A round-up of some of the arts jobs available at the moment in the UK, as well as open calls for composers, performing call-outs and academic positions. We send an updated round of opportunities out every fortnight in our newsletter. If you find this page useful, please consider donating £3 to go towards website costs by buying us a coffee.

This page was last updated on 9th September 2025. Opportunities included in this list are not endorsement. All job opportunities below share the salary. Organisations can submit jobs, opportunities and funding pots here.

arts jobs

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

• Early-career participatory arts practitioners

• London girls’ choir conductor

• London boys’ choir conductor

• Youth choir leader

• Community chorus coordinator

• Two leadership associates in the West Midlands

• Stage director for choir theatrical performance

1-2 days a week:

• Executive director of choir

• Marketing & communications officer at education charity

• Finance and data administrator at choir organisation

• Grant writer and grant manager for refugee choir

• Business innovation manager for orchestral experience producer

• Choir manager

• Digital content officer at artist development foundation

2-3 days a week:

• Director of new music charity

• Chief executive of a new membership body for the opera world

• Trusts and grants fundraiser at singing charity

• General manager of orchestra

• Operations officer at brass bands charity

• Content and CRM manager at brass bands charity

3-4 days a week:

• Musician in residence at school

• Head of finance at orchestra

Full-time:

• Backend focused full stack developer at digital design agency

• Website designer for digital design agency

• Director of partnerships at music venue

• Marketing & communications coordinator at youth orchestra

• Communications officer at music college

• Press & digital assistant at agency

• Artistic planning officer at orchestra

• Marketing manager at venue

• Operations & data officer at youth choir

• Membership manager at youth choir

• Youth support manager at youth orchestra

• Marketing manager at venue

• Marketing and communications manager at youth choir

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!

• Submit your music to Concert Roulette

• Prize for new works for piano duet by composers under 35

• Free studio readings of pieces for string quartet

• Prize for a duet for piano and organ

• Choir carol competition

• Prize for composers at an early stage of their career as a composer

• Young composer competition for 12-18 year olds

• SEND delivery artists (composers/music directors/music facilitators)

• Solo horn composition prize

• Platform for emerging composers to experiment and collaborate

• Scottish-based emerging artists

• Become composer in residence with London ensemble

• Call-out for existing work for 6–25 players (string orchestra+ or mixed instrumentations)

performing opportunities:

• New arts funding hub!

• Submit your performance to Concert Roulette

• 2-year programme of support for emerging orchestral musicians

• Girls’ choir conductor

• Boys’ choir conductor

• Youth choir leader

• Fully-funded 2-day workshop for instrumentalists aged 18-28

• Directors, MDs & repetiteurs

• Co-Principal Bass (sitting No. 2) in orchestra

• Call-out for bold ideas to be presented at conference

• Open call for touring studio shows for Spring/Summer 2026

• Online mentoring community for professional classical singers

• Scottish-based emerging artists

• Alto scholarship in London

• Group therapy for music professionals

• Trainee choir leader / rehearsal pianist in Gloucestershire

• Choral scholarship programme for 18-25 year olds

• Free musical adventure for teenage musicians with the greatest need for a place

• Organ scholar at cathedral

• Organ scholar at London church

• Young artists competition for early music ensembles

teaching opportunities:

• Piano/singing teacher in Camden

• Voice tutor in Camden

• Youth choir leader

• Girls’ choir conductor

• Boys’ choir conductor

Academic opportunities:

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

• Call-out for bold ideas to be presented at conference in Budapest

Other opportunities:

• New arts funding hub!

• Call-out for bold ideas to be presented at conference in Budapest

• Brass band adjudicator

• Trustee for cross-art chamber orchestra

• Open call for touring studio shows for Spring/Summer 2026

• Trustee for music education charity

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

• Trustee at disabled music charity

• Trustee for choir

• Co-chair for music education council board

• Young classical writers prize for 16-25 year olds

• 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

• Trustee for Nottinghamshire festival

• Research survey for teachers of performing arts

• Take part in PhD research on disordered eating in musicians

• Group therapy for music professionals

• Become a mentor to young people in Greater Manchester, London and Merseyside

• Choral scholarship programme for 18-25 year olds

• Free musical adventure for teenage musicians with the greatest need for a place

• Opportunity for three autistic musicians to 
contribute to research

Funding & bursaries

Find a list of the funding pots and bursaries that are currently open for applications on our new arts funding hub!

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