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. Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter to be notified when the page is updated. If you find this page useful, please consider donating £3 towards website costs by buying us a coffee.

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:

• Freelance festival producer at experimental music festival (1 April)

• Music therapist in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

• Associate production manager at creative organisation (19 March)

2-3 days a week:

3-4 days a week:

Full-time:

• Lecturer in music history (12 March)

• Finance business partner at arts organisation (12 March)

• Event manager (multi-artform) at arts venue (12 March)

• Programme & orchestras manager at youth orchestra (13 March)

• Programmes coordinator at education charity (13 March)

• Director of audiences at orchestra (16 March)

• Producer at creative organisation (19 March)

• Senior philanthropy manager at opera organisation (19 March)

• Head of grants at opera organisation (19 March)

• Development manager at orchestra (20 March)

• Chief executive of music charity (29 March)

• Business development manager for Greater China at music exam board (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.

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• Adopt a creator (support commissioning a new piece of music from a creator in the first seven years of their career) (13 March)

• Call for scores for pieces up to 5 minutes for chamber ensemble (26 March)

• Composing competition for under 18s (27 March)

• Composers under 30: submit an accompanied (organ) choral composition suitable to be sung as an Introit or anthem (27 March)

• Composer Fellowship Program to have a piece workshopped, performed and recorded for portfolio or promotional use (31 March)

• Pieces for community choir on the theme of “Food and Drink” (31 March)

• Development programme for promising UK-based composers establishing their careers (1 April)

• Composition competition for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (full quartet) (24 April)

• Composition competition for 15-18 year olds (26 April)

• Submit an original musical setting of the Agnus Dei (4 May)

• Composition competition for works up to 20 minutes (1 June)

• 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:

• Adopt a creator (support commissioning a new piece of music from a creator in the first seven years of their career) (13 March)

• Musicians aged 18-26 in Sussex who are studying for, or planning to study for a career in music

• Choral scholarship in Manchester for 14-19 year olds

• 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:

• SEND music tutor in Sutton (13 March)

• Double bass tutor in Sutton

• Drum tutor in Sutton

• 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:

• International fellowships programme for early-career researchers (11 March)

• Music lecturer (23 March)

• Associate professorship of music (7 April)

• Three full-time fully funded PhD studentships (10 April)

• Visiting lecturer at conservatoire (30 September)

• 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

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• Trustee of contemporary music charity

• Adopt a creator (support commissioning a new piece of music from a creator in the first seven years of their career) (13 March)

• Work experience at festival (13 March)

• Trustee for orchestra (16 March)

• Chair/Co-Chair(s) of parents in the arts charity board (23 March)

• Trustee of disability music charity (23 March)

• Co-opted director of board at orchestral body (30 March)

• Trustee for Birmingham music charity (31 March)

• Expression of interest for UK Town of Culture 2028 (31 March)

• Awards for alumni of the University of Cambridge (19 April)

• Fully-funded residency for artists who work across multiple disciplines and media (29 June)

• Donate a second-hand musical instrument

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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