Toronto Arts Council’s Music Creation & Audio Recording Grant Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 2, 2025

Applications for the Toronto Arts Council’s Music Creation & Audio Recording Grant Program 2025 at the moment are open. Toronto Arts Council’s Music Creation & Audio Recording program provides grants to practising skilled artists to help them within the writing and manufacturing of their unique music. This program will assist new work in any/all genres of music. Professional Development and Touring/Travel bills should not eligible for funding.

Artists might apply to one among three classes for funding:

• Creation (most grant $5,000): For artists searching for funding to assist the writing/composition part of recent work. Grants awarded on this class can help with paying your self (and extra contributors, as relevant) artist charges to create and compose unique music, and different mission prices (e.g., the price of copying and making ready performing elements, and many others.). Recording prices are eligible solely if they’re straight associated to the writing course of.
• Recording – Demo/EP (most grant $4,000): For artists searching for assist to create a brief type recording in a home-based or skilled facility, offered that it’s not your personal. A brief-type recording is any recording that’s thought-about considerably shorter in size in comparison with the usual in your inventive neighborhood and is commonly for the aim of demonstrating newly developed work for others within the music neighborhood (labels, funders, presenters, promoters and/or festivals) or for restricted/on-line launch direct to your viewers. Grants for Demo/EP recordings can help with inventive prices, manufacturing prices, mixing, modifying, and mastering by professionals aside from your self; you can not pay your self charges of any form. Packaging, design, and manufacturing prices (most 500 items) are eligible, provided that the work is accomplished in skilled services.  You may additionally embody net design and on-line media administration prices to a most $500 if they’re related to the proposed recording mission. Projects in search of funding solely for manufacturing, on-line media administration, and net design prices should not eligible for funding. Do not embody any charges associated to you within the mission price range. Grants awarded on this class don’t fund prices related to the writing/composition of recent work.
• Recording – Full-Length (most grant $10,000): For artists seeking to undertake the manufacturing of a full-size audio recording in a number of skilled services that often cost a charge to a wide range of artists to report and produce work. The applicant have to be the originator of the vast majority of the fabric for the recording. Grants for full-size audio recording can help with producer prices (if not self-produced), visitor artist prices, and prices related to recording, mixing, modifying, mastering, packaging, design, and manufacturing prices (most 1,000 items), offered the work is accomplished in skilled services. You may additionally embody net design and on-line media administration prices to a most $1,000 if they’re related to the proposed recording mission. Projects in search of funding solely for manufacturing, on-line media administration, and net design prices should not eligible for funding. A small portion of the work could also be accomplished in home-based services, however these prices should not eligible for assist on this class. You can’t pay your self artist charges. Do not embody any charges associated to the applicant within the mission price range. Grants awarded on this class don’t fund prices related to the writing/composition of recent work.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this funding, an applicant should:

• Be a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident (Landed Immigrant) or have an application pending for Permanent Resident standing and, if requested, have the ability to present verification documentation. (Grant recipients will need to have a Social Insurance Number.)
• Be a present resident of the City of Toronto who has lived within the metropolis for no less than one yr prior to creating this application. Note: A Post Office Box deal with can’t be used to fulfill the residency requirement.
• Be knowledgeable artist who has maintained an unbiased observe for no less than one yr. TAC defines knowledgeable artist as somebody who has developed their abilities via coaching and/or observe; is acknowledged as such by artists working in the identical inventive custom; actively practices their artwork; seeks cost for his or her work; and has a historical past of public presentation.
• Undergraduate college students should not eligible to apply. Professional artists who’re pursuing graduate research might not apply for work associated to their diploma.
• Applicants have to be 18 years of age or older.
• Collaborative proposals (involving a co-applicant) are eligible. For these proposals, one of many candidates should determine a principal applicant. Co-applicants are topic to the identical 3 eligibility standards as single, particular person applicant. If the application is profitable, the grant cost will likely be payable to the principal applicant, as listed within the application. Similarly, a T4A slip will likely be issued to the principal applicant.

Application

Applications have to be submitted no later than 11:59 pm on the deadline dates. TAC doesn’t settle for purposes by every other technique of supply. You will obtain a affirmation e mail when your application is submitted. Check your spam/unsolicited mail folder if it doesn’t arrive in your inbox.

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For extra data, go to Music Creation & Audio Recording Grant.