Pro Helvetia supports and promotes...
Additional information, application deadlines, documentation
Discipline areas
- Visual Arts
- Film
- Music
- Literature and the humanities
- Theatre
- Dance
- Culture & Society
- International
- Inter- and Multidisciplinary Projects
Guide for Applicants 2003 (PDF file 188K)
Music
Objectives
In the Music sector, Pro Helvetia promotes professional music-making and composition in Switzerland and efforts to bring them to foreign audiences; it fosters musical dialogue among the various regions of Switzerland and between Switzerland and other countries, and encourages intercultural dialogue. It also offers advice on projects and initiatives.
Activities
Pro Helvetia can award deficit guarantees for projects in the following categories:
At home
- premieres of works by Swiss composers or foreign composers active in Switzerland;
- performances fostering interregional and intercultural exchange and featuring contemporary Swiss works. In the fields of pop and jazz, promoters/organisers are eligible if they have shown an on-going commitment to interregional and intercultural exchange and demonstrate a convincing standard of professionalism and a secure infrastructure;
- study visits by foreign musicologists doing research on Swiss music;
- the participation of foreign specialists in symposia and congresses on Swiss music.
Abroad
- tours by Swiss ensembles demonstrating a high standard of quality. Major contemporary Swiss works must feature in the programme; support is also conditional upon financial and organisational participation by the individual host country in accordance with its possibilities;
- lectures, seminars and master classes on Swiss music by musicologists, composers and musicians;
- concerts by foreign ensembles demonstrating a high standard of quality. Major Swiss works must feature in their programmes.
Intercultural dialogue
- co-productions bringing together Swiss musicians and musicians from the southern hemisphere or indigenous cultures;
- travelling and living expenses for artists from the southern hemisphere and indigenous cultures seeking direct encounter and collaboration with artists from Switzerland in the framework of the Artists-in-Residence programme.
Work grants
- Each year Pro Helvetia awards commissions to composers living in Switzerland for works in various genres. Applicants’ musical potential must meet international standards. Further conditions may be stipulated.
Criteria
The general Pro Helvetia criteria apply.
Restrictions
The general exclusionary criteria apply.
Moreover, in the Music sector grants cannot be awarded for
- concerts without Swiss works;
- individual concerts at home or abroad;
- purely functional music such as stage and film music, musicals, musical comedy, musical revues, folklore;
- CD productions;
- the printing/publishing of scores;
- instruments, new uniforms.
Procedural rules
In addition to the general documentation, applications can only be considered if accompanied by:
- a concept paper;
- scores;
- sound recordings
When submitting an application, please use the appropriate application form (“Concerts and concert tours abroad”, in G/F/I/E; “Konzerte in anderen Sprachregionen der Schweiz”, in G/F/I; “First performances of works by contemporary Swiss composers”, in G/F/I/E) under category «Forms and information sheets».
