Careers in Music

Accompanist (public and private schools, music schools and performing arts camps; religious centers and schools; dance rehearsals and performances; other venues)

Acoustics

Adjudicator 

Arranger

Artist Management

Artistic Director

Arts administrator/arts management (includes box office, concert series, programming house manager)

Audio production/editing

Band director (K-12, college, military, sports)

Clinician

Choral director 

Collaborative pianist

College admissions director, assistant

Community music school director

Composer

Composing for musical theatre

Concert Manager, promoter

Conductor (orchestras: K-12, college, community, youth, domestic/international)

Copyist, transcriber

Copyright consultant

Cruise ship entertainer

Digital aggregator

Digital score recordist

DJ

Educator (K-12, college, university, conservatory, religious organizations, private studio)

Electronic production and design (including audio engineering, mastering, mixing, music directing, producing, program directing, programming, recording engineer, studio manager, MIDI technician)

Entrepreneur 

Entertainment lawyer; music business lawyer

Event production, management, planning, technology

Film scoring (Composing, editing, supervising, arranging/adapting, mixing, conducting, orchestrating, synthesis specialist, theme specialist)

Freelance

Fundraiser, grant writer

Historian

Instrument repair, and builder/designer 

Instrument company or music store (owner, manager, sales)

Lecturer (schools, media, cruise ships, community)

Librarian

Lyricist

Marching Band Director

Marketing

Master classes

Media development

Merchandise management

Merchant

Military bands

Music agent

Music business

Music consultant

Music critic or reviewer

Music curator

Music editing engineer

Music engraver

Music for game development

Music industry 

Music Librarian

Music Licensing and clearance 

Music online and print magazine writing, editing, publishing

Music preparation

Music products industry (designers, manufacturers, retailers, marketers)

Music production 

Music publishing 

Music school administrator 

Music supervisor

Music therapist

Music web producer

Musical theatre

Musicologist

Orchestrator 

Performer (Vocal and instrumental soloist, session musician, orchestra/band/group member, background vocalist or instrumentalist, performing artist, show band. Venues may include business meetings, conferences, cruise ships, weddings, hotels, restaurants, clubs, religious events, orchestra contractor)

Personnel Manager (orchestras, arts organizations, shows, events)

Piano tuner, mover

Pit orchestra musician

Playback singer

Promoter

Public relations agent or coordinator 

Radio — programming, research, management

Recording (producer, engineer)

Recruiter for talent agencies, universities, etc.

Religious music — sacred music

Royalty analyst, royalty accountant

Sales

Score coordinator 

Session musicain

Sideman (perform live with solo artists or with a band or ensemble where you’re not a regular member)

Song contractor

Song producer

Song recordist

Songwriter (including composer, lyricist, producer; jingle writing for television, radio and internet; freelance work; librettist)

Sound mastering

Sound technician (sound engineer)

Sound design

Summer camp music director/staff

Talent representation (booking, management)

Talent scout

Technical music assistant

Tours/road work (road manager, sound technician, tour coordinator, tour publicist)

Vocal coaching

Vocal contractor

Wellness (injury prevention and intervention)