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:

• Opera producer at female-led company (26 January)

• Assistant opera director (26 January)

• Music therapists in London (rolling deadline)

1-2 days a week:

• Freelance producer for contemporary classical music organisation (13 February)

2-3 days a week:

• Seasonal concert host at music venue (rolling)

3-4 days a week:

• Head of producing & participation at opera company (30 January)

Full-time:

• Head of marketing and communications at audiovisual charity (28 January)

• Marketing & social media executive at concert hall (1 February)

• Community manager at ‘alternative old boy network’ charity (2 February)

• Chief executive of Scottish music collective (2 February)

• Programme director for creative programme (6 February)

• Assistant artist manager at classical music management company (13 February)

• Director of community and education at orchestra (16 February)

• Community and education coordinator at orchestra (16 February)

• Administrator at audiovisual charity (16 February)

performing opportunities:

• Orchestral fellowship for musicians who’ve completed an undergraduate or postgraduate music degree, or play to an equivalent level (30 January)

• Young singers’ competition for ages 10-21 (31 January)

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

• Conductor competition for under 35s (2 February)

• Free weekend course for classical performers aged 18–28 who want to explore contemporary music, devising, and creative collaboration (11 February)

• English song awards for singers and pianists (20 February)

• Brass quintet competition for under 30s (1 March)

• 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:

• Brass teacher in Kent

• Violin tutor in London

• Guitar tutor in London

• Curriculum music teachers (primary) in London

• Strings, trumpet, piano 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:

• Open call for short pitches or presentations on shaking up inherited traditions in classical music (2 February)

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

• 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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• Mentorship programme supporting emerging live sound engineers from Black and global majority backgrounds (28 January)

• Activist development programme for MU members (membership required) (30 January)

• Nominations open for youth music awards (1 February)

• Future leaders programme for early to mid-career professionals (6 February)

• 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 £3,500 for independent promoters across England

• £1,000 for people of colour looking to make a leap with their creative practice

• Support for projects that promote and preserve the musical legacy of Charles Villiers Stanford and his contemporaries

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