CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:
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.
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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.
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.
SOCAN : Canadian New Music Workshop
Deadline / April 15, 2025
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The Canadian New Music Workshop is a distinguished program designed to support and showcase the work of three mid-career Canadian composers. Hosted by the Glenn Gould School (GGS) New Music Ensemble, this program provides selected composers the unique opportunity to develop and refine their compositions in collaboration with an exceptionally skilled ensemble. The workshop offers a high-achieving environment where composers are present and receive in-depth feedback on their work throughout the process. This setting encourages a productive exchange that benefits both the composer and the musicians. Each composer receives one hour each with the ensemble, culminating in a high-quality audio-video capture of the session.
Composers in this program gain the opportunity to write for a 15-player large chamber ensemble—a highly prized format in contemporary music. This ensemble size, recognized internationally, allows composers to create works that align with global standards and equips them with recordings suitable for future performances and submissions worldwide.
8th International Nikolaus-Fheodoroff-Composition-Prize
Deadline / April 30, 2025
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The Prize, which carries a value of € 15.000,- will be awarded in 2027.
Composers of all ages an nationalities are eligible to enter.
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Azrieli Music Prizes – Call for Submissions
Deadline / May 2, 2025
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Created in 2014 by Dr. Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, the Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition. In this exciting edition – the largest in AMP’s 10-year history – we are giving a special focus to works for choir & orchestra (with optional soloists).
With a generous prize package, including a $50,000 CAD cash prize, a gala concert in Montréal, two further international showcases and a commercial recording, AMP is Canada’s largest composition prize and globally one of the most significant.
Our four categories include one discovery prize and three commissions: the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music, the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music, the Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music and the Azrieli Commission for International Music.
Composers of all nationalities, faiths, backgrounds, genders, ages and levels of experience are encouraged to apply. There is no entry fee.
Arcady-RBC Emerging Composer Competition
Deadline / May 3, 2025
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Arcady is pleased to present the ninth annual Arcady-RBC Emerging Composer Competition for new works for voice and piano or string quartet.
The award: The winner of Arcady’s 2025 Emerging Composer Competition will have their work premiered at an upcoming concert by members of Arcady’s professional ensemble. They will receive a recording and if desired, a one-on-one session with esteemed Canadian composer and Arcady’s Resident Composer and Artistic Director Ronald Beckett (via Skype or in-person). Please note: Travel expenses to the premiere are the responsibility of the prize recipient (though composers’ attendance is not required at the premiere).
