Ensembles

• Ballet orchestras
• Barbershop quartets
• Big bands
• Brass bands
• Broadway touring companies
• Classical chamber ensembles
• Chamber choirs
• Circus bands
• Concert choirs
• Church choirs
• Church bands
• Church orchestras
• Community theater groups
• Contemporary music ensembles
• Cruise ship bands
• Dance bands
• Early music ensembles
• Educational groups
• Festival orchestras
• Festival choirs
• Folk groups
• Gospel choirs
• Jazz combos
• Jazz choirs
• Light opera companies
• Light opera orchestras
• Marching bands
• Military bands
• Military choirs
• Military jazz groups
• Military orchestras
• Musical theater companies
• Musical theater pit orchestras
• Opera companies
• Opera orchestras
• Performance art ensembles
• Pop groups
• Religious bands
• Symphony orchestras
• Touring ensembles
• Wedding bands
• Wind ensembles
• World Music ensembles

Composing Opportunities

• Arrangements
• Ballets
• Books on tape
• Children’s books with CDs
• Ceremonial music
• Commercials
• Commissions as gifts
• Commissions by artists in other disciplines
• Commissions by individual musicians
• Commissions by musical ensembles
• Community ensembles
• Competitions
• Concert music
• Copy work
• Cruise ships shows
• Dance
• Day time television
• Documentary scores
• Educational ensembles
• Film scores
• Incidental music
• Industrial videos
• Internet greeting cards
• Jingles
• Method books
• Music for beginners
• Musicals
• Operas
• Professional ensembles
• Radio themes
• Recordings
• Regional ensembles
• Re-orchestrations
• Ring tones
• Sacred music
• Songs
• Television scores
• Theme songs
• Theater music
• Toys playing music
• Transcriptions
• Video game music
• Website music
• Wedding music

Freelance Performance

• Alumni associations
• Anniversary parties
• Art councils
• Association meetings
• Audition accompanist (pianists)
• Awards banquets
• Baby showers
• Bar/bat mitzvahs
• Bars
• Bachelor(ette) parties
• Background music
• Banquets
• Baptisms
• Barbeques
• Benefits
• Birthdays
• Block parties
• Bookstores
• Business luncheon
• Busking
• Cabarets
• Ceremonies
• Church gigs
• Circuses
• Chamber music societies
• Christmas parties
• Club dates
• College events
• Comedy shows
• Community events
• Company picnics
• Concert series
• Concerto soloist
• Conferences
• Corporate engagements
• Country clubs
• Cruise ship
• Dance class accompanist
• Demonstrations
• Dorm events
• Educational concerts
• Educational residencies
• Embassies
• Ensemble member
• Expositions
• Fairs
• Fashion shows
• Festivals
• Fraternities & sororities
• Fundraisers
• Funerals
• Grand openings
• Guest artist
• Graduation ceremonies
• Graduation parties
• Historical associations
• Hobby-related events
• Holiday parties
• Hospital events
• House concerts
• Hotels
• Instrumental accompanist
• Jam sessions
• Memorial services
• Military events
• Museum events
• Music conferences
• Music festivals
• New Year’s Eve parties
• Office parties
• Opening acts
• Pageants
• Parades
• Parties
• Performing on TV/film project
• Picnics
• Political conventions
• Radio concerts
• Rallies
• Rehearsal pianist
• Rehearsal dinners
• Religious ceremonies
• Resorts
• Restaurants
• Retreats
• Reunions
• Revivals
• Ringer
• Romantic dinners
• School events
• Silent film accompanist
• Sing-alongs
• Singing telegram
• Singles events
• Social dances
• Strolling violins
• Summer camps
• Surprise parties
• Studio work: jingles, movies, radio, television, record dates
• Temple gigs
• Theatrical incidental music
• Touring shows
• Trade shows
• University events
• Variety shows
• Vocal accompanist (pianists)
• Yacht clubs
• Wedding ceremonies
• Wedding receptions
• Wedding showers

