When did you last update your CV (Curriculum Vitae)?

The helpful people at Jobs.ac.uk have a lot of useful career information - their website is well-worth saving to your favourites.

 

 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/

 

And here are some of the tips they're offering:-

 

"Help with your CV: Have you applied for a multitude of posts and not even been offered an interview? Maybe you need to brush up your CV so it stands out to potential employers. Head over to our career advice section for expert advice on how to tailor your CV for the best results. 

•  How Recruiters see your CV
• CV Cover Letters With Impact
• Tailor your CV for the International Job Market
• Top Tips for CV Writing" 

 

How to Apply for an Academic Job - eBook from Jobs.ac.uk

This may be of interest to students about to enter the job market – or indeed, colleagues looking to move onward and upward!

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ is the place to look for academic jobs in the UK.

Get the eBook here.

(By the way, Jobs.ac.uk recently offered a free CV review with a partner agency.  You can read about this offer here.)

John Cage 100th birthday

John Cage unbound

 

Bibliolore blog celebrates Cage's100th birthday with a special blog about a New York exhibition in his honour.  Here's how Bibliolore introduces the exhibition:-

 

"John Cage unbound: A living archive is an online multimedia project about the American composer and avant-garde music pioneer. Hosted by the New York Public Library ..."

 

Meanwhile, musicologist Dr David McGuinness (University of Glasgow) shares with us a John Cage Prepared Piano app:-

John Cage Prepared Piano for iPhone™, iPad™ and Android™

If you've no other way of celebrating today, you could always stage your own performance of,

4'33

Shakespeare Goes Digital

For just over £1, you can get a Kindle download containing the Whole of Shakespeare's output!
Here's the Amazon link.

For £9.99, you can get an iPad app from Faber/Touchpress which offers all of his sonnets, read to you by an 'all-star cast' - including David Tennant, amongst others.  This was reviewed in the Sunday Times (24.6.12) - though we can't show you the review online without subscribing to the magazine!  Here's the Touchpress link, anyway:- http://www.touchpress.com/titles/shakespeares-sonnets/

Whittaker's in-tray: courses and festivals all over the place

Whittaker has been asked to promote musical events in Sweden, Germany, Austria - and Fife.  Take your pick!

For singers:-

• Norrköping, Sweden (4th Singing Competition, Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition - WSIMC - 5-14 June 2012.  More info ... . Applications deadline 23 April 2012.

Keyboards, strings, wind, brass, percussion, conducting, Baroque opera, composition  (something for everyone here):-

• 53rd Weimar Master Classes (Weimarer Meisterkurse), at the Liszt School of Music, Weimar. 13-28 July 2012.  More info ... 

Piano (adult and children), voice, vocal accompaniment, conducting opera, violin, cello, string chamber music with or without piano):-

• Vienna Master Courses 2012 (Wiener Meisterkurse), at Schloss Laudon, 15 July - 23 August 2012.  Application deadline 15 June 2012.  More info ...

Trad:-

• FifeSing2012: the Fife Traditional Singing Festival, Friday - Sunday, 11-13 May 2012.  More info ...

There's so much here that Whittaker has started a new page - Summer Schools and Courses.  Does anyone else keep a blog of forthcoming summer schools?