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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:

• Choral director for youth chorus (26 October)

• Musical awareness teacher at music course (11 November)

• Conference assistant for orchestral sector body (15 November)

1-2 days a week:

• Marketing and press executive at opera organisation (31 October)

2-3 days a week:

• Head of participation programme at festival (20 October)

• Communications coordinator at church venue (27 October)

• Seasonal concert host at music venue (rolling)

3-4 days a week:

• Development director at opera training organisation (29 October)

• Music business support officer at music hub (31 October)

• Communications officer at orchestral experience producer (3 November)

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

• Artistic director at orchestra (17 November)

Full-time:

• Marketing and development coordinator at record label (23 October)

• Concerts and recordings assistant at orchestra (27 October)

• Event producer for festival (28 October)

• Chief executive of orchestra (31 October)

• CEO of arts centre (2 November)

• Head of music at venue (2 November)

• Administrative assistant for music hub (5 November)

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

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!

• Female composers (19 October)

• Carol composition competition, open to all current staff and students of the University of Cambridge & Anglia Ruskin University (2 November)

• Previous finalists of the NCEM Young Composers Award (3 November)

• 18-month artist development programme for composers (3 November)

• Open call for short, animated films to be rescored by emerging composers (7 November)

• 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!

• Conducting fellowship at orchestra (20 October)

• Scotland-based musician to deliver a creative chamber music programme (4 November)

• Orchestral residency for musicians aged 21-25 (17 November)

• Musician in residence at prison (19 November)

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

• 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

teaching opportunities:

• Instrumental and vocal tutors in Sutton

• Piano/singing teacher in Camden

• Double bass tutor in London

• Voice tutor in Camden

Academic opportunities:

• Call for 15-20 min academic papers relating to the intersection of inner music and wellbeing (4 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!

• Trustee for brass band charity (26 October)

• Six-month programme for content creators (31 October)

• Trustee for Scotland’s new music ensemble (2 November)

• Fellowship to lead the change you want to see (4 November)

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

• 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

• Trustee for choir

• 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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