Flinders Quartet Inc

Flinders Quartet (FQ) is instantly recognisable as one of Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles. A quartet for the twenty-first century, FQ approaches its third decade with acknowledged musical skill and maturity. The group’s dynamic and stirring performances of a full spectrum of repertoire have audiences and critics articulating their esteem, and the quartet is a highly respected force in Australian chamber music.

Prue Myer Sub Fund

This grant was proudly funded by the Prue Myer Sub Fund, established by the Trustees of the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust.

The Prue Myer Sub Fund supports projects for immigrants and refugees and other disadvantaged girls and young women that:

  • provide them with positive mentoring opportunities,
  • improve their academic and educational outcomes, or
  • encourage their engagement and participation in political life.

Project: Future Voices – Championing Women Composers and Providing Pathways to Success
Grant type: Sub Fund
Amount: $10,000
Year: 2020-21
Website: flindersquartet.com/


Future Voices is a multifaceted initiative addressing the lack of women composing in the music industry. It will offer opportunities to develop women composers within the sector. This will include:

  • crucial career pathways – residencies, creative development workshops, commissions and programming within Flinders Quartet’s Subscription Season;
  • role models and mentors to support emerging female composers;
  • promotion and advocacy;
  • professional recordings and national broadcast; and
  • increasing an audience for their work.

Sub Fund Grants 2020-21

Prue Myer Sub-Fund

Prue Myer Sub-Fund

Sub Funds

This Sub-Fund supports immigrants and refugees and other disadvantaged girls and young women and provides them with positive mentoring opportunities or ways to improve their educational outcomes.

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Banksia Gardens Community Services

Banksia Gardens Community Services

Grants

Banksia Gardens Community Services is a vibrant neighbourhood house and community service organisation.

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Women and Mentoring

Women and Mentoring

Grants

A pilot project to develop a mentoring program specifically for vulnerable young women.

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Theatre Works

Theatre Works

Grants

Loula Rodopoulos Sub Fund This grant was proudly funded by the Loula Rodopolous Sub Fund, established by the Trustees of the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust. Loula Rodopoulos...

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