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Awards and Other Opportunities
Arts Council Awards- Travel and Training Awards
Deadline: Ongoing, see web site for specifics.
Open to artists and people working professionally in the arts ‘to support training and other professional development opportunities through international travel’ as well as ‘individuals/organisations who want to bring in specialists from abroad to deliver high-level training or mentoring directed at the professional development of artists’. Awards max. €12,000.
| Posted: 20 January 2009 |
Advanced Master in Soloist Contemporary Music, Belgium
Deadline: 20 May 2010
University College Ghent, in collaboration with the Ghent based Spectra ensemble & the Brussels based Ictus ensemble, will be offering a new Master programme with emphasis on Contemporary Chamber Music. This is an advanced programme which runs over two academic years and can only be followed by students who already have an academic master's degree or an equivalent qualification. This programme is designed for musicians wishing to combine further specialization in performing contemporary solo & chamber music with developing their professional career. Coaching to enhance specialist and artistic skills will be given by renowned new music performers including members of the Spectra and the Ictus ensemble.
Further complementary theoretical and practical courses will be offered at the Conservatory of Gent Faculty of Music. In order to obtain this POST MASTER qualification students have to conceive a concert project, write a thesis and put on public performances. By achieving these threes goals, students will demonstrate their artistic autonomy, their ability to reflect and their outstanding technical and aesthetical international performance standards.
Details:
Email: pauwels@ictus.be
Web: www.ictus.be/manama/manama-e.html
| Posted: 26 February 2010 |
Location One Fellowship 2010
Deadline: 5 March 2010
Location One is a not-for-profit art centre in New York devoted to convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. It operates an international residency programme where emerging and established artists can experiment with new forms of artistic expression, particularly those involving new technologies.
The Arts Council offers an annual Fellowship to one artist to facilitate his/her participation in the international residency programme at Location One for 10 months, in order to develop his/her practice and create new work. In addition to the support and resources provided through Location One, the Fellowship also includes accommodation and a stipend.
Applicants must demonstrate that the space and time for development, the opportunity for engagement and the access to the resources and facilities at Location One would be of significant value in their professional and artistic development. Prior experience in the use of new technology and/or new media is not essential; however, an ambition to engage with the creative potential that is offered by Location One must be clearly demonstrated by applicants. Max award: €37,000. Individual applicants must have been born in, or be resident in, the Republic of Ireland.
Details:
Email: locationonefellowship@artscouncil.ie
Web: www.artscouncil.ie/en/view_fund.aspx?fid=918ad1be-5910-4592-b901-a3f35b6483cd
| Posted: 10 February 2010 |
ABSOLUT Fringe 11-26 September 2010, Ireland
Deadline: 12 March 2010
Dublin Fringe Festival welcomes submissions from all art forms: theatre, music, dance, visual art, street-art, film, multi-media and beyond. This year, a continued emphasis will be placed on new work that reclaims more of Dublin city's empty spaces and experiments with performance and experiential arts on a grand and minute scale. The festival will have a particular focus on works that engage with the theme of community, to be interpreted as liberally and imaginatively as possible by the artists we work with. Too often 'community' becomes a byword for disadvantage and exclusion where the myriad possibilities of community, both on and offline are ignored. Dublin Fringe Festival would like to re-imagine the idea of community in 2010.
Details:
Web: www.fringefest.com
| Posted: 13 January 2010 |
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme 2010, Ireland
Deadline: 25 June 2010
Managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work collaboratively on arts projects, twice yearly. The scheme covers all art forms - architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature, music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts.
Phase One, Research & Development: open to artists who wish to research and develop a project in a community context. Maximum time frame is 3 months. Max award: €1,000.
Phase One, Research & Development/Mentoring: open to artists who wish to develop a community based project and who have identified an artist mentor they want to work with during the research and development phase. Max award: €1,000, which includes E500 fee payable to the mentor.
Phase Two, Project Realisation: open to communities of interest or place (or their representative organisations) (1) planning a project of between 6 weeks and 5 months, max award: €5,000. (2) planning a project of between 6-9 months max award: €10,000.
