The School of Music has info on gig listings, employment, and grant opportunities as well as other helpful career-building tips and links. The School of Music sends out a Job & Gigs Newsletter semi-regularly as opportunities are shared.
Jobs & Gigs Newsletter
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To share your job & gig opportunities: Fill out the Hire a Student Musician form.
Resources
The School of Music has an institutional subscription to Bridge: Worldwide Music Connection, the comprehensive online professional development resource of the New England Conservatory’s Career Service Center. We hope you find this resource useful!
- Username: BUSchoolOfMusic
- Password: Winehouse45
Please note: Any misuse of this login information could result in the termination of our subscription by NEC.
BU-Founded Ensembles
Career Books and Blogs
Other Websites
Helpful Job & Gig Links
The following resources contain helpful information regarding jobs, gigs, internships, professional development, and more for performing artists on the job hunt. Please contact us if there are any other resources that you would like to see added here.
- BU Center for Career Development
- Hand Shake: A modern career platform for students
- The Musician’s Resume Handbook: Provided by Eastman School of Music
- Hire Culture: Creative employment in Massachusetts
- Boston Musicians’ Association
- Boston Singers’ Resource
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Orchestras.org
- Licensure Information for Education Students
- Creating the Ideal World of Classical Music: 5 Stages to Help Music Entrepreneurs Find Their Cause
- Higher Education Jobs
- Arts College Jobs
- ArtPreneur: Arts entrepreneur business resources
- Fractured Atlas: Business information for artists
- Arts and Business Council of Massachusetts
- New York Foundation for the Arts Job Listing
- Buzzfile: Employers for Arts and Fine Arts
- NEC Career Resources
- Americans for the Arts Job Bank
- Money Geek: Careers in Music
- Opera America
- Musical Chairs
- Teaching Artists Guild is launching a new online resource: Centering the Work, for resources related to the social justice components of effective teaching artistry, and the pedagogy of social justice arts education
- The School of Music has an institutional subscription to Bridge: Worldwide Music Connection, the comprehensive online professional development resource of the New England Conservatory’s Career Service Center. We hope you find this resource useful!
- Username: BUSchoolOfMusic
- Password: Winehouse45
- Please note: Any misuse of this login information could result in the termination of our subscription by NEC.
Career Workshops presented by the School of Music
- Establishing Your Online Presence, presented by Dr. Jennifer Bill
The Successful Freelancer Hand-outs and Resources
Grants
In addition to job listings and career resources, we want to share our knowledge of grants and special funding that are available for artists. Please contact us if you know of a special grant or foundation that you would like to share with your fellow colleagues.
- BU Arts Grants
- MCC: Grants and resources for artists in Massachusetts
- BCC: Grants and resources for artists in Boston
- NEFA: Grants and resources for artists in New England
- NEA: Grants and resources for artists in the U.S.
- Chamber Music America