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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:

• Musical awareness teacher at music course (11 November)

• Musical director for philharmonic choir (1 January 2026)

• Music therapists in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

• Community singing leader in Dundee (27 November)

• Chief examiner at church music charity (1 December)

2-3 days a week:

• Choirs producer at music inclusion and education charity (10 November)

• Music and technology officer at disabled musicians’ charity (10 November)

• Business development and innovation manager at orchestra charity (10 November)

• Finance assistant at interdisciplinary agency (14 November)

• General manager of festival (1 December)

• Seasonal concert host at music venue (rolling)

3-4 days a week:

• Marketing and communications officer at church music charity (10 November)

• Music lecturer at university (11 November)

• Artistic director or orchestra (17 November)

• Director of gender justice charity (28 November)

Full-time:

• Projects officer at period instrument orchestra (9 November)

• Children and families music and outreach worker at church (10 November)

• Assistant orchestra manager at chamber orchestra (11 November)

• Marketing and data officer at ensemble (13 November)

• Director of music at cathedral (13 November)

• Fundraising & engagement manager at choral organisation (16 November)

• Chief executive of music therapy charity (19 November)

• Executive director of ensemble (20 November)

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

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 choir, brass quintet and organ (any combination permitted) (14 November)

• Quartet composition proposals (15 November)

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

• Organ scholar programme for 20-25 year old (11 November)

• Residency for aspiring orchestral musicians aged 21-25 (17 November)

• Musician in residence at prison (19 November)

• Young artists competition for early music ensembles (8 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:

• Visiting piano teacher in Oxford (12 November)

• Community singing leader in Dundee (27 November)

• 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:

• Music lecturer at university (11 November)

• Research fellow in music and computational social science (16 November)

• 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:

• New arts funding hub!

• Peer-to-peer professional development programme (12 November)

• Free online trustee leadership course (12 November)

• 6- or 9-month fellowship providing space for concentrated work (14 November)

• Trustee for contemporary music charity (21 November)

• 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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