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 28th August 2025. Opportunities included in this list are not endorsement. All job opportunities below share the salary.

arts jobs

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

• Choral animateur

• Freelance project manager (social purpose) for orchestra

• Early-career participatory arts practitioners

• London girls’ choir conductor

• London boys’ choir conductor

• Youth choir leader

• Two leadership associates in the West Midlands

• Lead musicianship teacher

• 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

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

3-4 days a week:

• Administrator at charity

• Musician in residence at school

Full-time:

• Concerts and tours coordinator at orchestra

• Senior philanthropy manager at opera company

• Digital marketing manager at orchestra

• Press assistant at opera house

• Culture & tourism project coordinator at council

• Backend focused full stack developer at digital design agency

• Performance and projects assistant at orchestra

• Chief executive of charity supporting musicians from low-income backgrounds

• Fundraising & data manager at education charity serving under-served communities

• Tours & projects sales manager at artist management agency

• Development manager at venue

• Website designer for digital design agency

• Director of partnerships at music venue

• Marketing and communications manager at festival

• Operations & data officer at youth choir

• Membership 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!

• 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

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

performing opportunities:

• New arts funding hub!

• 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

teaching opportunities:

• Choral animateur

• Piano/singing teacher in Camden

• Voice tutor in Camden

• Lead musicianship teacher

• 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

• Paid programme for people with lived experience of homelessness to explore careers in the opera sector

• 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

• Is a new composers’ orchestra feasible in Aberdeen?

• 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

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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