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David de la Haye was a music technician when he became hooked on soundscapes and underwater recordings. Over a decade as a technician, he became more and more interested in the research possibilities of his interest, and eventually embarked on a PhD. In honour of his Switching Sectors story, we asked him what three things he's learned about stepping outside expectations. He says: "There is life beyond your department! Creativity might be the backbone of artistic research but its application reaches far beyond the Arts - it is everywhere. Reach out, step into the unknown, and see where things take you. "Working with others outside of your discipline can be enriching for both parties, if the conditions are there to support it. We need to celebrate curiosity and encourage diversity, which might include working across sectors. "I have always cherished music and sound. Providing opportunities to listen has become a valuable method for exchanging knowledge and starting conversations." We believe movement between sectors enhances creativity. As our Head of Talent wrote: "It is vital that we have more people moving much more between sectors. It builds connections, joins up thinking, encourages creativity and knowledge exchange and supports adoption of research and innovation." For more, search 101 Jobs Switching Sectors.

📌 🎵 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫. 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 & 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 ? I firmly believe, Music is more than a hobby—it's a viable career path with immense opportunities. The Need for More 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬: It's time to establish more government or corporate-run schools that focus on arts, music, literature, and provide real-life learning experiences. Such institutions would: ✅Encourage Talents: Nurture students' interests in dancing, singing, and other artistic fields. ✅Provide Real-World Skills: Equip students with practical skills in editing, film production, and animation. ✅Offer Specialized Training: Enable students to receive guidance from professionals in their chosen fields. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬: ✅Musicians and Singers: Essential for rituals, weddings, and cultural events like Navratri and folk dances. ✅Dancers and Choreographers: Needed for celebrations, film production, and live performances. ✅Film Production and Editing: Vital for creating high-quality content in the entertainment industry. ✅Voice Over Artists and Animators: Crucial for bringing characters to life in movies and advertisements. ✅Content Writers: Important for developing scripts, lyrics, and promotional materials. Incorporating music and arts into the education system not only enriches students' lives but also prepares them for a wide array of career opportunities. Let's advocate for more artistic schools and encourage students to pursue their passion in music and the arts. Share your thoughts and support the movement towards a more creatively enriched education system. Please do share your insights in the comment box ! #music #arts #education #worldmusicday #highereducation #schools #university #contentwriters #voiceover #filmproduction #musicians #singers #advocate #careeropportunities #students #thoughts #support #passion #art #creativity #passion

Dear Hiring Team, Stop doing this! 🛑 ❌ Using 'Music Grades' as the main qualification is flawed. ❌ Grades show playing capability, not teaching ability. ❌ Ready-made music teachers for school settings are non-existent. ❌ Colleges in India lack decent music education majors. Below is a job post from one of Bangalore's leading schools, highlighting the common practice of valuing grades as the default benchmark! Since there are no proper qualifications, here's how you hire: ✅ Screen candidates thoroughly based on experience. ✅ Ask for a demo class. ✅ Assess teaching, class management, and basic pedagogical skills. Once you make a hire: ✅ Pair them with a seasoned buddy. ✅ Schedule class observations with experienced teachers. ✅ Invest in regular professional development in Music Pedagogy Music grades apply to specialist roles like guitar, piano, voice, and so on, not for Kindergarten! They need other skills to teach kids aged 2 to 7! Regular professional development is the only way to train the current workforce. If you need help for your teachers, Tāla Education provides the skills, resources, and support music teachers need, to teach in a school. Up-skill your teachers today by clicking here: https://lnkd.in/gDdFd9Jp P.S. What do you place importance on, when applying for a job or choosing a music teacher? #hiring #musiceducation #india #indianeducation #schoolsinindia #principals #talaeducation

You work in the creative/performing arts industries, have had some success in your jobs/roles, and have really enjoyed the work up to now. But recently... ...you've started to wonder "Is this it?" or "Is this really what I want to do?", or even "Is this who I am?". I get it: as a conservatoire-trained musician, Music Director/Composer, and performing arts teacher and curriculum designer, I've had those same questions about the future me. We work hard through our training and early careers to achieve a specific skillset that gets us employed relatively easily, but after a while we start to wonder if we've drifted into automatic work patterns, unchallenging roles, or narrow perceptions of work opportunities. This drift happens so easily, almost invisibly, but once you've noticed it you feel you need to do something about it right now: you just don't know what. When did you last make a conscious choice about the type of work you really wanted to do, or what work you find most fulfilling? Do you have the sense that you want something more in your work life? Are you really thriving? #performingarts; #coaching; #acting; #musicians; #creatives

Calling all musically educated - 10 days left to complete the survey https://lnkd.in/gHXYtk6C investigating the impact of a musical education on a non musical career. If you’ve ever wondered how your musical education and experiences translates to the skills you use in other workplaces then by all means feel free to participate in an anonymous survey seeking participants who: are musically educated but never pursued music employment; work dual-careers in music and non-music work; plus those who have exited the music profession and now work in other fields. So far it looks like it takes people between 10-15 minutes to complete depending on how much they want to write. Mostly check boxes and radio buttons.

