Join Our Team of Amazing
Choir Leaders
We are looking for amazing Choir Leaders to join our growing team of musicians and open brand new choirs around the UK.
Please watch the video below to find out a bit more about the job and what it's like to build and lead a community of music lovers, and the exciting opportunities we get to enjoy in this role.
What does my role entail as a Choir Leader?
Being a Choir Leader is one of the most amazing, rewarding and challenging jobs you can do in music. But what actually is the job and could you do it?
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Being a successful Choir Leader requires a very talented musician being able to combine various skills. You need to be able to understand harmony and passionately teach it to a group of leisure-time singing groups, who have had varied musical training and experience, in a fun and entertaining way.
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You will need to build and inspire a community and lead them through performances and other once-in-a-lifetime musical experiences that they otherwise would never have without you.
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In return, the choir members will be grateful to you, look up to you and share their musical journey with you for as long as you can keep inspiring them - giving you a rewarding, stable, long-term musical job working with gracious, generous people who love what you do and are thankful for you.
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Our team of musicians were not all 'Choir Leaders' before they worked with us. They were either gigging musicians or music teachers - so don't rule yourself out of doing this because you've got no Choir Leader experience. Not many people do!
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If you have experience - great! If you don't, but you're a passionate musician with teaching experience, gigging experience and the desire to do meaningful, musical work that is going to make a real difference to peoples lives, then this is the perfect place for you.
What skills are needed for the job?
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Proficient vocalist and guitarist/pianist
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Available to lead Choir rehearsals Mon-Thur evenings
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Hold a full UK Driving License
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Fun and upbeat personality
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Passionate and inspirational teacher
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A great and effective communicator
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A great performer and entertainer
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Great leadership skills
The Buskerteers Choir Story
The concept was to run all-inclusive, non-audition, community choir sessions that leisure-time singers could pay membership fees to attend, be a part of the choir and receive an outstanding professional service in return. This would mean the Choir Leader gets paid musical work, and the Choir Members get to learn all about music and harmony, make new friends and enjoy performance opportunities that they have never experienced before in their lives. Then we could use choir performances to raise money for charitable causes, meaning the local community would benefit from the choir too.
In theory, everyone would benefit from Buskerteers Choir - The Choir Leader gets an amazing job, the Choir Members get an amazing experience and local charities get amazing donations!
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In January 2020, Award-Winning Musical Director Andrew Small would put that theory to the test and opened the first 4 Buskerteers Choirs in the UK with the aim of raising £1,000,000 for charity from busking and performing.
Six years later, there are 12 Choir Leaders, 41 Choirs and 1500 choir members all busking together in different parts of the UK and has raised over £200,000 for various charities and won multiple awards including the BBC Make A Difference Award, the Comic Relief Nosey Award and a Pride of Britain Award Nomination. ​
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Watch the Choir Leaders perform together
Here’s a special glimpse behind the scenes! Before each term begins, our choir leaders come together for a live training session where we rehearse, refine, and perfect every song. This is where the magic starts — blending voices, building energy, and shaping the music that we’ll go on to share with thousands of singers across the UK. Watch as our leaders perform together and set the tone for an inspiring term ahead!
How to apply?
Applying for this job could be the best thing you have ever done. We know that we are the fastest growing community choir in the UK and that we have something special to offer our communities. We believe that we will have Buskerteers Choirs in every corner of the UK in the near future and now is great time to join us on this amazing and exciting adventure.
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We know there is still a lot to discuss, so please submit the contact form below if you want to take this further and see if you are the right fit for our team.
Here's the important bit: Please click the red button below to email us and include the following:
- Your name
- A bit about you and your career so far
- Tell us why you want to work with us
- A YouTube link to a recent performance
- Attach your CV.
We can't wait to hear from you!​​
The Buskerteers Choir Team
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