PRS Foundation

The PRS Foundation (PRSF) is the UK’s largest independent funder purely for new music, of any genre.

Widely respected as a refreshingly approachable and adventurous funding body, the Foundation supports an amazing range of new music activity – from unsigned band showcases to composer residencies, from commissions for new music to experimental live electronica.

Its main aims are to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music in the UK and to help audiences understand and enjoy the new music they experience. In addition it aims to motivate public debate about the state of creative music-making in the UK.

The PRS Foundation is a particularly significant force in supporting creatively adventurous and pioneering musical activity. Its funding and partnership activities have kick-started many unusual collaborations and projects and helped to underpin some of the most original and interesting musical initiatives in the UK over the past 5 years.

Cenatus Music Projects gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation. This support enables us to offer visitors a high quality programme of established and emerging UK artists, a specialised workshop programme focussing on new music technologies, discussions exploring the impact of the internet on music and installations that allow experimental and playful interaction using a range digital music tools. The PRSF funding for the 2008 festival helped Cenatus to offer a mentoring scheme to upcoming musicians with support given in the production of PR materials, demo recordings, online promotion and booking.