The ‘Social Justice’ component of job titles like this often serve as means of excluding those who do not subscribe to particular political views. This would be obvious if you had a job called ‘Music Production and Free Enterprise’ or something like that. These should be challenged under the Equality Act and other anti-discrimination legislation. The Music Department at Southampton, where I once worked, was once great and pluralistic. Obviously I do not know how shortlists are drawn up and interviews carried out, and know that ‘social justice’ has historically had many meanings (originally coming from Jesuit thought), but I believe such cases warrant proper external scrutiny. I would be interested to know how many academics with jobs with ‘social justice’ in the title are actually engaged with critical evaluation of different renditions of this concept.

Music experts say “The success of a student depends on them, not the teacher” But this couldn’t be further from the truth (here’s why) ↓ When I was 14, I wanted to learn the piano. At the time, I was: - Clueless. - Low on confidence. - Unsure I had what it takes. But I REALLY wanted to learn. So my Dad took me to a local teacher from Church. I started practicing regularly, but I still lacked any real skillset. But my teacher saw some potential in me. - He worked extra hard to develop my skills. - Took me to NYC to play gigs with him. - And most of all, believed in me. Did I think I was good enough for that? Absolutely not! But every time we did a gig, I got a little better. After 1 year of his teaching: - I was 10x more confident. - I had started doing my own gigs. - I knew I had the potential to succeed. Which just goes to show the importance of having a good teacher. Picking the right teacher is just as important as picking the right instrument. Without a good teacher, I would’ve 100% quit & I wouldn’t be where I am today. This is why we work so hard to bring in the best teachers for our YousicPlay students. Because the better the teacher is → The better the student learns.

You work hard to get your music grades, get hired, and find yourself in front of a room filled with 3-year-olds, only to discover that what you know and what you have to do are vastly different. What do you think about the expectations most schools place on hiring for a kindergarten music teacher? #hiring #musicteacher #schools #principals

🏵 ASPIRING TO BECOME A MUSIC FACULTY MEMBER? 🏵 (Post 3 of 3) Over the past 18 years, I've hired many faculty and heard from numerous fellow deans about their good (and bad) hiring decisions. Along the way, I've often been asked for insights or advice on how aspiring music performers and researchers can best navigate the process and position themselves for success. Here is the third of three posts. I hope this is helpful. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to chat. 🌻 INSIGHTS #3: SOME THINGS I’VE LEARNED 🌻 Over the years, I've hired dozens of faculty, advised on shaping dynamic arts and learning communities, and observed music schools and departments thrive (or struggle). Here are some lessons about music making, music teaching, faculty life, and leadership in general. 1. Talent is as much about hard work and determination as it is about ability. 2. It’s easy to love a place for what it is or for what it can become. The job of a good leader, or of a leader in the making, is to do both. 3. Whenever you can, make friends with people unlike yourself. 4. Technique ultimately has just one purpose; to enable us to express as fully and richly as we might. 5. People are not thinking machines that feel, they are feeling animals that think. Accept this, and you will save yourself much disappointment from unreasonable expectations. 6. Love and care, along with humility and courage are vital but insufficient if you will help strengthen the inclusive and diverse quality of your community. What is also needed is being comfortable with being uncomfortable – of being in an ongoing state of growth, of becoming. Which is to say, one of the very best things you can ever do is to adopt and maintain a growth mindset. 7. If you’re thinking of a career in higher education, don’t overlook private high schools. Some of them are dynamic communities of the first order, and can be exceptionally rewarding teaching communities. #HigherEducation #MusicFaculty #AcademicCareers #MusicEducation #PerformingArts #FacultyHiring #InterviewTips #AcademicJobSearch #InclusionAndDiversity #HigherEdCareers #CareerAdvice #EducationCommunity #MusicResearch #ProfessionalDevelopment #ArtsLeadership

IEC colleagues: If you're working with a junior who wants to major in music in college, now is the perfect time for them to start their search in earnest. The music admissions process can get really complicated, and there's certainly more work to do with these students than those applying for non-creative majors. If music isn't in your wheelhouse, but you already have a great relationship with the student and their family, I encourage you to reach out for a co-consulting relationship! This can be super helpful to work as a team for the student, giving them the best advice from both academic and music perspectives. As a former Director of Conservatory Admissions and music major myself, I live and breath music :) I can help with: -Crafting a detailed music resume (very different than a regular resume!) -Presenting a fantastic video audition or learning how to present in a live audition -Career exploration within the arts sector (there's SO much more than just performing or teaching) -Finding summer music-making activities -Connecting with the right-fit applied lesson teacher at the colleges in consideration -Getting and staying organized with all of the extra application materials, audition dates, music scholarship opportunities, and more. Let's work together to provide clarity in the admissions process to aspiring musicians and artists while helping to maintain their mental health. #musicadmissions #collegeadmissions #iec #collaboration #mentalhealthmatters