Music Professionals

Music Professionals write, arrange, orchestrate, conduct and perform musical compositions.

What the job involves

• Creating melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures to express ideas and emotions in musical form

• Translating ideas and concepts into standard musical signs and symbols for reproduction and performance

• Undertaking research and liaising with clients when composing musical backing for television commercials, popular recordings, and radio, television and film productions

• Auditioning and selecting musicians and Singers

• Selecting music for performances and assigning instrumental parts to musicians

• Directing musical groups at rehearsals and performances to achieve desired effects such as tonal and harmonic balance, rhythm and tempo

• Studying and rehearsing repertoire and musical scores prior to performances

• Playing music in recital, as an accompanist, or as a member of an orchestra, band or other musical group, from score and by memory

• Performing music and songs according to interpretation, direction and style of presentation, using highly developed aural skills to reproduce music