The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
About Philadelphia Music Project
The Philadelphia Music Project (PMP), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, was initiated in 1989 to foster artistic excellence and innovation in the region’s nonprofit music community. PMP meets this objective by supporting commissions and productions of new works, presentations of large-scale or long-neglected works, interdisciplinary collaborations, and similar programmatic enhancements. Maximum grants of $200,000 fund projects, regardless of musical genre, which contribute to the advancement of participating organizations.
PMP also sponsors seminars and symposia intended to explore issues relevant to the field. Sessions have addressed marketing/public relations, audience and board development, strategic planning, technology, journalism, and residency/outreach programming. In addition, PMP brings composers, directors, music writers, and arts administrators at the top of their fields to conduct lectures and panel discussions on topics of specific interest to PMP constituents.
PMP provides professional development assistance that brings nationally recognized experts in strategic planning, arts marketing, public relations, and audience development to Philadelphia for one-on-one meetings with constituents in order to broaden their organizational capacity.
Modest grants for professional development are available to organizations that receive PMP project support. Professional development grants are intended to introduce recipients to new artistic influences and enable them to build working relationships within their respective communities.
Since the program’s inception in 1989, PMP has underwritten 279 projects with support totaling $12,247,794.