Opportunities

Check out the opportunities, jobs, courses, workshops and events coming up in Wales and beyond.

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Gigs a Sioeau

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Cystadlaethau

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Gweithdai a Dosbarthiadau Meistr

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Arian / Grantiau

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Swyddi a Chyfleoedd Gyrfa

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Digwyddiadau a Rhwydweithio

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Gogledd Cymru

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Canolbarth Cymru

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DU

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Amplifying Accessibility - IN TUNE sessions

IN TUNE is a series of FREE, virtual networking sessions for Disabled, Neurodivergent and Deaf workers in the music industry in Wales.

Deadline: Sessions between 4th December 2025 and 18th January 2026

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Forté Project

Do you create original music in Wales? Are you aged between 16-30? Are you looking to develop yourself as an artist or band?

Applications for Forté Project are now OPEN.

Deadline: 1st December 2025 11:59pm

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Become a Trustee for National Youth Arts Wales

National Youth Arts Wales are seeking up to 4 trustees who can help innovate, strengthen skills and amplify their impact. 

Deadline: 1st December 2025

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Help Musicians - UK Rap Award with Tiffany Calver

12-month career accelerator for musicians creating UK Rap music

Deadline: Friday 2nd January 2026

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VOCES8 Scholars Programme

 VOCES8 Scholars Programme – a unique training opportunity for outstanding young musicians. Each year, the programme selects eight singers in the UK and twelve singers in the US who show exceptional promise in choral and small ensemble vocal music.

Deadline: Wednesday 7th January 2026

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Music Theatre Wales - Street Art Opera Call Out

MTW is inviting Welsh artists, and artists developing their practice in Wales, to pitch bold ideas for two brand-new Street Art Operas for public showings in Autumn 2026.

Deadline: 30th January 2026

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Summit Festival - Beacons Cymru

Summit is an annual Welsh music industry conference designed and delivered by young people for young people run by Beacons Cymru.

Deadline: 11 February / Chwefror 2026

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Anthem Gateway - Callout For Music Creators

Are you a musician, filmmaker, blogger, illustrator, industry professional, or someone with experience to share?

If you are, we want to commission you and your ideas for the Anthem Gateway!

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Anthem Gateway Survey

We want to hear your voice!

Across the next 15 months, the Anthem Gateway team will hone the web platform, making it more user friendly and easy to navigate. 40 new resources will be created including online resources, three podcast series and 6 webinars led by young creatives.

 

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Chapter - Neo Soul Jazz Jams

Calling all musicians, vocalists, producers, and music lovers!

Experience the ultimate Neo Soul Jazz Jam, where creativity and improvisation come alive. Join Chapter, every fourth Sunday of the month for a night of music, connection, and collaboration in the heart of Cardiff.

Whether you're jamming, networking, or soaking up the vibes, this is where Cardiff’s music scene thrives.

Deadline: 26 January 2025 — 23 August 2026

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Sound Progression - Open Access Sessions

FREE Open Access Sessions for musicians aged 14-25! Whether you're polishing your sound, jamming with your crew, or looking to lay down your tracks, this is your chance to take your music to the next level. 

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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Future Blood Music Workshops

Music group for young people aged 15 - 21 weekly at Swansea Grand and Pontardawe Arts Centre.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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Platfform @ Wales Millennium Centre

Fuel your creativity with free courses, training, experiences and workshops at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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Tape Music & Film - Music Sessions

TAPE Music & Film are based in Colwyn Bay and run a range of music sessions as part of their weekly programme.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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Swansea MAD Music Production Sessions

Discover your inner musician with Swansea MAD's music production sessions! 

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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New Era Talent

New Era Talent is based in Cardiff and supports artists with mentoring & support providing safe spaces in studios & workshops to develop as artists.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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South Wales Improvisers

South Wales Improvisers run regular workshops at SHIFT in Cardiff.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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National Youth Arts Wales - Audition & Projects

Get involved in music projects and ensembles with National Youth Arts Wales.

Deadline: Currently Closed - Next audtions 2027

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Sound and Music - In the Making

In the Making is the UK's only year-long artist development programme for talented young music creators and composers aged 14–18. It supports those passionate about making music in any form and is open to all, regardless of instrument, musical interests, creative goals, background, or location.

Deadline: Next Round in 2026

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Open Jam Nights - The Foundry Brecon

Are you a musician in the Bannau Brycheiniog? Every Thursday night The Foundry Brecon host their Open Mic and Jam night.

Deadline: Weekly event

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Open Mic - The Globe at Hay

Are you a performer from the Bannau Brycheniog and wondering how to perform in your local area? The Globe at Hay may be you answer with their weekly open mics.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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Come Play At CWRW - Carmathen

Host your own event for free at CWRW.

