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Opportunities included in this list are not endorsement. All job opportunities below share the salary. The deadline to apply to each opportunity can be found in brackets. Organisations can submit jobs, opportunities and funding pots here.

arts jobs

0-1 days a week, freelance & one-off or casual projects:

• Ensemble and event coordinator at music education organisation (25 February)

• Music director for amateur orchestra (27 February)

• Music therapist in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

• Music events manager at music hub (20 February)

2-3 days a week:

• Project manager at youth choir (25 February)

• Marketing assistant at orchestra (5 March)

• Seasonal concert host at music venue (rolling)

3-4 days a week:

• Relationship manager at Arts Council (18 February)

• Digital marketing executive at music course (2 March)

• Head of development at music venue (2 March)

Full-time:

• Corporate partnerships manager at music venue (18 February)

• Programme and events assistant at music programming charity (18 February)

• Director of wellbeing at music school (20 February)

• Content marketing manager at opera studio (26 February)

• Digital & social media coordinator at orchestra (26 February)

• Resources assistant at music hub (27 February)

• Instrument loan scheme programme manager (2 March)

• Project coordinator at orchestra (4 March)

• Head of HR at music college (9 March)

• Programme & orchestras manager at youth orchestra (13 March)

• Business development manager for Greater China at music exam board (rolling)

• Website designer at digital agency

performing opportunities:

• English song awards for singers and pianists (20 February)

• Lay clerk at Cambridge college (23 February)

• Music director for amateur orchestra (27 February)

• Brass quintet competition for under 30s (1 March)

• Emerging ensembles programme (8 March)

• Adopt a creator (support commissioning a new piece of music from a creator in the first seven years of their career) (13 March)

• Open call for touring studio shows for Spring/Summer 2026

• Online mentoring community for professional classical singers

• Submit your performance to Concert Roulette (rolling deadline)

• Submit your performance to Opera Roulette (rolling deadline)

teaching opportunities:

• Freelance piano tutors in Kingston (22 February)

• Freelance lower strings tutor in Kingston (22 February)

• SEND music tutor in Sutton (13 March)

• Double bass tutor in Sutton

• Drum tutor in Sutton

• Guitar & percussion teachers in Berkshire

• Voice teacher in Berkshire

• Choir leader in Berkshire

• Woodwind tutor in Camden

• Curriculum music teachers (primary) in London

• Strings, trumpet, piano and woodwind teachers in Wandsworth

Academic opportunities:

• International fellowships programme for early-career researchers (11 March)

• Three full-time fully funded PhD studentships (10 April)

• Visiting lecturer at conservatoire (30 September)

• Call for feminist academics/storytellers/activists/her-storians to give a lecture (rolling)

• Research survey for teachers of performing arts

• Take part in PhD research on disordered eating in musicians

• Parents/carers of musical learners aged 11-18: take part in research

• Call for neurodivergent musicians to take part in research

• Call for neurodivergent audience members to take part in research

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• Trustee for contemporary music charity

• Trustee for music education charity (19 February)

• Paid cultural leadership programme for creatives/producers/curators who have experience of homelessness (22 February)

• Prize for early-career arts journalists (28 February)

• Trustee for choir (6 March)

• Adopt a creator (support commissioning a new piece of music from a creator in the first seven years of their career) (13 March)

• Trustee for Birmingham music charity (31 March)

• Expression of interest for UK Town of Culture 2028 (31 March)

• Awards for alumni of the University of Cambridge (19 April)

• Fully-funded residency for artists who work across multiple disciplines and media (29 June)

• Donate a second-hand musical instrument

Funding & bursaries

Find a list of the funding pots and bursaries that are currently open for applications on our new arts funding hub! Opportunities open at the moment include:

• Up to £5,000 to develop outstanding music creators of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career

• Up to £5,000 to commission works and performances

• Funding for performances of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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