Grants: Premiere Recording Grants

Program Goals | Deadlines | Application Forms

Program Goals

A collaborative program of the Philadelphia Music Project and the Presser Foundation, Premiere Recording Grants are intended to fund the production of first recordings of artistically significant musical compositions performed at the highest standard of professional practice

The goals of the Premiere Recording Grant program are: to support the dissemination of recordings of previously unreleased contemporary music; to document the work of living composers; to develop audiences for contemporary music through record/audio file distribution; to provide a marketing tool for grantees, helping them to develop organizational and artistic capacity by enhancing earned income from touring engagements and CD sales.

Deadlines

The deadlines for submitting an application for a Premiere Recording Grant are as follows:

Letter of Intent (required for all applications): January 15, 5:00 p.m.
Application: April 1, 5:00 p.m.
Award notification: July 1, 5:00 p.m.

Materials must be received in the PMP office (by post or hand-delivered) by 5:00 p.m. on the dates listed above. When the application or letter of intent deadline falls on a weekend or official holiday, the deadline will be moved to 5:00 p.m. on the following business day. This is not a postmark deadline. Late applications and applications that are determined to be incomplete will be rejected. PMP will not accept any application material by electronic transmission (fax or e-mail). These deadlines are permanent for subsequent application rounds, but are subject to change.

Application Forms

The Premiere Recording Grant Program is biannual. 2008 Premiere Recording Grant guidelines and application forms, posted below, are outdated and for reference only. Check back on November 1, 2009 for 2010 guidelines and application forms.

How to use these forms: The Microsoft Word documents below can be saved to your hard drive, typed in using form fields, and printed. For systems that do not support this, please download the Adobe Acrobat documents included below and use a typewriter to complete your application.

Please save these documents to your hard drive first. PC users should right-click and select "save as," and Mac users should hold down Control and click.

Guidelines (PDF) (Word)
Letter of Intent (PDF) (Word)
Application (PDF) (Word)
Additional Work Sample form, page A11 of Application (PDF) (Word)

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