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

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DIVERGE: Monthly co-working space for neurodivergent creatives in South Wales

DIVERGE wants to create spaces where neurodivergent creatives can get together and build solidarity, support and collaborations. Based in Cardiff.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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UPLIFT SINGING SESSION

Weekly community well-being singing sessions based in Brecon.

Deadline: Weekly event

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Help Musicians - Fast Track Awards

If you're a working musician, Fast Track is a flexible fund designed to support you in developing your career, and we are accepting applications now!

Support of up to £500 to help you seize an opportunity!

Deadline: Rolling Submission Deadlines

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Help Musicians - Next Level Awards

If you’re a musician with a strong track record but lacking the resources to embark on larger and longer-term projects, then our Next Level award might help.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Help Musicians - Record and Release

Help Musicians can support you to create new music and share it with the world. Whether it’s studio time, mastering, or promotion around a release, we can help you to record and release your music.

Deadline: Rolling deadline

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Help Musicians - Support your studies

Receive financial support for your postgraduate or, in some cases, undergraduate studies.

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

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Help Musicians - MOBO Help Musicians Amplified

If you’re a musician creating music of Black origin and ready to take the next step in your career, MOBO Help Musicians Amplified could be for you.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Arts Council Wales - Creative Steps

The aim of this programme is to support individuals and organisations who have experienced barriers to accessing funding.

Deadline: Rolling deadline

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PRS Foundation: International Showcase Fund

The International Showcase Fund (ISF) offers vital export support for UK-based artists, bands, songwriters and producers who have been invited to perform or create new music at international showcasing festivals or conferences.

Deadline: Rolling deadline

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BBC Horizons Launchpad Fund

The Launchpad Fund aims to help talented artists or bands in Wales to further their music careers by providing them with vital access to finance. Eligible artists, bands or labels can apply.

Deadline: Next deadline - October 2026

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Tŷ Cerdd Lottery Funding

Tŷ Cerdd distributes Lottery funds on behalf of Arts Council of Wales, to help organisations develop music-making of all genres in communities around Wales. Apply now for Create, Engage & Inspire strands.

Deadline: 5pm 21 January 2026

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Youth Music - NextGen Fund

Applications open!

The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £3,000 to make their ideas happen.

It's open to 18–25-year-olds (and up to 30-year-olds who identify as d/Deaf, neurodivergent or Disabled) who live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Youth Music want to support the future of the music industries. Singers, Rappers, Songwriters, Producers, DJs, A&Rs, Managers and Agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.

Deadline: Next deadline - Friday 6th February 2026

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FAC - Step Up

The Step Up Fund provides financial support and a broader package of benefits for projects of up to ten upcoming artists.

Step Up aims to boost the development of talented artists, acknowledging the financial and structural challenges they face at this particular stage of their careers.

Deadline: Next Round in Spring 2026

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PPL Wales Momentum Accelerator Fund

The PPL Momentum Accelerator Fund offers grants of up to £5k for Wales based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Sound and Music - Essentials Fund

The Sound and Music Essentials Fund is a new grant scheme open to any composers, music creators or artists working creatively with music and sound, to purchase essentials for their practice.  

Deadline: Next Round in 2026

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Beacons Cymru Birthplace Fund

In aim of supporting the current and next generation of original music-makers across Wales, The Birthplace Fund offers grants of up to £2,500 each, to ten successful applicants.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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RPS Thea Musgrave Grants for Composition and Performance

The Royal Philharmonic Society is offering two Thea Musgrave Grants - one for composition and one for performance.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Ballantine’s True Music Fund x shesaid.so

Do you have a dream music project that is stuck on pause & needs help?

Ballantine’s True Music Fund ‘25 powered by shesaid.so is here to unlock that part of you and help you push play.​

Whatever your passion for music is… whether you want to start a club night or bring back a radio station, we want to help you make it happen. Any proposal is possible as long as you’re ‘Staying True’ to your calling.​

Deadline: Open for applications

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Sound & Music - In Motion applications open

In Motion is a new up to 18-month artist-led programme, which will create a space for 10 composers to design and embark on their own creative and professional journey. 

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Saunders Lewis Memorial Fund

Are you passionate about Welsh literature, theatre, politics, drama, film, or fine arts?

Up to £10,000 over two years for individuals to study drama, film, political systems, literary/fine arts including music on the European continent, or research Saunders Lewis’s contribution to Welsh literature, theatre, or politics. Priority for applicants under 35. Applications close 30 June 2025. Interviews 12 July in Aberystwyth.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Finzi Trust Young Musicians Fund

The Young Musicians’ Fund is SOLELY for the benefit of individuals aged 25 and below who are in need of funds to further their participation in, study or practice of music.

