APRA Professional Development Awards 2011

Kick start your songwriting career with the 2011 APRA Professional Development Award

Eight emerging songwriters and composers will be given a career break thanks to the 2011 Professional Development Awards (PDA), proudly presented by APRA.

Each PDA winner will receive a prize package made up of cash, product, travel, education and recognition, valued at over $25,000.

The APRA Professional Development Award is given to eight emerging songwriters and composers across six categories: Popular Contemporary; Country; Jazz; Classical; Film and Television; Indigenous.

APRA has also partnered with the Big Day Out and the University of Tasmania to present the Jessica Michalik Contemporary Music Endowment and UTAS Stephen Schwartz Songwriting Award both worth $10,000 cash.

Application Deadline

Submissions Open Wednesday 13 October 2010 and close 29 November 2010.

More Information

For more information including entry forms and prizes head to www.apra-amcos.com.au/pda

Our Online Communities

All information regarding the PDAs will kept online at www.apra-amcos.com.au/pda

In addition, we are on Twitter and Facebook and will be constantly reminding our members about the PDAs. We'd also love to be your fan/friend - find us and w'll follow you back.

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About The Awards

The APRA Professional Development Awards are presented by APRA in conjunction with music organisations and institutions involved in the representation or education of Australian music writers.

Multicultural Arts Victoria has recently become a partner organisation accepting submissions for the Awards from young culturally and linguistically diverse songwriter and composers. The Awards offer cash, travel and recognition to music writers in the early stages of their careers.

The APRA Professional Development Awards (PDAs) were first awarded in 2001 to mark APRA's 75th Anniversary. The awards were received so enthusiastically by the music industry that the APRA board decided to make the PDAs a permanent fixture on the APRA cultural calendar.

As a result, APRA now offers eleven PDAs in Australia and New Zealand to promising emerging music writers in the early stages of their careers.

In association with the PDAs, APRA also administers the Jessica Michalik Contemporary Music Endowment established by The Big Day Out producers.