Applications for the Music Capital Scheme 2025 are now open. Our range of supports is designed to help you make your application, with a particular focus on supporting first time and previously unsuccessful applicants.
Organisations applying to Award 1 must provide details of the overall artistic plans and policies of the organisation.
Do you need some help to clarify what your organisation is about, where you are right now and where you want to get to? Do you wish to create a plan for future growth and create new opportunities?
This seminar, delivered by senior arts manager Eibhlín Gleeson, will equip organisations with the tools to identify their artistic mission, vision and values and develop a Strategic Plan.
About Eibhlin Gleeson
Eibhlin Gleeson has extensive experience as a senior arts manager over 20 years. Having started her career as a musician, she is now a key figure in Ireland’s artistic landscape. She was the CEO of Ireland’s flagship professional choir, Chamber Choir Ireland where she implemented significant organisational and structural change. Following this, she developed her own arts management company, EMG Arts Management, providing strategic planning, marketing, fundraising, and international touring services to arts organisations in Ireland. In 2015, she became CEO and Artistic Director of Cork Opera House, one of Ireland’s flagship producing and presenting houses, a position which she still holds today. Here, she has presided over a new phase of producing, major organisational change and increased funding revenue and audience figures.
Eibhlin has a BMus from UCC and is a former fellow of the Kennedy Centre’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management in Washington, D.C. She was instrumental in establishing a new Arts Management and Creative Producing Master’s Degree in University College Cork, Ireland where she teaches on an ongoing basis.
Music Capital Scheme 2025
The Music Capital Scheme, which is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, provides funding for the purchase of musical instruments to individual professional musicians and non-professional groups across the country.
Deadline for applications: 2pm, Thursday 27 November 2025.
Any questions regarding the Music Capital Scheme can be sent to Sarah Ledwidge at capitalscheme@musicnetwork.ie or call +353 (0) 83 0162718
