Online Resources

Wisr
Wisr is a platform designed to connect Oberlin students with Oberlin alumni in their field of interest who are eager to share advice and expertise.

Bridge: Worldwide Music Connection
Bridge is a massive database of opportunities including performance, teaching, and administrative jobs, competitions, music festivals, and more. Current Oberlin students have free access through Oberlin’s institutional account.

Handshake
Handshake is the Oberlin College Career Development Center’s internal database for summer and winter-term internships, job listings, and other opportunities. Use your Oberlin ID to login.

Liberal Arts Career Network (LACN)
Includes internships, summer positions, and full-time job listings in some of the most popular liberal arts fields. LACN is a consortium of 39 top liberal arts colleges and universities.

Orchestral job postings:

• International Musician
• Audition Café
• Musical Chairs

Region-specific opportunities:

• Orchestras Canada Job Board
• Music Australia Opportunities
• Vioworld

Opera auditions and vocal competitions:

• YapTracker

Church and sacred music job postings:

• Yale Institute of Sacred Music
• American Guild of Organists
• National Association of Pastoral Musicians

Cruise ship jobs:

• Lime Entertainment
• Landau Music

Audio engineering and acoustics job listings:

• Acoustical Society of America
• AES Job Board

Arts administration jobs and internships:

• Musical America
• Americans for the Arts

Higher education:

• College Music Society (membership required)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• HigherEdJobs.com
• InsideHigherEd.com

Examples of discipline-specific job listings:

• Journal for the Society for Music Theory
• International Double Reed Society

Vacancy and research listings at European higher education institutions:

• Association Européenne des Conservatoires

Jazz educators:

• Jazz Education Network (JEN)

Teaching artists:

• Teaching Artists Guild

• American Composers Forum
• American Composers Alliance
• Society of Composers, Inc.
• New Music USA
• Chamber Music America
• NewMusicBox (journal)
• Aaron Copland Fund for Music

Competitions and music festivals:

• Musical America Worldwide
• World Federation of International Music Competitions

Artist residencies:

• TransArtists
• ResArtis
• Alliance of Artists Communities
• Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
• Avaloch Farm Music Institute

Union resources:

• American Federation of Musicians
• Freelancers Union

International arts and culture journals:

• ArtsJournal.com
• MusicalAmerica.com

Examples of region-specific artist resources:

• New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
• Chicago Artist Coalition
• California Arts Council

Arts advocacy:

• Future of Music Coalition
• National Endowment for the Arts (U.S.)

Services, programs, and technology solutions:

• Fractured Atlas
• Creative Capital

Professional development resources:

• DIY Musician Blog

Legal resources for artists:

• Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts
• GG Arts Law

Tax resources and articles for artists:

• Freelance Tax and Finance
• 6 Tips for Preparing Documentation (Fractured Atlas)
• Musicians Guide to Reaching Organizational Nirvana in the New Year (New Music Box)
• Tax Issues for Musicians (Howland Tax Service)

Non-resident tax preparation for international students and scholars:

• Sprintax