CURRENT COMPOSER OPPORTUNITIES:
Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes
Deadline / October 5, 2024
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Two Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes, in the amount of $50,000 each, are awarded annually to distinguished individuals (one in the arts and one in the social sciences and humanities). The prizes are intended to encourage continuing contributions to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.
Program Dates: February 21 – 28, 2025
Visiting Mentor: Tarik O’Regan
Resident Ensemble: Vancouver Chamber Choir
Application Deadline: Monday October 14th, 2024 (11:59pm EST)
Program Includes: Free Tuition, Free Accommodation, and a $1000 CAD honorarium for program participants.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges: Emerging Composers Program is an annual week-long tuition-free workshop that culminates in a public premiere performance. The week brings together celebrated mentors, a professional resident ensemble, and six emerging composers from around the world to each develop and premiere a new work, presented as part of Soundstreams’ main stage concert series in Toronto, ON.
This year we are pleased to announce Tarik O’Regan as our visiting mentor and the Vancouver Chamber Choir as our resident ensemble. Previous RBC Bridges visiting mentor composers have included: R. Murray Schafer, Unsuk Chin, Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho, and Chris Paul Harman, Paul Grabowsky, and André Ristic.
Each participant will receive a $1,000 honorarium and free accommodation in Toronto for the duration of the workshop. Travel expenses to and from Toronto are the responsibility of the participants.
Impuls Competition
Deadline / October 31, 2024
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impuls promotes and supports young composers not only within its Academy, but also through the international impuls Composition Competition.
impuls commissions new works for ensemble every second year from young composers selected by a jury. Subsequently these composers are invited to take part in the impuls Composition Workshop in Vienna and Graz – where their new works are collectively rehearsed and discussed extensively with musicians of world-class ensembles such as Klangforum Wien – as well as to the premiere of their new pieces within the impuls Academy and Festival in Graz. impuls also intends to support the composers´ works beyond that point through recordings respectively broadcasting, music communication programs and additional concerts.
Arts and Letters Club, Emerging Canadian Composers Competition
Deadline / November 1, 2024
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The Arts and Letters Club has always supported the early stages of artists’ careers by providing community, performance opportunity and physical space to practice. In continuation of this support, the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto announces its inaugural Emerging Canadian Composers Competition.
Any emerging Canadian composer is eligible, whether by birth, citizenship or permanent residency.
Composers entering the competition are invited to submit a work, in written form, for viola and piano, between seven and twenty minutes in duration, before the competition deadline of November 1st, 2024.
The Royal Canadian College of Organists
Rachel Laurin Composition Competition
Deadline / December 29, 2024
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Established by the Royal Canadian College of Organists to encourage the composition of organ music by young composers.
Open to national and international composers 35 years and younger.
CMC Ontario – Concert Series
Deadline / rolling
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Starting in 2023, The Ontario Region of the Canadian Music Centre is offering up to six $1,000 sponsorships each year, available to Associate Composers and new music performers, ensembles, and presenters, to produce a concert featuring at least 50% of music by Ontario Associate composers, allocated regionally in the following areas:
- Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, Kingston)
- Southern Ontario (Hamilton, Kitchener, Niagara)
- Western Ontario (London, Windsor)
- Central Ontario (Peterborough, Barrie, Owen Sound)
- Northern Ontario (North Bay, Sudbury, Manitoulin)
- Northwestern Ontario (Thunder Bay, Sault-Ste-Marie, Kenora)
CMC ON will promote the concerts via the CMC Ontario eBlast, our website, and social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). In return we ask that the concerts are billed as co-presentations providing equal billing to CMC ON on programs, website page about the concert, and any promotional materials using our logo. After the event, CMC ON will solicit a statement about the benefit of the support. Where possible, someone from CMC ON will attend.
While offering a source of new funds to areas historically deprived of new music performances and our help promoting concerts under this umbrella, this new paradigm of working has the potential to increase the number of concerts CMC ON presents each year, broaden our presence across the province, help us meet new people doing creative things, and help us better fulfill our provincial mandate and mission.
A specific number of sponsorships will be allocated to each area annually. Applications will be reviewed by staff as they are received until the funds for each area are committed.
CURRENT ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES:
2025 International Jazz Competition
The 19th Bucharest International Jazz Competition, 4 – 12 July 2025, is open to bands and vocalists of all nationalities. BucharestJAZZ-competition_2025_General Rules
Chalmers Performance Space Artist is Residence Program
Deadline / rolling
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The CMC Short-term creative residencies are a rolling residency program for composers, ensembles, and production companies involved in the production or researching of Canadian Music in CMC’s Chalmers Performance Space in downtown Toronto. These self-directed residencies provide you or your organization with space and time in which to experiment and cultivate new works or research new avenues for creativity. Residencies take place during work hours, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Residencies may range from a few days up to 4 weeks (excluding weekends) and may take place at any time of the year subject to availability of the performance space.
Resident artists and ensembles benefit from access to CMC’s production facilities and knowledgeable staff who are available to provide technical support and assistance. In addition, you will have the opportunity to build connections, create networks, and share your work with the broader CMC community through artist talks, publications and/or livestreaming.
Chalmers Performance Space Artist is Residence Program
Deadline / rolling
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The Canadian Music Centre in BC (CMC BC) is pleased to launch a new Artist in Residence program for the upcoming 2022/2023 season. Select artists (composers, performers, small ensembles) will be chosen as ‘Artists in Residence’ in CMC BC’s Murray Adaskin Salon.
These residencies are offered to artists involved in the production or researching of Canadian Music. The Canadian Music Centre in BC has always tried to support and encourage artists in our community and continues to do so with this investment in a private, creative working space to focus on your goals.
The AiR program is a flexible model to encourage experimentation and creativity. Basically you decide what you need to work on and we give you the space and time within which to do it.
CURRENT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:
Alberta Music Travel Grant
This grant provides travel assistance to Alberta-based music companies, artists, and individuals to support the growth and professional development of their careers.
Alberta Grants Calendar
This calendar captures upcoming grant deadlines for funding available to arts organizations and artists in Alberta. We have provided public funders at the municipal, provincial, federal levels, among with private foundations that support the arts in Alberta.
Downtown Vibrancy Funding
The Downtown Vibrancy Fund provides funding to projects that support achieving the goals outlined in the Downtown Vibrancy Strategy.