.
