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.
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.
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.
(re)Charg(é)
Deadline / November 10, 2024
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The CLC is thrilled the announce the launch of a new mentorship program: (re)Charg(é)
(re)Charg(é) is a program for composers or sound artists, at any point in their careers, who are not currently enrolled in an academic music training program, and who wish to re-energize their artistic practice through mentorship, peer support, or specific professional development goals. Individuals who are, for instance:
- Looking to learn a new technical or aesthetic practice;
- Working on a specific project that requires support or guidance;
- Looking for different ways to engage with their discipline;
- Wishing to explore interdisciplinary practices through a professional in another artistic field.
Selected participants will receive a stipend of $300, as well as $750 to put towards a 1-on-1 mentorship of their design. The CLC will also help organize and facilitate this mentorship. In addition, based on input from the selected participants, the CLC will facilitate two group workshops tailored to the needs and interests of the cohort. Chosen participants will receive a 1-year free membership to the CLC (if they aren’t already members).
Opera Creation Forum
Deadline / November 20, 2024
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The Opera Creation Forum is a new, paid, professional development opportunity for composers and writers at any stage of their professional career who want to gain intensive, hands-on training in the collaborative art of opera creation. A co-production between Musique 3 Femmes and Opéra de Montréal, the OCF will be hosted by Opéra de Montréal and directed by opera composer and dramaturg, Luna Pearl Woolf. Taking place from February 5-16, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec, the Forum will provide four composers and four writers the opportunity to work with performers, directors, and opera creation mentors, focusing on the process and principles of collaboration, and working through exploratory assignments. Each creator will be partnered with each writer and performer in rotation, to create four new works within the twelve-day intensive.
Who: Professional composers and writers based based in Canada with an interest in creating opera
When: February 5-16, 2025
Location: Montréal, Québec
Applications due: Nov 20, 2024, 11:59pm EST
To Apply: Fill out this form
Call for Scores: “Woman, Art, Resilience”
Deadline / December 23, 2024
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We invite women composers from around the world to submit their works for “Woman, Art, Resilience,” two concert events scheduled for Spring 2025 in Toronto and Aurora, Ontario, in honor of International Women’s Day. This project celebrates the resilience, courage, and power of women in the face of adversity and highlights the role of women in art as a tool for healing, education, and fostering empathy.
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.
Art Omi: Music – Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Open Call!
Deadline / January 2, 2025
Residency dates / Thursday, August 7 – Monday, August 25, 2025
Decision notification / April 2025
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Art Omi: Music invites ten to twelve musicians and composers from around the globe to come together for two and a half weeks each summer for a uniquely collaborative music making residency.
Art Omi: Music encourages its participants to share ideas, perform each other’s works, and write music for one another, while exploring their own musical vision and broadening their artistic and cultural horizons.
Informal concerts invite the public to experience the creative process, collaboration, and development of the residents.
Art Omi: Music welcomes composers and sound-makers working in all genres and from all backgrounds, from all over the world. As Art Omi: Music encourages and fosters participation in new collaborative environments, only applications from individual applicants are accepted.
Art Omi residency programs offer artists the vital opportunity of space and time to create both individually and with one another. Lodging, meals and studio space on Art Omi’s beautiful 200-acre campus in the Hudson Valley are provided at no cost to the residents.
