MusMap.com is a web-page for classical and contemporary music, initiated by the composer Hugi Guðmundsson and built by the Portuguese programmer, Nuno Zimas. The web-page is created as a forum for soloists, orchestras, or composers to introduce themselves, their works and projects. Among other uses, it is intended to be a platform for event organisers of all kinds to find music or performers that fit each occasion.

The goal of the site is to empower classical music and musicians and strengthen the network between those in the sector. MusMap.com was built as a non-profit site through volunteer work. The Aurora Fund grant is intended to develop and program an introductory system for concerts and events, and to pave the way for supporters, carry a list of CVs, and last but not least to spend a part of the grant in order to further market the page.

Aurora Board Reasoning:

MusMap.com is the result of a pioneering spirit of the sort that Aurora Foundations wishes to encourage and strengthen, a unique project in its own way, especially in that it helps to introduce classical music to young people. Hugi Guðmundsson has a clear vision for the future and even though the project is a relatively small one, so far, it has all the means to become a driving force and a large influence in the world of classical music. While the internet is the main forum for introducing and marketing popular music, classical and contemporary musicians, composers, and lovers of such music have had no common forum until now, thanks to Hugi's initiative.

Hugi Guðmundsson is one of the best known composers of his generation in Iceland, and has received several acknowledgements for his works both in Iceland and in other countries. In November of 2008 he received a special acknowledgement from Kraumur, Aurora's Music Fund, for his CD containing his composition Apocrypha – which had, earlier that year, received an award as Composition of the year in the category of classical and contemporary music from the Icelandic Music Awards. He says he is both grateful and happy to receive the support and acknowledgment that the Aurora Fund and Kraumur have showed him.

Hugi lives and works in Copenhagen. At the moment he is composing for a Norwegian guitar player – a collaboration that came to be through Musmap.com! Hugi is also creating a piece for the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra which is planned to premiere in the new Icelandic National Concert and Conference Hall in Reykjavík, soon after it opens.