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Introducing the 2025 Albertine Music Grantees

(c) Larisa Birta Sibocniwnha

Discover the latest cohort of Albertine Music, a new comprehensive grant program designed to support musical projects between French and American artists and ensembles in the fields of jazz and classical music—from Baroque to contemporary.

This initiative marks an important step forward for Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation, deepening musical dialogues between France and the United States, and building upon their existing musical initiatives.

Over the past twenty years, Villa Albertine and the Albertine Foundation have granted $4 million 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.

Albertine Music is structured around three key areas of support: 

Albertine Music Creative Grants support projects jointly conceived by French and American professional musicians and institutions that encourage original musical creations, including commissions by American ensembles to French composers or composers based in France, as well as U.S. premieres of French works.

Albertine Music Touring Grants support touring projects of French or France-based musicians and ensembles with a minimum of three performances in the U.S.

Albertine Music Education Grants support educational and artistic exchange programs, including master classes, workshops, and short-term residencies in U.S. academic institutions and schools.

Learn more about new class of laureates below.

Creative Grants

La Compagnie Nine Spirit

We Do Mildred’s Blues!
Jazz

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Association Deluge

Dysnomia Live
Jazz

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Festival d’Automne

The American Music Program of the Festival d’Automne – 2025 Edition
Classical

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Ensemble Télémaque

Sounds, Tears and Skins
Classical

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Issue Project Room

Les Si Doux Redoux
Classical

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Association for Cultural Equity

In Search of A New World
Classical

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L'Itinéraire

Courants / contrecourants
Classical

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Touring Grants

Sextyledone

Mobke U.S.A. Spring Tour 2026
Jazz

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The Drops Music

Thiefs – Survivalism
Jazz

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HECTOR

Unicorn and Flexibility
Jazz

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Compagnie ReVeR

Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra
Jazz

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Nameless Sound

Joëlle Léandre US Tour
Jazz

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IRCAM

California Dreamin’
Classical

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Ensemble Mêtis

Dialogue
Classical

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Educational Grant

The Jazz Gallery

Reverso 2026 Residency
Jazz

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In partnership with

Albertine Foundation

Previously known as FACE FoundationAlbertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In close partnership with Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education of the French Embassy in the United States, 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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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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