This is valuable time, allowing you to look at areas of your professional life that you may not have found chance to during the main term. You may use it to develop your knowledge of the various business sectors associated with your study, improve your CV and job opportunities, or to reflect and look after yourself. All of this (and more) will help support your endeavours in becoming successful beyond your time at the conservatoire.
Below are a number of services and opportunities that may help you engage with these areas.
Musicians' Survival Guide Q&As
Watch some fantastic Q&As from this Summer with industry professionals on:
- A&R and Royalties
- Orchestral Management
- Music Law
- Branding for Musicians
- Library Music
- Gender in Music
- Festival Management
- Performance and Session Work
Musicians' Survival Guide
The Musicians' Survival Guide is an online guide packed with need-to-know contacts and information. Read expert advice on navigating the music industry, with comprehensive tips on everything from legal, finance and marketing to concert programming, performing and starting your own business.
When you're back in to the building, you can pick up your own physical copy from the St Peters' Square reception, but in the meantime, all the articles are available online.
Read Musicians Survival Guide ArticlesCareers Resources and Bookable Sessions
On this Space page you will find links and contact details for our main advice provider, the National Careers Service, as well find career resources from Opera North. Plus book informal advice sessions sessions with our own Alumni and Enterprise staff.