Deadline: Deadlines for submission are 1 February and 1 September.

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Escape Records: Opportunities

Escape Records have a whole range of job opportunities available.

Deadline: Rolling deadline

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New Era Talent - Jam Sessions

Need to practice your set before your next event? Fancy a spin on the decks? If you fancy this, New Era Talents Jam Sessions are every Thursday 4.30pm at Inkspot.

Deadline: Every Thursday

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It's My Shout - Call out for Film Composers

We are looking for music makers and aspiring film composers either born in, or currently living in Wales, who would relish the challenge of working on a professionally produced film as part of the It's My Shout scheme this Summer!

Deadline: Currently Closed - Next applications 2027

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Sunday Cypher - Hip Hop Open Mic

FREE Open Mic at the Bunkhouse in Swansea, welcoming MCs, DJs and Hip Hop artists of all levels.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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The Creative Space

Drums, beats, guitars and bars - a creative space in Cardiff for under 25s.

Deadline: Regular sessions

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How to prioritise self-care when working in music

Free, guided self-care sessions to provide techniques to help with challenging times.

Deadline: Regular Sessions

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Night Out - Performance Opportunities

Night Out works across Wales with community volunteer promoters in village halls, community venues and a few small unfunded theatres. 

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

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BBC Music Introducing...

Making music? Get yourself heard on the BBC.

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

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Ivors Academy - CO-PILOT: THE MUSICIANS’ MENTORING NETWORK

Ivors Academy Co-Pilot: the Musicians’ Mentoring Network empowers songwriters, composers and musicians to develop their careers with support from an experienced mentor.

Deadline: Rolling deadlines

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NCEM Young Composers Award

The National Centre for Early Music and BBC Radio 3 invite you to write a new piece for a virtuoso period instrument group.

Deadline: 12pm 2nd February / Chwefror 2026

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Composition: Wales 2026

BBC National Orchestra of Wales is passionate about supporting and showcasing the work and talent of Composers across Wales. Composition: Wales offers the opportunity to a selection of composers to have their music workshopped, performed and recorded by BBC NOW at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff Bay.

Deadline: Currently Closed / Concert in February 2026

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Brwydr y Bandiau / Battle of the Bands

Battle of the Bands - A partnership between the National Eisteddfod (Maes B) and the BBC, to discover new Welsh language contemporary music talent. 

Deadline: 1st May 2026

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Ludlow Song - Young Composers Call Out

Ludlow Song are offering 5 young composers, aged 16 to 25 the chance to take part in a free, expenses-paid workshop with a leading composer. 

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Green Man Rising - Emerging Talent Competition

Green Man Rising is back for 2025!

Green Man Trust's emerging band competition is all about unearthing headliners of tomorrow! 

Want to land a spot on the GM25 line-up, record a live session & showcase your sound to leading music industry aficionados?

Deadline: Currently Closed

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BBC Young Composers Competition

The nationwide BBC Young Composer competition 2025 is now open!

If you're aged 12-18 (on 1st July 2025) and based in the UK, this is your chance to get your music heard, work with professional musicians and take your creativity to the next level.

Deadline: 4pm on Thursday 25th September

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The Pendine Young Musician of Wales Competition

The Pendine Young Musician of Wales Competition is a unique opportunity for young musicians born or living in Wales to showcase their talents at the North Wales International Music Festival.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Glastonbury - Emerging Talent Competition

Glastonbury Festival are pleased to announce details of our 2025 Emerging Talent Competition, which is once again supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation.

The competition gives new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s Festival.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain - Young Composers Competition / Young Conductors Competition

National Youth Brass band of Great Britain run two annual competitions for Young Composers and Young Conductors.

Deadline: Both competitions currently closed

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FOCUS Wales 2026 – International Showcase Festival

FOCUS Wales will be back for 2026, taking over Wrexham from 7–9 May with 250+ live performances, a global music industry conference, and a chance for artists to perform in front of international delegates, media, and new audiences. Open to emerging artists of all genres from around the world, this is your chance to join one of the UK’s leading showcase festivals.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Swansea Fringe - Artist Applications Open

Submissions to perform at this year’s festival are now open.

Deadline: Currently Closed

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Swn Festival - Performance Opportunity

Sŵn Festival returns for its 16th edition this October, and they're on the hunt for the next bunch of talented artists to welcome to Wales' leading music discovery festival.

Deadline: Currently Closed - Next applications 2027

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Apply to play In It Together Festival

Apply to play or volunteer at In It Together Festival 2027.

Deadline: Currently Closed - Next applications 2027

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