Careers in Music

Paths / Options in Music

  • Arranger
  • Arts administrator/arts management
  • Community music school director
  • Composer
  • Conductor
  • Copyist, transcriber
  • Copyright consultant
  • Cruise ship entertainer
  • Digital aggregator
  • Educator ­ K-12, college, university, conservatory, religious organizations, private studio
  • Electronic production and design (including audio engineering; mastering; mixing; music directing; producing; program directing; programming; recording engineer; studio manager; MIDI technician)
  • Entertainment lawyer; music business lawyer
  • Event production, management, planning, technology
  • Film scoring (Composing, editing, supervising, arranging/adapting, conducting, orchestrating, synthesis specialist, theme specialist)
  • Historian
  • Librarian
  • Lyricist
  • Marketing
  • Master classes
  • Media development
  • Merchant
  • Music agent
  • Music business
  • Music critic or reviewer
  • Music for game development
  • Music industry
  • Music licensing
  • Music management
  • Music online and print magazine writing, editing, publishing
  • Music production
  • Music publishing
  • Music supervisor
  • Music therapist
  • Music web producer
  • Musical instrument repairs and tuning
  • Orchestrator
  • Pit orchestra musician