Don’t miss this opportunity to kick start your music career with an APRA Professional Development Award (PDA).
The total prize package valued at over $25, 000.
Applications close Monday 29 November 2010.
The APRA PDAs are held every two years and is given to eight emerging songwriters and composers across six categories:
- Popular Contemporary (3 Awards are given in this category including Pop, Rock, Blues, Folk, Hip Hop, Dance and R&B)
- Country
- Jazz
- Classical
- Film and Television
- Indigenous
Two additional awards are being offered in 2011. In association with the Professional Development Awards, APRA has partnered with the Big Day Out and the University of Tasmania as they present:
- Jessica Michalik Contemporary Music Endowment, and
- UTAS Stephen Schwartz Songwriting Award
Each of these awards will provide a promising Australian songwriter or group with development grants of $10,000.
Each award winner of an APRA PDA will receive:
- $12,000 cash and Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch + Logic Studio courtesy of APRA|AMCOS
- Full day of studio time, including engineer, at Studios 301
- Distribution deal with MGM/Leading Edge (Popular Contemporary, Country, Film & TV, Indigenous winners only)
- Digital distribution courtesy of MGM (Popular Contemporary, Country, Film & TV, Indigenous winners only)
- Digital distribution courtesy ABC Music (Jazz and Classical Award winners only)
- PCR300 Controller Keyboard and DR80C Condensor Microphone courtesy of Roland
- A unit of study in the Australian Institute of Music’s (AIM) Bachelor of Music Program.
- Attendance at the Seed Workshop (for 3 x popular contemporary winners only) courtesy of The Seed – an arts grant fund
- Attendance at the ASCAP US Film & TV Workshop (for Film & TV winner only) courtesy of ASCAP
All winners will be announced at a ceremony in Sydney, March 2011.
For information including entry forms and terms & conditions head to www.apra-amcos.com.au/pda
