Fondation Eric Ballard

To promote and contribute to the development of contemporary music in Switzerland and abroad, by providing financial assistance to musicians, particularly soloists, conductors or ensembles, so that they can give concerts in Switzerland and abroad, participate in competitions, purchase instruments; to provide financial assistance to composers through commissions of works, to enable them to create their works in Switzerland or abroad or to attend the creation of these works, and to musicologists to enable them to publish one or more important works dedicated to contemporary music.