Im wondering if anyone here is wanting a career in music, if yes, what they want to do and finally why?

I do...

I want to be an Instrumental Teacher.

I don't know why probably because I enjoy learning instruments and music: I want to help more people to enjoy music.

I do ! I'd love to play in National Orchestras and sing professionally too . Then i reckon i'd maybe move into teaching .

I want a career in music basically because i love music ! I spend all my time playing and singing in choirs and orchestras etc and i get such a buzz out of playing cause it's so enjoyable to me . I want to have a job that i love and enjoy .

Although this all depends on whether I'm going to be good enough hopefully i will

Julie x

Id love to play in professional orchestras and teach. I just love music and I thought if im going to get a job it may aswell be one I actually want to do!
dont think I'll be good enough to do it though

I play piano and sing, and I am going to school to become a music teacher. Music has always been my passion, and I also love kids, so I didn't really feel that I had much of a choice--becoming a music teacher combines both of those things. I really just want to be able to share my passion for music with others.

snap! i wanted to work with kids and then became pretty dependent on music to the point where the only job i could see myself doing had at least some element of music in it. then i thought about being a music teacher - it combined the two, then i saw some of my music teachers having a laugh and a chat during rehearsals for a concert and for some reason that decided it (goodness knows how!) i know it's very different from a teachers perspective, but i just couldn't give up the buzz of being involved in all the rehearsals and hard work for these concerts! since then, i've helped in a lot of music lessons in school and it's very very different from the teacher's point of view but i love helping them even more than i enjoy being taught myself! so that's my career plan sorted! just got to get to grade 8 ish in the next year and a half *gulp* to get on a uni course that i want to (though some i'm looking at accept grade 7 and 'great potential'....hmm....)

I want to be a music therapist and teach as well.

I did want to be a doctor, but I also wanted music aswell, wanted to be an orchestral player but I wouldn't have felt that I'd be helping people, so I found the middle ground.

I want to be an organist, I think... well, I haven't decided yet, but it's an option. My problem is that I don't think I want to teach, I wouldn't have the patience, but all the organists I know teach as well because the salary isn't enough on its own. What would be ideal is if I get really really good and can get a really high-paid job somewhere famous but.... I don't think that's going to happen.

I want to take up music in college and aim to be a performer... but if that doesn't work out I can always fall back on teaching... Or do both...

hat kind of teacher do you want to be

eg. class, instrumental, ect.

I might become a musician. However, I don't think I could make it professionally, basically due to a lack of talent, I wouldn't want to be a regular teacher really, either I would want to teach top level students or play chamber music...orchestral at a push but the daily slog sounds hard-going. Soloist...yeah right. Although that would be an amazing life...

Oh, I might go into conducting, if I find myself a failed violinist!

Well, Micky-D,

I plan on teaching classes in an elementary school, but I think I also might teach private voice lessons. (sorry, I don't know how to do the whole quote thing.)

yer id love to be a performer although i wont be good enough to do it as a main thing and you just cant make a living from it these days unless your one of the top pros.

Id love to do a mix of private teaching, composing and performing.

I wouldnt like to teach music in schools because i dont like a lot of what is on the curriculum.

Music in yr7 yr8 and yr9 just isnt worth bothering about and its only in yr10 and yr11 where the curriculum gives everyone a chance to feel out what theyre good at.

Also, i am only interested in classical music in terms of teaching in the future, so would not want to be teaching for instance, "gamelan" or "minimalism" in a school.

scott

Isn't Gamelan classical then? I was under the impression that it is the classical music for where it comes from. Minimalism is one of the new directions of classical music too. I guess you mean Western classical music...but in, say, 50 years, minimalism will probably be pretty prominant as a form of classical music. People always found new concepts of classical music difficult to accept as "real" classical, but give it time...

My dream is to become a music teacher in a school, the problem is that i doubt i can get a good A level grade in music, not to mention a degree, (I'm predicted a B for gcse). Also i lack the ability to sing, and my piano skills aren't very good, and i doubt i will have the grades reqired to get into uni on either of my instruments (i hope to take grade 5 on flute and violin next year).

I definately want a career in music!! I want to go to college and uni and study music. I'm not sure what i want to do but something to do with performing and i'd also like to own a record company.

Not a reply to the topic, but perhaps a good title would have been 'Does Anyone want a Career in Music?' .

Unfortunately I'm 20 years into a career in chemistry and I don't think my grade 1 piano is going to help much !

I'm hoping to be a music class teacher; am applying to universities this autumn (after I get all my Higher results - aagh!) Just feel a career in music would be one in which I would feel happy to go into work every day!

I wouldn't mind being a concert pianist or being a music producer. Not likely to happen though. I'll probably teach in my spare time when I'm slightly older but I would become a doctor or something like that and forget about music.

Yeh It would work but then whats the point in writing a post when the question is in the title?

Hmm probably just because the system makes you!!

My dream is to become a world famous violinist but i really don't see that happening so I'd like to be an instrumental teacher and also do some performing on the side in something like the folk band I play in now.