Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is proud to have provided Performance Grants in the U.S. since 2012, helping hundreds of community, professional, and youth orchestras across the country perform works by historic and contemporary women composers.  The impact of these grants has been heard from coast to coast, by small and large ensembles, in rural and urban communities, in live, broadcast and streamed performances. We remain committed to identifying and facilitating opportunities for broader representation and inclusion, and on impacting systemic programming decisions in American orchestral concert programming to more accurately resemble the actual diversity found within historical and contemporary  western art music.

Our original intent with this grant program was to encourage more performances of works by women composers by large ensembles. We revised it in 2022 to focus on impacting long-term orchestral programming decisions with a small number of grants being offered over a three-year period.

The Grant program has been re-evaluated in 2024 and the decision made to offer smaller grants for specific projects and events to benefit a greater number and wider range of organizations and ensembles. Beginning in late 2024, we are implementing this approach, with applications being evaluated every other month.  The first deadline is December 9, 2024 (Monday.) 

WPA Performance and Events Grants (as of November 2024)

We are excited to announce that the revised WPA Projects and Events Grants program is now open!