Performance Venues

• Amusement parks
• Antique galleries
• Aquariums
• Art galleries
• Atriums
• Auditoriums
• Bars
• Backyards
• Barns
• Beach
• Bed & breakfast
• Botanical gardens
• Bookstores
• Cafés
• Cafeterias
• Carnivals
• Casinos
• Churches
• Colleges//community colleges
• Comedy clubs
• Concert halls
• Convention centers
• Country clubs
• Cruise ships
• Clubs
• Department stores
• Embassies
• Exhibits
• Factories
• Fairs
• Farmer’s markets
• Firehouses
• Fitness centers
• Food courts
• Golf courses
• Grocery stores
• Historical properties
• Homes
• Hospitals
• Hotels/motels
• Libraries
• Malls
• Military bases
• Music stores
• Museums
• National parks
• Nightclubs
• Nursing homes
• Open air theaters
• Opera houses
• Orphanages
• Outdoor bandstands
• Parks
• Prisons
• Private schools
• Public schools
• Radio stations
• Resorts
• Restaurants
• Retirement communities
• Rooftops
• Schools
• Stadiums
• Staircases
• Subway stations
• Supermarkets
• Synagogues
• Temples
• Tents
• Theaters
• Town squares
• Universities
• Warehouses
• Wineries
• Yacht clubs
• Zoos

Teaching Opportunities

• Adult/continuing education
• Adjunct college
• After school programs
• Band/orchestra/choir assistant
• College/University professor
• Community college
• Community groups
• Day care music instructor
• Drum corps
• Educational department of orchestra (or other group)
• Educational residencies/workshops
• Festival adjudicator
• Instructional videos
• Kindermusik
• Music teaching assistant
• Public school
• Pre-school/kindergarten
• Private lessons – community program
• Private lessons – music store
• Private lessons – school music program
• Private school
• Private studio
• Settings for social change
• Special needs kids
• Substitute music teacher
• Summer camps
• Summer festivals
• Teaching artist
• Tutoring
• Vocal coach

Teaching Subjects

• Accompanying
• Arranging
• Choral
• Composition
• Conducting
• Ear training
• Ensembles
• Eurhythmics
• General music
• Guitar class
• Improvisation
• Instrumental lessons
• Keyboard class
• Kodaly
• Music appreciation
• Music business
• Music education/pedagogy
• Music entrepreneurship
• Music history
• Music literature
• Music technology
• Music theory
• Music therapy
• Notation
• Orchestration
• Orff
• Percussion
• Score reading
• Sequencing
• Strings/orchestra
• Suzuki
• Winds/band
• Voice

Music Related Jobs

• A&R administrator
• A&R scout
• Accompanist
• Accountant for musicians
• Arranger
• Artist manager
• Audio technician
• Booking agent
• Cantor
• Competition judge
• Concert producer
• Concert promoter
• Conductor
• Contractor
• Copyist
• Disk jockey/announcer
• Director of publicity
• Entertainment lawyer
• Grant writer
• Instrument builder
• Instrument restorer
• Instrument technician
• Instrument performer
• Lyricist
• Mastering engineer
• Minister of music
• Music author
• Music critic
• Music documentary maker
• Music editor
• Music journalist
• Music librarian
• Music program director
• Music publisher
• Music retail sales manager
• Music school dean/administrator
• Music software designer
• Music software consultant
• Music store employee
• Music store owner/manager
• Music therapist
• Music video producer
• Orchestra librarian
• Piano tuner/technician
• Photographer of musicians/events
• Private music teacher
• Publicist
• Radio announcer
• Radio programmer
• Recording studio owner
• Record producer
• Recording engineer
• Recording mixer/editor
• Retail sales management
• Road manager
• Salesperson
• Singer
• Songwriter
• Sound designer
• Sound engineer/mixer
• Stagehand
• Talent agent
• Teacher/professor
• Transcriber
• Tour coordinator
• Videographer of musical events
• Web designer
• Web master

Target Audiences

• Alumni
• Amateur musicians
• Associations/guilds
• Business communities
• Children
• Colleagues
• College students
• Communities
• Clubs
• Donors
• Ethnic groups
• Families
• Fans of other genres
• Film enthusiasts
• Fraternities/sororities
• Grandparents
• Groups for which you fulfill a need
• Hobby participants
• Immigrant communities
• Internet “friends”
• Like-minded individuals
• Literary buffs
• Locals
• Men
• Music buffs
• Music majors
• Organization members
• Parents
• Past clients
• People connected to a theme
• Performing arts fans
• Political groups
• Professional musicians
• Religious groups
• Restaurant patrons
• Retirees
• Rural communities
• School-aged musicians
• Seniors
• Singles
• Social organizations
• Special needs individuals
• Spiritual groups
• Sports fans
• Students
• Teachers
• Teenagers
• Travelers/vacationers
• Underserved communities
• Visual arts fans
• Volunteers
• Wealthy individuals
• Women
• Young adults

