Employment Information - Music

Quarterly newsletter of an organization that champions the arts for children with disabilities and advocates access to the arts. Available online.

The Fund’s Actors’ Work Program provides comprehensive employment and training services, including career counseling, training, tuition assistance, and job search and placement support. All members of the Actors’ Work Program are given the guidance and support to develop a career/education plan that will enable them to find a dignified sideline career. With offices in New York City and Los Angeles, over 9,000 entertainment industry professionals have utilized the services of the Actors’ Work Program in the past decade, enabling them to sustain a productive and financially stable life.

Members receive the newsletter, membership directories, access to online job postings as well as national and local conventions and forums.

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.

AGMA offers online job listings in opera, dance and choral music. Check website or call hotline for job updates. In New York, (212) 265-3687 or toll free at (800) 543-2462.

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.

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.

For arts educators practicing or interested in the Orff-Schulwerk method of music teaching. Benefits include subscription to the Association's quarterly journal, newsletter, access to scholarships and research grants, access to video and print library collections, professional development information, membership directory, and employment information.

Membership benefits include daily e-mail orchestra news, "Symphony" Magazine, and access to the Careers Search website which allows conductors and staff professionals to post their resumes and search available positions with orchestras across the country. Discounts on publications and courses/seminars with the Orchestra League Academy.

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

240 pp, paperback.