Career Development Program: Annual Grants to Managers and Agents
Deadline
1 October
Program Description
The Career Development Program assists Canadian professional musicians, managers and agents in the development of artists’ live performance and touring careers.
These grants support activities that enhance public performances by artists in classical and popular traditions (non-classical) music of all world cultures. Eligible genres of music include classical, electro-acoustic, Aboriginal peoples’, folk, jazz, musique actuelle, contemporary and new, world, and other non-commercial forms of popular music. Artists performing genres that include pop/rock, urban (rap, hip hop and related “dance” genres), country, alternative and other forms of music for which an industrial infrastructure exists should contact their provincial or territorial music industry association for information on services available to them.
This program has two components:
- Annual Grants to Managers and Agents, and
- Project Grants to Artists (you can obtain information on this component from the Music Section).
The Annual Grants to Managers and Agents support the ongoing activities of managers and agents that contribute to career development and audience development initiatives, including national and international marketing initiatives, on behalf of Canadian professional musicians.
Eligibility
To apply to this program, managers and agents must:
- be Canadian citizens or have Permanent Residents status, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada
- be registered or incorporated in Canada
- have been in operation for at least one year and be recognized as professional artists’ managers or agents
- have an established history with the Career Development Program, as demonstrated by representing at least two artists who have received management grants in each of the two previous Career Development Program Project Grants to Artists competitions
- have had total gross bookings for Canadian artists or ensembles exceeding $50,000 in the previous year (or averaging $50,000 per year over the previous three years, where applicable), and
- include in their roster at least three Canadian professional artists in classical or popular tradition music of all world cultures.
All Canada Council for the Arts programs are accessible to Aboriginal artists and artists of diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Grant Amount
Artists’ managers and agents may apply for a grant of up to $25,000. However, considering the limitations of the available budget, only applicants with an exceptional artistic and administrative track record may be awarded the maximum available.
Assessment of Applications
Applications are assessed by a peer assessment committee set up for each competition. Committees are composed of experienced professionals from the field, selected for their expertise. Members are also selected to ensure fair representation of gender, the two official languages, Aboriginal peoples, the various parts of the country, and Canada’s cultural diverse communities.
In extraordinary circumstances, the Canada Council for the Arts may provide the peer assessment committee with additional evaluations from independent assessors.
Peer assessment committee decisions for this program are final recommendations for approval by the Canada Council.
Application Form
Career Development Program: Annual Grants to Managers and Agents (pdf, 100 KB)
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.
Further Information
This information sheet provides a summary of the Career Development Program: Annual Grants to Managers and Agents. For further details or to obtain an application form, contact the appropriate program officer named below.
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or (613) 566-4414, and enter the appropriate extension number
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: (613) 565-5194
Music Program Officers:
Richard Davis, Non-Classical Music, ext. 4294
Karen Barber-Ing, Classical Music, ext. 4243
Fax: (613) 566-4409
Music Section
Canada Council for the Arts
P.O. Box 1047, 350 Albert Street
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
July 2005