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This grant program aims to stimulate musical development and increased quality in local choir life, increase collaboration between choirs and professional actors, and provide audiences with good and varied concert experiences. The program supports concert activities and other projects involving live choir music performances where external professional instrumentalists or singers participate. Professional means persons with either relevant performing arts higher education or professional musicians/artists who have music as their main source of income. The program supports individual events and concert series with a maximum application amount of 70,000 Norwegian kroner. Support is not given for concerts abroad, and seminars and course activities are only supported when relevant to a concert for which support has been applied. The program requires that the concert has not been completed before the application deadline.

This grant supports composition and creative production across all music genres in Norway. The program aims to enable composers and musicians to create new music and productions that involve artistically demanding and costly work. It provides funding to cover fees and artistic costs for composition work including score-based or performer-based composition, studio or digital platform composition and production, collaborative composition between composers and musicians, and other forms of composition. The program also supports participation from artists in other fields contributing to creative work, such as video and visual artists, scenographers, photographers, writers, performance artists, and artistic producers. Scenic concert productions for interdisciplinary or music-dramatic works are also eligible. The goal is to make new musical works in Norway accessible to the public through concert presentations and dissemination platforms.

This grant program supports professional musicians, artists, ensembles, and bands for concert and tour activities across all genres, both in Norway and internationally. The funding aims to stimulate touring activities and concert production to provide audiences throughout the country access to a wide range of concerts. The program provides professional frameworks and opportunities for musicians to develop artistically and perform concerts domestically and abroad. Grants are available as either project grants (for specific concerts and tours) or operational grants (for organizations with comprehensive year-round concert activities). Project grants can support single tours or multiple concerts throughout the year with a maximum period of one year, while operational grants support year-round operations and can be awarded for up to three years. The program emphasizes concert activities in Norway particularly, though international activities are also eligible.

This grant program aims to promote the production and dissemination of sound recordings and to contribute to a broad and diverse range of professional high-quality audio projects. The fund is also a collective compensation scheme distributed to benefit rights holders who have their works copied for private use. The program supports projects within the music and audio art field, including production and dissemination of sound recordings, concert activities and tours, composition and audio art, text production for music projects, and composite projects that combine several of these areas. The fund is administered by Fond for lyd og bilde and aims to ensure geographic and genre diversity in its support. Applications are evaluated by a committee with relevant expertise appointed by the fund's board, with final decisions made by the board based on the committee's recommendations.