Arts Professionals -Music

A how-to guide to booking performances and building tours for solo artists and performing groups of all types. Includes in-depth information on what presenters need from artists and the technical aspects of touring.

ACA's Custodial Membership Plan guarantees the continued availability of a composer's music for performance, recording, or publication and provides other related services for the dissemination of the composer's works after his or her death.

ACA offers a variety of services to composer members, including registering works with BMI to ensure royalties, incorporating works in a searchable online catalogue, and negotiating rental fees for large ensembles.

BandQuest is a breakthrough music education project that brings new levels of creativity to a broad cross-section of American youth. It is designed to meet a need long articulated by music teachers for fresh, high quality, contemporary music for middle level bands. See www.BandQuest.org for more information.

An online resource designed to give chamber musicians easy access to information about standard and contemporary chamber music, while providing composers with a platform to promote their chamber music works to chamber musicians and potential patrons. Online at http://www.findchambermusic.com.

Monthly magazine about the international music scene; free to IFM members.

AFM's web site includes a free section for Young Musicians. Resources include searchable databases of music schools and booking agents, scholarship information, and articles on the music businesss.

With over 250 local unions throughout the United States and Canada, the union is the largest in the world representing the interests of the professional musician.

These consultations give practical information and encouragement for: emerging artists to enter professional and academic training programs; established artists to secure direct employment; individual artists to get their projects funded, produced and distributed.

The ensembles directory is now available in a convenient online format. Subscribers can search by name, city, state, ensemble type, or all of these. Each listing contains contact information, email and website links, and general information about the ensemble, including whether they prefer to receive scores and/or recordings. Available by online subscription.

Membership benefits at AMC include grant programs, opportunity updates, member information resources, group insurance, repertoire assistance, lending library, member web pages, publications discounts, mailing list discounts, workshops fees discounts and access to AMC's expert staff.

NewMusicJukebox at http://www.newmusicjukebox.org/ is the online library and listening room that provides immediate access to scores, streaming audio, and vital information about music by American composers.

A catalog of opera and music theater works in the AMC Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Available online only. http://www.amc.net/resources/library/scores.html

Published annually, approximately 160 pages, generously illustrated. The journal contains three to six articles on a wide range of subjects, book reviews, a list of recent publications about musical instruments, notices and advertisements - instruments sold, societies, journals of interest, etc. Membership fee also includes Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society.

AOP-commissioned operas and operas supported by AOP are given readings and workshops at the South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford St, Brooklyn, and other performing spaces, enabling composers and librettists to present works-in-progress before an audience.

In addition to licensing and royalty services, ASCAP member services include information and support, a bimonthly magazine, access to workshops, showcases, competitions and awards, and ASCAP Clearance Express online. The ASCAP member card provides a package of benefits, services, and discounts including insurance (instrument, studio and tour liability, accident, long term care, life, medical and dental); equipment, travel, car rental, and financial (credit card, credit union, and member investment program).

This book gives information on how to contact agents and break into any aspect (almost) of show biz. It also has lists and lists of addresses to write to for agents, casting directors, auditions, etc. Available at dramabookshop.com