2025 Call for Applications: Jazz & New Music
Music
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By 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.
Learn more about creative grants here.
Touring Grants
Touring Grants support tours of French musicians and ensembles, with a minimum of three performances in the US.
Learn more about touring grants here.
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
In partnership with
Albertine Foundation
Previously known as FACE Foundation, Albertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In close partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and its arts institution Villa Albertine, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary, and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries thanks to corporate, foundation, and individual support.
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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.