The New Music USA is a non-profit membership and service organization. The Center’s mission is to build a national community for new American music.
American Music Center Composer Assistance Program
Subjects: Music.
Purpose: To support individual composers to realize their music in performance.
Eligibility: American composers in good standing with the American Music Center.
Level of Study: Professional development
Type: Fellowship
Value: Total of approx. $80,000 annually. The maximum one-time grant is up to US$5,000
Length of Study: Variable
Frequency: Annual
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: Varies
Application Procedure: Applicants must download guidelines from website.
Closing Date: October 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: The Helen F Whitaker Fund
Additional Information: CAP Recording and Live Music for Dance grant programs are now part of New Music USA’s grant making programs.
Project Grant: Fall
Purpose: To help our funded artists to promote themselves, and help us to promote all the projects we fund.
Eligibility: Please check website for details.
Type: Project grant
Value: Through the coming fall and spring rounds our project grants will award more than $600,000 to 100–150 projects, with awards ranging in size from $250 to $20,000. You can be sure that we always want to support as many great projects with as much money as we can
Application Procedure: Instead of filling out a grant application, you’ll create a simple project page on this site with all of your work samples and project information. Pages will remain invisible to the public through the course of the review and decision process.
Closing Date: April 1st and November 1st
Additional Information: If your project is awarded, we will make your project page public on our website. Once that happens, you’ll be able to post updates as your project unfolds.