The Art Music Fund Supporting new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence in its field.

The fund supports works that have committed partners to ensure the work is presented multiple times with the intention to create a long artistic life for the work and by extension its composer. 

The Fund supports a wide range of music styles including the following:

• Notated composition
• Electroacoustic music
• Improvised music, including innovative, original jazz
• Sound art
• Installation sound
• Multimedia, web and film sound and music
• Theatrical, operatic and choreographed music

Funding and expenses

The Art Music Fund will award eleven A$7,500 grants (nine for Australia, two for New Zealand). These grants are intended as a contribution towards the commission of the proposed work.

The Art Music Fund is not intended to fund an entire project. It is intended to cover the cost of commissioning the work, thus reducing the overall project cost and providing certainty to composers.

Applicants:

While applications may commit a number of parties (performers, ensembles, recording companies, composers etc.) to the project, the Applicant must be a single composer. The term "composer" is used inclusively, covering anyone involved in the creation of a work, including:

• Sound artists
• Improvisers
• One of a team of creative collaborators

In applications involving multiple creators, one of the collaborators must be identified as the primary contact for the application (The Applicant).

The Applicant must be a member of APRA.

• Phone: 02 9935 7900
• Email: writer@apra.com.au