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Music Director

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Lakewood, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 1/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/3/2025

Career Description Direct and conduct instrumental or vocal performances by musical groups, such as orchestras or choirs.

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Life As a Music Director

  • Plan and schedule rehearsals and performances, and arrange details such as locations, accompanists, and instrumentalists.
  • Confer with clergy to select music for church services.
  • Meet with composers to discuss interpretations of their work.
  • Direct groups at rehearsals and live or recorded performances to achieve desired effects such as tonal and harmonic balance dynamics, rhythm, and tempo.
  • Meet with soloists and concertmasters to discuss and prepare for performances.
  • Study scores to learn the music in detail, and to develop interpretations.

What Skills Do You Need to Work as a Music Director?

Music Directors state the following job skills are important in their day-to-day work.

  • Instructing : Teaching others how to do something.
  • Judgment and Decision Making : Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Active Listening : Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Speaking : Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Critical Thinking : Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Coordination : Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
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