The Haddo Arts Festival is an established annual event at Haddo House with a growing reputation with the local audience. The organising committee is seeking to appoint a Festival Arts Director to help organise the 2017 festival taking place in October 2017. The successful applicant will join an established enthusiastic committee to identify and engage […]
Musicians
Job Opportunity: Musical Director, Hadley Court Singers
The Hadley Court Singers seeks a new Musical Director, commencing September 2016. The choir values musical education highly, both to our singing members and the wider community in general. With this in mind the Musical Director is required to: Rehearse the choir on a weekly basis from September to June, including arranging and remunerating substitute […]
Job Opportunity: Events Manager, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
We are: looking for an experienced and enthusiastic events professional to deliver and further develop the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Events and Conference Programme. You’ll have operational responsibility -for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of each project within the diverse events programme for one of Scotland’s most dynamic arts and education institutions. […]
Job Opportunity:Events Assistant Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
We are: looking for an enthusiastic individual to play a part in delivering the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Events and Conference Programme. You’ll play an important role in the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of each project within the diverse events environment for one of Scotland’s most dynamic arts and education institutions. The […]
FTP Magazine Submissions – Calling all writers, artists, musicians and general creative wizards
Are you sick of the lack of diversity in our creative industries? Are you fed up of being told you have to contour your face in order to have self worth? Are you keen to see a world wherein people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, abilities and backgrounds have equal rights and opportunities? Then […]
Large Office Space in Creative Environment
From mid August 2016 we have an unfurnished large room available in our office in South Edinburgh. Very bright office space (dimensions 4m x 6m) is a part of Meow Studios – creative media company and complex of photographic studios. Located at 3rd floor of historic building, Causewayside Edinburgh, offers fantastic access to city centre […]
Don’t be late! Entries for 2016 Collection closes at the end of month
Do you write tunes in a Scottish traditional style? Hands Up for Trad are looking for the top 20 tunes of 2016 for their 2016 Collection. They can be anything from reels to jigs to airs to waltzes and anything in between! All you have to do is to upload them to MusicHub! All the […]
Playing for Dance
Pat Ballantyne has written this interesting blog for Tracs on playing for dance. In my recently completed PhD thesis, I considered the attitudes of Scottish traditional musicians towards dance and dancers towards music, and assessed how these attitudes might have evolved. A common theme emerged from the musicians and dancers I interviewed: to play successfully […]
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra: WANTED – Emerging UK-based Composers
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) today (Tuesday 9 August) launches the second annual initiative to develop the talents of emerging composers, RSNO Composers’ Hub. Aimed at composers in the early stages of their career, this bespoke scheme is an opportunity for a group of composers to write for orchestra in a range of different […]
Instrumental Teachers & Workshop Leaders (Dunbar Music School)
Instrumental Teachers – Piano, Violin, Drums, Guitar, Vocals, Wind instruments. Workshop Leaders – musicianship, theory, composition, creative ensemble, kodaly/colourstrings. Dunbar Music School will be launching in September 2016 with a programme of high-quality individual and group instrumental tuition, classes and workshops. Dunbar is situated on the beautiful East Lothian coastline only 20 minutes by train […]