Assistant artist manager

Closing date: 21st July 2025

First Round Interviews: W/C 29th July 2025

Salary: £27,000-£30,000 per annum according to experience

Intermusica is seeking a highly organised, capable, and dependable assistant artist manager to join our dynamic Vocal & Opera department.

In this role, you'll provide essential operational support to a roster of world-class artists, while also assisting our Head of Vocal & Opera, Nathan Morrison. This is a unique opportunity to work closely with major international opera houses and gain insight into the strategic and logistical workings of a fast-paced, artist-focused team.

Intermusica is an award-winning international classical music management agency. We seek not just to represent the world’s greatest artists, but to inspire them to new creative heights. We are constantly exploring what it means to bring classical music to life in the 21st century, driven by our key values: integrity, support, dynamism, and innovation.

We offer imaginative, personalised management for over 150 world-class and emerging artists. Our first-class roster includes some of the most famous and respected artists, including singers Elīna Garanča, Sondra Radvanovsky, and SeokJong Baek.

Founded in 1981 by Chief Executive Stephen Lumsden, Intermusica has a highly experienced work force of over 50 staff, operating from our headquarters in London, and offices in Berlin and New York.

Responsibilities

Artist administration

• Booking travel and accommodation for artists where required.
• Responsibility for visa and work permit arrangements.
• Responsibility for keeping artists’ diaries (via online database) up-to-date, clear, and correct – keeping in constant contact with managers to ensure all the necessary information is included.
• Producing detailed schedules for artists, showing a careful eye for detail, and ensuring that the artists have all the required information to fulfil their commitments.
• Initial checking and prompt processing of contracts.
• Producing financial paperwork promptly (financial summaries, invoices, etc.) with full tax details and other relevant information such as commission rates.
• Maintaining artist profiles on website (including updating biographies and other marketing materials, drafting news stories, and adding reviews).
• Skilled in knowledge and application of social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, TikTok) in the classical music industry.
• Providing general administrative support for the department and the Head of Vocal & Opera.
• Supporting other Artist Managers, including organising internal and external meetings; organising trips including travel, hotel, meetings, and concerts.
• Keeping abreast of developments in areas that might affect your work, such as tax, immigration, travel, accommodation.
• Miscellaneous errands, such as attending visa centres for artists.
• Liaising with promoters for complimentary tickets.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Required/essential

• Graduate calibre with prior administrative experience, ideally in an arts/cultural organisation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to communicate with artists, promoters, and colleagues in a clear, meaningful, and effective way, using tact and discretion at all levels.
• Resilient and calm under pressure, with the ability to multitask and deal with conflicting priorities in a frequently fast paced environment.
• An understanding of forward planning and the ability to manage scheduling challenges.
• Team player who builds trust by being solutions-focused and accountable for their work.
• Works to deadlines and with an excellent eye for detail.
• Proactive and able to demonstrate a positive and flexible approach.
• Reliable, conscientious, and highly organised.
• Good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrable interest in and knowledge of classical music.

Desired

• Previous experience organising international travel and managing diaries.
• Fluent or proficient in a second language.
• Prior experience of Overture (agency software).

We are committed to improving equality and diversity within Intermusica and the wider classical music sector. We believe that more diverse teams foster greater creativity, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We ensure that the successful candidate is selected on the basis of their relevant merits and that Intermusica staff are given equal opportunities. If you have any accessibility needs that would benefit from reasonable adjustments in order to apply for this position or attend an interview, please be in touch with hr@intermusica.com.

As part of the application process, we ask all candidates to complete a voluntary Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form at this link. Any information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential and used for statistical purposes only. It won’t be seen by anyone involved in the selection process, and no information will be published or used in any way which allows you to be identified.

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