Professional Development

The ISM provides you with opportunities to build up your skills in the digital arena with our advice pages and webinars. We also have a collection of professional development videos and resources available to members and the wider music sector through our sister charity, the ISM Trust.

See the next feature for more information about our annual fees survey Catch up – past webinars

Immigration matters: International talent in the UK

In this webinar, Geraldine Peterson and Gillian McCall, specialist immigration barristers from Richmond Chambers, take you through the immigration routes for creative artists coming to the UK for both short-term engagements and longer periods. The webinar is suitable for both overseas artists who are looking to work in the UK, and arts programmers, promoters and collaborators who want to work with international talent in the UK.

Introduction to Music Therapy Simon Procter, Director of Music Services for Nordoff Robbins, introduces music therapy, which utilises and shares the positive benefits of music to help people living with significant challenges. In this webinar, Simon explains the Nordoff Robbins approach to music therapy, shares video examples of music therapy in action and explains how you could train as a music therapist in the UK. A neurodiverse journey in music In this webinar composer Ben Lunn takes us through the history of neurodiversity and talks about his experience navigating the music profession as a neurodiverse person. The webinar is aimed at performers, composers and non-neurodiverse people to learn how to accommodate people with neurodiversity.

Future webinars

Setting up your tuition fees Friday 7 May 2021 2-3pm Our annual teachers’ fee survey is the largest of its kind and gathers information from music teachers around the UK. Statistician Alix Naylor of Naylor Research Partnership will guide you through the results of the 2020 survey and help you consider the level of fee appropriate to your music tuition in this free webinar. Alix will discuss differing prices based on regional variations, different areas of teaching work, and online rates as well as offering some tips for setting your own fees.

New: The Empowered Musician resource hub

Following our successful digital conference for music professionals The Empowered Musician 2020, we have a launched a new resource hub for music professionals. Here, you can watch back all the sessions in full, including speeches, interviews, panel discussions and a music tech masterclass, and discover advice and resources featured in and inspired by the event. ism.org/empowered