Income Sources

ELISION receives income from a diverse range of sources, including festivals and concert organisations, broadcast stations, recording companies, and concert ticket sales. ELISION also receives cultural subsidies from a range of cultural institutions, government bodies and the private sector. We are keen to increase the proportion of private and corporate sponsorship, either generally or for specific projects.

In 2007, ELISION gratefully acknowledges the core financial assistance of the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the State of Queensland through Arts Queensland; and the support of the The University of Queensland through the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Professor John Hay.

Specific projects in our 2006 Programme were supported through The Trans-Tasman Composer Exchange Residency, a collaboration between the Australian Music Centre and SOUNZ, The Centre for New Zealand Music made possible with the support of Creative New Zealand, the Undergrowth Initiative through the Community Partnerships and Market Development Division of the Australia Council, Goethe Institut-Sydney, CEMAT, Sonora, and the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

The twentieth birthday concert series was greatly assisted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and many thanks go also to Stephen Adams, the Australian Music Curator for ABC Classic FM.

The support of the Brisbane Festival, the Australian Music Centre, and many others have been crucial to the 2006 season.

ELISION would like to thank Robert Leonard and Katrina Stubbs of the Institute of Modern Art, the Orchestras of Victoria and Western Australia, the Melbourne and Sydney Sympphonys, Symphony Australia, Cramer Ball of Gulf Air and many others.

Past projects and programmes have been supported financially by many other government and private funding bodies, including Pro-Helvetia, The British Council, Norske Kulturråd, Norse Skog Follum, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norsk Kassettavgiftsfond, Cikada Ensemble, Festival UltraSchall Berlin, the Queensland Biennial Festival of Music, the Goethe Institut-Melbourne, the State of Victoria through Arts Victoria, and many others.

The overwhelming component of ELISION's income goes toward making music--to the costs of mounting public performances, travel, and of course the salaries of the professional musicians who form the ensemble. Administration and management is afforded the minimum consistent with providing effective professional support for the ensemble's activities.

We also acknowledge the organisation's many friends who volunteer their time and effort for no reward other than ensuring the continued success of the ensemble.

In an amazing twenty-first year of activity ELISION would also like to thank all of the audiences, composers, conductors, visual artists, musicians, board members and creative people who came along for the adventure that began in Melbourne many years ago when Stephen Morey, later joined by Peter Neville, suggested to Daryl Buckley that he start a new music ensemble.