Is your Orchestra in the Association of British Orchestras? An Opportunity ...

 Orchestral Manager? Or Similar ...

We have just heard about a career development opportunity for some lucky people working with ABO orchestras.  If you're in that happy position, read on ... but hurry! 

"Find Your Way - apply now!

Applications are now open for Find Your Way, an annual programme of sector-specific mentoring and placements for senior and emerging managers in ABO member organisations.

The ABO is looking for 6 participants who have ambitions for orchestral leadership. You should have at least five years’ paid work experience in the orchestral/classical music/arts sector. In the cohort of 6 there will also be one place for an orchestral musician who has aspirations to develop their career in management.

For further details and to apply click here. The deadline for applications is Monday 18 September."

If you would like to know more about ABO, please visit the ABO website, here:- 

http://abo.org.uk/ 

About Being an Opera Singer: Hanna-Liisa Kirchin at Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera is in Guildford, quite a long way from Glasgow!  Tweeting as @GrangeParkOpera, their byline promises "Exceptional opera in the UK's newest opera house - at a most elegant summer festival at West Horsley Place."

Their repertoire is interesting, and what interested us particularly today was the blogpost authored by one of their opera singers. If you're aiming for a career in opera, this might interest you. Hanna-Liisa tweets as  @Hanna_Liisa_K

Introducing Hanna-Liisa: Life of an opera singer

Actor, or Wannabe? Book Review on Becoming an Actor

Do you keep an eye on Academia.edu? It's one of the social media sites specially for scholarly types interested in research publications and activities. Today, we spotted a book review for a book we actually have here in the Whittaker Library - Becoming an Actor, by Thomasina Unsworth.  Aimed at people entering drama school, it looks like an ideal read for people just starting along the road to an acting career.

If you'd like to read Stephe Harrop's book review on Academia.edu, click here.  Or if you're one of our staff or students in Glasgow, just head straight for the shelves!  Here.

We're in Trimester 3 now, so our opening hours are basically 9-5, Monday to Friday.  The library website will keep you right, but do check with us in advance if you're travelling a distance, just in case there are any one-off changes.

Whittaker Library website

Concerned about Accessibility in Theatre? Read Guardian Culture Professionals today

This posting from Guardian Culture Professionals Network might be of interest to you. Click HERE.

(There is also a piece about a career in poetry, which you might enjoy.)

Performing Arts, Whittaker-Library Style

From time to time we share interesting weblinks for our developing artists.

Like these from the Guardian's Culture Professionals blog :- 

• from the Guardian, Top Tips for your Acting CV
• Career Tips for Opera Singers 
• Disability arts: the challenge of ensuring creative momentum

Music Graduate? Great Chance to Work in a Music Library!

We have been asked to share details of this great opportunity at the Britten Pears Foundation:-

Graduate Trainee: Collections

£21,848 for 12 months full-time, fixed term contract

The Britten–Pears Foundation, based in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, holds a Designated collection comprising the archives of composer Benjamin Britten. We are looking for a Graduate Trainee to support the front line work of the current collections staff. The post will include overseeing our Reading Room and dealing with enquiries from researchers, as well as project work in preservation, digitisation and description of our collections and working with our volunteers. Enquiries about the post can be directed to Nicholas Clark n.clark@brittenpears.org

This fixed term post would ideally suit a graduate wishing to gain work experience before applying for a postgraduate qualification in either Archives and Records Management or Library and Information Management. Training from our qualified collections staff in the use of the archive management system, and in the many aspects of work in a specialist archive and research library will be provided. The successful applicant will be motivated and happy to work on their own initiative, confident in dealing with the public, have strong communication and time management skills and be committed to archives or librarianship as a career. An interest in twentieth-century music and/or art would also be an advantage.

To apply please:

• download, complete and save the application form and equal opportunities form available from the Foundation website www.brittenpears.org (using a current version of the free Adobe Reader; NB you will not be able to save your text if you open the form in your web browser - please use Adobe Reader);

• write a covering email;

• e-mail your application form with a completed Equal Opportunities form to Anna Hunter a.hunter@brittenpears.org no later than Friday 26 June 2015, including the words Graduate Trainee application in the e-mail title.

Interviews will be held on the 10 July 2015.

 

 

Nicholas Clark
Librarian
Britten–Pears Foundation

The Red House

Golf Lane

Aldeburgh

Suffolk, IP15 5PZ

 

Telephone 01728 451700
www.brittenpears.org

Music Librarianship and Research: One of 23 Librarians

A few weeks ago, a recently-retired librarian called Anabel Marsh started a blog about the very varied careers of 23 different librarians.  Karen was invited to guest-contribute a blog-post, which appeared on 14th March.  Happy to have been able to contribute, she thought no more of this until a comment appeared in her in-box: the blog was recommended to a class of librarianship students in South Korea, and a would-be music librarian wanted to make contact with her.  Truly the internet has made it a very small world these days!

