Band Director Career

Choosing a career is a hard thing to do for a young adult nowadays because there are so many to choose from. If you want to be a band teacher (One why? Teachers are important I know that but really a band teacher you’d be teaching whiny kids in a confined space for seven hours. But I can’t judge I was the one who made this.) then this is for you. Being a band teacher is a job that varies in difficulty, they have a lot of things to manage: they must have a quality education and from this they have many opportunities that can come from that.

A band director has many jobs, one being that he has to instruct band members

Depending on the skill level of the band determines how hard their job is: the higher the level of talent the easier they are to teach the harder the music they play, lower the level of talent the harder they are to teach the easier music they play(Brown, Denise 1). They also have to have

Job Scenarios: Working with an A&R representative for a record label or artist management company. Salary: $25,000 – $65,000. Alexander Technique Instructor (Music) is an instructor who works with musicians showing them how to normalize levels of physical and mental tension in their performing. They are usually as an independent instructor. Not very much data is available for this career, but a successful and active clinician in this field can make $40,000 – $70,000. Arts Administration Performs tasks for an arts organization. Can be as simple as basic clerical duties or as advanced as grant-writing and events planning. They Working in an arts organization. Some established arts organizations with large arts administration staffs include major orchestras and creative venues like the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Salary: Between $30,000 and $50,000, with opportunities for advancement into higher positions in the organization(Zuckerman, Bill