A round-up of the arts jobs available in the UK, as well as composing awards, performing call-outs and academic positions. All job opportunities share the salary, and the closing date for each role can be found in brackets.

arts jobs

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

• Safeguarding contract at brass bands association (23 July)

• Accompanist for choral society (14 August)

• Music therapist in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

• Programme coordinator at choir (29 July)
  

2-3 days a week:

• Administrator at charity (20 July)

• Events assistant at conservatoire (20 July)

• General manager of youth orchestra (31 July)

3-4 days a week:

• Marketing coordinator at venue (24 July)

• Project coordinator for school composition project (31 July)

• Music practitioner at music hub (5 August)

Full-time:

• Digital marketing and content executive at choral foundation (21 July)

• Producer at orchestra (22 July)

• Artistic administrator at ballet company (23 July)

• Senior planning manager at orchestra (24 July)

• Copywriter and publications manager at music college (26 July)

• Head of engagement at ballet company (26 July)

• Orchestra manager at ballet company (26 July)

• Membership manager at brass bands association (29 July)

• Paid internship at music publisher (31 July)

• Development officer at orchestra (3 August)

• Education and community coordinator at orchestra (3 August)

• Philanthropy manager at orchestra (17 August)

Composing opportunities:

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• Composition competition for Irish composers (1 September)

• Christmas carol competition (1 September)

• Advent carol competition (20 September)

• Compositions for saxophone quartet by under 35s (30 September)

• Carillon composition competition (1 November)

• Original work for brass band, open to current students, recent graduates, and anyone aged 18 to 25 (6 December)

• Call for scores of songs composed after 2021 for either soprano or baritone (solo/+pno/elecx) (rolling deadline)

• 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:

• Free mentoring for musicians (24 July)

• Call for 100 tuba players (amateur or professional) for unpaid performance (2 August)

• Accompanist for choral society (14 August)

• Paid music leader training programme for 18-30 year olds based in the South West (16 August)

• Bass teacher-singer at education charity (17 August)

• Training, workshop and event experience in primary schools for musicians (24 August)

• Submit your performance to Concert Roulette (rolling deadline)

• Submit your performance to Opera Roulette (rolling deadline)

teaching opportunities:

• Paid music leader training programme for 18-30 year olds based in the South West (16 August)

• Bass teacher-singer at education charity (17 August)

• Violin, cello, piano, recorder and woodwind teachers in Richmond (rolling)

• Guitar & percussion teachers in Berkshire

• Voice teacher in Berkshire

• Choir leader in Berkshire

• Curriculum music teachers (primary) in London

• Strings, trumpet, piano and woodwind teachers in Wandsworth

Academic opportunities:

• Research study: the embodiment of cultural capital in elite classical music performance in higher education (31 July)

• Visiting lecturer at conservatoire (30 September)

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

• Submit paper for the Journal of Live Music Studies (rolling deadline)

• Research survey: experiences of autistic musicians in UK music conservatoires

• Research survey for classical musicians who perform with In-Ear Monitors and Playback

• Research survey: how self-employment affects professional musicians’ experiences of healthcare

• Research survey for teachers of performing arts

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

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• Co-chair of board of trustees for orchestra charity (20 July)

• Trustee for charity for deaf children (20 July)

• Free mentoring for musicians (24 July)

• Trustee for charitable funder of new music (31 July)

• Research study: the embodiment of cultural capital in elite classical music performance in higher education (31 July)

• Trustee at music hub (21 August)

• Free spaces-in-kind to Islington-based charities and community groups (24 August)

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

• Anonymous survey on discrimination and harassment in the music industry (31 August)

• Free one‑to‑one micro‑mentoring for artists, producers and creatives working in contemporary performance (rolling deadline)

• Free space this summer for artists and organisations (rolling deadline)

• Free headshots while taking part in a piece of musical art (rolling deadline)

• Research survey: experiences of autistic musicians in UK music conservatoires

• Research survey for classical musicians who perform with In-Ear Monitors and Playback

• Research survey: how self-employment affects professional musicians’ experiences of healthcare

• Research survey for teachers of performing arts

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

• Donate a second-hand musical instrument (rolling deadline)

• Free opera tickets for under 21s (rolling deadline)

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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