Music Funding Programmes

• Jazz basic funding
• Co-financing fund
• Work stipends New Music and sound art
• Cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin – Music: Paris
• Foreign residency programme of the Federal Republic of Germany – Architecture / Visual arts / Literature / Music
• Funding for choirs
• Funding for presentations of existing work
• Inter-cultural projects
• Jazz project funding
• Jazz stipends
• New Music basic funding
• New Music events
• Project funding for New Music – Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V.
• Rehearsal spaces for jazz and pop musicians
• Travel allowances for work abroad

Established by the Berlin Senate in 2013, the Musicboard is tasked with supporting professional pop musicians based in Berlin in their career development and marketing initiatives at the national and international level. In order to provide musicians and project managers operating in Berlin with a central point of contact and a uniform funding framework, funding previously allocated to projects within the pop music domain by the Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs is to be administered on a trial basis by the Musicboard in 2015. Bands based in Berlin can also draw on the resources of Bandbüro Berlin for further advice and support. The brochure DSCHUNGEL-INFO – Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung (available in German) provides an overview of Berlin’s music scene and infrastructure for young bands.
Grants are provided to the Landesmusikrat Berlin, the Fête de la Musique Berlin, the regional association of Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland and to concert series staged by Spectrum Concerts Berlin and the Berliner Symphoniker.