A round-up of some of the arts jobs available in the UK, as well as open calls for composers, performing call-outs and academic positions. Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter to be notified when the page is updated. If you find this page useful, please consider donating £3 towards website costs by buying us a coffee.

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:

• Festival stewards at summer festival (20 May)

• Teacher of composition at music school (31 May)

• Trans+ or gender non-conforming content creator (31 May)

• Chamber choir conductor (1 June)

• Early years music teacher (26 June)

• Retail assistant at music festival (rolling deadline)

• Music therapist in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

2-3 days a week:

• Marketing and communications manager at orchestra association (29 May)

• Music lecturer at university (31 May)

• Lecturer in music performance at university (31 May)

• Research associate in music computing (2 June)

3-4 days a week:

Full-time:

• Programme coordinator at orchestra charity (26 May)

• Head of facilities & operations at orchestra.(26 May)

• Education programmes manager at church music charity (26 May)

• Tour and project manager at chamber orchestra (7 June)

• CEO of music hub (8 June)

• Individual giving and sponsorship manager at opera festival (rolling)

• Customer account manager at education provider (rolling)

• Website project manager at digital agency (rolling)

• Website designer at digital agency (rolling)

Composing opportunities:

All composition prizes and schemes included here are free to enter.

• Brand-new Composers’ Hub

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• Community composition training programme (27 May)

• Composition competition for works up to 20 minutes (1 June)

• Composers born, living or studying in Wales (1 June)

• 6-month programme for emerging and early career composers (5 June)

• Carillon composition proposal contest (16 June)

• Teacher of composition at music school (31 May)

• Composition competition for Irish composers (1 September)

• Advent carol competition (20 September)

• Carillon composition competition (1 November)

• Submit your music to Concert Roulette (rolling deadline)

• Submit your music to Opera Roulette (rolling deadline)

• Call-out for existing work for 6–25 players (string orchestra+ or mixed instrumentations) (rolling deadline)

performing opportunities:

• Conducting scholarship for 23-28 year olds (29 May)

• Chamber choir conductor (1 June)

• Section principal horn in orchestra (8 June)

• Choral scholarship in Manchester for 14-19 year olds

• 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:

• Chamber choir conductor (1 June)

• Historical lute professor at conservatoire (1 June)

• Early years music teacher (26 June)

• 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:

• Music lecturer at university (31 May)

• Lecturer in music performance at university (31 May)

• Creative fellowship: Black music across the Americas (2 June)

• Research associate in music computing (2 June)

• 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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• Chair of opera company (29 May)

• Trustee of east London charity (1 June)

• Trustee of education charity in Lancashire (1 June)

• Creative fellowship: Black music across the Americas (2 June)

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

• Classical music writing prize for 16-25 year olds (28 August)

• Join Latitude Festival choir

• Free mentoring for 18-26 year olds for 16 weeks (rolling deadline)

• Donate a second-hand musical instrument

• Free opera tickets for under 21s

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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