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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:

• Social media manager for experimental music festival (15 December)

• Forum producer for experimental music festival (15 December)

• Musical director for philharmonic choir (1 January 2026)

• Freelance safeguarding lead at orchestral charity (5 January 2026)

• Music director for non-professional symphony orchestra (16 January 2026)

• Music therapists in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

2-3 days a week:

• Head of development at orchestra (15 December)

• Executive assistant at youth orchestra (15 December)

• Finance manager at artists trust (12 January 2026)

• Marketing assistant at festival (12 January 2026)

• Seasonal concert host at music venue (rolling)

3-4 days a week:

• Programme assistant at arts venue (4 January 2026)

• Chief executive of piano concerto competition (23 January 2026)

Full-time:

• Content and marketing manager at orchestral charity (11 December)

• Senior marketing manager at orchestra (2 January 2026)

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

• Head of development at orchestra (6 January 2026)

• Customer acquisition manager at online music shop (31 January 2026)

Composing opportunities:

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

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

• String quartet commission opportunity for 14-17 year olds (26 December)

• Competition for composers born, living, working or studying in Sheffield to submit a work which may be a single piece or a suite for any forces of instruments up to Symphony Orchestra (31 December)

• Prize for composers from London or the South East born on or after 1 January 1996 (5 January)

• 4-8 minute SATB composition competition for emerging choral composers (5 January)

• Opportunity for composers to experiment with and develop their orchestral writing skills through writing a 3 minute composition over 12 months (5 January)

• Young composer commission for composers aged up to 30 who are based in or strongly connected to the East Midlands (5 January)

• Compose a short anthem for a choir of modest ability, suitable for singing in a church service (15 January 2026)

• Call for scores for flute, bassoon and classical guitar (21 January 2026)

• London based orchestra looking to appoint a Composer in Residence for the 2026/27 season (13 February 2026)

• Call for works for piano ensemble up to 6 pianos

• 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:

• Performing competition for under 18s (12 December)

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

• Principal bass trombone at opera company (15 December)

• Musical director for philharmonic choir (1 January 2026)

• Music director for non-professional symphony orchestra (16 January 2026)

• Conducting fellowship at opera company (20 January 2026)

• Emerging musicians programme for a string quartet in which all musicians are under the age of 30 (1 February 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)

• Submit your performance to Opera Roulette (rolling deadline)

teaching opportunities:

• Youth concert band assistant (19 December)

• 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:

• 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

• Join our mailing list

• Call for provocations for experimental music festival (unpaid but you do get a free festival pass) (2 January 2026)

• 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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