Financial support

The Arts Council offers a wide range of financial supports across artforms and arts practices, including music (as listed below). You can find further information on those and other supports, direct and indirect, in the financial support section.

 
NameClosing DateMaximum Awarded €Abstract
Travel & training award31 December 20128000There are three strands to this award: Travel and Training Outbound to support individuals who wish to avail of training and other professional development opportunities abroad; Travel and Training Inbound to support individuals or organisations who wish to invite specialists from abroad to deliver high-level training or mentoring; and the CCP International Award which offers support to arts organisations planning to make applications to the EU Culture Programme.
Annual fundingClosing date passedUnlimitedThe purpose of annual funding is to provide stable and secure funding to certain arts organisations (on an annual basis). Applicants may request a contribution towards both operating and artistic programming costs.
Annual programming grantClosing date passedUnlimitedThe purpose of the annual programming grant is to assist applicants with the costs of their artistic programme. The scheme is not intended to provide support for ongoing operating/administrative costs.
Artist in the community scheme bursary awardClosing date passed10000The arts and older people bursary award, as part of the artist in the community scheme, aims to support an individual professional artist in any artform working in the field of arts and older people.
Elizabeth Maconchy composition fellowshipClosing date passed48000The award is offered to further the advanced training and development of composers, specifically by enabling a composer to complete a doctoral programme in composition at a recognised university.
Location one fellowshipClosing date passed37000A 10-month fellowship based in New York
Music bursary awardClosing date passed15000The award supports professional individual artists in the field of Music to develop their arts practice.
Music commissions awardClosing date passed10000The music commissions award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output.
Music project awardClosing date passed35000This award supports projects in the field of music commencing in 2012.
Music recording schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThe scheme provides support for professional performers and composers in Ireland through funding for music recording.
Performance and touring awardClosing date passedUnlimitedThe Performance and Touring Award aims to assist Irish and Ireland-based musicians in realising performance opportunities; offer increased employment opportunities to Irish musicians; develop the skills base of Irish artists in areas such as project planning and administration, self-promotion and selfmanagement; and offer a new source of music programming to concert promoters, and in turn to audiences throughout Ireland.
Regularly funded organisationsClosing date passedUnlimitedThe purpose of this programme is to strengthen and make more secure a group of key arts organisations, by contributing to both their operating and artistic programming costs. This funding programme is not open to general applications. Instead, the Arts Council will invite organisations to participate on the basis of published criteria.
Skidmore jazz studentshipClosing date passed2500The Arts Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland jointly fund a place at the Skidmore Jazz Institute, which is held every summer on the campus of Skidmore College in upstate New York.
Small arts festivals schemeClosing date passed20000The Small Arts Festivals scheme is designed in the main to support and provide opportunities for small arts festivals or events seeking funding of up to €20,000.
Touring and dissemination - advance planningClosing date passedUnlimitedThe Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and arts practices due to take place in between January 2013 and December 2013.
Touring and dissemination of work schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThis scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in all arts disciplines starting between January 2013 to June 2013.
Young ensembles schemeClosing date passed10000The primary purpose of this award is to support groups of young people between the ages of 12 and 23 to create ambitious and original work together in any art form (e.g., circus, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, or any combination of the above).