And Other Duties - Webinars

Free Webinars

Webinar 1, Sunday January 12, 2025
Working With Young Musicians

Join And Other Duties for our first FREE webinar of 2025.

Working with young musicians requires a very particular skillset for a conductor. And learning to bring the best out of your young players whilst developing your own technique at the same time can be tricky.

Which is why we at And Other Duties believe that teaching this is such an important part of what we do.

Whether you’re a professional music educator interested in refining your conducting, or an emerging conductor applying for assistant positions that will require you to lead a youth orchestra as part of your job, we’re here to help.

During our Rising Stars webinar we will be discussing programming and rehearsal techniques, budgeting and logistics, and we’ll talk about the challenges that arise from working with a wide variety of ages and abilities.

All this and more, with real life examples drawn from years of firsthand hand experience working with young musicians all over the world.

Join us to discuss all this and more on Sunday 12 January at 7pm GMT (London Time).

To apply, please fill out the form below before 12pm on Sunday January 12th, a zoom link will be sent before 6:30pm.

Webinar 2, Sunday April 6th, 2025
Assisting You With assisting

Are you ready to launch your career as an assistant conductor? Or do you want to find out more as to what an assistant actually does?

Are you hoping to freelance as opportunities come up, or are you looking for a full-time assisting position? Are you wondering about the advantages and disadvantages of being an assistant? And are you clear on what your roles and responsibilities might be?

It can be confusing negotiating your way through all the options, but And Other Duties is here to help! We’re offering a free webinar in which we will talk you through the differences between the various assistant conductor roles.

We’ll address what to look for when applying for a job, what the differences between assistant, associate and staff conductor are, and we’ll help you understand what roles might best suit you. Would you like to work more in education and youth ensembles? Concert creation? Pops and holiday concerts? In the opera house? With the ballet? Or do you want to be a cover conductor for a symphony orchestra?

Join us to discuss all this and more on Sunday 6 April 2025 at 7pm GMT (London Time).