new music creator fund

The New Music Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to reach the next stage of their creative practice. The program supports costs related to the creation of new work and new projects developed in collaboration with other artists and practitioners. Individual performers may also apply if their collaborator is a music creator. 

New for 2026: Applicants are invited to indicate their interest in being considered for the Thea Musgrave Performer-Composer Collaboration Grant, an annual award of $10,000 that is awarded through the Creator Fund. Made possible through the generosity of the esteemed composer Thea Musgrave and her husband, Peter Mark, the grant provides funding to a composer and performer(s) for the creation of new work and the collaboration required to bring it to fruition. This is an endowed grant that will be offered every year. For more information about the Musgrave grant, please read the guidelines here.  

All applicants for the Musgrave grant must adhere to the guidelines for the New Music Creator Fund program, including all eligibility criteria as outlined below. 

Applicants who apply for the Musgrave grant and are not selected will automatically be added to the regular Creator Fund application pool. Please note that the average Creator Fund grant is $3,000, with awards made up to $5,000. If awarded a regular Creator Fund grant, the composer and performer(s) are not required to fulfill the parameters specific to the Musgrave grant.