During the 2023/24 Financial Year the following grants were offered:
Organisation | Project | Grant |
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Aberystwyth University | CD recording of composers at Aber Uni since 1872 | £3,000 |
Agatha Christie Festival | To support costs of the staging of a costumed reading of “Towards Zero”, a playscript by Agatha Christie. | £8,500 |
Agatha Christie Trust for Children | Research into Children’s Leukaemia at Blood Cancer UK | £65,000 |
ART UK | “Mural” – to support the digitisation of works held in Wales | £10,000 |
ARTES MUNDI 10 | To assist with the presentation of AM10 across venues in Wales | £50,000 (2nd of 2) |
Awards for Young Musicians | To support talented young Welsh musicians. | £5,000 |
Bangor Music Festival | Core funding | £5,000 |
Benedetti Foundation | Education workshops in Bridgend Wales | £6,500 (1st of 2) |
Buxton Festival | Support for the 2024 Opera Season | £50,000 |
CHAPTER | Experimentica – performance arts Festival in Cardiff | £10,000 |
Cosmic Music | To assist funding of the “Macbeth Retold” project. | £5,000 |
English National Opera | Support for revival costs of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and semi-staging of Bartok’s “Duke Bluebeard “ | £25,000 |
Forget Me Not Chorus | To assist with music costs associated with “Demenstoria” revival 2024 | £3,096 |
Garsington Opera | To support the development of Garsington Studios at Wormsley | £100,000 |
GO LIVE THEATRE Projects | To support the Theatre Openers Programme – for pupils at secondary schools. | £25,000 (1st of 2 equal) |
Grange Park Opera | To support the expansion of Dressing Rooms and Treetop Studios at West Horsley. | £50,000 |
Hay Castle Trust | Hidden Gifts – An Exhibition of works by Joseph Herman and refugee artists in Wales | £11,275 |
Horatio’s Garden Cardiff | Spinal Injury Garden at Llandough Hospital - ongoing costs | £10,000 (1st of 2) |
Llandeilo Festival of Music | Core support for artistic costs of the 2023 Festival | £5,000 |
Longborough Festival Opera | Emerging Artists production of | £5,000 |
Mid Wales Opera | Small Wonders tour in Wales of “Beatrice and Benedict” | £10,000 (2nd of 3 equal) |
National Children’s Orchestras of GB | To support places for talented young musicians from Wales | £6,000 |
National Dance Company Wales | Core funding for the artistic activities. | £50,000 (1st of 2 equal) |
National Manuscripts Conservation Trust | For the conservation of the Burges designs for Cardiff Castle. | £7,000 |
National Museum Wales | To support the restoration of the Glasshouses at St Fagans National History Museum. | £115,000 |
National Youth Orchestra of GB | Widening access for young musicians in Wales and support for 3 seats in NYO. | £12,000 |
North Wales International Music Festival | To assist with core funding of | £15,000 |
OPERA RARA | Support for the Donizetti Song Project over 3 years. | £15,000 (1 of 3) equal |
Opra Cymru Cyf | Commission of new Welsh language opera from Gareth Glyn based on the Mabinogion legend of “Culhwch and Olwen” | £7,200 |
ORA Singers | To assist with the Graduate Composer’s Showcase, to nurture early career composers with a flair for choral music. | £6,000 |
Peak – Art in the Black Mountains Ltd | Peak Peers, an arts engagement programme for young people at Platfform 2, Abergavenny train station. | £10,000 |
Penarth Chamber Music Festival | Support for administration & artistic costs of 2023 Festival. | £5,000 |
Pendyrus Male Choir | Support for artistic costs of Gala centenary concert. | £2,000 |
Presteigne Festival of Music & the Arts | Supporting the commission and performance of Edward Gregson’s Viola Concerto, “Three Goddesses”. | £10,000 |
Royal Philharmonic Society | To assist with costs of the RPS Women Conductors course at the RWCMD in December 2023 | £3,000 |
Sinfonia Cymru | To assist with funding for the Mainly Village Halls Tour. 20 free performances in rural locations across Wales for two years. | £12,500 (1st of 2) |
Span Arts | To assist with funding of Culture Cymraeg Live Arts programming in rural West Wales. | £5,000 |
Taking Flight | To assist with the production and sound design costs of You’ve Got Dragons – an inclusive theatrical work. | £5,000 |
The National Youth Brass Band of GB | To assist with the commissioning and performance costs of a new work from Karl Jenkins for Brass Band themed around the current environmental crisis. | £15,000 |
The Telling | To assist with performances and presentations in Wales aimed at building an audience for Early Music. | £6,000 |
Theatr Clwyd | In support of the Theatr Clwyd capital redevelopment project. | £100,000 |
Vale of Glamorgan Festival | Core funding for the 2023 Festival. | £5,000 |
Wales Millennium Centre | To assist with funding the R&D of the “Scenes, Airs & Hidden Figures” project. | £7,500 |
Young Music makers of Dyfed | To support the three strands of the music making programme in West Wales. | £5,000 |
TOTAL | £886,571 |