2025 Call for Applications: Jazz & New Music
Musique
Jowee Olicis © Benjamin Mahleddine
Par Villa Albertine
Apply by March 2, 2025 for Jazz & New Music, Villa Albertine’s program designed to encourage, promote, and support artistic musical performances.
Created in 2004, the Jazz & New Music program aims to foster collaboration between French and American artists and ensembles in the fields of jazz and contemporary music by allocating grants to nonprofit organizations.
Over the past twenty years, $4 million were granted in funds to support over 300 projects in jazz and contemporary music, resulting in 65 recordings and more than 700 concerts, commissions and residencies in France and in the United States.
The 2025 call for applications is open until March 2, 2025 at 11:59pm EST.
This edition will fund projects taking place between September 1, 2025, and August 31, 2026.
Grants
Financial support is given through:
– Creative Grants for new creations and commissions
– Touring Grants for tours of French artists and ensembles in the US
Please carefully read the eligibility criteria and updated guidelines for each grant on the Albertine Foundation website.
Creative Grants
Creative Grants support projects jointly conceived by French and American professional musicians and institutions that encourage artistic exploration, foster intercultural dialogue, and contribute to the dynamism of the musical aesthetics it defends. The grants also supports new commissions for French composers, especially in the field of new music.
Touring Grants
Touring Grants support tours of French musicians and ensembles, with a minimum of three performances in the US.
Application Timeline
Call for Applications Opens: December 9, 2024
Application Deadline: March 2, 2025 (11:59 PM EST)
Projects must take place between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026
Sponsors and Partners
Jazz & New Music is an Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine program, supported by the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM), and the Centre National de la Musique (CNM).
Contact
Dylan Hadida
Program Officer, Music
En partenariat avec
Albertine Foundation
Albertine Foundation est une organisation américaine à but non lucratif dont le siège social est basé à New York qui œuvre au développement des échanges culturels et éducatifs entre la France et les Etats-Unis, dans les domaines de l’éducation et de la culture. Elle travaille en partenariat étroit avec les services culturels de l’ambassade française aux Etats-Unis, Institut français des Etats-Unis – Villa Albertine. Dans le domaine de la culture, la fondation a pour mission de soutenir et développer la création artistique contemporaine dans le contexte de programmes réciproques d’échanges entre les deux pays et de soutenir des actions de promotion de la culture française sur l’ensemble du territoire américain. Dans le domaine de l’éducation, elle joue un rôle central dans le développement de programmes d’échanges et de collaborations entre universitaires et institutions d’enseignement supérieur des deux pays.
Ministry of Culture
The French Ministry of Culture aims to make the major works of humanity— and especially those of France— accessible to the largest number of people possible. As such, it maintains a policy of conservation, of protection, and of development of all components of French cultural heritage. It promotes the creation of works of art and of the mind, and the development of art practices and education. It further contributes to cultural initiatives outside of France, and to initiatives relating to the establishment of French cultural programs throughout the world.
Institut français
The Institut français is responsible for France’s international cultural program. Supervised by both the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and by the Ministry of Culture, it promotes French culture abroad through cultural exchange initiatives. Operating in a space where the arts, intellectual exchange, cultural and social innovation, and linguistic partnerships interact and intersect, it is also responsible for promoting the French language and the sharing of works, artists, and ideas all over the world. The Institut français is one of Villa Albertine’s main French partners.
SACEM
The role of SACEM is to provide protection, representation and service for original music composers, authors and publishers SACEM collects authors’ rights and redistributes the payments to the rights-holders SACEM promotes and supports original creative music in every different form. SACEM is a private entity; it is a non-trading company [“société civile”] directed by authors, composers and publishers.
Centre national de la musique
Created on January 1, 2020, the CNM is an organization designed to accompany and support the various stakeholders in the music sector, from artists and songwriters to labels, music publishers, concert promoters, venues, managers, sound engineers and retailers. The CNM is a public-private partnership, operating under the aegis of the French Ministry of Culture.