Deadline: 9-Feb-23
The Arts Council has announced the nominations for Opera Bursary Award to support professional artists at any stage of their career to develop their art practice.
It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
Objectives and Priorities of the Award
- The objective of the Opera Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists in the field of music in the substantive development of their artistic practice.
- The award emphasises the value and benefit to an artist’s development derived from an in-depth process of engagement with their artistic practice at any stage of their professional career. The award therefore provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their artistic practice by enabling them to do one or more of the following:
- Spend focused time substantively developing their artistic practice
- Spend time researching/thinking about/developing a new idea for future dissemination
- Spend time developing their technical skills in a particular area
- Spend time developing/learning new skills related to their practice or area of interest
- Spend time working with a mentor or collaborator(s) to develop an idea or to assist in developing or upskilling within a particular area of the applicant’s practice or an area related to the applicant’s practice
- Spend time developing an idea in collaboration with a potential production partner(s)
- Undertake a short period of training by way of master classes or other professional training opportunities (whether national or international, online or in person)
- Purchase a limited amount of equipment and materials to assist with the development of their practice. (Note: this can be no more than 15% of the value of the overall request for support.)
Strategic Priorities
- The Arts Council has identified the following as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- Professional development of emerging Irish composers, librettists, conductors and opera directors of proven promise and diverse backgrounds
- Professional artists working on the creation or performance of new Irish opera, or on performing editions of historic Irish opera not yet generally available
- Professional artists developing mentor-guided specialist periodperformance practice as conductors, instrumentalists or singers.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount that may be awarded to each successful applicant is:
- €20,000
- The minimum that can be applied for is €5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to professional artists working in all genres and at all stages in their professional careers. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Be professional practising artists – although they might not earn income continuously or exclusively from their arts practices, applicants must identify themselves and be recognised by their peers as professional practising artists
- Have a demonstrable track record in their opera practice
- Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the Arts Council would need to be satisfied that the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
Ineligible
- People who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses)
- Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study
- Individuals seeking support towards work undertaken as part of a formal course of study
- Individuals seeking costs towards undertaking an internship
- They cannot accept applications from those employed or contracted on a fulltime basis by an arts organisation funded through Arts Council programmes or through direct state subsidy or by a commercial arts entity
- Aosdána members in receipt of a cnuas.
For more information, visit Arts Council.
