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:

• Musical director for wind orchestra (2 December)

• Events assistant (casual) at Bristol arts venue (8 December)

• Duty manager at Bristol arts venue (8 December)

• Musical director for philharmonic choir (1 January 2026)

• Music therapists in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

• Fundraising manager at Jewish music hub (21 November)

• Community singing leader in Dundee (27 November)

• Chief examiner at church music charity (1 December)

2-3 days a week:

• General manager of festival (1 December)

• Finance manager at artists trust (12 January)

• Seasonal concert host at music venue (rolling)

3-4 days a week:

• Director of gender justice charity (28 November)

• Chapel and choir department administrator at Cambridge college (1 December)

• Head of development at music education charity (8 December)

Full-time:

• Web support developer at arts marketing agency (24 November)

• Learning and participation programme assistant at orchestra (27 November)

• Head of development at period instrument ensemble (28 November)

• Concerts coordinator at orchestra (1 December)

• College music administrator at Cambridge college (1 December)

• Chief executive of charity for young Londoners (1 December)

• Repertoire and print production assistant at concert hall (2 December)

• Senior producer at opera house (3 December)

• Projects & engagement coordinator at opera company (5 December)

• Staging operations manager at arts venue (8 December)

• Administration manager at arts venue (8 December)

• Arts producer at outdoor arts festival (5 January 2026)

Composing opportunities:

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

• 20 composer schemes for emerging composers (bookmark this link!)

• New arts funding hub!

• Call for scores for an online anthology of scores that offers pieces suitable for immediate performance (1 December)

• Composition competition with a commission of a short chamber work (1 December)

• Compositions for trombone octet or quartet (8 December)

• Call for works for piano ensemble up to 6 pianos

• Submit your music to Concert Roulette (rolling deadline)

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

performing opportunities:

• New arts funding hub!

• Musical director for wind orchestra (2 December)

• Young artists competition for early music ensembles (8 December)

• Bold, emerging artists working within/across experimental, electronic, and contemporary classical music (15 December)

• Musical director for philharmonic choir (1 January 2026)

• Brass quintet competition for under 30s (1 March 2026)

• 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)

teaching opportunities:

• Community singing leader in Dundee (27 November)

• Violin tutor in London

• Guitar tutor in London

• Curriculum music teachers (primary) in London

• Strings, trumpet and woodwind teachers in Wandsworth

• Instrumental and vocal tutors in Sutton

• Piano/singing teacher in Camden

• Double bass tutor in London

• Voice tutor in Camden

• Music technology teacher in Camden

Academic opportunities:

• University orchestra and choir conductor (20 November)

• Residency programme for artistic research in music (5 December)

• 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

Other opportunities:

• Submit your job or opportunity to this page

• Submit your funding opportunity to our funding hub

• Submit your concert or event to our event listings

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• Trustee at gender justice charity (28 November)

• Audition for the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain (ages 9-19) (30 November)

• Founding trustees for professional vocal ensemble based in the East Midlands and East of England

• Trustee for choir

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

• Mental health survey for freelancers

• 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

• Donate a second-hand musical instrument

• Research survey for teachers of performing arts

• Take part in PhD research on disordered eating in musicians

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:

• £5,000-£15,000 for UK based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers

• £500 for projects in Glasgow

• Funding for the performance, commissioning or recording of music by professional composers active in the last 100 years

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