Details:
Email: support@create-ireland.ie
Web: www.create-ireland.ie/professional-development/artist-in-the-community-scheme.html
| Posted: 10 February 2010 |
Skidmore Jazz Studentship, Northern Ireland
No Deadline
The Skidmore Jazz Studentship is open for applications. It is one of a number of specialist arts residencies and funding opportunities currently available from the Arts Council through its Support for Individual Artists Programme.
In partnership with An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the Arts Council will send one budding jazz musician to the Skidmore Jazz Institute to attend its two week jazz education programme. Held every summer it offers students of all ages one-to-one lessons with world-class performers, as well as attending sessions in improvisation and composition. As part of the two week programme, students also have the opportunity to attend guest master classes.
The Support for the Individual Artist Programme offers a collection of schemes designed to meet the needs of individual artists working in Northern Ireland. The current funding round, including applications for residencies, opens 14 December 2009 to 28 January 2010.
Details:
Web: www.artscouncil-ni.org/news/2009/new14122009.html
| Posted: 22 December 2009 |
COMA Limerick, Ireland
No deadline
COMA Limerick meet once a month to play new music by living composers. New participants are always welcome!
The music played suits musicians of all abilities (although some sight-reading experience does help). Rehearsals are 11am-3pm at the Belltable's off site venue - Red Cross Hall, Cecil Street (beside Tom Collins' pub), Limerick: Saturday 21st March; Saturday 25th April; Saturday 23rd May; Saturday 20th June.
Details:
Email: fionanil@yahoo.com
Web: www.myspace.com/comalimerick
| Posted: 15 March 2009 |
SMI Grants, Ireland
No deadline
The Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) proposes to award annually a number of small grants to its members of up to €400 in support of musicological research to assist post-graduate research students, non-affiliated scholars, or academics without recourse to institutional funds.
Applications should include a short CV, a brief description of the proposed research and its intended purpose, a proposed budget, and (if applicable) an account of awards received or applied for in connection with the project. A copy of a short letter of support from a supervisor or appropriate academic should also be included with the application. Applications will be considered on an on-going basis and the awards publicised on the SMI website.
Details:
Email: gareth.cox@mic.ul.ie
| Posted: 16 May 2007 |
RTÉ lyric fm Music Commissions 2009, Ireland
No deadline
RTÉ lyric fm has an ongoing policy of commissioning works from composers born or based in Ireland, or who have an association with an Irish festival or institution. We will be considering proposals for our 2009 commissions from December 2008 onwards. Proposals for short solo or chamber works - (between 5-10 mins, preferably multi-movement works) - and proposals for co-commissions with institutions/ festivals/ ensembles etc are particularly welcome. Please include a description of your proposal, details of compositions to date and audio samples of previous work. Proposals can be posted to:
Details:
Celia Donoghue
RTÉ lyric fm
Cornmarket Square
Limerick
Or via email to donoghce@rte.ie
| Posted: 12 December 2008 |
Bill Whelan International Music Bursary
No deadline
Music bursary to help gifted Irish students further their studies at participating third level institutes, primarily in the USA and UK, including the Berklee School of Music, Boston and the University of Southern California (USC). The Bursary programme will run for five years and it is anticipated that students from disciplines including film scoring, orchestration, conducting and music composition will be able to avail of it. Bursary grants will range from
4,000 to 7,000 and the programme is administered with the assistance of The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO).Details:
Keith Johnson, Marketing Manager (IMRO)
Web: www.imro.ie
Email: keith.johnson@imro.ie
| Posted: 4 November 2003 |
Musicians Benevolent Fund
No deadline
The UK-based Musicians Benevolent Fund is 'the music business's own charity' and provides practical and flexible support to those in any branch of the music business in need as a result of illness, accident or other misfortune. It offers grants or loans for a wide range of purposes in the strictest confidence and also encourages the next generation of professionals with a range of awards and advice for young musicians.
Details:
Musicians Benevolent Fund
16 Ogle Street
London W1W 6JA
Tel: +44-20-7636 4481
Fax: +44-20-7637 4307
Email: info@mbf.org.uk
Web: www.mbf.org.uk.
| Posted: 1 April 2003 |
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