Cash Grants/Monetary Awards - Music

Grants for Community Music, Home Coaching, Weekend Workshops and Special Initiatives are available to individuals applying through a nonprofit sponsor.

Available to Equity Membership Candidates. The Roger Sturtevant Musical Theatre Award, given under the auspices of the Actors' Equity Foundation, is available to current Equity Membership Candidates (EMC) who have demonstrated outstanding abilities in the musical theatre field. Awards consisting of a $1,000 check and a certificate will be presented to one male and one female EMC.

Provides support and grants exclusively for study in classical piano music.

The Alea III International Composition Prize was established at Boston University to promote and encourage the creation of new music by young professional composers of all nationalities under 40 years old.

An International Cultural Competition with monetary prizes for an original musical score for dance and related original choreography.

BY NOMINATION ONLY--PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT. International prize that honours an individual or organization whose services in the field of Culture (Letters, Arts and the Humanities) are characterized by a dedication to human values as conceived by Hellenic culture.

A competition for musicians between 18 and 30 years. The competition rotates annually between cello, classical guitar, and violin.

Artistic Assistance enables artists to enhance the artistic aspects of their work within their discipline. All artistic disciplines are eligible. thse funds provide ROOTS member artists with a source of critical funding to attend a workshop or study with a mentor, develop new work, or simply explore their creativity.

BY NOMINATION ONLY--PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT. To honor and encourage distinguished artists, composers, and writers who are not members of the Academy.

BY NOMINATION ONLY - PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT. The newest Academy award for composers is the Charles Ives Living, awarded triannually. Initiated in 1998, this is the largest monetary award given exclusively to an American composer. At $225,000, it is exceeded in sum only by the MacArthur Fellow Program (the "Genius Award"), which is available to individuals in any area of expertise.

Established by the renowned composing partner of Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, the Richard Rodgers Award goes not to a composer but directly to the staged reading of a work for musical theater. One to five winners are selected each year, depending on the jury's bent. If one shows outstanding promise, the entire award can be given to one musical. If four or five show equal merit, then smaller awards will be given to each. The jury also has freedom to not award the entire available sum, which could be as much as $100,000. The staged readings take place in New York City, and they are arranged directly by the Academy.

The ABA/Ostwald Award was the first competition for band music composition in America, and is one of the most prestigious awards in that field.

The CCP supports the creation of new works by emerging composers by underwriting composers' commissioning fees. Composers apply to CCP in conjunction with a performing organization (a soloist or a group). Alternatively, composer-performer-improvisers may apply in conjunction with a presenting organization. The program thus fosters cooperative ventures.