German Music Council Foundation

Shape the future of talented musicians with your donation!

The German Music Council Foundation, founded in March 2024, is a committed and sustainable advocate for the diversity of musical life in Germany. Our mission is to promote and preserve the musical diversity of our country. We accompany young, highly talented musicians on their way to a professional music career, support passionate amateurs in their orchestras and choirs and strengthen musical life in schools with cultural participation projects.

For decades, the German Music Council's projects have been continuously financed by the public sector in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity. The German Music Council Foundation sees itself as a complementary support for financing the work of the German Music Council and its projects. The foundation was established with the aim of securing donations from private individuals and companies for the future tasks and work of the German Music Council in the best possible way and in accordance with public funding and the law on grants.

Your donation enables us to bring our diverse musical work to life in small and large moments.

Support us in keeping the musical tradition alive and offering new, promising artists a stage.

The Foundation acts altruistically and realizes its purposes in accordance with the means at its disposal, in particular

  • through project-related support for the artistic work of the orchestras of the German Music Council, for example in the organization of concerts and concert tours, the development of new repertoire, cooperation with conductors, soloists and other orchestras, concert tours and other activities of the orchestras;
  • through project-related support for the organization and implementation of competitions and projects of the German Music Council,
  • through project-related support for artistic work and work in the field of music education and music training in the German Music Council's projects, by supporting the orchestras of the German Music Council and its competitions and other projects in the acquisition and maintenance of instruments and other equipment, and by making instruments available from the Foundation's assets,
  • to carry out its own projects and events in the fields of art and culture, especially music, as well as education, popular and vocational training,
  • by providing project-related support for the music policy work, research and science of the Deutscher Musikrat e.V., and
  • by publicizing its concerns and those of the German Music Council in an appropriate form, by encouraging the willingness to financially support the work of the Foundation and by soliciting endowments and other donations.

We would be happy to get in touch with you, please send us a short message to stiftung@musikrat.de  
 


Foundation Board:
Prof. Clemens Pustejovsky           Prof. Martin Maria Krüger           Stefan Piendl
Chairman

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Musicians can sing or play in the ensembles of the German Music Council, the Federal Youth Orchestra, the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Youth Choir, and take part in competitions. With four other projects in the area of promotion, the German Music Council supports young, highly talented musicians, conductors, composers and interpreters of contemporary music as well as pop musicians on their way to a professional musical life and builds a bridge between musicians, organizers and the public. In addition, the German Music Information Center (miz) offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.

 

 

The German Music Council is the sponsor of the competitions for children and young people: Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, the competitions for professional musicians: the German Music Competition, the German Conducting Award (formerly the German Conducting Prize) and the German Choral Conducting Award, as well as the competitions for amateur musicians: theGerman Choir Competition and the German Orchestra Competition.

The German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat e. V.) is the mouthpiece and initiator of music policy issues for its members.

The numerous advantages of a membership in the German Music Council e.V. compiled for you.

Under the menu item MEDIA you will find our press page with all the latest news, our press page with the press contacts and the publications.

Promoting young musicians in the ensemblesof the German Music Council also includes performing on stage in front of an audience. The project leaders are happy to accept requests for engagements. The German Music Competition concert promotion program arranges approximately 200 concerts a year for concert organizers and concert series.

Music educators will find concepts and working materials for music lessons at the Podium Gegenwart's educational projects. Current developments in music policy and studies can be found in the "Music Education" section, as well as specialist articles on this topic at the German Music Information Center.

With the German Music Information Center, the German Music Council offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.