This page lists the types of funding opportunities available for TONE collaborators and student members.

Funding Opportunities for Collaborators

Strategic Project Funding

The purpose of TONE Strategic Project Funding is to encourage innovative research and/or pilot projects by members of the TONE project, for research in line with TONE's mandate, that could lead to external funding opportunities, joint publications, musical compositions/premieres/recordings, new modules for the TOR, and/or other public presentations of TONE research. 

Research-Creation Funding

The purpose of TONE Research-Creation Project Funding is to encourage innovative research-creation projects by members of the TONE project that could lead to external funding opportunities, joint publication, musical compositions/premieres/recordings, new modules for the TOR, and/or other public presentations of TONE research. 

Global Music Collaboration Fund

The purpose of the Global Music Collaboration Fund is to encourage and facilitate the organization of workshops and similar events by members of the TONE partnership that involve expert professional musicians from global musical traditions and expand the scope of TONE's research on timbre and orchestration practice across cultures, styles, and genres.

Funding Opportunities for Student Members

Collaborative Student Project Grant

The purpose of the TONE Collaborative Student Project Grant is to support research in line with TONE's mission to bring the musical use of timbre to the forefront of scholarship, practice, and public awareness as well as to provide students with funding for the summer period and encourage interinstitutional collaboration among students in the TONE partnership.

Student Exchange Funding

Student members and postdoctoral collaborators of TONE are eligible to apply for funding for an exchange program between TONE partner institutions.

Student Presentation Funding

Student members of TONE are eligible to apply for funding for an opportunity to present a TONE-related project at the yearly TONE Workshop.

TONE Student Award

Doctoral student members from TONE partner institutions (other than McGill University) are eligible to apply for a stipend to support research in line with the TONE project's mandate.