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" 

 

The Guardian Culture Professionals Network seeks career tips

Whittaker can't help sharing this one!  If you have tips about careers in the arts and culture, there's a chance to share it with the Guardian Culture Professionals Network - here.  The network is a great way to keep in touch with what's happening in the sector.  Who knows, your tips about getting started in music, drama or ballet might end up on the website.

Culture careers - share your tips

Portfolio Careers (article spotted in the Guardian this week)

This came up via the Culture Professionals Network:-

"Portfolio careers in the arts: one part pain, two parts pleasure

"Can the sum of your jobs make up more than the whole?
Rachel Nelken weighs up the pros and cons of portfolio working" Read the article here.

 

Join the Guardian Culture Professionals Network to be advised of interesting articles, events, etc. 

Marketing Yourself as an Academic

Useful posting on Jobs.ac.uk - click here.

Research, Careers, and Making an Impact

Sometimes how you did something, can be as interesting as what you did. I gave a presentation about my research journey to research students at the University of Glasgow, yesterday.  So I thought I'd share it here:-

Research, Careers, and Making an Impact

By Karen McAulay

Careeers: women aiming high enough?

Women wait politely for the next promotion?

'Are women their own worst enemy when it comes to the top jobs?'


Interesting post on the BBC News website (29 May 2012). Click on the link above.

Meanwhile, Reuters offers us this:-

'A campaign to get more women on to company boards in Britain could struggle to make progress because headhunters and hiring committees are too traditional when recruiting for senior roles, a report said on Monday.'  Read the rest here.

An offer of complimentary CV review for academics

Academics, scholars, researchers!

When did you last have your CV reviewed?

This service is advertised on the jobs.ac.uk website, which is a good endorsement.

The company is called The Fuller CV.  Here's the link - read what's there and pursue at your leisure!

Life Beyond the PhD - Cumberland Lodge Conference

Life Beyond the PhD 28^th – 31^st August 2012

www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk

The 5^th Annual Cumberland Lodge PhD conference is taking place this August.  It's a great event, held in fabulous surroundings on the Windsor Estate.

Personally recommended!

Embedded artist opportunities

For artists just starting out -

• Sound and music offer you three embedded artists opportunities - here. Sound and Music homepage (with the fab picture illustrated), here.

Career choices

Anyone contemplating a career in music librarianship might be interested to follow this link to a traineeship in Cambridge:-

"Vacancy for a graduate trainee at Christ’s College Cambridge (fixed term, one-year contract):

http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-life/vacancies/assistant-staff-vacancies/grad-trainee/

Whilst the collection covers all subjects taught at undergraduate level, it includes a significant collection of sheet music and scores together with a small music hire library.

Closing date: 12 noon, Friday 2 March 2012."

Why Whittaker Blogs

‘Whittaker’ had a few days of leave carried over from last year’s entitlement, so he’s taking a long weekend. But will ‘his’ readers survive without him? For anyone chancing upon this page, here are a few random but carefully-weighed comments.

So, why does Whittaker blog? To borrow Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s words, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”:-

• This blog is intended to inform staff and students of the performing arts.
• It aims to flag up useful and interesting websites, forthcoming events, new or rare library acquisitions, services offered by the library, and other sources of information, study, research or career support.
• Thus, this week it has offered readers details of a research symposium; old Scottish musicians and song collectors William Motherwell, William Tytler and Alexander Campbell; an arts and humanities streaming workshop; a Steve Reich 75th birthday competition; British Library Postgraduate Open Days; thoughts about a research query on the Lordship of the Isles; and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Nothing if not varied!
• Our staff and students are musicians, actors, community arts animateurs, stage designers, film and television directors, jazz improvisers and ballet dancers, to name but a few.
• ‘Whittaker’ keeps a weather eye for interesting trends coming up on the Twitter scene, but ‘he’ will not be found on Facebook, as ‘he’ doesn’t care to discuss his private life on social media websites.  This is a professional blog.
• Meanwhile, the combination of upcoming cultural and information trends, with intriguing historical facts pertaining to old Scottish song collections, can be attributed to Whittaker’s own dual-qualified background in library & information science and musicology. He does try to seek out drama, film/television and ballet snippets, but depends on his informants to feed him interesting titbits in these spheres.
• The author of Whittaker does also occasionally contribute to other blogs such as TheThesisWhisperer, lurks around Twitter’s #PhDchat on Wednesday evenings, and authors the Jobs.ac.uk Music blog in 'his' spare time, to keep in touch with the world of research and offer support to those following him along the doctoral path.

If you like what you read here, please do comment. Any suggestions are always considered with an open mind.

Researchers: YOU are responsible for your career but who else can help?

Useful jobs.ac.uk careers posting.

Welcome to Whittaker Live - the RSAMD's long-established performing arts blog. We've just moved to blogger.com, to give the blog a fresh new image. You'll still find the same mix of performing arts news and reviews, useful websites, interesting books and recordings, and the occasional link to study skills or careers advice info. News of our alumni, too! We're happy to post links to our staff, students and alumni's websites so that their achievements are profiled for all the world to see.