Music managers: 

• Ivanna Lischuk, festival and music manager; 

• Yevheniia Vidischeva, music manager, theatre director and producer; 

• Olesia Levytska, music manager, communication manager; 

• Liudmyla Shekera, music manager. 

Musicians: 

• Alina Zalozna, vocalist, arranger, and bandleader; 

• Yevhen Dubovyk, composer, pianist, and leader of the Yevhenii Dubovyk Project; 

• Maria Usenko, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and bandleader of the Maria Liu Quintet; 

• Andrii Martynenko, saxophonist and composer, known as Andrii Barmalii; 

• Borys Mohylevskyi, saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and lecturer at the Glière Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music; 

• Serhiy Dudariev, guitarist, composer, and bandleader of the band Chubareenee; 

• Danylo Bilous, drummer and member of the band Opera Avangard 

• Marharyta-Yulia Bilyk, vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader of the project Vognyana; 

• Oleksandr Yavdyk, drummer; 

• Denys Rudenko, guitarist and composer; 

• Daryna Nykytenko, saxophonist and composer. 

Jury members: 

• Ragnar Berthling – International Coordinator at Musikcentrum, Operating Manager at Musikcentrum Öst;  

• Maria Rylander – Jazz Vocalist, Composer, Cultural Coordinator and Project Leader based in Sweden;  

• Dennis Adu – Senior Lecturer and bandleader at the Jazz Department of Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music; 

• Serhii Davydov – Associate Professor of the Department Music Art of Pop and Jazz at  Kharkіv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts, as well as Full Professor of the Department History and Theory of Music at Dnipro Academy of Music; 

• Mariana Bondarenko – Head of Music at the Ukrainian Institute. 

The Resonate UA programme includes online workshops, and coaching sessions led by international experts. Key topics cover understanding the music industry, export strategies, digital communication, and international promotion. The program will run four times over 2025–2026. 

This cohort of participants has been made possible through the collaboration of the Ukrainian Institute and the Swedish music organization Musikcentrum Öst, in partnership with the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music named after R. M. Glier and the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky. The program is funded with the support of the Swedish Institute.