This year, TONO is awarding more scholarships than ever before – to more people than ever before. A total of NOK 17,102,500 has now been distributed to 604 applicants for the TONO scholarship and 351 applicants for the Young Talents scholarship.
/ 19/05/2022 / Willy MartinsenTONO received a total of 1,866 applications for the TONO scholarship and the Young Talents scholarship this year, and everyone who applied has today been informed by email about the result of the scholarship processing. The scholarships will be paid to the scholarship recipients on May 20th to the account numbers the applicants provided in their applications.
The scholarship committee has based its assessments on the criteria described on TONO.no, and which were informed about at scholarship announcement March 8.
This year, TONO grants are being awarded for a total of NOK 15,212,500. As in the two previous years, the grants have been awarded as individual grants of NOK 25,000. This year, however, some have been increased to NOK 50,000. This is a small signal that the TONO grant is returning to normal, and that the aim is to award grants at the normal levels of NOK 100,000, NOK 50,000 and NOK 25,000 in 2023. Grants of NOK 12,500 have also been awarded in some cases where several applicants have applied for grants for projects that are wholly or partly the same for several applicants.
15 scholarships have been awarded kr 50,000, 568 scholarships on kr 25,000 and 21 scholarships kr 12,500. A total of 604 scholarships in total kr 15 212 500.
This year, a total of kr NOK 1,890,000 for the Young Talents scholarship. 27 scholarships have been awarded here. kr 25,000 and 324 scholarships kr 5,000. A total of 351 scholarships totaling 1,890,000.
Here you can see a list of the recipients of TONO scholarships in 2022 (pdf, opens in a separate window).
Here you can see a list of the recipients of the Young Talents scholarship in 2022. (pdf, opens in a separate window)
The scholarship committee's decision may be appealed to the TONO board within three weeks of notification of the decision to the applicant. The right to appeal only applies to the case processing, not the committee's discretion.
The TONO scholarship is funded by the cultural assets as described in §58 of TONO's statutes.
It states that for each TONO copyright holder, a deduction of up to 1/10 of the settlements shall be made before the total net amount is distributed. The cultural funds are distributed 2/3 to national music and cultural purposes through NOPA, the Norwegian Composers' Association and the Music Publishers' Association and the remaining 1/3 to scholarships. The scholarship share is further distributed 1/8 to the Music Publishers' scholarships and 7/8 to the TONO scholarship. Read more about the cultural funds here..
This year, TONO's scholarship committee consisted of Anne Hytta (NKF), Julian Skar (NKF), Tore Thomassen (NOPA), Tove Kragset (NOPA), Kaja Gunnufsen (independent), Ole Børud (independent) and Anthony W. Smith (MF).
The case was updated on May 24 with the total number of applications.