Marketing Tactics

• Advertisements
• Alliances
• Audio postcards
• Auditions
• Articles
• Autographing
• Banners
• Billboards
• Bios
• Blogs
• Bookmarks
• Books
• Booths
• Brand identity
• Brochures
• Bulletin boards
• Bumper stickers
• Business cards
• Bus bench ads
• Buzz
• Calendar listings
• Canvassing (door to door)
• Cards
• Catalogues
• CD-Roms
• Chalking
• Chat rooms
• Classified ads
• Client referrals
• Cold calling
• Concerts
• Concert program ads
• Conventions
• Co-sponsoring
• Coupons
• Customer service
• Curriculum vitae
• Direct mail
• Direct marketing
• Directories
• Demo recordings
• Email
• Email signature
• Exhibits
• Ezines
• Feature articles
• Finder’s fees
• Flyers
• Free consultations
• Free demonstrations
• Free seminars
• Free services
• Fundraisers
• Gifts
• Gig marketing
• Giveaways
• Internet
• Internet bulletin boards
• Internet radio
• Internet registries
• Interviews
• Invitations
• Lawn signs
• Letters
• Letterhead
• Links
• List-serves
• Logos
• Magazines
• Magazine ads
• Marketing parties
• Marketing teams
• Mementos
• Movie ads
• Multiple streams
• Name
• Name recognition
• Networking
• News releases
• News stories
• Newsletters
• Newspapers
• Niche marketing
• Organization websites
• Outstanding/unusual offerings
• Packaging
• Pins
• Permission marketing
• Photos
• Podcasts
• Per-concert concerts
• Press kits
• Professional referrals
• Program ads
• Postcard drops
• Postcards
• Posters
• Print ad
• Public service announcements
• Public relations (media)
• Public speaking
• Quick follow-through
• Reputation
• Radio
• Resumes
• Reviews
• Satisfied customers
• Seminars
• Showing up
• Signs
• Slogans
• Social networking websites
• Special events
• Stationary
• Staying current
• Store windows
• Strategic alliances
• Street marketing
• Telemarketing
• Television
• Thank you notes
• T-shirts
• Trade publications
• Trade shows
• Video postcards
• Video-sharing websites
• Vlogs
• Web calendars
• Web-based media
• Web presence
• Webvertising
• White pages
• Writing ability
• Word of mouth
• Yellow pages
• Your passion
• Your website

Networking Opportunities

• Activities with your kids
• Acquaintances
• Advisors
• Airplanes
• Alumni events
• Artist colonies
• Arts events
• Arts administration
• Arts organizations
• Board of directors meeting
• Businesses
• Cafés
• Career fairs
• Chamber of Commerce
• Charities
• Civic organizations
• Classes
• Clients
• Collaborators
• Colleagues
• Community college courses
• Competitions
• Concerts
• Conductors
• Conferences
• Continuing education
• Cultural events
• Donors
• Everyday life
• Fans
• Festivals
• Former acquaintances
• Fraternities/sororities
• Friends
• Friends of family
• Friends of friends
• Gigs
• Guest artists
• Guilds
• Gyms
• Health clubs
• Happy hour
• Hobbies
• Homeowner’s association
• Industry employees
• Industry events
• Internet
• Karaoke
• Leisure activities
• Like-minded people
• Lessons with “celebrities”
• Luncheons
• “Meal networking”
• Media personalities
• Meetings
• Mixers
• Music enthusiasts
• Music festivals
• Music schools
• Nature settings
• Neighbors
• Networking clubs
• Networking meetings
• Parents of your children’s friends
• Parties
• Poker night
• Political organizations
• Post-concert “hangs”
• Private clubs
• Professional organizations
• Receptions
• Restaurants
• Schools
• Seminars
• Showing up
• Social events
• Social networking websites
• Sporting events
• Students
• Summer festivals
• Teaching
• Travelling
• Rehearsals
• Relatives
• Religious organizations
• Retreats
• Reunions
• Teachers
• Universities
• University events
• Vacationing
• Volunteering
• Work colleagues
• Yoga class