Funding for production of performance materials

Funds are available to assist in meeting the cost of typesetting and copying scores and/ or parts for the performance of concert works for four or more instruments and/or voices. Under this scheme, an individual or organisation which has employed a copyist to make instrumental parts for a new work may apply to have part or all of the costs reimbursed by the Copying Fund.

The work must be carried out to a high standard by a professional copyist. Parts must be typeset by computer. Copyists are urged to make a written agreement with those engaging them, clearly stating the services expected, the schedule for completion and the terms and amount of payment. 

While priority will be given to works which receive their first performance, newly typeset scores and parts produced for older, handwritten works by Irish composers will also be considered under the scheme. Funds will be distributed on a pro rata basis across eligible applications received each quarter. The concert promoter and performer(s) are encouraged to accept responsibility for covering any possible shortfall in copying costs.

Eligibility

The composer must be of professional status and born or permanently resident in Ireland.

Composers who are not members of IMRO will not normally be eligible. 

Composers who have not been accepted for representation by the Contemporary Music Centre will not normally be eligible.

Applicants must be able to guarantee at least one public performance on a specified date at a recognised concert venue in Ireland or abroad. Workshops and amateur performances are not eligible.

The performance must advance the professional career of the composer. 

Applications will not normally be accepted earlier than one year before, and no later than six months after, the date of the performance. 

Assessment of applications

The following criteria will be taken into account in assessing applications:

The significance of the performance to the composer’s career;

The professional standing of the composer;

Whether assistance towards the costs of copying is available from any other source (e.g. a publisher, performer, commissioner, etc.).

Acknowledgement

Recipients must acknowledge the assistance of the CMC/IMRO Copying Fund in the score and parts of the work and on all printed material (concert programmes, publicity etc) relating to the performance. If the first performance has taken place prior to the award of funding, acknowledgement should be added to the score for all subsequent performances, publication or recording.

A suitable form of wording is: Instrumental parts copied with financial assistance from the CMC/IMRO Copying Fund (year).

CMC and IMRO logos are available to download in the Opportunities section of the CMC web site.

http://www.cmc.ie/opportunities/cmc.html#copying

How to apply

Please read the following guidelines carefully. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.

Applications must include the following:

• A fully-completed application form, signed by both the applicant and the copyist;

• A clearly-legible copy of the score (unless this has already been lodged at the 

Contemporary Music Centre) in both hard and soft copies (PDF, Sibelius or Finale 

formats);

• An copy of the complete set of parts in both hard and soft copies (PDF only);

• The copyist’s original, receipted invoice showing as its basis one of the following: 

the number of pages and the rate per page 

or

the number of hours and the rate per hour.

Please note that additional charges such as materials, delivery, etc. will not be covered by the Fund.

When to apply

Completed, signed applications must be received by the Contemporary Music Centre on or before 5.30pm on the fifteenth day of each quarter (January 15, April 15, July 15, October 15) or, if this falls on a weekend, the next following working day. Decisions will be announced within four weeks of each deadline.

Further information and application forms available at http://www.cmc.ie/opportunities/pdfs/copying-fund-guidelines.pdf