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PRS New Music Award

deadline: 8 January 2010

The New Music Award is a UK-wide competition run by the PRS Foundation. It offers a £50,000 cash prize to help individuals, music groups, arts organisations, and music venues to create, compose and perform a groundbreaking new piece of original music. It aims to seek out and reward artists who are willing to take musical risks and produce creative, inspiring and adventurous work.

A long-list of candidates will be announced in February and given until the end of March to provide additional information. The winner will be revealed in September and given until December 2011 to complete and perform their work.

For more information visit www.prsfoundation.co.uk/newmusicaward