Conductor/Music Director

                                                      UPDATE:  This position has been filled.  Thank you to all those who applied.

                                                       URGENT: Musical Director/ Conductor required for Ashford Sinfonia (Kent)

We are the A Cappella Singers, an accomplished SATB amateur choir of 28 years based in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire. We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring Director to maintain and improve the choir’s high standards of music and singing. A new Director would be looking for at least a two-year position, but ideally long-term.

The choir does not just sing a cappella, and performs a wide variety of music, sacred and secular. We usually perform three concerts a year in venues around the area. We rehearse in Langho, nr Clitheroe on Wednesday evenings during term-time.  

We are the A Cappella Singers, an accomplished amateur choir of 28 years based in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire. We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring Director to maintain and improve the choir’s high standards of music and singing. A new Director would be looking for at least a two-year position, but ideally long-term.

The choir does not just sing a cappella, and performs a wide variety of music, sacred and secular. We usually perform three concerts a year in venues around the area. We rehearse in Langho, nr Clitheroe on Wednesday evenings during term-time.  

Are you an enthusiastic professional musician with conducting experience who has the skills and
artistic vision to become Reading Symphony Orchestra’s new Conductor and Musical Director? If so,
then we’d love to hear from you!
Founded in 1944, Reading Symphony Orchestra (RSO) is one of the leading amateur orchestras in
Berkshire and is led by a professional Conductor and Musical Director. With over 60 able players, we
perform three main concerts a year in and around Reading, tackling a broad range of challenging
large-scale symphonic and orchestral repertoire. We also perform an annual Children’s concert, a
smaller-scale Sinfonietta chamber concert and a Christmas concert. We have strong links with our
twin orchestra in Düsseldorf, Germany, and often perform joint concerts either in Germany or in
Reading.
We are keen to encourage young performers through our annual Young Musicians’ Competition,
whereby the winner is usually offered the chance to perform a concerto with the orchestra. We are
also accommodating to young players who wish to join the orchestra.
We are a friendly, encouraging, and supportive orchestra which looks to give its members the best
possible experience, whilst also striving for musical excellence.
We are looking for a new Conductor and Musical Director to start in mid-November 2023, to help us
continue to achieve a position of excellence and quality within Reading’s musical life.

Ware Musical Theatre are looking for a Musical Director for our production of FUNNY GIRL from 19th to 23rd March 2024
Reheasals are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays and start around October 2023

Ambitious and friendly barbershop chorus based in Shropshire seeks MD  

Liverpool based choir Indigo Vibe is looking for an enthusiastic, creative Musical Director. We’re a small, flourishing and very friendly a cappella choir which rehearses on Tuesday evenings  in central Liverpool. Our current repertoire spans songs from the fifties to the present day, in a wide range of genres. We’re looking for someone who can lead rehearsals that will be fun but also challenge us musically.

Cheltenham Choral Society seeks a Musical Director
Starting date mid-November 2023 or could be delayed to January 2024 for the right candidate
Cheltenham Choral Society (CCS) has recently celebrated its 85th Anniversary. We are seeking an accomplished and established Musical Director to direct and train the choir from mid-November 2023 or, for the right candidate we can delay the start of the appointment until January 2024 if required. The role offers the opportunity to prepare the choir for an exciting repertoire of concerts and to work with the CCS Committee to develop the future direction of the Society.

CCS is a non-audition choir of around 70 members performing public concerts to a high standard. The concert programme is drawn mainly from both the classical and modern choral repertoire. Rehearsals are accompanied by piano, whilst performances are often supported by chamber orchestra or organ.

We rehearse on Wednesdays from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at St Andrews United Reformed Church, Montpellier Street, Cheltenham GL50 1SP
for around 39 weeks each year, broadly in line with academic terms: we meet in half-term weeks. We typically perform three or four public concerts a year including a Christmas carol concert, in venues around Cheltenham, along with visits to a Cathedral for lunchtime recitals, and other occasional events.

You will be a professional musician, with appropriate qualifications, and experience of conducting a mixed voice choir, and an orchestra. Strong interpersonal skills, flexibility and enthusiasm are required, as is the skill to motivate and develop amateur singers of mixed ability.

Remuneration and fees are commensurate with experience and expertise and guided by recommendations made by Making Music and the musicians’ unions.

Further information and full details of the application process are available on https://www.cheltchoral.org/
or by contacting our Secretary, Nikki Stephens at info@cheltchoral.org

Closing date Monday 31 July 2023
Rehearsal auditions/interviews Wednesday evenings starting
13 September

St Vigor's Church (Fulbourn, Cambridge) is looking for a exciting and dynamic new Director Of Church and Community Music to start in September 2023.

The warwick and Kenilworth Choral Society is seeking to appoint a Musical Director to conduct a choir of about 60 SATB voices. Four concerts are held each year from the choral classics, folk songs and more contemporay works.