Assistant artist manager

Closing date for applications: Monday 23rd February 2026 23:59 GMT

Salary: £27,000 - £28,500

Location: London or Berlin

First Round Interviews: Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th March 2026

Second Round Interviews: Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March 2026

Intermusica is seeking a highly organised, resilient, resourceful, and tenacious Assistant Artist Manager to work in our internationally renowned artist management department in either our London or Berlin office. 

Intermusica is an award-winning international classical music agency. We offer strategic, personalised management for over 140 world-class and emerging artists; our first-class roster includes some of the most famous and respected artists and composers across the globe, including Alexandre Kantorow, Beatrice Rana, Elim Chan, Abel Selaocoe, Renaud Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Lahav Shani and Sir James MacMillan. With nearly 40 years' experience in touring internationally acclaimed orchestras and ensembles, combined with the portfolio of genre-defining artists under our imaginebrand, Intermusica is renowned for creating new and innovative projects around the world. 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. Founded in 1981 by Chief Executive Stephen Lumsden, Intermusica has a highly experienced workforce of over 40 staff based in London, Berlin and New York.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone who is keen to work in artist management, with excellent prospects for career development. As a member of a busy team, you will have the opportunity to work across the department, liaising with top international artists and promoters daily.

What you'll be doing

• Developing an understanding of your artists so that over time you can build and cultivate a strong and trusting professional relationship with them, which will be integral to all aspects of your work.
• Providing critical servicing support to a touring ensemble.
• Administering artist diaries, liaising with a variety of external contacts (including promoters, venues, other artists, and agents) to arrange logistical aspects of all engagements.
• Co-ordinating rehearsal schedules, materials, instrument lists, technical riders, and other requirements.
• Taking responsibility for keeping both the current and advance diary up to date for all artists.
• Overseeing prompt checking, processing, and filing of contracts.
• Developing understanding of media rights, coordinate agreement of rights with recording companies if necessary.
• Assisting with travel and accommodation for artists where necessary, including researching and booking trips, negotiating travel contributions with promoters, as and when required, as well as promptly processing visa and work permit arrangements in advance when needed.
• Where necessary, producing detailed schedules for artists and ensure that they have all the required information to fulfil their commitments.
• Working with the finance team to prepare financial paperwork (invoices, statements etc.) and to ensure prompt payments to artists and to Intermusica.
• Supporting tax applications by initiating and/or assisting where necessary.
• Working with Intermusica’s Communications & Marketing department on a variety of promotional materials, keeping clients’ pages on the company’s website up to date with concert listings, news stories, recordings, reviews etc.
• Collaborating with recording companies, local agents, PR agencies to coordinate promotional activity.

Additional

• Attending concerts and industry events on behalf of Intermusica as required.
• Developing and maintaining a thorough knowledge of artists’ careers and the promoters with whom we work.
• Organising travel/hotel/meetings/concert tickets for Artist Managers as required.
• Assisting with general office admin.

Intermusica operates a hybrid home/office working policy.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Graduate calibre with prior administrative experience, ideally in an arts/cultural organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, confident speaking on the phone and addressing issues/concerns head-on.
• Resilient and calm under pressure
• Strong ability to multitask and deal with conflicting priorities in a multi-cultural and frequently fast-paced environment.
• 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 in demanding situations with high stakes.
• Reliable, conscientious, and highly organised.
• Good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office.
• Interest in and knowledge of classical music.

Desirable

• The role would suit someone seeking their second job in the arts.
• Previous experience organising international travel and diary management.
• Working knowledge of 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 based on their relevant merits and that Intermusica staff are given equal opportunities. 

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK or Germany without visa sponsorship.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.