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Payments & Contracts
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How much should you charge for your artistic services?
Commissioning Rates
How much should you charge for your original music?
Orchestration & Arranging Rates
How much should you charge if you’re hired as an orchestrator/arranger?
Model Composer Commissioning Contract
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Rehearsal Fees
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Best Practices
Inclusive Writing in French
French is a gendered language, meaning that adjectives, nouns, articles, etc., have a gender. French officially has only two genders, masculine and feminine. Unlike English, where only pronouns and other few exceptions need to be tweaked to reflect the existence and...
Grand Rights
Composing for Dance, Theatre, and Music Theatre.
Sync & Mechanical Licensing Guidelines
Understanding your rights
The Visiting Composer Checklist
Is your organization hosting a visiting composer?
Guidelines for Calls for Scores & Proposals
Are you soliciting scores or proposals?
Professional Development
Successful Grants Database
An online tool to help you write your grant applications.
Canadian Composition Workshops Database
Looking for a list of Composition workshops in Canada?
Insurance Benefits
Insurance plans for CLC members.
Advocacy
2025 Federal Election
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Commissioning Rates
How much should you charge for your original music?
Canadian Composition Workshops Database
Looking for a list of Composition workshops in Canada?
Grand Rights
Composing for Dance, Theatre, and Music Theatre.
Sync & Mechanical Licensing Guidelines
Understanding your rights
The Visiting Composer Checklist
Is your organization hosting a visiting composer?
Model Composer Commissioning Contract
Do you need a commissioning contract but you can’t afford a lawyer?
Guidelines for Calls for Scores & Proposals
Are you soliciting scores or proposals?
Rehearsal Fees
Your time isn’t free. How much should you charge for attending rehearsals?
Insurance Benefits
Insurance plans for CLC members.
CLC 101
Presentation, Consultation, & Jury Fees
How much should you charge for your artistic services?
Orchestration & Arranging Rates
How much should you charge if you’re hired as an orchestrator/arranger?
Successful Grants Database
An online tool to help you write your grant applications.
Engraving and Preparation Rates
How much should you charge for engraving and score preparation?
2025 Federal Election
Let’s bring attention to the cultural crisis into the election campaign!
Current Calls and Opportunities for Composers
Please note that not all of these opportunities follow the best practices outlined in the CLC’s Guidelines for Calls for Scores and Proposals, especially with respect to applicant restrictions, work restrictions, and fees associated with application or acceptance (opportunities with costs are marked). We are working to communicate with these organizations!