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How could classical music organisations improve the hiring process?

Your anonymous suggestions...

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Arts funding available now:

- Up to £30,000 for creative and cultural practitioners for R&D
- £4,000 for live performance, new works & artist development

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Jobs & opportunities in the classical music industry:

- Assistant opera director
- Musician in residence at school
- Residency programme for composers and music creators

https://t.co/f29yxDygWM

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Thank you for the shout-out @ClassicalNEXT for our new Composers' Hub!

Composers: find opportunities, awards, funding, bursaries, interviews & more:

https://t.co/s2mOjqgIFl

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Email of the day:

"Thank you so much for all of the incredible work that you and Alternative Classical do to promote real change in our industry - it's so important and so under-appreciated."

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To follow our job updates, you can join us on LinkedIn:

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Jobs to apply for with deadlines in early January:

- Concerts and tours manager at choir
- Marketing assistant at festival
- Musical director for philharmonic choir

https://t.co/f29yxDygWM

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Today we unveil our new composers' hub 🙌 

It brings together opportunities, concerts featuring world premieres, funding and bursary information, interviews with composers, and more. 

Take a look here:
https://t.co/s2mOjqhguT

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Start the new year with some new music, including a world premiere and a London premiere!

It's the LSO Jerwood Composer+ Showcase on 10th January

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"Classical music remains “the most conservative” performing art ... This is true both in the repertoire performed and in the racial and gendered makeup of most ensembles."
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Stop the Closure of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Music Department

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@RoyalPhilSoc The link doesn't work

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Which classical music organisations or musicians do you genuinely enjoy following on social media?

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Music jobs to apply for this week:

- Social media manager at experimental music festival
- Chief executive of piano concerto competition
- Conducting fellowship at opera company

https://t.co/f29yxDyOMk

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Do you have any music book recommendations from this year? Fiction and non-fiction both welcome.

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The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Prize has been created by @mozartplayers to support young composers from underrepresented backgrounds.

Prize: £1,000 bursary

Deadline: 5 Jan

https://t.co/tRbzUNONIw

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Christmas Choral Music by Female & Non-Binary Composers

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Current opportunities:

- Compose a short anthem
- Senior producer at opera house
- Performing competition for under 18s

Jobs, competitions & more:
https://t.co/f29yxDygWM

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Funding & bursaries for classical musicians and creative projects:

- £16,000 per academic year for postgraduate instrumentalists
- £3,500 for independent promoters
- £1,000 to for people of colour looking to make a leap with their creative practice

https://t.co/ezOwxWfIhu

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An exhilarating re-imagining of Holst’s The Planets for folk duo and orchestra.

28-30 January in London, Norfolk & Cambridge

https://t.co/3PNaSfnKIg

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