• New Zealanders experience high quality arts

    Fly My Pretties performed at Hagley Park, Christchurch in October 2011 with funding from a Creative New Zealand Earthquake Assistance Grant. Courtesy of Fly My Pretties and Loop.|Browse by Music

  • Creative New Zealand invests in high quality arts experiences for all New Zealanders

    Creative New Zealand invests in high quality arts experiences for all New Zealanders

    Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s open day. Music Director Eckehard Stier conducts a performance. Creative New Zealand is a core funder of the APO.|Read about our investment programmes

  • NZ Trio

    NZTrio. Artists Justine Cormack, Sarah Watkins, Ashley Brown. Photographer: Tim Gummer

  • John Ritchie - A 90th Birthday Celebration, Christchurch Civic Music Council. Photo: Karel Kaspar.

  • Bella Kalolo

    Bella Kalolo performs at the Australasian World Music Expo in 2010

  • Arts on Tour New Zealand (AOTNZ) organises tours of outstanding New Zealand performers to rural and smaller centres in New Zealand.

    Voices of Our Ancestors Tour, held at the Fiona Pardington exhibition, Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Photo credit Nick Holmes.

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Funding Opportunities for Music

Fund name Closing date

Arts development investment (Toi Uru Kahikatea) 1 Jun . 2012

The purpose of this programme is to provide development support to established New Zealand artists, arts practitioners, groups and arts organisations for periods of one to three years.

Value: based on application

Quick Response Grant 27 Jul . 2012

Quick Response Grants are our most common form of funding. They are awarded in three rounds per year and available to all artforms. As our smallest and most numerous opportunity Quick Response Grants are a great place to start if you are new to Creative New Zealand Funding.

Value: $7,500 or less

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Music Adviser

Ariana Odermatt

Ariana joined Creative New Zealand in 2008 and was appointed Arts Adviser in 2011,… ariana.odermatt@creativenz.govt.nz

04 498 0740

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