To celebrate International Women’s Day, PRS for Music Foundation has launched its second annual funding scheme for female music creators.
Women Make Music is open to women who write and perform their own music or music organisations, festivals, ensembles, promoters and venues who want to commission new music by a woman creator with whom they have not worked before.
Financial support of up to £5,000 per project is available, and application deadlines are 17 May and 10 October. New music is welcome in any genre, from classical, jazz and experimental, to urban, electronica and pop.
The initiative was launched last year to tackle inequality in the music industry; only 14 percent of the writer membership of PRS for Music is female. Since its launch, more than 300 women have applied for funding, with 28 outstanding projects being selected for support. YolanDa Brown, pictured above, was one of the women who received support last year for her Blue Sky project.
Vanessa Reed, Executive Director of PRS for Music Foundation, said: ‘The overwhelming response we received in 2011 and the large number of exciting, new projects we’ve been able to support confirms that this programme is both necessary and deserved.
‘Last year we reached a large number of women creators who had never applied to the Foundation before. We now call on other female music creators to come forward in 2012 and to use our support to advance their careers in the music industry.’
Projects have been premiered across the UK in Glasgow, Jersey, London, Newcastle and Sheffield, and some will tour the USA, Middle East and Europe.
For more information visit www.prsformusicfoundation.com
Women Make Music is open to women who write and perform their own music or music organisations, festivals, ensembles, promoters and venues who want to commission new music by a woman creator with whom they have not worked before.
Financial support of up to £5,000 per project is available, and application deadlines are 17 May and 10 October. New music is welcome in any genre, from classical, jazz and experimental, to urban, electronica and pop.
The initiative was launched last year to tackle inequality in the music industry; only 14 percent of the writer membership of PRS for Music is female. Since its launch, more than 300 women have applied for funding, with 28 outstanding projects being selected for support. YolanDa Brown, pictured above, was one of the women who received support last year for her Blue Sky project.
Vanessa Reed, Executive Director of PRS for Music Foundation, said: ‘The overwhelming response we received in 2011 and the large number of exciting, new projects we’ve been able to support confirms that this programme is both necessary and deserved.
‘Last year we reached a large number of women creators who had never applied to the Foundation before. We now call on other female music creators to come forward in 2012 and to use our support to advance their careers in the music industry.’
Projects have been premiered across the UK in Glasgow, Jersey, London, Newcastle and Sheffield, and some will tour the USA, Middle East and Europe.
For more information visit www.prsformusicfoundation.com
