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. If you find this page useful, you can buy us a coffee.

All job opportunities below share the salary. The deadline to apply to each opportunity can be found in brackets. Opportunities included in this list are not endorsement. Organisations can submit jobs, opportunities and funding pots here.

arts jobs

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

• Director of youth choir at church (15 June)

• Section leaders for church choir in Bristol (19 June)

• Early years music teacher (26 June)

• Music therapist in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

2-3 days a week:

• Administrator at PR and media relations agency (19 June)

• Company administrator and executive assistant at festival (26 June)

3-4 days a week:

• Senior corporate partnerships manager at ballet company (9 June)

• Creative learning coordinator at music centre (9 June)

• Music services manager at charity for blind children (14 June)

Full-time:

• CEO of music hub (8 June)

• Education & community project manager at orchestra (8 June)

• Area leader at Council (9 June)

• Chief operating officer at not-for-profit amplifying Black voices (12 June)

• Director of music at cathedral (19 June)

• Learning and participation producer at opera company (22 June)

• Producer at orchestra (30 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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• Carillon composition proposal contest (16 June)

• An opportunity for Manx composers to have their work professionally performed (1 July)

• Compose a new choral setting of ‘Great King of Gods’ (1 July)

• Development opportunities for Scottish composers / composers based in Scotland (7 July)

• Composition competition for Irish composers (1 September)

• Advent carol competition (20 September)

• Carillon composition competition (1 November)

• 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:

• Section principal horn in orchestra (8 June)

• Alto and bass choral scholarships in London (15 June)

• Section leaders for church choir in Bristol (19 June)

• Year-long fellowship for open-minded creatives (21 June)

• Healthcare musician for NHS (21 June)

• 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:

• Director of youth choir at church (15 June)

• Director of music at cathedral (19 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:

• 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 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:

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• Trustee for organisation promoting gender equity (26 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)

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

• Music portrait opportunity (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

• Join Latitude Festival choir

• 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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