Conductor/Music Director

Tynemouth Choral Society, which rehearses and performs in North Tyneside, is seeking a new musical director/conductor from summer 2024. 

Moorland Voices are looking for a new conductor, or assistant conductor who would also be willing to sing.

North-coast based choir Cantemus NI wishes to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic Musical Director who shares our love of great choral music and will bring their own energy and inspiration to continue our very successful musical journey, further developing our choir. Our current MD is retiring after 12 rewarding years with us, and the new MD will be required from February 2024.

This cross-community choir has a particular regard for great sacred music. Cantemus NI promotes the Anglican Choral tradition in cathedrals and parish churches in Ireland and beyond.

We typically perform 1 or 2 Christmas concerts and various sung services throughout the year. The MD, in consultation with the committee, is responsible for the programming and planning of these engagements and plays a core part in the development of the choir through attendance at committee meetings and auditioning singers.

The choir, with a current membership of 28, rehearses fortnightly during term time on Thursday evening from 8.00pm-9.30pm in Macosquin Parish Hall Coleraine, with an increase in frequency as required.

Further duties of the MD will include:

Preparing for and conducting rehearsals and performances; serving as a member of committee; making proposals for repertoire and for new opportunities/events; providing expert advice to committee; assessing and auditioning all candidates applying for membership, with assistance of choir members as required; supporting the vocal and musical development of individual singers and the choir’s overall development; undertaking other duties as required and agreed

Conductor/Music Director

Application deadline: 

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Swanage Town Band is looking for a new Musical Director / Conductor to take over from our current MD who retires early next year.  We are a concert band with approximately 40 members. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, friendly, community band. There are no auditions to join the band, everyone is welcome.

Rehearsals are weekly on Wednesday evenings throughout term times and we give public performances at Christmas, civic events and throughout the summer months at fetes and on the Swanage Bandstand (totalling approx. 8 to 10 gigs per year).

Holborn Community Orchestra (HCO) is searching for a new conductor/musical director to start in January 2024. We are an un-auditioned amateur  orchestra based in Holborn  who rehearse on Monday evenings 7.15-9.30pm. Our forty-strong friendly and capable orchestra tackles a range of challenging classical repertoire and holds 3-4 concerts a year including a relaxed performance aimed at welcoming young families.

HCO is committed to performing diverse repertoire from Baroque to present day, especially performing works by female and minority ethnic composers. Some of our recent repertoire includes Holst’s Planets, Dvorak’s 9th Symphony, Fanny Hensel’s Overture in C and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes.

Isle Community Choir are seeking a musical director to lead their fun-loving choir forward.

The Oriel Singers in Liverpool are looking for a new Musical Director with experience in directing a choral group and conducting to start the Spring term 2024 (January 2024). The successful candidate will be highly motivated in programme creation and willing to work with and develop a wide range of musical abilities. The director must have sufficient keyboard skills to support the choir during rehearsals as we do not have a regular accompanist for rehearsals. Remuneration is within Making Music's average ranges, with rehearsal and concert fees paid.

Stirling Gaelic Choir is looking for an enthusiastic new Conductor, could that be you?  We are a small non-auditioned choir (around 30 members) singing a Gaelic language repertoire in unaccompanied four-part harmony.  We are a friendly group with a range of ages and musical/Gaelic language abilities.  Our main focus is on three or four competitive performances a year culminating in the Royal National Mod each October.  We also hold an Annual Concert and sing at local events such as Stirling Highland Games and the Open Streets Festival.

The Lincoln Chorale chamber choir is looking for a new Musical Director